2012年1月10日星期二

Using Your Survival Cooldowns to Survive in PvE

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There are a few quick tips for surviving in PvE. Many of these tips will be death knight-specific, and some will be a bit more general.

While tank passing away knights get a couple of different cooldowns, fairly a couple of of our "tanking" cooldowns are available to any passing away knight, which includes people who DPS. Knowing about these cooldowns and how they work can be just the ticket to surviving a especially nasty fight. Use your cooldowns when you draw aggro or when you're in an AoE-heavy situation and also the healer doesn't show up to be in a location to heal you.

Anti-Magic Shell is, unfortunately, not fairly as awesome since it used to, considering that you require to use talent points in purchase to allow it create runic power. That said, it's still certainly a valuable way to steer clear of some damage. Most forms of magical elemental damage can be avoided with this. If you're being focus-fired with a mage mob or if you're in the midst of a massive magical AoE (even one you were supposed to run out of), hitting Anti-Magic Shell can shed many that damage and keep you alive long enough to obtain some healing.

Icebound Fortitude is another great damage reduction cooldown. It's only 20% damage reduction, but with massive Cataclysm health pools, that may be enough to keep you alive till the tank takes back aggro. As a bonus, Icebound Fortitude will also provide immunity to stuns, which may are available in handy on mobs that do, in fact, have stuns.

Blood Presence is a very tricky thing to use as a survival method, but inside of a pinch, it does provide some damage reduction and extra health. However, it also provides extra threat. This means that if you're retreating into Blood Presence to soak up some extra damage, you should also cease DPSing till the tank peels the mob off of you, at which point you should immediately switch back to your DPS presence.

Death Pact is planning to be much more useful to unholy passing away knights than to frost passing away knights, considering that an unholy passing away knight is much more likely to possess a ghoul out, but inside of a pinch, you may be lucky as frost to have ghoul off cooldown and ready to be summoned and sacrificed. Unholy passing away knights are also at a disadvantage once they use this if only because a ghoul is a excellent portion of their DPS, but when picking between a dead ghoul and a living passing away knight, the choice should be pretty clear.

Death Strike alone isn't as potent since it used to be (or at least, it has a definite hat to its healing potential), but it can obtain the job done, especially for a frost passing away knight. Unholy passing away knights are planning to possess a bit of a tougher time using it because it throws off their rotation -- but then again, when you're obtaining pounded on as a DPS, you should be breaking your rotation to focus on survival. In case you can, consider fitting a Glyph of dim Succor into your glyph loadout, at minimum at the 5-man level. That way, you can be your own healer for at minimum the incidental damage and occasional risk grab. 15% of max health healed per a strike is pretty great, especially in case you have entire bar of runes with 2 passing away runes ready to go. Of course, the big difficulty here is that you will create a little bit of extra risk just by the damage put out by the strikes, so this method is probably best used to heal up after the tank has already peeled the mob off of you.

Army belonging to the Dead is perhaps one belonging to the most controversial and misunderstood passing away knight abilities, and with excellent reason. Considering that the ghouls it summons have the power to taunt, it can do much more harm than good, knocking a mob away from location and top to it to spew a cone or other frontal attack on the DPS or healers and dragging it across the room, creating it tougher for the tank to pick back up. We've covered the methods to properly use Army belonging to the Dead inside of a guide we posted a while back, so I'll just sum it up here. Due to the taunting ability of Army belonging to the Dead, it should really only be used as a survival device when a wipe is imminent, such as when the tanks and/or healers are dead and there are no battle rezzes available to obtain them back up. Then, sometimes, Army of Dead can save the day. I have observed it happen. Other times, it'll just delay the wipe for a couple of much more seconds -- but hey, may as well try.

Lichborne--We've covered the namesake with this column before, but it's a excellent tip to remember. Lichborne makes you undead. When you're undead, passing away Coil heals you. Therefore, in case you require some fast heals, you can press Lichborne and turn your spare runic power into health. It's a handy enough ability that frost DPS, at least, may want to consider using a positively free talent point to grab. It also breaks you away from a couple of crowd manage methods, which could be handy. Thank you! Have a good time in the game!

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