One mistake made by alot of people playing Shattering Blades (and its a big dps loss too) is not tab targeting to pop razorice stacks. Go to the 5 dummies in Dorn and you'll see what I mean. Do a 1m timer of just spamming 1 mob with your rotations. Then do another 1m timer but this time, everytime you frost strike a target with 5 stacks and it breaks, switch targets, if KM isnt up, pop the stacks and tab target again. Shattering blades is alot more dps than people think but its an insane amount of macro involved making it almost not worth it. But if done correctly, its a chunk of dps. Remember every rime proc is 1 stack on the entire pull, and (i forget the name of it) the ice that shoots out from killing machine obliterate applies stacks as well so you'll run into other mobs already capped at 5 just waiting to be popped for juicy damage.
@@Sacrede1 I am gonna pin this cause this is some great information for people thank you :) I normally don’t play the Shattering build but I had a good amount of people asking for some help with it so I tried my best, but this is some great info I appreciate you taking the time to help out the community :) This build is a good amount of fun just definitely a different play style than breath haha :)
@@AnurekTV Its definitely a good build but its really hard to optimize and not really worth it to alot of people. If blizz adds in a cleave effect while in dnd like unholy dks have to pop wounds, we in business. Your vids are very good and informative though
Thanks for the tip, really useful! Have you tried using a frost-strike mouseover macro, instead of tab targeting to pop the stacks? Was thinking a plater mod to highlight any mobs at 5 stacks, and a frost-strik mouseover macro might remove some of the annoyance
Give this man Credit. I really enjoy breath build now that i’m in higher keys but he’s taking the time to make guides for the lower key build. Thanks for the hard work!
Left a comment on another video prior to seeing this hahahaha, That's my question answered, Once again insightful content and super easy to follow along, my new go to guy for Deathknight thank you!
@@KUROHlTSUGl this is very kind thank you :) I am glad I have been able to help you! Good luck with the journey and if you have any questions please feel free to join my discord I will be happy to help in any ways I can :)
I am a warrior main since WOTLK. and only in the current expansion did I try to play Frost/Blood DK. Frost is amazing, and you are my main source of content for this class, and I learnt a lot from you. THANKS from the bottom of my heart mate! Lastly, I would be very grateful if on your guides you could also include the talent code too, thanks again!
Hey Fauz thank you so much for this message I’m really glad I was able to help! That’s a great idea I can start putting the talent code in the descriptions thank you, I am on a trip currently so the next few videos are pre uploaded and they won’t but I will be doing this in the future! Thanks again for all the support and I hope you’re really enjoying your DK :) if you have any questions I might be able to help with I have a discord you can join, you can also send me some of your logs in there if you want me to look at those as well
@AnurekTV I am on EU servers so I cannot wait to check them in a few hours. In any case I really enjoy my DK over my lock that stuck at 2800io and you ve been really helpful with your videos!!!
@ I’m glad I can help and I’m glad you’re enjoying the DK they are a ton of fun this expansion so far :) and shoot I won’t be able to check out the changes till we are home from this trip but they look like a good change
Love your videos! You have helped me so much with my rotation and understanding how to play the class. Btw how do you make your damage numbers on the mob look nice like that?
