Death Knight

Mortigen is my focus in World of Warcraft, and has been since the Death Knights were released.

This page is a scribble pad for info I want to keep handy. Find Mortigen on the Armory.

DPS Gear Wishlist

Tanking Gear Wishlist (out of date, and not critical till dps set is updated for 3.2)

  • Gloves Enchant – Armsman (threat) or Heavy Borean Armour Kit til then.
  • Bracers Enchant – Major Stamina
  • Boots Enchant – Greater Fortitude
  • Legs Enchant – Frosthide Leg Armour (perhaps after I get T7 + slot item)
  • Chest Enchant – Super Stats, or the even better stats, but not yet (want T7+).
  • Head Enchant – Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector (Argent Crusade – Rev)
  • Chest – T7/7.5+ item (upgrade)
  • Chest – Dragonstorm Breastplate, from OS25 (cross-grade)
  • Boots – Kyzoc’s Ground Stompers, for 40 Valor tokens (minor avoidance upgrade)
  • Gloves – Callous Hearted Gauntlets, from Grand Widow Faerlina in Naxx25
  • Gloves – T7.5 Valorous (this is optimal)
  • Helm – T7 or t7.5 helm (optimal)
  • Helm – Helm of Vital Protection, from Gothik in Naxx25
  • Legs – T7 or T7.5
  • Legs – Dragon Brood Legguards, from Sarth OS25
  • Belt – Ablative Chitin Girdle, from Maexxna in Naxx25 (optimal)
  • Belt – Ancient Aligned Girdle, from AN-H (cross-grade)
  • Wrist – Bracers of the Unholy Knight, from Instr Razuv in Naxx25 (optimal)
  • Wrist – Bracers of Dalaran’s Parapets, for 60 Valor badges.
  • Trinket – Valor Medal of the First War, 40 Hero tokens
  • Trinket – Rune of Repulsion, from Sapph in Naxx25
  • Weapon – Inevitable Defeat, from random trash in Naxx (optimal)
mortigen-tank80

Mortigen at 80 in Tanking set. Rawr.

Mortigen as a new level 80

Mortigen as a new level 80

Mortigen - at 70 in Tank gear

Mortigen - at 70 in Tank gear

mort-champion

Now wearing mostly 226 gear, new shoulders, and the kick arse Argent Tabbard.

Responses

  1. Hey Nice… but i Hate ally (no offence) i like horde more Draenei are the only cool Alliance race! xD

  2. Heh, none taken. Its a good thing that the factions still hate each other.

  3. Ya that’s kool, even in real world… jejeje (joking)

  4. i need a good rotation for the 50/0/21 spec can u come up with one pls

  5. I didn’t find a rotation for Blood that was useful for single target dps and also could cope with interruption due to movement or death of the mob. In my humble opinion the Blood dps rotation is so tight that any change will cause a significant drop in performance.

    It also seemed to me to be badly affected by lag, and as an Australian I see 500-850 ms lag as my normal raiding game, so can’t push the Blood performance to its best.

    I re-speced to Unholy for dps and now can do a really comfy 3500-4000 dps in 10 mans. 25 man can break 5000. Again I know this is short of what the theoretical top is, but remember that I’m always 0.5 a sec behind the curve due to lag.

  6. But to answer your question directly, apply the diseases, use the strike, then pop Unholy Blight every time it is not active for the RunePower dump. If you find yourself with close to max RP and UB is still active, use a DeathCoil. Refresh the diseases as soon as they are off, not before.

    I don’t follow a strict rotation, as I find you need to apply some priority rules to what action to take rather than a fixed 1,2,3,4,3,3,5 rotation.

  7. I’m at level 60 now, and I’m about evenly specced in frost/unholy (prolly a bad idea), but I find that I’m most comfy doing it basically your way — diseases then strike.

    I really like to have those flies buzzing around me too!

    Any suggestions on how to cheaply raise my intellect by about 20 or 30? My battlefield gear is especially lacking in that area.

  8. hey Chartroose – I think using Int anywhere on your gear is a bad idea. You don’t need it at all (unless there is a pvp reason that is beyond me?). DKs get more spell damage from our Attack Power stat, and Int has no affect on RP generation.

    Suppose if you want it, then look for an Enchant, or a +Stats to Chest to raise everything. I usually scan the AH when leveling looking for bargain enchants for each gear item.

    If I can’t get a Enchant I don’t worry; but the initial DK gear at 58-60 is darn good and you’ll keep most of it well into 63-65.

  9. Thanks, dude! I’m so used to playing my main warlock who is oozing intelligence — and it has really helped him — that I figured it would help my DK too.

    I am going to respec, since I hear that blood/unholy is a better leveling combo.


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