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Hi, my question is, ¿are dks good on arenas? i couldnt get high rating with my dks, mainly because when i face against healers comps (and i go with dk and healer) it's impossible for me to kill healers, may be can u give me any strategy or something? or if its secure that a dk cant kill a healer? excuse me my noob question, but i love dk class, but in arenas i can't get what i want
you should atleast tell the spec you're playing
excuse me, i should, my spec is unholy!
dunno whos your healer, but unholy DK with resto druid or hpala is normally a one hour arena combo if you meet healer/dps, but against 2x dps it should work. IF you wanna kill someone with unholy and healer in arena, you either need shadowmourne and very good gear or you need disc priest or resto sham as heal so he could offensive dispel everything and ur diseases would do good dmg. Frost also doesnt work good for arena because heals will spam dispel before u even apply a disease taking 25% of your whole dmg, because there are no patch 3.3.5b fixes and blood is ofc dead spec in arena cuz everyone with half brain will kite you. If you want good arenas make warrior and donate for shadowmourne and find hpala, or get a rsham or disco priest and work on your combo, you can get high as uunholy dk/dcp or unholy/rsham, but it will be tough because in icecrown 4 out of 5 teams play shadowmourne/healer combination and have damage advantage against you
Frost DK+hpala is better against healer teams due to hungering cold and the high burst dmg with frost strike.
The basic idea is to CC both opponents with hungering cold. If neccesary use deathgrip for that.
Then burst one enemy with frost strike spam down while the second enemy is chain CCed with hungering cold followed by stun hammer and then strangulate.
Great thing about frost DK is that they completely annihilate warrior with frost strike. FDK+hpala is actually a counter team to Awarr+hpala.
On the other hand FDK struggles against Fmage+Spriest. Unholy DK performance here better.
3.3.5b made FDK even better. (Imo a bit too strong.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Miozeriux
As FDK u hardly use ur runs for obliterate. U spam chains of ice and plague strike instead. These are 4 diseases every 10sec and in combination with Virulence its very hard to dispell them. A healer literally has to spam dispell 24/7 to get rid of all ur diseases and few seconds later they are already reapplied.
FDK/hpala doesnt work so well in 3.3.5a, any good hpala will spam cleance on your frost fever before u even apply it and take quater of ur dmg and warr will pressure you 24/7 with mortal strike and shadowmourne forcing ur healer to spam heals and go out of mana 2x faster then opponent healer, i personally play with fdk/hpalla combo, yes its decent but totally nonsense if u face hpala with full gear and he spams cleanse and warr is applying pressure on fdk with MS, also if you meet war/rdudu or udk/hpala you will spend 1 hour in arena :D but we often beat 2x dps combos even if they play very well
Against Hpala+warrior I would try to go on the warrior while u CC the hpala because u hit the warrior significant harder.
Use hungering cold+strangulate on the hpala while ur paly stuns the warrior so he cant use shield block, shield wall or disarm when u spam ur frost strikes on him.
When u fail to kill anything go in frost presence and play deffensive until hungering cold is rdy again and then repeat the kill tactic.
I think its in general better as a FDK to go on the dps while u CC the healer because u don't have MS and ur diseases can be dispelled so killing the healer can be tricky.
Sadly the high end pve gear is only in favor for the warrior who gets Smourne, hc offsets, hc trinkets, etc.
As FDK u get pretty much nothing because u need so much PvP gear and the double toc trinkets which name i forgot.
So yeah, I agree that FDK works better on Blackrock w/o the highend PvE gear.