What cooldowns would you macro into one? I hear you popping cd after cd and not use a macro? I am learning this spec as well and have pillar of frost and reapers mark into one macro raise the dead, empowered rune weapon and abomination limb into one macro and frost wyrms fury by itself , i dunno if this is a good idea to do? Any suggestions or help is welcome
@@pogothmcrey9463 Pillar/Mark is a very common and good macro to use, and your other one also sounds good, in terms of my own personal play I don’t use macros as I feel more comfortable being able to hit everything, however that being said having macros together is very helpful and lots of players love them, the only other macros I could recommend is a breath non-cancel macro (I use this, makes it so you can’t accidentally press breath again to cancel it) and a marker or player dnd instant placer I know lots of people who enjoy them, I tried it for a bit but went back to just placing it manually
@@AnurekTV i use a @mouse macro for amz and dnd , it helps a lot imo, takes away a click and maybe missing your target , the reason i ask about the macro's is because you spread them out a bit more , and maybe this would help with a better dps profile instead of every 45 sec and every two minutes since you spread the cds a bit more, maybe there is some reasoning behind that or a advantage
@ the biggest ones I spread out is, ERW I feel as if you don’t always need to press it off CD (with the breath build so you don’t waste the runes) then in this build I would say roughly same thing you ideally want to use it as often as you can but try not to waste the runes you get from it, then in terms of slappy hands and stuff I just like to use it when there is a big pull or a pull with casters so everything can group nicely for cleave, lastly ghoul I honestly forget about it sometimes so a macro to a button I never forget would be convenient honestly lol
@@AnurekTV This makes a lot of sense tbh, i have a lot of dmg spike when popping my cds and small sustain on pillar windows, i can ramp up to 1.5-2 mill on multiple mobs and have 350-500k sustain coming off and pumping back up when pillar is on and after that its big cd time again, but in between it feels a bit off and watching you play it makes more sense to spread it out so your dmg does not fall off as hard
@@jossangr hey sorry for the late reply was spending time with family for the holidays! This makes sense I can definitely bring it into some 12 + keys for future content :) thanks for the suggestion I appreciate it
@@AnurekTV lol man , don't apologise, holydays sre holydays , after all game is dead like one month now , all semi-decent n above players do not need loots , waiting for s2
I play unholy, font find why ppl prefer frost do much tbh , but i fid craft full frost gear noe to test it (i fail in fos right now even in max gear but ok)
@ hey that’s ok, the greatest part about wow is at the end of the day you can play whatever is the most fun to play, it’s why I started with frost and might change again for season 2 I just enjoy playing the game for fun and I’m not someone in the top 0.001% so meta chasing isn’t something I need to be entirely focused on
Yo, what do you think of Ascendance in m+'s? Is it worth it considering you don't have the uptime for it? Or do you use dawnthread or the extra damage from gems?
Can upgrade new crit heavy fdk gear to the same level as current udk gear for 0 crests, only valorstones required.. Only crest cost would be if you want to swap from 2h weapon to 2x1h (which you prob will, though not a huge difference). 1 of those 1h weapon will be crafted anyway, but the other will require crests.
Someone beat me to the reply, but yea your upgrades should be free minus the valor stones for the most part, some of your gear might even be good for Frost rn, so yea you should be able to get to same ivl or higher with however many crests you have :)
Great thanks for this! Getting tired of playing breath in pugs lol.. If it's not tanks randomly kiting mobs out of melee range during breath, or tank's positioning in the worst spot possible to maintain the frontal, it's people dying mid-breath and needing a bres etc.. Clunkiest cooldown of any dps I've played. Ofc, when you got tanks who know what they're doing, it's a different story and breath is actually a fun playstyle.
Yea I can absolutely agree with that, having to brez or watching a tank run away when your in breath is the most depressing feeling, hopefully tho you enjoy this build :) thanks for watching :)
@@exibha this is also prior to buffs and more so just a basic show of the build I mainly play breath I am just asked to cover this build a lot so I figured I would try my best to:)
One mistake made by alot of people playing Shattering Blades (and its a big dps loss too) is not tab targeting to pop razorice stacks.
Go to the 5 dummies in Dorn and you'll see what I mean. Do a 1m timer of just spamming 1 mob with your rotations. Then do another 1m timer but this time, everytime you frost strike a target with 5 stacks and it breaks, switch targets, if KM isnt up, pop the stacks and tab target again.
Shattering blades is alot more dps than people think but its an insane amount of macro involved making it almost not worth it. But if done correctly, its a chunk of dps. Remember every rime proc is 1 stack on the entire pull, and (i forget the name of it) the ice that shoots out from killing machine obliterate applies stacks as well so you'll run into other mobs already capped at 5 just waiting to be popped for juicy damage.
