So here’s the thing; I’ve been playing DK since 2010, but the last time I raided seriously was in Legion with Nighthold, Tomb of Sargeras, and Antorus the Burning Throne, and even then it wasn’t on my DK.
Now I decided I wanted to step into raiding on my DK seriously, joined a guild and been doing raids, just normal and heroic.
Here are the logs: h.ttps://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/eu/spinebreaker/kilineiram
You’ll notice… I’m trash. Sugar Honey Ice Tea, garbanzo beans, less than adequate, doing DPS like it’s the tutorial, effective as a grey weapon… you get the picture.
You may notice, there was one raid in which another Death Knight was doing around 720k dps compared to my 400something.
I had MORE of every stat than he did despite his higher ilvl, which seems to definitively prove my issue isn’t stat distribution, but even now at 611 ilvl, I can barely manage 600k DPS on a regular basis even in normal raids.
So I’d appreciate help figuring out just what the actual frick I’m doing wrong.
I’m trying not to cap runes and runic power, following the guides on WoWhead to the best of my understanding, but there seems to be something fundamentally wrong I’m not getting… and please don’t tell me to run Breath of Sindragosa build; I’m even worse with that.
I’m not a frosty on raids atm but here are some quick notes.
I very briefly compared to random other players all the way to top 251 HC sikran kills (a relatively easy pure single target fight). Here are some observations:
You don’t play BoS, it’s currently the go to build for raids.
You’ve got big windows where you forget to press remorseless winter.
I’m noticing some downtime on frost fever, I thought you might have been dead but logs show you’re still inflicting melee damage, so yeah, never let frost fever disappear like that (20+ seconds of it).
You didn’t use Raise Dead or abomination limb at all. It’s free set and forget damage, it’s not much, but it all counts.
Seems like you also forget to use Soul Reaper during the execution window (literally you pressed it once).
I’m sure that someone else more competent than me on frost builds can give better advice. Hard to compare to your damage profile to BoS ones as the damage profile is quite different (for example BoS builds will see Frost Strike ranking way lower).
Some players on the dk discord server like to mentor others you could always ask there.