There are many errors in this guide. 1. For stats, defensively you want Stamina > Mastery = haste (above 7.5 sec rune regen) > haste (below 7.5 sec rune regen). Parry and dodge have little to no value. Overall you should go Hit (up to 8%) > Stamina > haste > expertise (up to 6.5%) > mastery > strength > dodge >= parry > crit > expertise 2. For professions, LW is the best second profession after Engineering because the bracers enchant is 195 stam, so the profession bonus is actually 155 stam compared to 120 or 123 stam for other professions. Alchemy is also very good for the trinket in phase 1. 3. For talents, you can drop Abomination’s Might because the strength bonus is inconsequential and the buff is usually brought by Paladins anyway. Personally I run 31/2/8 (with 1/3 will of the necropolis) and an actual DPS spec as the second spec, but to each their own. 4. For food, you can run 90 haste or 90 mastery. It depends on your haste level. Is it current UNCLEAR which stat is better for survivability. You should generally pick haste because mastery provides no DPS increase. Do not eat the feast, it gives dodge (generally useless). 5. For rotation, you want to keep a blood rune UNSPENT to funnel your RE procs to frost or unholy runes, maximising your number of DS. You do not have to spend runes on DS right away, as long as 1 rune of each type is recharging there is NO LOSS. You can wait for damage to press your DS, maximising the amount healed and the blood shield and minimising the amount of time you’re spending at lower health after a strike. Once your rune recharge time is 7.5 sec or lower, you can do the DS RS - HS - (DS) RS rotation. Use Blood Tap on cooldown for more DS. It’s more damage to use HS over BB with 1 to 7 targets. Tab between HS if you’re concerned about spreading threat equally.
glyphed vamp is very bad as it gets rid of your last stand, which is effective dr in instances where it saves you from dying to a hit. highly recommend not running it.
Worgen for ally isnt a bad idea imo as it opens up for masterystacking with jc/BS while you still have access to a movespeed ability in the racial. Makes dropping engi hurt less. Only reason i had engi was for rocketboots anyways
I’m pretty new to WoW - I played DF shortly after launch for a little bit. Got a Warrior to 70 and quit playing once I realized how much more I needed to do to be able to do anything fun really. I got really turned off by the oversaturation in retail tbh. So I gave classic a try a few months later and enjoyed it a lot more. I started with Warrior and got it to level 50 then took a break cause I no lifed it and kinda burnt myself out but I’m back. I just started a DK a couple night ago and just hit level 61 and really enjoying it so far. Love your guide even though it’s catered towards max and high level content. Would you mind if I added you in game? I feel like your knowledge and experience are an immeasurable resource and would really help me tons along the way. I won’t get offended if not but you never know if you never ask. Great video btw!
you can ask me questions on my twitch linked in the description of the video. i won’t be too much of a help in game as i have a very busy raiding schedule.
i chose the dps tier legs for my prog since i wanted the hit along with the relic. if you don't care about your dmg, you can chose to buy the tank tier gloves first. hope that helps!
i think you would only use those for progressing on really hard tank fights, i can’t think of any off the top of my head. i would just use synapse springs. also you’re a dk
Awesome job on this. I'm conflicted on focusing anything regarding hit/exp since I feel like MIT is huge for the prog push and after a few seconds of the fight I wont even care about threat. What are your thoughts on that?
yo, sry been busy with prog. i would always advise people to play on the safe side regarding progressions raiding. you should be stacking high stam and mastery for this case since there are no enrage timers for most fights this tier. once your raid team is killing content in a timely manner, you can go for hit/soft expertise cap. hope this helps!
@@brutherlol Awesome thanks! Decided to take that route and had a great time tanking! Cleared top 4 on our server (whitemane) (with world first Omnitron Defense System LOL) but was definitely a better, safer route for prog. Thanks again for the great vid.
yo this was made like over 3 months ago for the general public, not for r1 tank players (or ppl that think they know better). i do 13/13 on multiple characters, just look at tank rankings for all specs.
Only losers play rogue they can’t pvp so they sweat stun lock until they get lucky and the cds are up until they dare come out of mummies shadow I mean stealth
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timestamps:
00:00 intro
02:34 why bdk is bdk (mastery + runic empowerment)
04:44 single target build + glyphs
09:33 aoe build + glyphs
12:04 tank parsing warning
13:32 defensive stats
15:38 offensive stats
17:59 vengeance
19:07: rotation guidelines
22:45 single target opener
26:26 offensive cds + racial talk
29:29 defensive cds
34:37 professions
37:07 enchants + gems + stam vs. mastery
41:01 consumables
41:22 BDK utility
43:18 pre bis set
55:44 outro + ty
QUIT BEING A BUM AND DO YOUR REPS MAN! Great guide homie!
First
this almost made me want to play bdk, but i will continue to play rogue instead!
somebody has to o7
There are many errors in this guide.
1. For stats, defensively you want Stamina > Mastery = haste (above 7.5 sec rune regen) > haste (below 7.5 sec rune regen). Parry and dodge have little to no value. Overall you should go Hit (up to 8%) > Stamina > haste > expertise (up to 6.5%) > mastery > strength > dodge >= parry > crit > expertise
2. For professions, LW is the best second profession after Engineering because the bracers enchant is 195 stam, so the profession bonus is actually 155 stam compared to 120 or 123 stam for other professions. Alchemy is also very good for the trinket in phase 1.