@@Sacrede1 I am gonna pin this cause this is some great information for people thank you :) I normally don’t play the Shattering build but I had a good amount of people asking for some help with it so I tried my best, but this is some great info I appreciate you taking the time to help out the community :)
This build is a good amount of fun just definitely a different play style than breath haha :)
was thinkin bout it too
@@AnurekTV Its definitely a good build but its really hard to optimize and not really worth it to alot of people. If blizz adds in a cleave effect while in dnd like unholy dks have to pop wounds, we in business. Your vids are very good and informative though
@ thank you! And oh that would be a great change yea make it much easier to manage your stacks
Thanks for the tip, really useful! Have you tried using a frost-strike mouseover macro, instead of tab targeting to pop the stacks? Was thinking a plater mod to highlight any mobs at 5 stacks, and a frost-strik mouseover macro might remove some of the annoyance
Give this man Credit. I really enjoy breath build now that i’m in higher keys but he’s taking the time to make guides for the lower key build. Thanks for the hard work!
@@gunbbang121 hey thank you this means a lot I’m glad you are enjoying the breath build! And we’re trying our best out here
Left a comment on another video prior to seeing this hahahaha, That's my question answered, Once again insightful content and super easy to follow along, my new go to guy for Deathknight thank you!
@@KUROHlTSUGl this is very kind thank you :) I am glad I have been able to help you! Good luck with the journey and if you have any questions please feel free to join my discord I will be happy to help in any ways I can :)
I am a warrior main since WOTLK. and only in the current expansion did I try to play Frost/Blood DK. Frost is amazing, and you are my main source of content for this class, and I learnt a lot from you. THANKS from the bottom of my heart mate! Lastly, I would be very grateful if on your guides you could also include the talent code too, thanks again!
Hey Fauz thank you so much for this message I’m really glad I was able to help! That’s a great idea I can start putting the talent code in the descriptions thank you, I am on a trip currently so the next few videos are pre uploaded and they won’t but I will be doing this in the future!
Thanks again for all the support and I hope you’re really enjoying your DK :) if you have any questions I might be able to help with I have a discord you can join, you can also send me some of your logs in there if you want me to look at those as well
As always another great and helpfull video.
@@Atos1951 thanks Atos appreciate you :) how are the new buffs feeling you tried em yet?
@AnurekTV I am on EU servers so I cannot wait to check them in a few hours. In any case I really enjoy my DK over my lock that stuck at 2800io and you ve been really helpful with your videos!!!
@ I’m glad I can help and I’m glad you’re enjoying the DK they are a ton of fun this expansion so far :) and shoot I won’t be able to check out the changes till we are home from this trip but they look like a good change
Love your videos! You have helped me so much with my rotation and understanding how to play the class. Btw how do you make your damage numbers on the mob look nice like that?
@@JoshKim-kp2rj it’s a UI addon called ELVUi (how I hide my bars and stuff too) and then I just changed the size and combat text
What cooldowns would you macro into one?
I hear you popping cd after cd and not use a macro?
I am learning this spec as well and have pillar of frost and reapers mark into one macro
raise the dead, empowered rune weapon and abomination limb into one macro
and frost wyrms fury by itself , i dunno if this is a good idea to do?
Any suggestions or help is welcome
@@pogothmcrey9463 Pillar/Mark is a very common and good macro to use, and your other one also sounds good, in terms of my own personal play I don’t use macros as I feel more comfortable being able to hit everything, however that being said having macros together is very helpful and lots of players love them, the only other macros I could recommend is a breath non-cancel macro (I use this, makes it so you can’t accidentally press breath again to cancel it) and a marker or player dnd instant placer I know lots of people who enjoy them, I tried it for a bit but went back to just placing it manually
@@AnurekTV i use a @mouse macro for amz and dnd , it helps a lot imo, takes away a click and maybe missing your target , the reason i ask about the macro's is because you spread them out a bit more , and maybe this would help with a better dps profile instead of every 45 sec and every two minutes since you spread the cds a bit more, maybe there is some reasoning behind that or a advantage
@ the biggest ones I spread out is, ERW I feel as if you don’t always need to press it off CD (with the breath build so you don’t waste the runes) then in this build I would say roughly same thing you ideally want to use it as often as you can but try not to waste the runes you get from it, then in terms of slappy hands and stuff I just like to use it when there is a big pull or a pull with casters so everything can group nicely for cleave, lastly ghoul I honestly forget about it sometimes so a macro to a button I never forget would be convenient honestly lol
@@AnurekTV This makes a lot of sense tbh, i have a lot of dmg spike when popping my cds and small sustain on pillar windows, i can ramp up to 1.5-2 mill on multiple mobs and have 350-500k sustain coming off and pumping back up when pillar is on and after that its big cd time again, but in between it feels a bit off and watching you play it makes more sense to spread it out so your dmg does not fall off as hard
i would like see razorice, in over 12, in 11 is still afix buff, so no conclution can be realistic
@@jossangr hey sorry for the late reply was spending time with family for the holidays! This makes sense I can definitely bring it into some 12 + keys for future content :) thanks for the suggestion I appreciate it
@@AnurekTV lol man , don't apologise, holydays sre holydays , after all game is dead like one month now , all semi-decent n above players do not need loots , waiting for s2
I play unholy, font find why ppl prefer frost do much tbh , but i fid craft full frost gear noe to test it (i fail in fos right now even in max gear but ok)
@ hey that’s ok, the greatest part about wow is at the end of the day you can play whatever is the most fun to play, it’s why I started with frost and might change again for season 2 I just enjoy playing the game for fun and I’m not someone in the top 0.001% so meta chasing isn’t something I need to be entirely focused on
Also for some strange reason, horsies sim higher for shattering blade on 5 patch compared to db shattering blade.
