I'm looking to create a build that goes down Unholy just for On A Pale Horse, then the rest in Blood. However, I only want Blood for the dps and healing talents, so I skipped the tanky talents. Going 18 points in Unholy leaves you a little short in Blood though, so I'm trying to figure out which talents, even the ones that are considered good, can be left out. Here's what I got so far:

http://wotlk.openwow.com/talent#jfVMoIcIofRbsstZfMhI0b

or

http://wotlk.openwow.com/talent#jfVMqIcIsfRboszZfMhI0b

These are just ideas to start with.

Basically, the talents that I am wondering which to omit and which to take, are:
Scent of Blood- Isn't Runic power easy to build up anyway? Plus I have Butchery specced.

Rune Tap/Improved Rune Tap- I hear this one isn't really necessary, but it seems like it can heal for a lot.

Dark Conviction -> Bloody Vengeance- I really would like to spec into this, but that's a massive amount of points I have to omit somwhere else, which I did with Will of the Necropolis and Blood Gorged in my other build. Don't know which 2 are better to have.

Hysteria- I picked it up because it's one point, and maybe using this on a summoned ghoul can give some good burst.

Sudden Doom- 15% chance is kind of low. Even though this is a good talent, I feel those 3 points are better off somewhere else.

Will of the Necropolis- Seems like a tanky talent. If I ever go below 35% health, I don't think 15% damage reduction really helps that much worth spending the 3 points for. Not in a leveling DPS spec at least. If I'm tanking a dungeon and that 15% damage reduction keeps me alive that extra second to be healed (where I'd be dead otherwise), then it might be worth it. But I don't plan to tank.

Blood Gorged- Like I said earlier I really want to pick this up, I will probably be above 75% health a lot of the time with my self heals. But is it better than picking up Dark Conviction and Bloody Vengeance instead?

I'm a newbie Death Knight (got one to 80 on retail going full Blood but never played endgame that much with him) so this may not be viable. But I really want On A Pale Horse for the speed bonus plus have zero downtime between fights. And I think I should be capable of taking on elite mobs by myself even without the tanking talents, because I have a lot of self heals and can kill them faster than a tankier spec'd DK could.

What are your thoughts? Thanks a lot!

I m leveling as blood and isnt that bad , far from it.

I m using glyph of disease and i have 7 point in unholy so my disease last 6 more second.

As soon as both of my disease are on the target i just use pestilience to renew the, and its only death strike , Heal myself and turn them into death rune , and heart strike that deal dmg to 2 target and death coil when everything is on cooldown. So you can do up to 6 heart strike in a row.

I used to level as blood and i m still doing it. My wife was leveling as frost , she was dealing way much more dmg , but less surviving.

I would definitely recommend blood for leveling. The 3 specs kill things at around the same pace (Very fast). And blood has insane self healing, plus your potential to kill like 10 things at once is insane.

Yeah go for blood. Good Pve, also as dps.

I can vouch for Blood being a good leveling spec. With all of its self-healing, you have literally 0 downtime. You can just go mob to mob to mob to mob without ever having to stop; the only limit is your rune cooldowns.

And yes, it seems to be incredibly good at soloing elites. At level 60, I easily soloed Arazzius the Cruel, level 63 elite; never even dropped below 70% health.

Yes, Frost and Unholy do have noticeably better AoE, but much worse survivability. I tried out Frost and its kill speed was roughly the same, albeit with better AoE capabilities, though I was taking noticeably more damage and had to use more bandages.

Vook, u do realize this is a 2 year old post XD

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