I upgraded my cloak to rank 5 soloing in Blood spec. (I main Blood, and off-spec Unholy.) Currently sitting at ilvl 436.
However, going forward, for rank 6 and above, I’ll need to clear more objectives.
I’m wondering if I should switch to Unholy for future Horrific Visions runs. I don’t know if Blood will do enough damage to clear the objectives in time. Is UH tanky enough? Seems like it should be, but not sure.
Has anyone done the rank 6 upgrade yet? Any feedback on how it was with your spec?
The damage from mobs isn’t tremendous, and as long as you use death strike as necessary instead of dumping everything into death coil, you should be fine. If you want to start doing more objectives as blood you will need to pull larger and larger packs; granted, this is the case with any of the specs, just blood can survive the full-zone sized packs more easily.
I wouldn’t try it under 20% haste, baseline. You’re going to need SD procs to use DS and not lose too much damage. Ran all 5 upgrades on Unholy so far (main spec) going for #6 on monday. The first 5 were cake but I’ve mained the spec for 12 years at this point so grain of salt.
Akintunde and Raziael: These are all good points to consider. I’m a bit more comfortable with the Blood toolkit than the Unholy toolkit, so maybe I’ll give rank 6 a go in Blood. I can use a strength flask to boost my damage output a little maybe and pull a bit bigger packs.
Broflake: I’m sorry to hear that. Bugs like this are RNG and any of us could have caught one just as easily. Hopefully they fix some of the HV bugs during today’s server downtime and you can get back on track.
ive done it all as blood solo so far and was able to clear the whole first room no problem. doing rank 6 today but i will be bringing a friend of mine for extra dps because i dont think blood will be good getting down the xtra adds in the 2nd room.
to give you an idea if you havent tried for rank 6 on any toon yet. the 2nd boss that i found easiest silences and summons waves that stun. i could solo on my boomy b/c of stupid amount of dps and could dodge the waves easy. once killed thrall with gain the silence spell as well. this was the main reason why i think it would better to not solo as a blood DK.
Youll be fine with Unholy. Really, everyone should be playing a dps spec when doing horrific visions if they are doing them solo. The mobs dont hit that hard. The only benefit of playing Blood instead is that if you fail a mechanic and get stunned or something, you have more health to fall back on. But you really should be favoring damage over sustain when solo.
I’ve cleared 3 chest as Blood at rank 5.
It’s fine if you have an idea of what kind of pull pattern you are going to do.
My advice is a large pull at the start into a hut and use lust, you go left side first and do the shamans, then back to the drag, totem back to thrall and use lust to finish.
I have a video on my youtube channel of the run if anyone is curious, but yes in short. It’s all very doable as a Blood DK.
