i have a 420 ilvl DK alt whose only purpose is to mindlessly plow through WQ’s for Allied Race rep grinds. which spec would make it least painful? i’m currently Blood which doesn’t die, but dps is terrible and rotation is a total snoozer.
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LoL just your AWESOME Name alone, is worthwhile, but for WQ Try unholy, its tanky and kicks out some decent DPS, on my main, its rarely a issue killing critters and other lil beings
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Frost works really well too, I can pull everything I see and never die.
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All the DK specs can solo WQ content.
Play the spec you’re going to main at end game so you get lots of practice with it.
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it looks like you only read my title. i’m not going to do anything with this toon besides grind WQ’s for rep. and i know they can all easily solo them. i’m looking for the spec that will be the fastest. drop in, nuke, fly to the next. i realize DK’s are just about the worst class as far as speed is concerned, but it was my toon with the most rep, so i’m stickin’ with it.
Oh, I’m sorry. I misunderstood.
For current content, UH/Frost are probably about the same. Blood is much slower.
For old content, the kind where you can one-shot mobs, I recommend Blood because killing things with Blood Boil is about as fast as you can get.
Frost will be the fastest unless you’re consistently pulling enough mobs for unholy’s aoe to make up for it.
This isn’t accurate. Unholy can kill just as fast as Frost. Unholy has better cooldowns too for the ‘tougher’ kill target WQs. Use whatever you have better gear for.
If only there was a place to see which spec was performing better…
In short, you’re wrong. This doesn’t even get into the fact we’re talking questing, which means you’re mounting/dismounting, which means waiting for your pet to even appear as unholy. In somewhat short, you’re really wrong.
If you’re only doing WQs, his suggestion still applies. Mobs die in 2-4 attacks, so play the fun spec. All of them do equally well (blood may be a bit slower).
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Frost will kill things faster than unholy because you can’t really pull enough mobs without them resetting for unholy AOE to be worthwhile.
Frost also has way better cds.
Remember Frostscythe is your friend.
That being said just play what you enjoy.
Doesn’t really matter.
Yea I don’t really agree that frost will kill things faster than unholy. I think in WQ you will be hard pressed to notice any difference in speed at all. Find out which rotation or theme is more fun for you. The specs are close enough in performance right now it doesn’t really matter.
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By the time your ghoul crawls out of the ground frost has already killed the mob and moved on. This isn’t a which spec is better so people can quit responding as such. Play what you like, but when it comes to wq’s and mounting and dismounting, frost is faster.
Yeah grab as many frostwhelps indignation and frozen tempest traits as you can if you’re only doing WQs.
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You’re misleading the OP. An anecdote about UH using apoc to kill a mob is just dumb. If a mob had enough health to survive having 4 wounds applied and survive the apoc hit bursting the wounds yet somehow would also die to frost faster? Chances are you actually killed the mob faster than frost because your apoc initial damage would have killed it before frost considering it’s burst. This is all besides the fact that we’re talking about a 1.5 min cd for some reason when comparing WQ speed when many WQ require you to kill multiple mobs where your ghouls will be out of the ground slapping things around.
If I really had to be in a competition for money on which spec would complete a variation of WQ in the fastest time I would pick UH because it is much faster on the quests where you have to kill multiple mobs to run around casting your auto spreading outbreak which does more damage by far than frost fever when specced into it and in many instances the group of mobs will be dead in a second or two at most by the time they get to you due to how much damage they took from your disease while you were mass pulling.
The comparison is pretty much pointless in the games current state and you will only notice a preferential difference or a case where someone just doesn’t know how to play one of the specs.
It’s literally quite baffling that you can’t grasp this…
That’s funny, I feel the same way about you.
I don’t really know what you’ve been doing this expansion so I’m not going to assume but I have been playing my DK almost daily for most of the expansion and doing daily quests.
If you feel like having some fun I’m more than happy to race some WQ against you. Not a size measuring contest but if you really think there is any noticable difference and are sure to the point that you are baffled I would be happy to unbaffle you.
First, I said play what they like. Reading is hard. Second, frost is faster regardless of whether you like it or not. I didn’t say it was leaps and bounds faster, but you’re straight lying if you’re pretending it isn’t… which was what the OP asked…
Having played both specs I can tell you that you are completely wrong on all accounts and unholy is just as effective if not more effective
I’m sorry you’re struggling to grasp this concept
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I’m sorry that you can’t grasp frost does better short term burst unless you’ve managed to pull a crap ton of mobs (note: you didn’t) that would put unholy ahead.