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Incoming DK Nerfs, DW, and Gargoyle…
Skeleton Jack — ... buff is a world full of win imo.  Buffing something I already include in my dps spec’s = awesome.  :D  Not sure how much though, but atm it gives you less total dps than BCB does.  So expect the long term investment here to be greater than the return on BCB since BCB is 3 talent points and Necrosis 5 talent points. ...

Talent Spec Revised for Patch 3.08
The Scourge — ... put three points here because I only need 3 to break a tree lock. Corpse Explosion - 1 point. dps/threat Honestly I didn't even use this talent once last night. I am banking on the change in 3.08 from one rune to 40 runic power and the buff to its damage to make it worthwhile. Then again, in the four boss fights we had last night only one would have provided corpses for this ability. Needless to say, I am not entirely sold on this point just yet. Blood Caked Blade - 3 points. dps/threat This talent gave me 2.6% of my overall ...

Unholy Tanking: The Basics according to K
More dots! More dots! — ... Blood-Caked Blade: Reports of this is that it has a separate miss/hit/parry attack than your actual melee attack, so each swing has two chances for you to get parried. We've discussed the parry issue before. ...

Ulduar, Specs, Kill Shots, New Readers, Q&A, Cancer, and MOAR!!!!
Skeleton Jack — ... double Unholy spec.  One is Raid PvE DPS, and the other is Raid PvE Tank.  We’ve had some minor tank availability issues of late, so I’ve been pitching in like a good lil Death Knight.  Awww…  The DPS spec is straight like before in my other post, 12/0/59.  Now for my tank spec I swapped a few things around.  I dropped two points from Bladed Armor, and another 3 points from Ravenous Dead.  I then brought Necrosis up to 2/5, Blood-Caked Blade to 3/3, and filled out Improved Unholy Presence to 2/2.  Is that ...

Preliminary 3.2 Blood Spec for DPS DK’s
Skeleton Jack — ... – Considered to be the best “cookie cutter” Blood build currently available. 50/2/18 – Considered to be the second best “cookie cutter” Blood build, it’s DRW is much stronger for burst scenarios. There are several variants of both of these builds which would allow you to shift points to bring alternative combinations of talents resulting in any of the following: Blood-Caked Blade Night of the Dead Vampiric Blood Improved Blood Presence ...

Preliminary 3.2 Frost and Dual Wield Specs for Death Knights
Skeleton Jack — ... the new Glyph of Unholy Blight.  Since this spec so heavily relies upon Deathcoil damage, the new UB is a big deal.  Due to the UB bugs on PTR, and lack of raid testing, the current status is inconclusive. Frost DW 3/51/17 – 3.2 DW Frost Frost is a lil hinky however.  It doesn’t perform anymore like it did as a 2H spec.  First off your melee white damage will be significantly higher, which also means that Necrosis and Blood-caked Blade will be higher as well.  But then your special ability damage will be lower as ...

3.2 Questions and Answers by SJ
Skeleton Jack — ...  allows you to use both MH and OH weapons for Strikes (for Frost) so Frost has to use Slow/Slow for optimal DPS.  Unholy however lacks this talent, meaning it’s Strikes are all based off of the MH only.  While BCB will do slighly more damage with weapons of speed 2.5 and 2.6. the increase is so marginal that it doesn’t really matter.  So Slow/Fast is acceptable for Unholy DW. ...

The benefits of Rune Strike in PVP (and some PVE) for a Blood/Unholy Death Knight
DeathKnight.info — ... will add 20% more damage as shadow, and Blood-Caked Blade (Rank 3) has a 30% chance to add 25% weapon damage plus 12.5% for each disease on your target. Sounds a little better but can we have some numbers? With both Necrosis and a Blood-Caked Blade proc while having both of my diseases on my target, I have crit for over 12.5K damage on rogues. Keep in mind that this is with improved ...