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6 commentsNov 17th 09: Please see my 3.3 Frost DK tank post for latest answers.
There is a DK simulator which I’ve been using to test the various DK tank specs. But it’s a DPS tool, so it has some limitations for my purposes.
Nevertheless it helps answer questions like, “how much does your rotation TPS drop if you use a single-disease with howling blast rather than two-disease with obliterate?” The answer is below.
Other tank classes’ simulation tools
My apologies to warrior/bear/paladin readers for whom this post is not relevant.
However, you do have some good tools at your disposal:
- Rawr for all classes, but particularly refined for druids
- Prot warriors had Taliafers but it hasn’t been updated since May
- Landsoul’s calculator could be adapted to prot.
If any readers know of some I missed, let me know.
Frost tank Death Knight simulation
Updated Nov 17th 2009:
Question: how much loss of TPS does the HB rotation lead to?
Answer: you do about 95% of the TPS of a two-disease Obliterate rotation.
For full details see my 3.3 Frost post.
About the simulation
This used Kahorie’s simulator.
Further reading
See this index on specs and info.
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Can you please test this spec TPS? I was just trying to see if it is viable compared to the specs you have already simulated.
http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=6&tal=0055000000000000000000000000305053003500330000212311313510050300000000000000000000000000
Twitter: gravitydk
Hi Craig, you found an older frost post. I have now updated it to say so. Latest is here. That’s a wierd spec, why do you want improved DnD? That isn’t logical for a Frost. No Rime is fairly silly and 1/3 death runes (blood of the north) is just wrong. Sorry, it’s not worth simming, it’d be much less tps and it would suck to play
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I was thinking that with a frost spec, and the 2-part tier 10 set bonus (20% more damage from DnD) and the DnD glyph (another 20% more damage from DnD) improved DnD might not be to shabby. With 3/3 in improved DnD you could keep it going 2/3rds of the time, and then fill out with HB/OB and BB/pest/BS and so on.
Or is DnD still silly to waste glyphs and talents on?
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That set bonus is stupid.
For a stationary boss, yes, it’s possible to work in DnD to a rotation and get solid threat (particularly Unholy with its extra spell damage), and take advantage of set bonus & glyph, but I would not do it in Frost as you suggested, and I would be reluctant to rely on DnD for single-target threat in any case, since so many fights require mobility.
It’s not crazy in theory, at all, but in practice I doubt it’d work.
that is my talent build i was wondering any tips on duel wielding frost spec please?
Twitter: gravitydk
We don’t do “rate my spec” here. Read my DW Frost page for answers.