Best Death Knight DPS Gear {Outside Raids}

Submitted by Blueshatrick15 on Thu, 2009-05-07 17:54.

 

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I will list the best possible gear you can get outside of raids. These will include crafted items, rep. items, PvP items, quested items, and Emblem of Heroism items, and, of course, heroics. As of 3.1.1.

Head- Spiked Titansteel Helm

Created- Blacksmithing

Socket- Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
Bold Scarlet Ruby

Neck- Furious Gladiator's Pendant of Victory

PvP

Shoulders- Furious Gladiator's Dreadplate Shoulders

PvP

Back- Furious Gladiator's Cloak of Victory

PvP

Chest- Furious Gladiator's Dreadplate Chestpiece

PvP

Wrist- Furious Gladiator's Bracers of Triumph

PvP

Hands- Heroes' Scpurgeborne Gauntlets

Emblems(60)

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby

Waist- Belt of the Titans

Crafted- Blacksmithing

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby(x2)

Legs- Staggering Legplates

Ingvar the Plunderer- Utgarde Keep(Heroic)

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby(x2)

Feet- Battlelord's Plate Boots

Crafted- Blacksmithing

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby(x2)

Ring #1- Ring of Scarlet Shadows

Crafted- Jewelcrafting

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby

Ring #2- Titanium Impact Band

Crafted- Jewelcrafting

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby

Trinket #1-Mirror of Truth

Emblems(40)

Trinket #2-Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood

Keristrasza- Nexus(Heroic)

Sigil- Sigil of the Dark Rider

Quested- Into the Realm of Shadows

Two-Hand- Furious Gladiator's Crusher

PvP

Socket- Bold Scarlet Ruby(x2)

For more info or other choices go to:
http://maxdps.com/deathknight/unholy.php

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Criticism ho!

Submitted by fayne selph on Fri, 2009-05-08 08:51.

Okay, where to start.

First off I am going to make some assumptions. I am assuming that this is gear for PvE raiding, and what you should have for pre 7-8 tiered gear, or something equal to it. Also I am assuming your target "demo" is people that are casual players. With that in mind I will begin.

Newest Arena PvP Items... Obviously these are going to be the best "out-of-raid" gear for people trying to get geared, but there is one drawback, you cannot be a person that spends less then 3 hours a night to get that gear, and get this gear, with the exception of getting lucky with VoA. I would reccomend more dungeon and reputation gear for those players, because they are very easy to get with just playing 1-2 hours a day and you do not have to sell your soul to PvP. This is my opinion, yet I am a biased PvEer. Personally I do not want to spend the time to do hundreds of battles in the same areas over and over and over again, I like life a little spicier.

Wintergrasp rewards could also be an alternative to some of the gear you mentioned, or another helpfull trinket.

Sigil of the Dark Rider? THANK YOU!!! Finally someone did the research to realize that this gives more DPS then the EoH reward.

Lastly, Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood. I will admit that this is a great trinket, although I will say that there are other that you get from quests, or WG, that I would prefer over for the reason that I do not like something extra in my rotation I have to worry about. Personally I would go with something that procs over something I have to hit, but that is just lazy, ole me.

That is my two cents.

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Awesome feedback A note on

Submitted by Jiyambi on Fri, 2009-05-08 10:02.

Awesome feedback Smiling

A note on "use" trinkets - I used to hate them as well until I realized I could just work them into a macro for a button I hit all the time and not have to think about them anymore!

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I am still learning macros,

Submitted by fayne selph on Tue, 2009-05-12 12:44.

I am still learning macros, but they are making my bars a lot smaller. Did you use it as a /cast xxxx enter /use xx? I would think that would be the easiest way, although at the moment I am liking /castsequence... for my paladin and death knight, but I need to change it up for my DK once I get Rune Strike.

Also this website is usefull to DKs, and you can learn how to implement easy macros with any class. http://deathknightbuilds.com/macros.html

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I think I used something

Submitted by Jiyambi on Wed, 2009-05-13 01:28.

I think I used something like:

#showtooltip THESPELL
/use TRINKET
/cast THESPELL

The reason for this: if spell causes a global cooldown, you don't want it first because it will prevent the use of the trinket.

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This guide is ok so far, but

Submitted by Night_Hawk on Thu, 2009-05-07 19:57.

This guide is ok so far, but it has a lot of potential.

I would recommend that you take a look at Jame's Guide Writing Guide. This contains loads of tips, from text formatting to inserting links and pictures.

Main improvements that could be made:

  1. Links to Wowhead [ url =...]Name[ /url ] without the spaces
  2. Text formatting using the [ b ] [ i ] [ size=... ] [ color=... ] (again without the spaces)
  3. Prehaps some links to recommended specs

These tips can all be found written much better in Jame's guide,

A quick reference to BB-code can be found here.

Good luck Eye

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What excellent feedback, I

Submitted by Jiyambi on Thu, 2009-05-07 22:49.

What excellent feedback, I have nothing new to add, just wanted to say that Night Hawk is right and agree with his suggestions Smiling

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First Guide

Submitted by Blueshatrick15 on Thu, 2009-05-07 18:05.

This was my first guide...Please tell me if i need any corrections or updates. Laughing out loud