New Changes for Death Knights in PvP

With Cataclysm as we have all seen there have been some major changes all the way around and the Death Knight like all classes has definitely been worked over. Not only has their talent tree been completely revamped, but there have been changes to the way that their runes regenerate. In order to be successful DK players are going to have to take a little time to become familiar with the changes including the new procs that are now a part of Runic Empowerment.  Since runes now refresh as a proc, none of your old rotations are of any use.

Bearing this in mind, Death Knights in PvP have a distinct advantage as it is much easier to keep a rune handy for that key ability compared to PvE where your main concern is maximizing every point of DPS you can get your hands on. One thing that has become evident in all classes and particularly in the Death Knight is that with the new talent trees each of the three trees is an entity on its own instead of a slight hybrid of the others. 

For Death Knights in PvP, Unholy has long been considered the only way to spec and by rights it is still the better choice, but with the new changes you can play all three with a high level of success. With a range of talents such as Shadow Infusion and Dark Transformation, you can dump plenty of runic power into your Death Coil and let your pet run amok with Dark Transformation for 30 seconds with massively boosted abilities. 

Unholy Blight is also going to be a major player as it keeps your diseases from being dispelled while you are keeping your Death Coil powered up. Adding the Glyph of Death Coil to the mix makes you that much more potent and the dirge of the Battlefield. Choose your  talents very carefully as you cannot pick all of the DPS increasing ones, be prepared to give up a little of your DPS to gain extra versatility and you will be surprised at how well you are going to do out on the battlefield. One more thing that these changes are going to accomplish is that you will see tons of Death Knights in PvP playing their own game instead of copying each other; this should make for a lot more unpredictable fun than we have seen for a long time.

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