Go back to slumming in Blight Club.
Play what you want to play, homie.
Wonât be op but would bring blood on togc on par with frost (and cleave fights favor blood) so poeple would get mad. And even without drw fixes blood would be the best spec in full bis according to sims so doesnât matter really, blood skyrockets at 277/284 ilvl with arpen (so like 1 week before wrath ends).
Blood is really easy to play with the least intensive rotation.
No, I said that, you said
Those are not the same.
Long Live Blood DPS
If you take my average DPS by best parse across the board, add my UF that I selfcast and deduct the extra DPS I get on Council and Freya from being listed as Runeblade, we come out to you doing 15% more DPS on average as Unholy in 25m.
Youâre also 5 ilvl higher and look to be pretty much completely BiS aside from a ring. Iâm still missing huge items like Mjolnir Runestone while youâre rocking that Cometâs Trail. I could get about 5% more DPS with a few big pieces. Youâre also an Orc, which would be about 120 DPS for me. I also donât have JC, thatâs another 60.
10% difference between us with equal gear and you basically stated that what Iâm doing isnât viable:
ToGC sigil is 200 DPS by itself. ToGC is going to be a lot better for Blood DPS.
I said that in an earlier post.
Homie, youâre a top 1% blood dk dps among about 17,000 other players of the same class and spec. Iâm sure blood dps is easy, but just because you do it well doesnât mean that the average player will. If youâre capping out and doing decent dmg as a blood dk even without the best gear, itâll only go down from there for the average player. Your dmg is good but itâs still kinda middle of the pack. What about players in then 80th percentile?
Also, in lot of your kills youâre beating geared (235+ ilvl) warlocks, hunters, and warriors. Some of the players are 239 ilvl or higher. This is a testament to your skill and knowledge of blood dps.
If we assume this is true, why change your definition of what viable is later on?
Then why do other specs that are harder not have the same low end? There has to be something going on with how the logs are classified, how its being logged or people are just deciding in the middle of a boss pull that going and making a hot pocket and some coffee is more important and its only happening with Blood DPS where there are instances of a minute where nothing but disease ticks going on.
Warcraftlogs:
Blood DPS
We will be adding a Blood DPS spec. This will be called Blood (DPS) and have the Heart Strike icon.
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Ohh, thatâs dope
Blood is starting to pick up steam this patch woot
Frost, literally, was the original DK tank spec, so I have no idea what youâre posting about.
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This is what I recall too. Every tank in dungeons and raids were frost and DPS were unholy and blood.
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All 3 specs had their merits. Frost had the best aoe threat, Blood was best for boss tanking, and Unholy, once it had gear at least, annihilated dungeons. However back then people couldnât wrap their heads around multiple specs having strengths and weaknesses in the same role, so Frost being the âeasyâ tank spec thanks to brainless aoe threat generation became the go to, and its mitigation worked well with the shorter boss encounters
In reality, Blood was (and is) way better for raid tanking, as it has way better active mitigation that lasts through longer raid encounters, while Frost falls off due to having longer periods without mitigation
Seems like the content isnât as hard as we make it out to be and every tank is viable just people only feel like they beat the raid boss if they did it in 90 seconds instead of 180 seconds.
Mostly it comes down to personal preference and raid comfort. Theoretically, a Frost tank can clear raids faster, because it does more damage overall than Blood. However, it also takes more effective damage due to having less overall mitigation, which puts more pressure on the healers
Personally, I prefer Blood for tanking for that reason - Iâve always been a big support player no matter what role Iâm actually doing, and when it comes to tanking I donât care if a fight takes 15 seconds longer if it means my healers arenât completely out of breath by the end of it
So ur talking about prepatchâŠoriginal wrath prepatchâŠbecause frost was originally tank spec. By Ulduar frost had been patched to dps and blood tank. One of 5 phases. We were ALL aware we were getting a later patch from the get go. You are just compmaining aboht something that was around for 2 months of a multi year xpac. Best you get is hybrid blood dps, which is scaling with armor pen, you know the stuff released in this tier and next? Dkâs are fine. Sorry you just wanna play the spec that lasted a month
All 3 specs were both tank and dps throughout WotLK.
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Wrong but okay!