{"id":72,"date":"2010-10-26T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-10-26T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:25:44","slug":"daily-thoughts-fury-vs-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternateimage.net\/gaming\/2010\/10\/26\/daily-thoughts-fury-vs-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thoughts: Random Comparison &#8211; Fury vs Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fury v. Frost &#8211; Sounds like an epic boxing match about to begin. As it isn&#8217;t a boxing match, it is probably unclear why I&#8217;d go out of my way to compare to unrelated specs on two different classes. Well, those specs are all I really had time to play yesterday so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to talk about today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fury<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m two-handed\u00a0fury. None of these little rogue \/ insta-dead\u00a0enh\u00a0shaman one hander\u00a0things for me. I&#8217;m a fury warrior; a raging beast dual wielding two small trucks, excited to bash just about anything. You wouldn&#8217;t like me when I&#8217;m angry. My fury warrior is my freshest 80. He&#8217;s decently geared at this point through mainly heroics and one lucky ICC-10. He&#8217;s wielding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/item-info.xml?i=50798\" target=\"_blank\">Ramaladni&#8217;s Blade of Culling<\/a>\u00a0from ICC 10\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/item-info.xml?i=47493\" target=\"_blank\">Edge of Ruin <\/a>from the ToC 5 man heroic. The rest of his gear is pretty representative of those. A mix between ilevel200\u00a0and ilevel264\u00a0pieces. He&#8217;s only partially enchanted and gemmed\u00a0with mostly rare quality gems. In heroics, I do an easy 7-8k\u00a0dps on trash pulls\u00a0and single target bosses with cooldowns. With the right string of crits, i&#8217;ve neared 9.5k dps single target in a heroic. The rotation is mostly button mashing, then button mash whatever is flashing. Raging Blow during enrage &gt; Slam when it procs\u00a0&gt; Bloodthirst\u00a0&gt; HS when at high rage. I&#8217;m not amazing at prioritizing my rotation so mines mostly faceroll. AoE packs are even easier, cleave &gt; whatever &gt; cleave. It&#8217;s fun, its easy. I do want to learn a little more about what I should be doing for a tighter rotation and stat preferences for gems so, read along with me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wow.joystiq.com\/category\/warrior\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wow Insider &#8211; Warrior Search<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 ,\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.html?topicId=27188060651&amp;sid=1&amp;pageNo=1\" target=\"_blank\">From the Wow Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like people aren&#8217;t completely sure about stat weights and such. Ej doesn&#8217;t have anything definitive currently. Hit\/Exp caps are a must though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frost:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My death knight is a burly risen dead orc soldier. He brandishes\u00a0a two-handed\u00a0weapon and controls deaths icy powers. The new rune system adds a bit more downtime during a DK&#8217;s rotation than the global cooldown mashing fest that was in place before 4.0.1, at least for non dual-wielders. To compensate for this, blizzard made everything hit really hard. My main attacks in heroics &#8211; frost strike, obliterate, and howling blast &#8211; all crit for 13k+ regularly. The DK is using Tyrannical Beheader\u00a0out of heroic Pit of Saron, he has 4 piece tier 10, and almost completely ilvl\u00a0251\/264 gear in total. He has all the best enchants and gems. Frosts big hits of howling blast lead me to an easy 8k+ dps on trash pulls but I&#8217;m only sitting around 5-6k\u00a0dps on single target boss fights. I can only assume that my rotation is sloppy, though Frosts rotation and needs are a bit more intensive than a Fury warrior. Frost must lay down both diseases on the target, use Obliterate as often as possible and during the 100% crit procs, Festering Strike to refresh diseases (they really need 100% uptime), frost strike to bleed off all that runic power, and blood strikes to use the blood runes that you&#8217;ll otherwise be wasting. Doing festering strike too often is a dps loss as it doesn&#8217;t hit as hard as your other strikes. Using FS not often enough causes diseases to fall off, wasting runes and cooldowns\u00a0to reapply them. It&#8217;s a pretty fun spec with some procs to watch for and an interesting rotation, now I just need to get my stuff in order. Lets check out some resources for this and maybe I can find out why my lesser geared warrior does more single target than frost dk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elitistjerks.com\/f72\/t105701-frost_dps_cataclysm_countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elitist Jerks &#8211; Frost DK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wow.joystiq.com\/category\/death-knight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wow Insider &#8211; DK Search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both EJ\u00a0and WoW Insider seem to agree that I could use more haste on my two-handed frost DK. I&#8217;ll try reforging\u00a0that in the next couple days. The EJ\u00a0link is a GREAT resource for rotation, gemming, glyphs, etc. Hopefully I can tone that DK up a bit and get his damage on par with his gear.<\/p>\n<p>Fury Warriors and Frost Death Knights are both very fun and dynamic specs leaning on procs for best dps. Fury is a bit easier to do well, but if you want a more challenging spec to play and have (or might level) one of these two-handed weapon monsters, Frost might be your best bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fury v. Frost &#8211; Sounds like an epic boxing match about to begin. 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