Alright, I was doing some research on my class,(since I suck at dk.), and learned something scary. I should only use obilterate, (Or however you spell it!), When your target is below 35% health. Why is this? Well, I did my research and got this. Lets say I obliterate crit for 50k, awesome, right? Wrong. After applying armor, and resil, its only 16k. So whats so bad? This. If I use howling blast I will hit, normaly for about 12k. against a target dummy, apply resil its down to 8-9k. So how is this better than Obliterate? it did less damage! Again, wrong. It only used ONE rune, while obliterate used TWO. Thus forth, I can use it twice, to get 16-18k. So this isn't much better is it? It is better though, Because when it crits, it will do normaly, prolly about 20k! Then resil to 15-16k. Further more, procs can make it not even cost anything. So what about my killing machine procs? Do I get rid of them and spec else where? No. Frost strike. Now, your prolly thinking. What? If obiterate got knocked down to 16k from armor and resil, how low will frost strike go from armor and resil? Wrong, frost strike is not affected by armor. Why? its a melee attack.
Reason is, if you look at frost strike closely, you notice, it says, An attack that deals 130% weapon damage. That means its melee, and should get affected by armor. BUT WAIT. Theres MORE. Plus however much FROST damage. Which makes the WHOLE thing, Frost damage! Meaning, it IGNORES ARMOR. so lets say I crit for 25k, take away prolly 6k, makes 19 k. So what do I do with my unholy runes? I'm using frost and death on chains of ice and howling blast. So what will they add?
This. Necrotic strike. Now, the damage may seem bad, but it is good, why? Because lets say I do this.
Chains of ice, then howling blastx2, then nectrotic strikex3 Whats the gain? The healing reduction. Thats what, I'll apply about 10k healing aborb shield, and then I throw in Frost strike when the proc hits, or all runes are on cd, and empower rune weapon is too. Pretty neat, huh? So thats the deal. But wait! THERES EVEN MORE. In bgs, someone isn't all ways going to have a healer. So lets say I go up against an arms warrior, that means I don't need nectro strike, so I can instead use them on something else, say plauge strike. Which does a LITTLE more than nectro strike. And once he is at 35% I start using obiterate. Thats my little thing.
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