Post by putran on Feb 16, 2015 19:27:50 GMT
Some really good videos on this YouTube search. I would look through them to find the more credible ones. The one I linked though is really good and has helped me hundreds in PvP.
I use RuneHUD
Standard Priority
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Blood Boil/Icy Touch/Festering Strike
Use these to convert any blood/frost runes to death runes. Icy Touch is your priority when you need to dispel and you would Blood Boil your blood runes away afterwards. Festering Strike is your priority when you need to quickly convert blood/frost runes into death runes or you need to do single target burst damage.
Death Coil
Death Coil is your highest single target damaging ability when bursting. Use it when you are going to cap out on runic power or if you need to build up your Shadow Infusion stacks during periods of downtime when you don’t need to convert your runes.
Scourge Strike/Death and Decay/Plague Strike
Use these to burn your unholy runes when you have nothing else to do: Plague Strike if you need to reapply diseases, Death and Decay when the enemies are stacked up for extra AoE pressure or for the slow if you chose to use Glyph of Death and Decay, Scourge Strike if your diseases are up and you don’t need to use Death and Decay.
Soul Reaper
Use Soul Reaper when you are bursting and try to use it preemptively so that it will tick when your target reaches 45%. Even if it doesn’t go off healers will usually dispel it which means they can’t dispel other spells such as CC on their teammates.
Improved Soul Reaper (perk) is what allows the ability to deal additional shadow damage at 45% health. Without this perk it would be 35%.
Dark Transformation
This ability requires you to Death Coil 5 times to build 5 stacks of Shadow Infusion which is a buff on your pet to activate your empowered ghoul. Your ghoul will do significantly more damage when empowered through Dark Transformation and will gain more powerful abilities.
Enhanced Dark Transformation (perk) makes it so the ability no longer costs runes.
Burst Damage
Before beginning your burst you want to make sure your trinket procs are up. In the perfect situation you want to be in Unholy Presence with four death runes ready to go.
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Gargoyle
Your big 3 minute offensive cooldown, Summon Gargoyle adds more pressure to your burst.
Empowered Gargoyle (perk) increases the duration of your Summon Gargoyle by 10 seconds.
Dark Transformation
Like the Summon Gargoyle, Dark Transformation adds more pressure to your burst.
Scourge Strike
You want to dump all your death runes into this Scourge Strike.
Death Coil
Dump all your runic power into this Death Coil.
Breath of Sindragosa
If you have taken Breath of Sindragosa then you want to use it when you have a full runic power bar and when you have any damage increasing procs up along with your Summon Gargoyle.
AoE Damage
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Blood Boil
Hitting Blood Boil will spread your diseases while still allowing you to deal high single target pressure.
Death and Decay
Drop Death and Decay onto grouped up targets which are normally near or behind pillars or on flags in RBGs.
Resource Management
You have two resources to manage as a Death Knight: your runes and your runic power. When managing your runes, you need to make sure you try to think ahead of time. If you know you need to dispel a mind control from your partner soon, or you might need to dispel a Hand of Sacrifice or something similar from the enemy, you should try to save a frost/death rune or some Blood Tap stacks, otherwise you should try to keep them on cooldown and convert your runes to death runes as fast as possible to be ready to set up a burst attempt. While doing this you want to make sure you don’t burn all your runic power that you have just built up so that you can save it for your burst attempt, so try to hold off on the Death Coil unless you have Sudden Doom proc, then you should use it straight away.
Another reason for not burning all your runic power instantly is if you become the target of a switch and you need to survive. Having the extra runic power to use with Lichborne or Conversion to heal can save you from being killed by the enemy. This also goes for your runes as well. If you know the enemy is looking to try and make a switch on you, try to save some runes for Death Strike in case you need to heal.
I use RuneHUD
Standard Priority
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Blood Boil/Icy Touch/Festering Strike
Use these to convert any blood/frost runes to death runes. Icy Touch is your priority when you need to dispel and you would Blood Boil your blood runes away afterwards. Festering Strike is your priority when you need to quickly convert blood/frost runes into death runes or you need to do single target burst damage.
Death Coil
Death Coil is your highest single target damaging ability when bursting. Use it when you are going to cap out on runic power or if you need to build up your Shadow Infusion stacks during periods of downtime when you don’t need to convert your runes.
Scourge Strike/Death and Decay/Plague Strike
Use these to burn your unholy runes when you have nothing else to do: Plague Strike if you need to reapply diseases, Death and Decay when the enemies are stacked up for extra AoE pressure or for the slow if you chose to use Glyph of Death and Decay, Scourge Strike if your diseases are up and you don’t need to use Death and Decay.
Soul Reaper
Use Soul Reaper when you are bursting and try to use it preemptively so that it will tick when your target reaches 45%. Even if it doesn’t go off healers will usually dispel it which means they can’t dispel other spells such as CC on their teammates.
Improved Soul Reaper (perk) is what allows the ability to deal additional shadow damage at 45% health. Without this perk it would be 35%.
Dark Transformation
This ability requires you to Death Coil 5 times to build 5 stacks of Shadow Infusion which is a buff on your pet to activate your empowered ghoul. Your ghoul will do significantly more damage when empowered through Dark Transformation and will gain more powerful abilities.
Enhanced Dark Transformation (perk) makes it so the ability no longer costs runes.
Burst Damage
Before beginning your burst you want to make sure your trinket procs are up. In the perfect situation you want to be in Unholy Presence with four death runes ready to go.
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Gargoyle
Your big 3 minute offensive cooldown, Summon Gargoyle adds more pressure to your burst.
Empowered Gargoyle (perk) increases the duration of your Summon Gargoyle by 10 seconds.
Dark Transformation
Like the Summon Gargoyle, Dark Transformation adds more pressure to your burst.
Scourge Strike
You want to dump all your death runes into this Scourge Strike.
Death Coil
Dump all your runic power into this Death Coil.
Breath of Sindragosa
If you have taken Breath of Sindragosa then you want to use it when you have a full runic power bar and when you have any damage increasing procs up along with your Summon Gargoyle.
AoE Damage
Diseases
Blood Plague and Frost Fever are your main source of damage and applied with Plague Strike.
Blood Boil
Hitting Blood Boil will spread your diseases while still allowing you to deal high single target pressure.
Death and Decay
Drop Death and Decay onto grouped up targets which are normally near or behind pillars or on flags in RBGs.
Resource Management
You have two resources to manage as a Death Knight: your runes and your runic power. When managing your runes, you need to make sure you try to think ahead of time. If you know you need to dispel a mind control from your partner soon, or you might need to dispel a Hand of Sacrifice or something similar from the enemy, you should try to save a frost/death rune or some Blood Tap stacks, otherwise you should try to keep them on cooldown and convert your runes to death runes as fast as possible to be ready to set up a burst attempt. While doing this you want to make sure you don’t burn all your runic power that you have just built up so that you can save it for your burst attempt, so try to hold off on the Death Coil unless you have Sudden Doom proc, then you should use it straight away.
Another reason for not burning all your runic power instantly is if you become the target of a switch and you need to survive. Having the extra runic power to use with Lichborne or Conversion to heal can save you from being killed by the enemy. This also goes for your runes as well. If you know the enemy is looking to try and make a switch on you, try to save some runes for Death Strike in case you need to heal.