Notes on Death Knight Farming

Using my Blood DK spec I went farming for Arctic Furs in Storm Peaks. Here are a few (updated for patch 3.2) observations regarding this particular spec and Death Knight gameplay in general.

• This spec hits like a ton of bricks.
  
  
• I'm really really glad I picked Dancing Rune Weapon over Hysteria. It works very nicely and it's not even glyphed.
  
  
• The new Death Strike, talented and glyphed strikes like another ton of bricks. It often crits for over 5K. Very happy with it.
  
  
• Rotation for these level ~77 mobs is slightly altered: Icy Touch > Plague Strike > (Heart Strike) > Death Strike > dead. Very often I don't even need to Heart Strike, that's how fast they go down.
  
  
• Farming with this spec is very quick due to massive damage.
  
  
• Thanks to the new 1.5 second mount summoning, farming is even quicker. After each mob I will quickly summon my mount and fly to the next mob. When in Death Coil range, I will dismount in mid-air and fire a Death Coil and then start my regular rotation.
  
  
• Due to moving so fast, 3 stacks of Bloody Vengeance are present almost continuously.
  
  
• I love Rune Strike and will continue to use it in my rotation. In fact that's one of the things that I love about it: it's outside of the GCD so I just pop it whenever it activates. It's cheaper to cast than Death Coil (costing only 20 RP) and it hits very hard.
  
  
• AoE is messy. For the mobs. My (patented, heh heh) method is: Death & Decay, Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence, by this time my RP is almost full and I start Death Coiling and Rune Striking since my runes are on cooldown. As soon as my Heart Strike or Death Strike are up, I will use them, thus regaining my health and smashing those mobs to pulp. As a variation, after laying down D&D, if I have enough RP, I will summon a Dancing Rune Weapon and then continue with my routine as outline above. Works like a charm.
  
  
• Those damn Furs have a retarded drop-rate.

As a side note, I also tried to solo Drak'Tharon and The Nexus with my Death Knight. Needless to say, I walked in like a cocky turkey and came out feet first. Well, that was Drak'Tharon because I had to fight 2 mobs at the same time and I didn't realize they were so powerful. Elites with over 75K HP, ahem... In The Nexus I was luckier as I only had to fight one mob at a time but after 2 mobs and a very close shave with death from which I was only saved by my ghoul, I decided to call it quits. I won't be solo-ing these 2 dungeons with my characters any time soon.