What would be the best leveling spec for a Deathknight ?

blood or frost or unholy or any combination of the three

Ah, you're telling me that they're is no best but a mix of any three would be good ?

Blood - DPS
Frost - Tank
Unholy - PvP

That's all I can tell you.

thanks!

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Blood - DPS
Frost - Tank
Unholy - PvP

That's all I can tell you.

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blood is more sustainable in solo grinding, but unholy still pretty much beats it.

as far as dps, blood should be higher, but unholy wins out.

If you plan on doing some massive grinding and 5 man content, unholy.


All specs can tank. Frost can tank better.

Personally, i feel that unholy is best for two reasons: Speed and longevity.

Speed in the sense that since you will be doing a lot of running around, On a Pale Horse 's 20% speed buff while mounted is quite invaluable as well as the fact that Unholy is very adapt at AoE grinding, making quests that require you to kill a certain number mobs that much faster since you're not doing it one at a time.

Longevity in the sense that you get a second life as unholy. Shadow of death is a fantastic talent allowing to come back and keep fighting as a ghoul for 45 seconds. This has allowed me to solo many a group labeled quest. Everyone has had that quest where the get the mob almost to death but you just can't hold out for those last few seconds. Not a problem as a DK because between you and your perma ghoul, the mob goes down and you still get the kill credit. Not to mention I enjoy killing myself off after with explosion. It makes me giggle.

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Blood - DPS
Frost - Tank
Unholy - PvP

That's all I can tell you.

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no you're extremely wrong.

FRUNBLOLY SPEC IS FRUN!

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or however the fk it is spelled.

Short answer:

Unholy because of Pale Horse.

Medium answer:

All are essentially equal when it comes to doing the core things which make DKs awesome. Llike Blood's strength are single target DPS and its self healing with those worm doods and rune tap and stuff, but all three specs can do a lot of self healing anyway with Death Strike and Blood Presence.

Frost has more talents naturally suited for Tanking, but everyone can tank anyway if they gear for it.

Unholy is... i dunno, more spell dmg and aoe? /shrug. Everyone can aoe anyway altho Blood is probably the weakest.

Also Unholy can has ghoul.

Long answer:

My peenor.

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no you're extremely wrong.

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Nope, sorry. You are outnumbered.

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Short answer:

Unholy because of Pale Horse.

Medium answer:

All are essentially equal when it comes to doing the core things which make DKs awesome. Llike Blood's strength are single target DPS and its self healing with those worm doods and rune tap and stuff, but all three specs can do a lot of self healing anyway with Death Strike and Blood Presence.

Frost has more talents naturally suited for Tanking, but everyone can tank anyway if they gear for it.

Unholy is... i dunno, more spell dmg and aoe? /shrug. Everyone can aoe anyway altho Blood is probably the weakest.

Also Unholy can has ghoul.

Long answer:

My peenor.

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Nope, sorry. You are outnumbered.

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you're making vast generalizations of the trees which aren't so cut and dry.

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Blood - DPS
Frost - Tank
Unholy - PvP

That's all I can tell you.

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I don't think I've ever heard anything more wrong in my life.

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Death Knights are World of Warcraft's first Hero class. They are a hybrid class that combines damage dealing and tanking. Each talent tree for Death knights can be used for either of those roles but depending which you choose will affect their play style. Blood focuses on the physical damage dealt by melee spell, weapons and abilities with a high self-healing rate and single target DPS. Frost focuses on control elements, with a strong critical-strike/bonus-damage, as well as several talents that improve damage mitigation. Unholy heavily focus on diseases, improving summoned minions, AoE, spell damage shielding and movement improvement abilities.

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http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_knight_builds

I'm not saying using Blood to tank or Frost to PvP is completely nonviable. But I'm willing to bet, when it comes to the most viable spec's:

Unholy will be more favored for it's (in a 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 scenario):
- Movement Impairing
- Movement Buffing
- Pet Utility
- Magic counter's

Blood will be more favored for its (in a 25-man, generic boss fight)
- Sustained DPS
- Melee damage buff
- Self healing (giving tanks more focus of the healers)
- Threat reduction (albeit at the top of the tree)

Frost will be more favored for it's (in a 25-man, generic boss fight)
- Mitigation buffs
- Damage output debuff's
- AoE control (ofc only applies to bosses with adds)
- Threat increase from critical striking

And by favored, I mean the majority of talent points being thrown in that tree.

As well, in a 5v5 situation, (from what I have read about the spec's of DK's) a crit fukking frosty would be more viable in a melee train than an Unholy, as the whole purpose of a melee train is to LOLDEAD a single target down and gain the advantage of 5v4.

I'll have to ask someone from Team Laser Explosion if melee trains worked in the higher brackets.


Being Blood and being able to heal myself pretty drastically can probably win fights for me. But if something is kiting me, I'd rather have an obeying ghoul who can stun, Anti-Magic Zone, and a buffed Anti-Magic Shell saving me. While Desecration and Unholy Aura close the gap between us. And in the scenario I do die, I get to be a ghoul and exact my revenge.

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Blood - DPS
Frost - Tank
Unholy - PvP

That's all I can tell you.

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My 3800 DPS says Unholy is for more then PvP.

if anything it's

blood - self healing
frost - control
unholy - mobility and the best aoe

personally i love blood except when fighting plate/shields.

WTF is wrong with your name

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Q u o t e:
What would be the best leveling spec for a Deathknight ?

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unholy.

you can solo all group quests and grind groups of 4-6 mobs repeatedly with no downtime if done correctly

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you can solo all group quests and grind groups of 4-6 mobs repeatedly with no downtime if done correctly

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so can blood

of course the aoe damage is lower so probably takes longer. i dunno i haven't tried unholy because i have to level 3 characters with a pet already.