3. For talents, you can drop Abomination’s Might because the strength bonus is inconsequential and the buff is usually brought by Paladins anyway. Personally I run 31/2/8 (with 1/3 will of the necropolis) and an actual DPS spec as the second spec, but to each their own.
4. For food, you can run 90 haste or 90 mastery. It depends on your haste level. Is it current UNCLEAR which stat is better for survivability. You should generally pick haste because mastery provides no DPS increase. Do not eat the feast, it gives dodge (generally useless).
5. For rotation, you want to keep a blood rune UNSPENT to funnel your RE procs to frost or unholy runes, maximising your number of DS. You do not have to spend runes on DS right away, as long as 1 rune of each type is recharging there is NO LOSS. You can wait for damage to press your DS, maximising the amount healed and the blood shield and minimising the amount of time you’re spending at lower health after a strike. Once your rune recharge time is 7.5 sec or lower, you can do the DS RS - HS - (DS) RS rotation. Use Blood Tap on cooldown for more DS. It’s more damage to use HS over BB with 1 to 7 targets. Tab between HS if you’re concerned about spreading threat equally.
Christmas wish came true amazing
You say always go stamna but suggest 35mast + MS instead of 30 stam + MS
Death strike always heals and gives blood shield even if you are parried/dodged. And glyphed vamp embrace makes for huge DS heals.
glyphed vamp is very bad as it gets rid of your last stand, which is effective dr in instances where it saves you from dying to a hit. highly recommend not running it.
paladins have more cd and lay on hand every 20 sec : D
well yes, but paladins are gae so...
paladins are very weak in pre bis and dk cds are much stronger in comparision. hopefully they get better with more avoidance.
Awesome guide, very concise delivery of information. Hopefully plenty more to come. Thank you for your time!
when the launch rush dies down, i plan to make more
thanks for the guide !
What a great guide, man, you went over everything that needs knowing by any BDK.
ty!
"Generally you don't really want to be playing with heal parsers, I'd recommend staying away from them..." xD
Good vid thanks for helpin me main tank my first cata raid for my guild
I mean prep to tank it
glad i could help out!
excellent guide, bruther
Worgen for ally isnt a bad idea imo as it opens up for masterystacking with jc/BS while you still have access to a movespeed ability in the racial. Makes dropping engi hurt less. Only reason i had engi was for rocketboots anyways
TY bruther
THE TANK GOAT
Only thing I would say is get spell hit capped so not to miss outbreaks. Priority there. Other than that awesome guide.
good recommendation, think i'll go for more hit later in the tier
I’m pretty new to WoW - I played DF shortly after launch for a little bit. Got a Warrior to 70 and quit playing once I realized how much more I needed to do to be able to do anything fun really. I got really turned off by the oversaturation in retail tbh. So I gave classic a try a few months later and enjoyed it a lot more. I started with Warrior and got it to level 50 then took a break cause I no lifed it and kinda burnt myself out but I’m back.
I just started a DK a couple night ago and just hit level 61 and really enjoying it so far. Love your guide even though it’s catered towards max and high level content.
Would you mind if I added you in game? I feel like your knowledge and experience are an immeasurable resource and would really help me tons along the way. I won’t get offended if not but you never know if you never ask.
Great video btw!
you can ask me questions on my twitch linked in the description of the video. i won’t be too much of a help in game as i have a very busy raiding schedule.
Any recommendations for 1st purchase with Valor points?
i chose the dps tier legs for my prog since i wanted the hit along with the relic. if you don't care about your dmg, you can chose to buy the tank tier gloves first. hope that helps!
Well done guide bro
ty man!
Any thoughts on the on-use armor tinker for gloves and how it compares to the synapse springs?
i think you would only use those for progressing on really hard tank fights, i can’t think of any off the top of my head. i would just use synapse springs. also you’re a dk
Awesome job on this.
I'm conflicted on focusing anything regarding hit/exp since I feel like MIT is huge for the prog push and after a few seconds of the fight I wont even care about threat. What are your thoughts on that?
yo, sry been busy with prog. i would always advise people to play on the safe side regarding progressions raiding. you should be stacking high stam and mastery for this case since there are no enrage timers for most fights this tier. once your raid team is killing content in a timely manner, you can go for hit/soft expertise cap. hope this helps!
@@brutherlol Awesome thanks! Decided to take that route and had a great time tanking! Cleared top 4 on our server (whitemane) (with world first Omnitron Defense System LOL) but was definitely a better, safer route for prog. Thanks again for the great vid.
Link to the docs guide? 😊
i won’t link it at this time since i made it on my personal google account
i can tell u only do normals lol... blood dks going full dps gear at this point
yo this was made like over 3 months ago for the general public, not for r1 tank players (or ppl that think they know better).
i do 13/13 on multiple characters, just look at tank rankings for all specs.
What a helmet, imagine saying brother does normals
Only losers play rogue they can’t pvp so they sweat stun lock until they get lucky and the cds are up until they dare come out of mummies shadow I mean stealth