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[29 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
3.3 Icecrown

3.3 is looking awesome. The new bosses we’ve seen on PTR are looking innovative and challenging (albeit, Blizzard have said they’re not trying to make Icecrown as daunting as Sunwell).
We’ll see Unholy DKs going back to a traditional deep spec, but necrosis has lost its value in that spec. Current EJ theory is seeing either Dark Death or Disease glyphs being top; I personally would prefer to use Disease, and for AOE it’s the winner. Runeforge Gossip wrote how to use disease glyph. He also likes the scourge strike change to …

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[14 Sep 2009 | 10 Comments | ]
Your spec in 3.22

PTR 3.22 for DPS and Tanks bears some good news.
Tanks can now consider unholy and frost as proper equals to blood tanks. Unbreakable Armour being one minute and buffed to +armour again makes it mathematically similar to the damage reduction of bone shield. I expect UA duration to be put to 15s down from current PTR 20 seconds to balance it out, sine Bone Shield is now 3 charges (+1 from glyph) on PTR and Vampiric Blood is 10s (+5s from glyph).
I did some analysis on Unholy tank builds in …

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[12 Sep 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
3.2.2 Probably Coming Soon

No surprise here, but we’re probably going to see the surprisingly awaited 3.2.2 patch here in the next week or two. The PTR is still hopping with lots of changes, but with Onyxia up for testing and all sorts of small changes being tweaked around, they’re getting close to the final release. We’ll keep a close eye for just how much everyone gets smacked around by Onyxia when she goes back live. We’re rather hoping for some destruction. Onyxia has some revenge to level against all those level 70s who …

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[10 Sep 2009 | 3 Comments | ]

We’ve got a few discussions actively going on the tanking and dps changes in PTR 3.22. I think PvPers will like the bone shield cooldown being reduced to 1 min too. MMO-Champion has done a spell comparison with very promising results.
Ghostcrawler has commented now, read the discussion.
Death Knight
Blood

Heart Strike now has its total damage increased by 10% for each of your diseases on the target to the primary target, and half that to the secondary target.
Vampiric Blood now lasts 10 sec. (Down from 20 sec.)
Subversion now also affects Scourge …

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[4 Sep 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Death Knight Blue Posts for the Day

There are quite a few blue posts going up these days with Cataclysm details and discussions, but there haven’t been many details about Death Knights of late, so it was nice to see a few good posts in the last day or so about some issues that are relatively important for the class.
For the most part, it discusses the comparison between Obliterate and Scourge Strike, something that many Unholy DPS DKs have been dealing with for some time now. Interesting to see where there are thoughts are headed on this:

Diseaseless …