So obv BDK BIS trinkets are from JC but since everythings easy anyway I was thinking of grabbing mining to make some gold since im broke. Is it a big deal if I skip out on JC? or is it kinda “mandatory”?
You’ll never clear a heroic dungeon as a Blood Death Knight without Jewelcrafting.
Healers will laugh at you, and Hunter pets with automatically Growl at mobs because you can’t tank them yourself.
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Nothing is needed.
But your situation can make it needed ask your guild what there requirements are as that is where need will be defined.
That being said as a dk your mainly a offtabk in most optimized raid teams so you shouldent be using stam trinkets should be using dps trinkets other than patchwork and even patchwork dps trinkets once on farm.
Also really should be going frost tank as blood really is just a worse frost dk tank when talking about offtanking as on all but two fights this tier should be in dps gear while tanking that being os and patchwork. As all other fights sr effectivly solo tanking fights with the offtabk doing so little only frost pres matters.
Thad/gothik frost pres dps gear is all that’s needed for the offtabk get pain supp when gates open for the spike damage bit. Gluth if kiting toss your tank gear on as your dps won’t matter or just let your mage solo it. When main tank stacks are high any dk or druid in bear/frost pres and dps gear can take the one stack by taunting at 4 sec left or a few sec early than taunt right back to reset not even needed with good dps. No other fight uses a offtank or a 2nd tank.
For heroics same thing frost dose more dps when going and your not going to die so blood is just a worse option in most ways.
Also jc is better money than mining in most cases.
1 minute trinket on use that you only replace in Ulduar;
Bonus stats from the profession too.
Unless you are in a guild that is pushing world firsts and/or trying to have the best possible times on the ladder it isnt even remotely necessary.
If you are in a guild that just wants to clear the content and doesnt care about logs/world firsts, do whatever you want.
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It’s such a small difference in overall impact that the only people who might even notice it are DPS in the top 0.01% of parse range, and even then it’s a huge maybe.
Not only is it a small difference now, it becomes even smaller of a difference when epic gems come out.
Seriously, it’s not a big deal. The only profession I feel is mandatory, and only for myself, is Engineering.
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Eng is mandatory for EVERYONE!
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My second warlock is a total heap of garbage simply because they’re an herbalist. Can’t even pull 8k dps.
Ill be main tank just need more experience raiding. So far ive main tanked EOE 10m and OS2D 25M and offtanked Naxx 10M.
How so? Idk much about JC
If ima replace it that quick ill prob pass then. TY
You’ll make a lot more money doing GDKPs alone than you will make with mining
Gathering professions are the stuff of alts
Work smarter not harder
But i need my bis. Ive just started raiding and only have 2 pieces of BIS.
Do VOA every week, make your own naxx groups (you’re a tank after all), hard rez the competitive stuff that you need, and you will be kitted out in a month
Jc you buy uncut gems on ah and cut them. This action based on cut and realm can be between 1-20g from one fast cut on my realm some cuts are 8-9g and sell instantly to do. This makes a stable few hundreads gold a day with only a few seconds work mining fighting the bots takes awhile to get the same.
While you do the jc dailly and sell the dragons eye for another 120-150g a day on top. Plus the 25g dailly quest gold
Dailly you make you ice prism that is avg 25g ish profit with a dragons eye to sell every week about for a extra 120-150
That’s dailly 200g for logging in via dailly plus dragon eye sale and prism with a bonus 125-150 a week two if lucky so a extra 20g avg so 220g a day for logging in for about 10 min work that’s done in the time it takes your heroic dailly group to summon you.
Cutting the profitable cuts and listing them is a bonus on top that I norm get 500-750g a day for one posting at start of day after doing dailly while waiting for the heroic within about 10 min. That’s a total of almost 1000g dailly with little to no effort. Mining takes going out of your way to fight bots and often gets quite bad profit per hour in fact just farming reg hos for raw gold is often better than going and mining based on realm and bot population. Selling hos boosts thou is a stable 1500-2000 g a hour quite easy as a tank dk and pally being best at it among the tanks.
Dk is strictly more optimal as a offtank if your guild cares about parsing not all do so play based on your case. As if you got a pally tank it’s a waste for them to not be tanking when in tabk spec so you want to maximize there time tanking which means minimizing the dks tanking time as the dk can tank and dps at the same time by using dps gear and frost pres that is enough for nearly every fights offtabk duties. The only time I would use a dk as the main tank is if other tank was a druid.
I’ll answer your post from what I seen pre deleted I’m on fair and jc was about 4k to level to max. Well till ice prism to be exact so 15 off max. It’s gone down now as I did durring the time everyone was doing it and at the start of the xpac when everyone was wanting northrend mats.
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Are there any specific gear requirements? Do you happen to know a guide as well that you would recommend?
I joined a more chill guild they dont really care about that type of stuff and said they would help me be a main tank soon I just need more practice.
Gear requirement is really preraid bis at min but the better the gear the faster the runs and the more profitable but lower geared runs do sell jsut charge less due to the higher time.
The price I quoted was based on my sales so near fully bis so quick runs.
Dk it’s the same as the pally one just change for dk spells. The route and prio mobs are the same and ams on pulls with spell mobs.
I do VOA each week. I also hate pugging raids I made a group for 25m EoE and half the group quit after 1 wipe that was due to DPS dying despite me always having threat. Like they died in the tornado thing.
Gotcha ty man ill def check it out
Imagine going into ulduar with a subpar trinket and subpar profession.
If you don’t care much about that then I guess it is ok
He mentioned his guild is not a min max type.
For a non min max type guild the loss of jc vs mining is super low the naxx 25 man armor trinket off Thad is quite comparable when paired with ease of goss while the trinket that replaces Thad’s trinket comes off the 2nd boss in uldar and also replaces the jc trinket.
It’s quite a minor thing. The largest value of the trinkets is for os 3d where armor is rather weak so having two good stam trinkets is quite nice for dealing with breaths.
JC is versatile because it also gives you STR option for a DPS off-spec.
Armor is also situational going into Ulduar compared to stam (prio is stam > armor).