Death knights - spell rotations and talents?

[gbsilk]

I am bored at work - nothing unusual there you might say but I wanted to put up a post where people can talk about the uberness of their DKs.

I've specced 51 points into Blood (I haven't used the blade storm thingy yet though) and my usual rotation is something like

Frost disease
Shadow disease
(Pestilence - multiple mobs only)
Heart strike
Heart strike

Then refresh (smashing Death Coil on the proc).

How you guys doing it?

[Furrybeast]

I've specced Unholy, rotations are pretty simple once you figure out the basic point of the class.


Idea being that you keep your diseases up at all times, and then use pestilence to spread it to other mobs then Blood Boil and Death and Decay for aoe grinding/tanking spamming blood boil and using Death Strike were available and the occasional Plague.

Its a fun class and no doubt I intend to take mine to 80 for the guild, be it as DPS or a tank..

Also they can be ANY spec, and quickly change to dps or tank. Some talents might need to be swapped out for tanking but otherwise its a very nice idea for a class.

[safiire]

Ïce is mostly unholy atm.

Suggested for Blood:
PS = Plague Strike
IT = Icy Touch
HS = Heart Strike
OB = Obliterate
DC = Death Coil

Unholy:
PS = Plague Strike
IT = Icy Touch
BS = Blood Strike
SS = Scourge Strike
DC = Death Coil
UB = Unholy Blight

Frost:
PS = Plague Strike
IT = Icy Touch
BS = Blood Strike
HB = Howling Blast
OB = Obliterate
FS = Frost Strike

These came from:

elitistjerks.com/f72/t36303-dps_compendium/

Has lots of good info if ya haven't checked it out already.

[Dreamwind]

My my safy has been busy playing a DK i see.. hehe

[safiire]

I do love my DK

[baddemon]

I've spent countless hours figuring this shiz out (no seriously). Currently I'm unholy, and here is what I've come up with.

You open with:
BS
BS
PS
IT
SS

You open with BSs to turn them into death runes, and then you can just follow this rotation endlessly:

PS
IT
UB
SS
SS

BS
BS
SS
SS
DC (or maybe x2)

with this rotation, you literally use every rune the intant it becomes available, your diseases are up 18 out of 20s and all of your attacks fall during that time. You restart your UB the instant that it ends, which saves all your spare RP for DCs or whatever else you might need.