falkor, i completely agree, i was just saying that people tend to think of certain spec as way too definitves.
exemple, when me and my friend was leveling our DK after the start of WOTLK, he was going full unholy with 20 points in blood, as everyone was telling him to. but i had gone with a hybrid that most, if not everyone was skipping thru. going unholy for my perm ghoul. then going blood for the rest of the things including heart strike which was just better then any other strikes.
my friend was telling me i was too much about survival then dps. yet everytimes we did a dungeon with the same gears and all, i was DPSing a hell of a lot more then him, like 200 more DPS then him. and on that sometimes i'd lose only 50 dps to heal the whole group for 10% of their lives, making things easier on the healers which actually liked me better then him.
in the end, we promoted my spec and before the talent tree changed, many of the DKs i knew of actually changed and specced like me. my spec was 44/27 and it is still it, with me still toping dps against many people more geared then me. i could seriously take different routes, and switch a few survivng talents into a bit more dps by replacing some of my points which i did a few weeks ago. but basically that spec is just perfect.
the reality is that none of the 51 talent point is worth it on a DK. except for howling blast in frost, but only if you are a tank. thats what i ended up with by trying blood and unholy. i've never been frost yet though, i should try it at one point.