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• Re: A Death Knights plea, My tips for baby DK's
  Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:52 pm
  by Drelnax
  Forum:  Death Knight

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  OP: I aplaude your desire to help our fellow players, new to being a DK and trying to ease their growing pains.
  
  To those of you on here to /flex your E-Peen, by saying how much dps you can do, please make a "Rate the DK Above You" post and do your nerd-rage there.
  
  Going to add in my own suggestions for those new to playing a DK:
  
  Leveling:
  Personally, I leveled as Blood back when your DS would heal you for 13k HP and you could effectively mock any damage an elite mob within 2 levels of you did. This also applied to any would-be ganker of the opposing faction
  It was great! To this day, despite all the changes made to each of the trees over the course of WotLK. I still recommend Blood for leveling. Truly though, it all comes down to personal prefrence and what you find fits your playstyle best. So try each spec for a couple levels as you go to figure out which is best for you.
  
  Gear:
  With the addition of Heirloom items and their very excellent experience gain bonuses and the stats on them scaling with each level you gain, if you have a geared 80 that can do all of the Argent Tournament dailies (Has the Crusader title) I HIGHLY recommend you take a couple weeks and farm conquest emblems from heroics/raids (excluding TotC raids) to convert down into heroism emblems and farm the Champion Seals from the Argent Tournament dailies, BEFORE you start leveling your DK.
  Believe it or not there is a MAILBOX you can access in the DK starting area to pickup all the heirloom items and have them right from the start. The mailbox is located in front of the central house between the horse pasture and the crop field filled with hyenas and probably several "skewered" bystandard's WARNING: There is a patroling elite mob on horseback that WILL pwn your face if you aggro him!
  After a couple weeks you should have enough emblems/seals to purchase all of the Heirloom items; that will make your leveling experience much more enjoyable and quick. Heirloom "MUST HAVES": Chest, Shoulders, Haste/Heal after Kills trinket x2 (The healing amount won't stack; however after a kill BOTH trinkets will do their standard heal on you. Thus healing you for their combine amount), 2h Axe. I honestly wish these had been around when I leveled my DK.
  
  Addons:
  There are a lot of helpful addons out there for DK's. Both for leveling and for raiding purposes. The ones I used and still use are: Facesmasher, Carbonite, Deadly Boss Mods, Omen Threat Meter, Bartender4, X-Perl Unit Frames, IceHUD, and Quartz Casting Bar. There are a few others I have, but not that really have any effect on leveling/raiding. Most of these addons can be downloaded from http://www.curse.com, but Carbonite however is only available through[url]wowinterface.com[/url] (If you find you don't like Carbonite it's alternative solution is QuestHelper; which IS available at Curse.
  
  Once you have hit 80, REPLACE THOSE HEIRLOOM ITEMS WITH EPICS FAST! (if you have any.) Even if it's only an ilvl 200-219 from Regular or Heroic ToC 5man. Once you hit 80 it's "HELLO gear checking gear score "Nazi's" Those heirloom items may be awesome on stats now that you're 80, but their ilvl maxes out at 176! That'll drag your gear score down faster than an Ogre at a buffet Which ends up leaving you loitering in LFG system because your gear score "isn't good enough"
  This probably won't apply for standard 5man heroics, but you can bet it will when it comes to the raid instances and you'll be lucky if you manage to beg your way into a 10man with any heirloom gear. (Guild hosted/held runs are NOT considered in this problem. Generally because they already know you can "put out" even with those Heirloom items.)
  
  Once you've hit the 2200 gear score (WoW-Heroes score, not that lame addon called GearScore) You'll have a little easier time getting into pug 10man VoA, Ony, Ulduar, Naxx 10/25, and on the rare occasion 10 TotC. This is where you'll need to revamp your spec/rotation. At this gear score you won't have the needed stats to be "good" dps (5k+) without every possible raid buff known to WoW-kind; as Blood or Frost spec. Even if you loathe Unholy, "bite the bullet" and go Unholy until your gear score reaches about 2400. By this level you should easily have the stat's needed and the acceptable gear, to be a major contributor to the top end of dps. (Unless of course you get someone with 2600+ gear score in there. Then they SHOULD melt your face.) Provided they're not a scrub in good gear and actually KNOW their class/spec inside and out. I'm a firm believer in the old saying: "A scrub in good gear, is still a scrub"
  
  Good sites to visit for keeping up to date on latest class/spec changes and theory-crafting:
  http://www.elitistjerks.com]
  WARNING: Should you create and account to be able to post your "two cents" on the "EJ" forums....don't say I didn't warn you before hand! POST ON THE EJ FORUMS AT YOUR OWN RISK!! These guys LOVE their "BANHAMMER" and use it often, on those who are deemed to be "worthless scrubs" in their opinion and the regular posters are just as trigger happy, with reporting your post for being worthless.
  For the most part, I just find myself reading what's been posted; test out for myself what's being considered the "IN" spec and then go from there. Oh ya, real quick....watch out for Loderunner on the EJ forums....he swings a HUGE banhammer....
  
  Well that's it for me, my fingers hurt now......to much typing. I hope my info is helpful as well and THANKS go to the OP for starting this thread!

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• World Wide Ranking Search
  Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:24 pm
  by Drelnax
  Forum:  Suggestions

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  I'm new to the WoW-Heroes forum.......(prepares for the incoming n00b initiation ritual)
  
  I think it'd be awesome to have a tab added called "World" which is identical to the "Realm" tab; where you can see where you rank in comparison to other players of your spec/class.
  
  Understandably the database search time would be massive for something like this, but to make this doable, reduce bandwidth usage and reduce search times; try this:
  
  Display top 100 ONLY for each class/spec.
  If a player isn't in the top 100, there should be a sub search field that they can type in their character name, realm and select region (US;EU...etc) apply appropriate class/spec filters in the existing filter setup, hit submit button and it will find and display your characters gear rank score compared to everyone else of that spec/class in the World.
  
  That should minimize bandwidth usage for this feature greatly, enable players to see how they compare to their World Wide peers, and add a cool new feature that many I'm sure would enjoy.
  
  If this has been suggested before; hopefully my suggestion was better thought out and is something you'll consider to be worthy of your time!