@@Sacrede1 oh interesting didn’t know this, will be interesting to test it out nd see if sims are just funny or if it’s true :)
Long winter + glacial spike rider sims higher for me both in ST and AoE then shattering blade rider
Yo, what do you think of Ascendance in m+'s? Is it worth it considering you don't have the uptime for it? Or do you use dawnthread or the extra damage from gems?
I’m 631 ilvl unholy. If I start prioritizing frost gear will I have enough gilded to max new gear?
Can upgrade new crit heavy fdk gear to the same level as current udk gear for 0 crests, only valorstones required.. Only crest cost would be if you want to swap from 2h weapon to 2x1h (which you prob will, though not a huge difference). 1 of those 1h weapon will be crafted anyway, but the other will require crests.
Someone beat me to the reply, but yea your upgrades should be free minus the valor stones for the most part, some of your gear might even be good for Frost rn, so yea you should be able to get to same ivl or higher with however many crests you have :)
Great thanks for this! Getting tired of playing breath in pugs lol.. If it's not tanks randomly kiting mobs out of melee range during breath, or tank's positioning in the worst spot possible to maintain the frontal, it's people dying mid-breath and needing a bres etc.. Clunkiest cooldown of any dps I've played. Ofc, when you got tanks who know what they're doing, it's a different story and breath is actually a fun playstyle.
Yea I can absolutely agree with that, having to brez or watching a tank run away when your in breath is the most depressing feeling, hopefully tho you enjoy this build :) thanks for watching :)
is this with new buffs?
nope.
@@benkaup8039 no this was recorded before buffs but buffs will be helping this build :)
@@AnurekTV cool i have a dk and i cant get breathe to work lol. I like shattering. keep up the good work
first! :D how long until u come back dude. we have to reach goal of 50subs!
@@pawek6712 haha soon! Our flights back are Dec 13th
@@AnurekTV cant wait :) bless u dude
Ret Pala damage for the effort they put in is an absolute joke. Easiest spec by far and does high damage every pull with 30s CDs. How is this fair?
Haha I personally have never tried it but yea it feels like they don’t even have CDs with how often they doing dmg lol
watching ret outperform a dk is depresing af for some reason, I don't even main dk xD
Thats pretty common, they have cleaves, 30s burst windows, little to no cds, ret is good this xpac. Don't sleep on them
@@YuriDSC haha it happens from time to time Ret is really strong especially in the hands of someone who knows the class :)
@@Sacrede1 true they are quite strong and it feels like they never have their CDs on CD they be doing dmg every pull haha
@@AnurekTV Yep add to that, if ret runs the 2 bis 1:30 on-use trinkets, has a trinket up for every pull too.. Ret def has it too good atm!
dps is low mate shatter doesnt work good still
hes just not doing it correctly. hes getting about 80% of the inherent dps of shattering on trash pulls.
@@exibha this is also prior to buffs and more so just a basic show of the build I mainly play breath I am just asked to cover this build a lot so I figured I would try my best to:)
@@Sacrede1 true I am not completely optimized in playing this build