"How to solo", a Death Knight dungeonning guide.

[Boii]

Many thanks for these comprehensive answers.
You should know that apart from the warrior I have no proficiency with the other classes. I have always been a warrior.
But I like to play the other classes to know their strengths and weaknesses in case I have to face them.
Furthermore, when you have finished min-maxing your main, when after having spent entire weeks doing the same dungeon for the much desired 3-socket belt, once the brief moment of enthusiasm has passed, don't you feel a sense of emptiness?
As Illidan says to Maiev once defeated: the huntress is nothing without the hunt.
That's why I start a new toon.
I've always loved death knights, I like their style and their lore.
The last time I played one seriously was in wotlk when in every spec both tanking and dps were allowed.
But a lot of things has changed since then.
So if I understand it, the damage is "normal as it is", it's not me doing something wrong.
I'll try versatility instead of mastery to see if it improves damage, and other small adjustments.
Thank you

Yep! I forgot, dks need consumables much more than other classes (sharpening stones and such)

And RP ftw, they have a good power level when kitted out even min-maxed that they arent OP when questing.

 

[Boii]

Ah my bad I misunderstood
Okay then you can go for some mastery no problem and as @Boii said you can keep the crusader. To be fair your toon is already extremely impressive as is so I'm not sure I would tweak much around besides the talents as we don't really have anything as generally useful as the talent tree in my previous post. As I said Runic attenuation is bad (for Unholy/Blood) and Brittle is basically a worse and unreliable stoneskin gargoyle.
Haste is still our best stat for runes/runic power generation but Unholy and Frost have less of an issue with those since they have https://www.wowhead.com/spell=51462/runic-corruption and https://www.wowhead.com/spell=81229/runic-empowerment to help.
I still stand by proc effects not being optimal on such a class but then again if you stack them you might get a decent enough uptime that it'll be worth it.
Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle brings much needed, reliable damage and survivability that is invaluable to make the class reliable for soloing purposes so while it may be a bit inferior to Crusader for pure DPS, it's sadly the least of out concerns as DKs.
And yeah I'm not sure you're gonna be seeing 4 digit numbers besides in PvP depending on the scaling of your abilities of which I sadly have no clue about.


How do you do such miracles (how does obliterate do more than FS) haha ? I'd assume those numbers are based off of having absolutely every proc when hitting because you sure as hell aren't getting those reliably (unless you're talking about PvP in which case I am unaware of the scaling so I may very well be way off).



https://www.wowhead.com/spell=81229/runic-empowerment





I'd have to disagree on that. The ghoul can be summonned when needed, is more reliable and has useful abilities. I really dislike Brittle and while it may be slightly better 1v1 for pure DPS you miss out on https://www.wowhead.com/spell=316916/cleaving-strikes which is far superior for damage.


Now to be extra nitpicky I'm not sure you can afford that for soloing but other than that yeah 100% go frost strike.


Respectfully, no. Versa is better, bringing slightly less (0.2% per point versus 0.22% per point) damage but better survivability. And honestly when you take in consideration the 8% baseline mastery, you don't even get that much more damage from mastery at the beginning. Mastery's defensive part is not that strong anyways, it's a technical x% effectiveness increase to your death strike that only works on physical hits. Versa is more reliable and we have big cooldowns to heal where a bit more healing from DS don't really matter anyways if used well.

Overall nitpicks, you know your stuff damn well mate. I'm entierly sure you know the class better than I do if I'm to be honest haha, ty for your insight.

Runic empowerment! I swear its not in ny spellbook but yeah thats what has been going on XD

The most important thing is playing how you have fun. I never thought my DK would end up topping my hunter in dps and it doesn’t, but its hella more fun haha

 

[Boii]

How do you do such miracles (how does obliterate do more than FS) haha ? I'd assume those numbers are based off of having absolutely every proc when hitting because you sure as hell aren't getting those reliably (unless you're talking about PvP in which case I am unaware of the scaling so I may very well be way off).

Both str proc and on use active (when using darkmaster talisman), as well as crusader proc, and getting double crits. If i were in a RDF group and had the 15% more damage it would be wild, but this was just on training dummies XD