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WoW DeathKnight Leveling Guide - Cataclysm Leveling & Spec

Free WoW DeathKnight Leveling Guide:

The long awaited third expansion of WoW has finally arrived. Just like with all previous expansion the level cap has been raised, classes has been changed, new instances and zones have been added, and that is just the tip of the iceberg called Cataclysm. Everyone is rushing to see the new content of the expansion, starting to level up as fast as possible. In order to level up as fast as possible you will have to choose the right spec for leveling. When it comes to death knights you can go either blood, frost or unholy, but which talent tree is best?

Top death knight dps spec is unholy with frost being in close second place and blood as last but mostly seen as a pure tanking tree. We can rule out blood spec right from the start as its dps is far too low to be taken into consideration. So what will it be - Frost or Unholy?

Unholy

As previously mentioned, unholy is the top dps spec for death knights at this point, but that does not make it the best leveling choice by default. Large portion of the unholy death knights dps is done by his pet which is maxed out once he hits dark transformation but in order for that to happen you need to be in combat for some time and usually by the time u can hit it the monster is already dead. Unholy dps is very strong but does not have such burst as frost. Unholy leveling spec for death knights should be similar to this one: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#jbGZoZcucdfMuMRu . With the unholy spec you will have a much easier time fighting against possible gankers if you happen to play on a PvP server.

Frost

Frost dps is right behind unholy when it comes to dps and can be played with a 2h weapon or by dual wielding 1h weapons. Either way it offers great dps with more control than unholy and with more burst damage, especially when you get killing machine procs, making your Obliterate and Frost strikes 100% crit. With this spec, you will be able to slice through enemies as if they are made from butter, thus significantly increasing your leveling speed. Hungering cold will freeze your enemies in place for 10 seconds giving you quite nice crowd control, that will break on damage and with howling blast your AE damage gets even better. Your frost leveling spec should look something like this: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#jbGZGc0rfuRzbu0h. This spec is also used for dpsing in raids or dungeons.

Unholy vs. Frost

Frost right now is the best spec for leveling but that does not mean that unholy is far behind. The final verdict should be made by you simply by choosing what suits you best. Leveling in a spec that does not seem appealing to you just does not make sense. Blood is way behind on both and should be only picked as off spec for tanking dungeons while leveling as you will find groups much faster as tank.

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