This is not a How To, This is just me trying to give some tips that should be common sense to regular players but not to new lvl 80 Death Knights.
Has anyone noticed that the majority of post on the Death Knight forums read like this, "HELP ME!!!!" "WTF!" "NERF" "HELP?" an the occasional "STOP MAKING DEATH KNIGHTS!". Lol trust me i've come on here looking for help on certain things also, not my spelling by the way. But I mean this is realy, realy depressing. Either No one has the answer, or it's you're all wrong, retarded an do it this way. Okay in 10man naxx I average, Not on trash, 2.5k dps, an that was before I got the few pieces of teir that I do now. Here is my advice to anyone one who plays a DK, an doesn't want to delete it. DO NOT post in trade chat "DK LF raid." . Please, pretty please say dps, right off the bat you are annoucing that you are one of the most annoying an likely to faill classes in the game. Ok now your saying DPS instead of DK, chances are high that you will be told that the raid is full on DK's, it's going to happen, 90% of the raids i go on (25man) have 2-4 dk's ever! A helpful things to do is tell them your dps, if you pull under 1.8k dps on a boss dummy with no buffs (include HoW, and BS for unholy.) You shouldn't even be trying to raid, it's embarrising to everyone else when you try to get into VoA with 900 dps. you should do more auto attacking. Thats just a tip for you puggers out there. To anyone who is looking to improve there dps through spec/rotation/gear, my advice is make some friends. Your best bet is to get into a guild with a decent amount of players, a good sign of a possibly useful guild is if they do a gear check before letting you join the guild. Maybe your new to lvl 80, let them know if you try to act like a hardcore raider with blues an greens on your first lvl 80 that just so happens to be a DK your going to piss people off. 90% of players on wow are willing to give you a hand but if you are under 16 no offense but you need to learn not to beg, needing help is one thing begging for gold, runs, an gear will also get people pissed. you may have to wait a while for your friends or guildies to gear you up. To DK's who want to dps raid an are new to lvl 80 here are some more ideas.
Pre lvl 80, make friends, be useful, damn anything just get people to know you for good reasons.
At lvl 80....
Step 1. Go unholy, both blood and frost dps is very reliant on gear. ( Though the new patch may change this.)
Step 2. Get The Hateful PVP set. Be prepared to grind about 250k honor points WG an AV are your friends. Also if you can get the WG marks the chest piece from the WG vendor is slightly better than the hateful.(Yes I know it is not raid gear, but it will beat 90% of the blues and greens you are wearing as a new lvl80.)
Step 3. It's probbly your best bet to spend 12 points in blood spec, making sure to grab the Bladed armor, an 2 handed wep spec. , if you can afford it use a titansteel destroyer, if not try for a heroic 2 hander.
Step 4. DK'S DO NOT WEAR LEATHER, DO NOT USE SHEILDS, DO NOT NEED INT., DO NOT ROLL ON ITEMS YOU CANNOT, WILL NOT, AN FOR GODSAKE SHOULD NOT USE!
Step 5. Questing, just because you are lvl 80 does not mean you should not quest. Questing is a great way to get gold since at lvl 80 you no longer get xp, but you get a buff to the amount of gold given to you from quest's. Why do this you ask? Because raiding, or even heroics are expensive, if you can deal with the possibility of 90g repairs, once again do not raid!
Step 6. And sadly the most important, be modest. As a newly lvl80 DK if your raid wipes, if your lowest dps, if they need another dps class, offer for them to replace you, trust me you may miss out on raiding or heroics that night but they will apperciate you, they will prolly set aside the time to carry you in a raid even though you may be the weakest one there, they may decide to invite you to the guild and want to gear you up. "May." this by no means will garuntee you anything. But if you a relaxed, friendly player who offers professions to anyone who may need (cooking,alch,jc,bs, or repair bots etc.) I highly doubt that they will not want you around.
Lastly once you are in a guild, or have made some friends chances are you will kno a 'Good" Dk, ask them if they might be able to get together with you sometime an help you. Ask them questions, true what works for one person may not work for another but it will give you a good basis to build on. Oh one more thing, Download Ventrillo, you'll need it. Good luck to you guys, you have a lot of Bull to listen to and even more to overcome.
