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Upcoming Death Knight Changes
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... (two-handed only) now grants 25 Defense and 2% Stamina. Many death knight glyphs have been changed. In many cases the negative consequences were removed. New death knight sigils are now available, primarily from vendors, including a tanking-oriented sigil. Blood Rune Strike -- damage decreased from 200% to 150% but threat increased to 150% from 100%. The healing of Blood Aura, Blood Presence and Death Pact has been ...

Winners and Losers in Leveling
Laser Chicken — ... low on mana, switch your seal from Command to Wisdom and you're back up to full in 1 fight. With insta-FoLs and DS, health is never a problem either. Affliction Warlock - Imp out, and out of combat. He regens mana like a tree druid on moonwell juice. Dark pact after every fight leaves me full mana and more. Drain/Siphon life leaves me with full health. Unholy Death Knight - No mana here, but the combination of plate, blood presence, and death strike make it so the mobs aren't hitting me for as much as I'm ...

Arthas' underpants
Random Ravings of Warcraft — ... and Blood presence. It was AoE like nothing else. Run into a pack of mobs the size of which most mages do, but end up with full health at the end. No need to eat or drink afterwards. It's fast! If you haven't already made use of the "free" level 55 character for the sake of your professions, you should certainly give it a try for the sheer fun of it. ...

Comments, Questions, and Answers about Death Knights ala SJ.
Skeleton Jack — ... .  This means they use so many attacks within 10 seconds that it’s impossible to pull off those rotations without Unholy Presence.  In my experience however these *never* do as much competitive damage as traditional specs using Blood Presence.  In addition, the rotations are much more difficult, require far more work, leave less leeway for error, and generally don’t perform well when you are required to move in combat. ...

E-mail Day!!! Yay!!! Answers to players’ questions about Death Knights.
Skeleton Jack — ... Blood Presence - PvE DPS always.  DO NOT USE UNHOLY PRESENCE TO DO PvE DPS OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL BEAT YOU WITH A STICK!!! ...

Everything plus the kitchen sink?! Blood, Frost, Patchwerk, Blue Posts, DW, and moar!!
Skeleton Jack — ... THAT much of a hardcore Unholy DK that I’ve never trained Frost or Blood Live.  I’ve done all of my testing with those specs on PTR only. Frost Strike, untrained, was still the highest % of my total damage done.  That makes me really wonder how much more it would have done had it been trained. I did not use HB once, even if I had a Rime (on Patchy).  I was having a rough time.  Deal.  I was new to this.  I did this in Blood Presence, not Unholy Presence.  I do not know if that was the right call. ...

Power Leveling
Skeleton Jack — ... Honestly, any spec will do until you get to about the 40+ range.  And even then, I still think any spec will do.  This is going to be easy mode for you as a DK.  The main trick?  Tank gear.  That’s right.  TANK GEAR!!!  Don’t wear dps gear, and don’t stay in Blood Presence.  Go into ...

Death Knight Specs for 3.1 Release
Skeleton Jack — ... and Blood Presence.  Nuff said.  As to the rest, you should have at least 8% hit and 15 Expertise minimum.  If you have any questions regarding Hit and Expertise please read my post:  ...

3.2 DK Spec Updates for PvE DPS
Skeleton Jack — ... to follow a rotation, a priority system will in the end lead to more dps.  Sometimes rotations just get messed up. Runeforge:  Rune of the Fallen Crusader / Rune of the Fallen Crusader *or* Rune of the Fallen Crusader / Rune of Razorice Sigil:  Sigil of Awareness Weapon Speeds:  Slow/Slow Presence:  Blood Presence Notes:  FC/RI is a far superior Runeforge setup ...