I know there a lot of factors that go into this, I’m just wondering if generally Death Knights are easier to play or performs better compared to other classes. Leveling one for the first time seemed to be much faster and smoother than anything else, and I didn’t know if that’s just me or the same for everyone. Thanks!
All around I can just say that Tank specs in general always make me feel like a beast and I have the easiest questing and gathering with my Blood DK and Guardian Druid than any other of my characters.
I can’t say anything for the ease of DK with other specs. It’s pretty subjective all around though.
Maybe frost and blood to some degree, but to me unholy is giga brain and i can’t play it lol. Dh, warrior, paladin, hunter have all felt significantly easier to get numbers out than unholy for me
Frost is pretty straightforward, Blood can be amazing but it takes some getting used to, and Unholy is weird.
It is quite faster, healing makes the class feel better too with death strikes. I think it largely depends on how you’re playing, and the relevant buffs active (XP).
In what way?
You can be unkillable as Blood, just keep enough RP in reserve for Death Strike heals, if you really get in trouble the Vampiric CD puts your self healing on steroids.
From screwing around with the new talents it really seems like if youre properly using your Death and Decays, time your tomb stones well with Dancing Rune weapons youre active mitigation should be fine leaving you ample RP for Death Strikes, with a ton of haste.
That said I think I only played the 10.0 BDK for a day or 2.
You literally just use all your CDs, apply festering wounds and scourge strike.
But theres like 7 cds to use and they all have different cds and then rune management for chains of ice and using death strike with rune power and then only having access to pet interrupt and stun during transformation 
Or i can press wings and go brrrr
Unholy doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. You’re spreading diseases, popping zits, summoning zombies and you look at the meter after going through all that and see your top damage is theee kinds of “melee”. Which isn’t hard to figure out but if popping zits does so little damage then why all the setup. If it’s gonna take setup it should have noticeable impact.
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I’ve been playing them since the dawn of time essentially.
Back in Wrath I found they had a decent pace of leveling.
Now in retail I find it varries alot on spec for me .
Blood and Frost I have alot of ease with and find they both have that kick . Unholy, I find it takes a bit to build up that feel.
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Shadowlands really did a number on DK tbh. Prior iterations weren’t as bad. I like popping zits and spreading diseases though, seems fine. DF seems to have made it easier to spread zits.
Frost DK goes brrrrrrrr tooo with them big chill streaks. 
Unholy is one of the harder specs in this game. Frost isn’t easier either. You know how often people screw up breath lmao?
It seems like some classes just click better for people. Myself, I can’t Shaman, but felt like a beast in every spec with a Death Knight. I can see why people enjoy them, I just haven’t run into many on Eonar.
Unholy Death Knight is perhaps my favorite spec in the entire game.
Death Knight in general has high survivability due to plate armor and Death Strike, but unholy is just plain fun. You get an instant cast, spreading disease, and create Festering Wounds with your melee strikes. When you get enough, you can Apocalypse a platoon of ghouls up, pop Dark Transformation on your primary ghoul, drop defile, and start scourge striking (SS hits everyone standing in defile) and death coiling like crazy while keeping your disease up.
You can army for real if anything survives that.
Yeah with army out and cds popped unholy is a sight to behold. But frost just goes obliterate a few times. Effort and Reward don’t match. But that’s a matter of opinion obviously
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Unholy while harder to use tends to be a more consistent spec.
Usually…its good whole exapc. as frost and blood are known to get rebalanced more. Ie. nerfed.
Hey those are trade secrets you’re spilling there
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If you are leveling as blood death knight, or any tank for that matter it will feel like easier mode (if a bit slow on high health single enemies). As for frost and unholy I can’t speak on them. I will say blood feels a bit clunky while leveling, so that makes it a bit less appealing compared to other tanks imo.