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DK: One More Week
Myrx — Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:31pm
Well there's about one more week to go until Death Knights are unleashed on Azeroth. I finally have all of my preparations complete:
- Materials for 1-350 Blacksmithing
- Materials for 1-350 Jewelcrafting
- Quest turn-in materials for Light's Hope Chapel
- Quest turn-in materials for The Blasted Lands
- Quest turn-in materials for Zangarmarsh
- Glyphs for grinding ready
- RAF account leveled to 60
There is a bit that I have to do still:
- Go to the grocery store and buy food for a week
- Tell my friends not to worry if they don't see me for a week
- See my parents before Wrath
I have decided to spec Unholy for leveling. I leveled as many different specs during Alpha and Beta, and while I thought Blood was decently fast and efficient while I was specced that way, I had a more enjoyable experience leveling as Unholy.
Here's the spec I am hoing to use most likely:
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight=2055020500000000000000000000...
A couple notes on this spec:
- On A Pale Horse: Don't underestimate the benefits of increased travel time on grinding. This is amazing.
- Unholy Aura: This gets me 15% movement speed while I level in Blood Presence. Excellent talent.
- Master of Ghouls: I really love the permanent ghoul. It will be even better with the Glyph and Orc racial.
- Gargoyle: For those difficult encounters (2-3 person) that you attempt to solo.
- Unholy Blight: I don't see any benefit to having this while grinding.
- Night of the Dead: I've not used this too much, but being able to sac my ghoul and get him right back out for a heal is nice.
- Reaping: Death runes rarely have use while grinding. Many things die in your initial rotation.
- Blade Barrier: I mostly grabbed this because Subversion is 'meh' for Unholy.
Whats my plan when the expansion goes live?
- Quest to about 57.95. Should be in Orgrimmar at this point.
- RAF gift myself 3 levels. Should be near 61.
- Turn in the final DK quest to Thrall, and Death Gate back.
- Do the trainer quest in Ebon Hold if I decided to skip it.
- Fly to Light's Hope Chapel and turn in those quests.
- Fly to Stonard and ride to The Blasted Lands to turn in those quests.
- Ride through Hellfire grabbing the Thrallmar and Falcon Watch flight paths.
- Begin questing in Zangarmarsh.
As soon as I hit 68 I'm going to drop all quests in my quest log, and head to Borean Tundra.
Enjoy your last week of freedom!
Re: DK: One More Week
Anonymous — Tue, 11/04/2008 - 11:40pmVery nice. I've got most of my materials gathered and sitting on alts.
My spec for leveling is almost identical (I'll probably take UB and I'm not sold on night of the dead). The increased mount speed and movement speed are definitely underrated talents for grinding.
Just a few random questions:
Do you plan to do the cloth turn-ins as well?
Which flight paths do you start with?
Were there any actual items you collected? Blade of misfortune, or things like that.
Do you have a priority on northrend factions you plan to raise first?
Additionally, have there been any new changes in beta? I'm still hoping they change the 2pc set bonus away from plague strike and I'd like to see the talent changes they mentioned previously, like rune strike added to acclimation. *shrugs*
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:05amNah. I mainly grabbed LHC and BL because they're on the way.
If I remember correctly everything on Azeroth.
Nope. It would all just get outdated too fast. I'll grab the Halaa sword if we have control.
Factions that give me shoulder enchants and items I need. Not really sure what those are, haha.
Nothing big has changed recently with the other class changes being pushed to live. I hope the two-piece changes as well because it's all kinds of terrible right now.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 2:41pmI forgot about the halaa sword, I'll have to check on that too.
Right now I'll likely ding 68 early in nagrand anyway.
In the expansion do the reps still work where the tabard you wear decides which faction you gain rep with? Do the tabards require a certain level of rep (via killing/questing) before they can be worn?
The 2pc on plague strike is horrible and I really hope it changes. It'd also be nice if desecration got extended by epidemic as well. It won't matter a lot for grinding, but having desecration drop in 12 and diseases not needing to PS for 6-8 more seconds is annoying. I've actually started looking at some specs that don't take epidemic. Overall I want it for the extra FU ability every other rotation, but I'll have to do some tests at 80 and see. *shrugs*
Do you know if the proposed changes to how druid armor on items interacts with bear form will also apply for frost presence? The change coming is that armor on rings/trinkets/etc. won't be adjusted by the bear form bonus anymore.
