This is true, you can disable those buffs on SIM page to get closer values, also unholy is very CD dependant, i hope you are using all CDs while testing your dps on dummy. Also it’s not possible to have sustained 28k single target dps as unholy dk with your ilvl, this spec shines in AoE, maybe you did set SIM to hectic AoE or something.
Unless you know you’re gonna die, dont use death strike in your rotation. Dump the RP into death coil. And with your ilvl it’s normal you do low damage without CDs. I swapped to Frost to kill 2 last bosses in raid because UH isn’t great on ST when you Don’t have CDs, frost is stronger st, UH shines in M+, you can still do decent damage even on ST but you have to use cooldowns and essence. I can’t say much with your armory cause you appear as blood.
You are not dpsing with blood traits, I guess?
You want 3x Festermight if possible and 1 or 2 Magus of the dead.
Stregth, haste and crit are your friends, maybe your stats are bad.
Thanks for all replies, below are answers to tour questions:
I measure my dps not on dummy, but in fights with harder mobs, like elite nagas in Nazjatar, or rares,
I use cooldowns when they are ready, but without heroism, only buff I eventually have is haste from food,
my unholy gear is the same as blood, so don’t be confused when you see me in armory in blood spec,
I use concentrated flame as soon as it is ready, and I’m really confused that it is second (on light mobs even first) damaging ability, as @Decayin wrote. I thought that my abilities should deal more dps, than single essence, that’s why I’m so confused.
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You are not dpsing with blood traits, I guess?[/quote]
I use blood traits… Oh boy, just I’ don’t know why I didn’t think about reforging gear, maybye after leveling in gear with universal traits and switching blood/frost (frost just to look, how does it works). There we could end discussion, but I have few questions more.
Because I have one solid (solid: ilvl > 400 ;P) set of azerite gear, reforging blood->unholy and back is too costly, I will come back to unholy when I get some azerite gear. Why unholy not frost? I tried frost when I was leveling and on azerite armor there were “universal” traits. But I don’t like 2x1h frost play style (however my main class is rogue) and I really hope that rumors about returning 2h forst will become truth.
Question to @Ackheron:
why I should avoid death strike in rotation and keep it to tle “last minute”? I was trying this, but it results in very low health and I can’t heal myself without health potion.
Question to @Decayin:
where in raidbots i can find options to enable/disable buffs? I found only option to swith type of fight, turn on’off “in Nazjatar” etc… Maybye I’m blind, but I don’t see them.
general question: can you recomment some addons for unholy? I don’t have rotation in fingertips, like in case of rogue, some dps loss may came from contiunuous looking to actionbars to check cooldowns and what ability I can use atm, or looking at target’s portrait to check debuffs.
I would recommend getting yourself a good Weakaura to track the multiple resources we have to manage.
In regards to the original question the main thing that really separates good dk’s from bad ones are the resource management and not over capping them. for example you should never have 100RP or only 2 runes regenerating.
Also one tip which a lot of DK’s don’t do is to make sure you have Pet attack/Claw macros in your damaging abilities as if you leave your pet with just auto Claw it will never drop below around 30 - 40 Energy and is a fair dps loss.
I could go on about multiple little things that will increase your overall damage but main thing is to just practise your rotation over and over again and the rest will come naturally.
If you have any questions or feel like your lacking in certain areas like pet management or feel like your just AA for ages whilst waiting for runes let me know and I can answer them specifically
scroll down and you have food, potion, flask, augmentation, bloodlust, arcane intellect etc. just uncheck these which you are not using while testing and voila
I strongly suggest downloading weakauras2 addon and getting one preset from this site: https://wago.io/weakauras/classes/death-knight/unholy
It’s a fair dps loss and also doesn’t allow you to pool your energy on your pet for aoe mobs etc… makes a huge difference if there is Adds on bosses etc.
Also I said “I could go on about multiple LITTLE things” so already covered that so I wouldn’t bother making silly comments to get a rise, its pretty pathetic.
Because it does no damage. It’s only to heal up. You use it in tank rotation but not to dps. Swap spec and check the numbers on death strike and you’ll understand If you need to use it to survive (in pve) then you should be doing something wrong or you’re just too low geared when it’s questing, rares etc. No azerite traits also don’t help you. If you cannot reforge all the time (which I can understand) then try to have 2 different sets and use the best items for your main spec.
Note: I use death strike too on some angry rares even with 450 ilvl, that’s why you should use a dummy to see the dps you can do, or check in a dungeon boss cause you’re not supposed to tank something big as UH.
outbreak, apply 4 stacks festering, apocalypse-soul reaper, transformation, unholy frenzy, 1 festering, spend on DC always do spend on DC since you dont want to have sudden doom during 100% runic it is just a waste of damage, start breaking festering again to stack runic power. I find that always keep 2-3 stacks of festering on the target at all times will give you additional chance to proc runic corruption . Sims are not a good representation of what you will achieve, it depends on the situation. Experiment and practice, also azerite and essence combinations will make a huge difference.
yes good it does not make any sense and as it so happens that many times when this is done as you say to 0 because runes got spent, have to wait longer for runes to refresh to reapply festering as opposed to having stacks ready to broken in succession to increase the chance of proccing runic corruption to gain runes faster. Everyone has their own play style, it may not make sense to you and because you are so used to simming your day away you think that when sim is telling 45k dps by doing this, the person that is playing his way is gona do only 35k because he is not following sim that is a twisted view. Besides i am only giving away free advice that could help the person figure some stuff out compared to " go do sims"
Sims was only in regards to stats really. If you want to get real fancy about your wound equilibrium you play around festermight with it. Go high at end of buff and then burst wound at the start of the next window. This is only a small DPS upgrade tho.
Not sure I understand the reasoning behind not going to 0? Why would it being more wait time? It honestly doesn’t matter much as long as you don’t overcap. There’s just no benefit of going high.
Sims are actually a good representation of what to achieve in a specific patchwork scenario. It’s a good sanity check to see if you are doing stuff properly.
I’m more than happy to help. I thought a good way to start here would be to clarify some misleading info.
Not sure what the logic of this is either?
My recommendation would be to start off reading the wowhead guide, and then ask specific questions about certain topics that aren’t well understood. I do feel like the first question asked was a good one though. It became clear that OP wasn’t considering a situation that you would expect the simmed DPS.
As i said, giving pointers and possible clues that could help the person figure things out. I have my play style it works well for me, you have yours. Sim is a representation of 100% ideal conditions presented to you with 100% no movement precision 100% a.i bot work. You are not wrong that does not mean i am wrong, you cannot make sense of it because you are too used to doing things that a guide or simulator tells you. If right now at this exact moment you go sim and sim tells you 43, 504 dps, you go do exactly everything that was shown in the sim rotation and do 37, 859 dps, what happens then you go crazy and say the sim cannot be wrong, you have any idea how many people have simd and went bonkers because they couldn’t reach that dps even if they did it all the same?
Oh boy, just I’ don’t know why I didn’t think about reforging gear, maybye after leveling in gear with universal traits and switching blood/frost (frost just to look, how does it works). There we could end discussion, but I have few questions more.
If you need to use it to survive (in pve) then you should be doing something wrong or you’re just too low geared when it’s questing, rares etc. No azerite traits also don’t help you. If you cannot reforge all the time (which I can understand) then try to have 2 different sets and use the best items for your main spec.