CONTENT
1. Talents
2. Glyphs
3. Reforging
4. Gems and enchants
5. Primary Abilities
6. Major cooldowns
7. Macros
8. Addons

1. Talents
This spec is mainly for 1v1 and arena.
http://wowtal.com/#k=-kilmpX1.bqj.deathknight.
1. Epidemic VS Virulence
This depends more on your playing style.
Generally put in virulence. We can increase our dots with festering strike.
2. Endless winter
If you cannot manage your runic power, you should surely take it. This is just matter of skill.
3. DW or 2 Hand
2 hand, ofc.

2. Glyphs

Prime : -Glyph of death coil
-Glyph of raise dead
-Glyph of scourge strike or icy touch

Major: -Glyph of strangulate
-Glyph of death grip
-Glyph of anti-magic shell

Minor: -Glyph of resilient grip
-Glyph of blood tap
-Glyph of death embrace

3 Reforge
Hit to 5% (600 points) > Spell Pen to 195 > Strength > Haste > Crit > Mastery > Expertise
Reforge to Hit up to the hit cap. Then, reforge to Haste, or Crit if thatÔÇÖs not possible. Never reforge Haste to anything else, including Hit.

4 Gems and enchants
Head Arcanum of the Wildhammer (Alliance) or Dragonmaw (Horde)
Shoulders Greater Inscription of Jagged Stone
Back Enchant Cloak ÔÇô Greater Critical Strike
Chest Enchant Chest ÔÇô Peerless Stats
Wrist Enchant Bracer ÔÇô Major Strength
Hands Enchant Gloves ÔÇô Mighty Strength
Belt Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
Legs Dragonscale Leg Armor
Feet Enchant Boots ÔÇô Haste or Precision if youÔÇÖre not hit-capped
Weapon Rune of the Fallen Crusader


Gems: Always choose a Bold Inferno Ruby unless a socket provides 20 or more Strength or 40 or more of another important stat. In the latter case, use either Fierce Ember Topaz or Etched Demons eye as appropriate.

Buffs: Stay in Unholy Presence and use Rune of the Fallen Crusader. Keep Horn of Winter up whenever possible.


5. Primary Abilities

Necrotic Strike - very effective weapon against a healer, Stake as much as possible.
Scourge Strike - hits a bit harder than necrotic, is useful against dps.
Festering strike - is to turn blood runes into death runes + Increase all dots
Dark Transformation - you have 5 stacks of Dark Death Coil Infusion to use this skill.
Outbreak - Use this instead of Chains of Ice / Plague Strike to save runes.
Horn of winter - Use the cool down, the runic power boost.
Blood tap - used when you have death runes for death strike necrotic strike or a saviour.



6. Major Cooldowns
Gargoyle - Use this to burst with trinkets and full runic power. Your gargoyle. Attack Power Attack Power is influenced by you, the more you have to give him so much.
Unholy Frenzy - You can use it on yourself to increase your haste, dps. Or to give your healer heal faster.
Anti - magic shell - you can use offensive and defensive or lichborne to protect you from magic damage and gives you heal.
Anti magic zone ÔÇô It is good against spell casters, use this when they are brusting.
Strangulate ÔÇô Since youÔÇÖll be glyphing this, try to only use it on targets that are casting a spell in order to up the silence duration by 2 seconds. Best used against healers when they (or their mates) are already against the ropes in order to ensure a kill.

Icebound Fortitude- Use this when you are taking heavy damage.

Lichborne ÔÇô This is our life saver, its like our own lay on hands. Use this for a big self-heal, or to break a Psychic Scream/Fear/Howl of Terror/etc., though youÔÇÖll usually just want to save it for the heal. The healing macro is discussed below in macros section.



7.Macros-

Lichborne Self-Heal

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast !Lichborne;
/cast [target=player] Death Coil

Mouse-over & Focus Macro (best used with CoI, Strang, Dark Sim, Death Grip, etc. etc.)

#showtooltip ABILITY
/cast [mod:shift, target=focus][target=mouseover, hard, exists][nomod] ABILITY

Use this when your runes are on CD
#showtooltip Dark Transformation
/cast Blood Tap
/cast Dark Transformation

Gargoyle Brust
#show Unholy Frenzy
/cast Unholy frenzy
/cast Summon Gargoyle
/petfollow
/petattack
(Your can use it with brust trinket too.)

8. Addons

NecroticTrack ÔÇô Tracks the amount of healing you are negating by stacking Necrotic Strike

Gladius - Essential for Arenas

Doom_CooldownPulse - Notifications for your cooldowns.

OmniCC - Cooldown timer, puts timer right on the ability.

SaySapped - Makes you say "Sapped" when you get Sapped.

Pitbull Unit Frames - Awesome unit frame add on.

IceHUD - Easy way to keep track of your and your enemy's health and power bars without having to look over/down at your unit frames.