Thanks again for the info. I gotta go stock up on mountain dew. 8P
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 5:31pmI think Outland reps stay the same. Some Northrend tabards require questing, and some require a low amount of reputation to obtain.
Haven't heard a response to my Feral armor thread yet. Beta is done or I would check myself.
Re: DK: One More Week
Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 3:28pm[quote]Factions that give me shoulder enchants and items I need. Not really sure what those are, haha.[/quote]
Here thx for all the good reads in the beta forums.
DPS- Shoulder - Greater Inscription of the Axe Exalted with Sons of Hodir
DPS - Head Enchant- Arcanum of Torment Revered with Ebon Hold
DPS- Leg - Icescale leg armor( Leatherworking) 75 ap 22 crit rating
Tank- Head- Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector Revered with Argent Crusade
Tank- Shoulder- Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle Exalted with Sons of Hodir
Tank- Leg- Frosthide Leg Armor( Leatherworking) 55 Stam and 22 agil
Re: DK: One More Week
Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 1:59amDoes RAF work at 60?
I thought the person GIVING the level has to stay at 59 for it to work?
Or can the person GIVING the level level to 60 then grant the person they're linked to levels THEY are until 60?
Thanks.
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:29amThey can level to 70 and still gift until the accounts aren't linked anymore. In my case that day is 12/17/08.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 8:02amWon't the blasted lands quests be very grey by the time you get there?
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:30amPerhaps, but I'd rather have them in case anything doesn't go as planned. As I said on the forums: I'd rather be over prepared than under prepared.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 2:21pmWhat are the Quest turn-in materials for Zangarmarsh?
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 5:29pm1) Unidentified Plant Parts
2) Mature Spore Sac
3) Bog Lord Tendril
4) Glowcap
5) Fertile Spores
6) Sanguine Habiscus
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 8:33pmHow many of each?
I gather you need about 360 Unidentified Plant Parts to get to friendly, questing the zone should take you to honoured.
but unsure on the others
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 3:40pmSome helpful things here, I have a question or two though:
What glyphs are you going to use and why?
What damage rotation do you use?
At level 60 with Unholy spec I was using IcyTouch > Plague Strike > Blood Strike > Scourge Strike > Icytouch again > Plague Strike again etc whenever things became ready, throw in deathcoils when I had the runic power :P
But I think this is not a very organised way of doing it, I also used deathstrike when I needed the hp for the self healing over Scourge Strike.
Any better suggestions?
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 4:46pmFor glyphs I'm going to go ghoul and death strike. The randomness of the scourge strike glyph stinks and for grinding most mobs will drop fast anyway.
For a rotation I like to PS first so RoR and Desecration bonuses apply to IT(potentially GR too if you have it). Also remember you can BS twice in your first rotation:
PS ~> IT ~> SS ~> BS ~> BS
This can then be followed by 3 SS on the second rotation. Most leveling mobs aren't going to take two full rotations though. 8P
The SS can be swapped with DS as desired.
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 5:34pmRemember though that Death Rune talents aren't typically that valuable for leveling because a LOT of things die after your first rotation.
I'll probably use Glyph of the Ghoul, Glyph of Horn of Winter, and Glyph of Blood Strike to start out. I hate the Scourge Strike Glyph, and the Plague Strike one sucks.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 7:48pmI would tend to agree with you on the death rune talents for levelling with.
For the glyphs Death Strike and Ghoul do look best, Blood Strike does more damage on snared targets and you won't really be snaring them so it seems a bit useless (unless I am missing something) and Plague Strike appears too random to be useful.
I think I will be going with these two, the minor ones seem kinda sucky until you get Horn of Winter at the moment too.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 8:07pmI'm guessing the snare from desecrate would count for BS, but I'm not sure.
I'm going death strike and ghoul rune.
The death runes aren't much use while solo'n, but I expect to group a bit once I hit northrend, so figured I'd take them on my way down the tree.
For 1-350 JC are you using all orange combines or did you just get extras for when you don't get the skill up?
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Myrx — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 9:38pmWas assuming the snare from Desecrate would count.
Also I think most of the JC combines are Orange, but they might not all be.
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Anonymous — Wed, 11/05/2008 - 7:54pmRegarding this:
Fly to Light's Hope Chapel and turn in those quests.
You need to be friendly with the argent dawn to hand the 30 fragments, cores etc in, so the only thing I think you can hand is the "that's asking a lot quest" stuff.