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NINA! Welcome back!!!!

Hi everyone,
I'll post here the main changes the dk will be going through both for the raid leaders who'd like a quick review, and for whoever is planning to switch to a dk but isn't sure yet. For in depth analysis, i suggest you the elitistjerks forum. Of course, if you would like to contribute to this thread by correcting/adding some information you feel has been overlooked, please do it!

Generally speaking, the feeling of a dk should not change, the rotations of the various spec should be pretty similar to the one used in cataclysm, with some rare exception and the introduction of soul reaper.
About raid utility, unholy will lose desecration, but the anti magic zone will be talented, meaning that any spec will be able to pick it up. As far as i've seen, the AoE slow wil be good on any spec, with the frost spec being the most reliable due to the low cooldown on howling blast. Some talents will be solid picks, and i was a bit surprised how useful many of them can be for a blood dk, like purgatory in combination with death pact, or conversion. Conversion, for example, is very much like enraged regeneration for druids and warriors, but it's not limited by a buff duration: the spell tooltip states clearly that it will last until cancelled or no rune power to feed it. This, in combination with the right choice of rune regeneration talent and a bit of luck on RNG, has very good potential, even tho Death Pact will usually be the talent picked since it will offer a generally better and more reliable heal.
For what concerns the dps specs, the talent will not offer great improvements in dps, but just raid utilities and bonus for the player, so pretty much take the one you feel it's more useful for your play style unless of course the raid needs a specific tool. There shouldn't be much difference in terms of dps output, however it's too early to say that and i've never tested the new specs and features so far, but i'm pretty sure that there will be a lot of balancing hotfixes in the worst cases.

Keep in mind that i've never tried out the new specs/talents, since i've never been in the beta testing and the patch goes live tomorrow, so these are just speculations based on the information retrieved online and my experience with the class.

P.S.: Just a personal note: unholy is very fun to play, but bugged fights like madness of deathwing in ds made it the most frustrating nightmare for me.

I'm not sure i'll be able to make it on time for the raid tonight, sorry.

EDIT - 19:50 CET: nvm, logging in right now.

Well, what severely gimped our chances last time was a messy meteor phase. It seems the discipline required to stand in ranks (the triangle points, in this case) is high, but above all we should avoid messing with meteors if it's not our call to. Do you think having a person calling out which group should poke the meteor can help our cause?
Example:
Caller: green poke in 3...2...1...now! Yellow get ready for the next poke.
Caller: yellow poke in 3...2...1...now!Purple get ready.
and so on.

As I've already said to the raid leaders, i'm afraid i won't be able to meet the attendance requirement for mists. I will keep on raiding with DMR until the last cata raid (11th of sept), then i'll just be a social friendly guy cheering from the tribune. :yahoo:

I'm not gonna be around on sunday due to a tennis event. Good luck and have fun!

I may be late for tonight raid, I'm afraid i can't be more specific.

I'm not sure i'll be able to raid tonight. I've felt quite ill since yesterday and if i'll not get better i am going to use the time to get some rest and recover a bit. Good luck anyway!
P.S.: I didn't have the chance to log in since tuesday, and there still weren't any invites. I don't think i'll be able to update the calendar.

I think i'll be available With Tirkad and Zaul, and i'm pretty sure i'm going to level up a monk after those two. As with cataclysm, let me know which class and spec is more needed.

I most probably won't be around tonight, i've already updated the calendar. Good luck with the raid!

is there one for the 22th?

I believe Sunday the 22th is raid night.

Due to unforeseen circumstances i may be late tonight.

Edit: Nvm, problem solved.

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My bad, in the last post i wrote there's a typo: i'm using /petpassive macro, not /petassist (which i was using before).
About the autoress, more often than not is bugged on my char: i see it spawning on the platform (the animation of the rising ghoul) but as soon as the animation ends, often the pet disappears. I've seen this before starting the fight too: that's why you saw me going back and forth from the last 2 platforms: i was trying to save one cooldown and keep on bouncing until the ghoul was summoned correctly.

This fight really had me in terms of pet management. In the last few tries i changed a couple of macros and it went better (pet on assist and /petattack bound on main attacks, while having an emergency /petassist macro to call him back since it seems the follow command isn't fast enough). However i'm still losing my pet randomly on platform switching. In particular, it seems the pet is getting lost in the maelstrom more often during the double platform switches (from 1st to 2nd, from 2nd to 3rd and from 3rd to 4th). In addition (but that may be a coincidence) i found that not jumping while running from a platform to another was helping (I read this somewhere on the forums and decided to give it a try).

I'm sorry for the other night. I know that the fact that i'm freshly returned to raiding isn't much of an excuse, but i'm really trying to learn fights as fast as i can. The ball really took me off guard, because the collision range is a lot wider than the game texture was suggesting me.