Hi,
macro update for TWW, used in raid normal and M0 and work very well.
In the macro, the only defensive cooldown included are Tombstone and Rune Tap; everything else is manual, including the trinkets.
The macro not only has excellent defensive capabilities but is also highly offensive, generating very high DPS.
I remind you that with the fixes made to tanks and the increase in common DPS, managing aggro is now more significant, and one needs to be more attentive and responsive.
Additionally, I use a macro to start pulling or generally for big pulls.
I think the BDK has undergone a small shadow nerf, because several people have told me that they see their DPS somehow decreased.
I suggest you try changing your trinkets, and to lower MS if you’re using it around 100, try 50.
Was 480 with the prepatch gear and cleared multiple M0’s only dropping below 95% health on the pull. It had great survivability and in a equally geared group I had zero problems with threat and did about 20% of damage. With a decent damage trinket and a weapon from bullion (no way I’m getting the lego before TWW) most of the threat issues disappeared unless dps opens up before the pull (so dangerous as I need to DS so I have to let them tank it) or they burst for 1 million or more.
Without consumables, healm enchant, weapon patches, legendary, or the fire ring:
DPS
With those upgrades I can see the macro easily getting 90% parses but with the limited time before TWW I won’t be able to test that.
I know I will probably make the D&D macro
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] death and decay
instead of self as I really want to be dropping it before I get into melee. I might also make a version that doesn’t use defensives and replaces marrowrend with heartstrikes for off tanking in raids.
This really is a great one button macro for such a complicated tank.
I just wish I could weave D&D @player into the macro as I have really bad timing for it. I might need to get a WA but thats just a me problem.
Messing around with it for a little over a week and its able to consistently parse in the mid to high 90% and has several 100% parses.
While just pugging my DK alt has gotten several invites to various guilds in the hopes I’ll raid with them which is odd as I’ve never had that on the bear despite equally high parses.
Gnarlroot, I should have held CD’s and pots for the adds to pad the meters. Tindral we didn’t hero until late in the fight I didn’t use a pot and we had some problems with both of us tanks soaking the same shrooms on the last platform. Without that it would have easily been a 90% as well.
Again this is without the lego and runes as well as having no warrior buff.
I know I’ve been swapping between Runic protection and Vestigial shell. The guides say 6% armor isn’t a enough to warrent a talent point but its still flat out damage reduction, putting anti magic shell on several players is an amazing ability in some dungeons like the trash before final boss in RLP. So far I’ve been swapping between the two.
Moving the point from Soul reaper to Grip of the dead (or potentially into wraith walk) was something else I was trying out last night. I made a version of your sequence that replaced Soul reaper with heart strike and it had a lot more burst damage early pull so I didn’t have as many problems against people who do the insane burst. I think over all it was about the same amount of damage but I’m going to have to continue testing to make sure. Alternatively I could manually cast it or have two versions of the sequence one with and one without and switch when the target is below 35%, this really has to be one of the worst execute abilities to try to work with when it comes to macros.
So far the only problem I’ve had is on the initial pull. I tag a mob and run past to gather the next pack and before I put DnD down and start the rotation I’ve already lost aggro on the initial mobs. I’m almost thinking I might have to manually cast blood boil on each pack as I run past but thats a lot of damage that is wasted. Kind of curious how you maintain threat during the initial gathering part.
Yeah stats are a bit of a mess since I’m still gearing and taking whatever is highest ilvl.
I’m a bit over on crit as I’m sitting at 35% and need to really increase haste. I can regem and enchant but with only a couple of days left it’ll do me before the new expansion. I was a bit suprised at the haste value as I thought the buff from DnD and bone shield would mean not needing to put anything in it. This though is why I should read guides first instead of just winging it to learn.
Also tested the manual BB on pulling and it seems to work very well. No more threat issues and as I’m not spending several seconds trying to reestablish threat my dps went up significantly.
I am 595 ilvl and I set it up exactly the way you have it and it doesn’t even stand up to the tank dummies… And I’m quite familiar with GSE and use it on a lot of chars. Maybe I’m missing something, that is always a possibility, I would love to talk to someone who really knows the addon at a deep technical level.
I know this is not the right place for it to ask, but I would love it if you made a FROST macro as well. Been using your blood dk macro and it’s ‘chefs kiss’. Absolutely INCREDIBLE.
What would it take to get you to make a frost dk macro as well? The ones I’ve used so far aren’t that great (no disrespect towards other creators). Frost seems to be an easy spec to macro in theory, but practice shows different results.
I manually parse 100’s and do very well in my groups. Whenever I play manually I reach 2m+ DPS consistently, however, when using other macro’s it’s close to HALF of what I can do manually.
Would love to see your input on this in a macro and would gladly donate.
