1. What are you thoughts on death knight twinks as a whole, in general? And what are your thoughts about each spec specifically?
2. Do you think a leech build is viable for frost or even for other classes? If so, which ones? If not, why not? (I ask primarily in regard to frost.)
3. Why haste/mastery? I’ve heard repeatedly that crit>verse>haste is invariably the priority of secondary stats for noncasters. Consequently, that’s the route I went, but since I’ve joined XPOFF, I see iLVL 28 noncaster builds that emphasize other secondaries. Why is that?
1. I have loved Death Knights ever since they were released in the game and have mained one ever since. I have always mained Unholy and I love that playstyle the most. In the current bracket Unholy has a huge burst and can do pressure whilst taking people's HP from a 30yd range with your Clawing Shadows talent.
Frost on the other hand is (from what I've played in that spec) a very fun mid brawler spec in bgs; you just dot everyone up with your Frost Fever and go in cleaving people with your Inorexable Assault talent (if using a 2h => which I do because i49 arti) and then dumping your frost strikes on someone. Alot of fun aswel!
Unfortunately I have not played enough in the Blood spec to give you an idea of what that spec is like.
2. Because Frost Fever is your main dmg source if you check dps meters, I would heavily advise someone to make a leech build for Frost. I haven't done it yet because gathering a Feverflare-leech set was hard and I dont have the gold to do the same with a Peerless-leech set (crit mastery = imo the stat prio for frost)
3. Haste because, as I stated before, DK's have a rather small defensive kit and you need as much Rune uptime as you can! Having depleted runes = wasted time! I have not tried using crit for Unholy but lacking defensive cd's I prefer a constant stream of high dmg rather than having a short burst of "huge crits", which you cannot do on a crit stacked build since your Runes dont regen as fast and thus you will have some rough death moments (which is not bad in duels since they are quite fast but in bgs I like to be able to fight all the time instead of sitting on autoattack from time to time.
Mastery because shadow damage mate; Unholy mastery amplifies your shadow damage (which is basically all your damage except Death Strike) and it increases your pet damage, and those hurt a whole lot on high mastery. As I stated before versa does not scale so very well and a small amount can make a bigger difference than having alot of versa.
As for crit, almost my entire WoW carreer I have skipped this stat on most of my classes simply because I like to have a fast gcd and play my rotation faster in general.
Edit: thanks for the interest in DK's, ever since prepatch I have felt they are underrepresented and left out in class / spec discussions.
I was awful, played awful, positioned awful, had addon issues, and that healer made me look not awful. Lol. All of us, really.