Unholy arena run...

Well last night just to become familiar with unholy in case I need to use it for my PHDk I will be running I ran me and Naom's 10 matches last night as unholy.  I want to say its the first time I've ran unholy in the arena.  I *did* run it back in season 5, but being as I only started playing shortly before wrath was released I'm not gonna count those days because me and Naom were ultra noobs and sucked horribly.  Naom has stuck with resto since day 1 because that is where he comes from (about 10 years as a cleric on EQ's and played on EQ's hardest PvP since it was launched).

When leveling to 80 I leveled my DK specced as frost, started PvPing in season 5 with unholy didn't like the spec and returned as frost for season 6 and beyond.  So, playing as frost was how I ultimately learned the ropes of PvP and became decent.  So actually picking up unholy recently and playing with it it is all new to me.

Our matches last night didn't go too bad.  One of the major comps that gave us hell as frost / resto where rogue/X, just because rogue's wreck shamans and I didn't have the 3rd "tool" to relieve the pressure off shaman on the rogue's opening, that tool being gnaw.  It becomes more and more apparent why so many DKs flock to unholy, and it is all because of that ghoul.

Our first match was straight ass haha, and it was all my fault.  Being I have little experience with unholy it takes me some time to get set into the play style.  But, after I clumsily adjusted after the first match it was smooth sailing.

 Other then first match we lost, we lost two to a disc. priest / protret team.  I don't know wtf is up with protret lately but Jesus H. Christ he was putting INSANE pressure on Naom.  First match we went back and forth for ~5 minutes then the pally global'd Naom in one HoJ.  I'm talking about a fully wrathful shaman getting global'd in one stun ... WTF is that shit?!?  I couldn't even help either because he waited for that moment where I had already peeled with DG -> chains then he cast Hand of Freedom, went on Naom ... popped avenging wrath, I used gnaw ... he trinketed that then HoJ -> Naom dead.  It was insane, we fought them again and similar thing happened while I ate a fear.

The other loss was straight bullshit too, it was a rogue / frost mage team ... and the mage was really good.  They kept me CC'd on the side of a pillar while they raped Naom.  My ghoul managed to solo the rogue (lol) and I started to lace into the mage.  He nova'd me ran back started casting poly ... here is the bullshit ... he was mid-cast so I DG'd he was in the midpoint in the arc of the DG and poly went off and I got sheeped anyways.  I wish I was quick enough to get a screenshot because you could literally see the cast bar finish while he was up in the air.  Even Naom saw it and immediately called bullshit out on skype, which yeah, it can be choked up to latency but I run at ~70ms consistently and it was hovering around that at the time as well.  Also, typically when you have latency issues, as a lot of DKs experience with mindfreeze, it is when you use an interrupt near the end of the cast ... which is understandable.  But, like I said, I DG'd him in the ***middle*** of his poly cast.  So, long story short he ran off and evocated came back for 2nd sheep, then ran off and reset then came back and shattered me.  Only thing I can think of the mage must have had the latency problem and somehow on his client side the cast was ahead of the server and it just caught up after I DG'd.  I am by no means saying the mage cheated us, it happens and I deal with it.  I am not really pissed off (even though it sounds like it!) because I already have all I can obtain from 2s save the helm and it takes a lot to make me angry, especially when it comes to a PC game.

Overall, my unholy experiences are pretty good so far.  The matches where I played properly we squeezed out fast wins.  Gnaw in the arsenal makes dropping healers easy.  I think since I am become more accustomed to using the pet I might try that frost / unholy spec that I see some people use.  That way I can have hungering cold added and with his hex a lot of matches should play in our favor more.

I'm thinking:
Frost / Unholy 1/44/26

I picked up chilblains over desecration because with unholy blight my frost fever is now undispellable.  So, have the 50% snare stick with the target instead of them being able to step out of the ground AoE is alot better in my opinion.  Also, putting the points there lets me get 3/3 into Guile of the Gorefiend which makes my obliterate powerful.  I didn't grab Rime for the simple fact I can't get Howling Blast with this build.

I had a floating point that I put into Subversion, but I'm debating sticking it on Icy Talons since the haste from the 0/20/51 build that Darius over at AJ came up with has been phenomenal so far with my Bryntroll.  I'll have to play with it some though because that will be 3% obliterate crit chance I will be giving up, which for frost and just battle against the resilience stat alone it is good to have more crit for obliterate.

The glyph choices are also a burden.  I would love to get glyph of frost strike so I can squeeze one more into my RP dump, but I just don't seem to have the room for it.  It could go in the place of Obliterate glyph but I would have to adjust the build to remove reliance on obliterate as the damage dealer and rely on frost strike.  Which isn't necessarily wrong, but I would have to use Sigil of the Vengeful Heart over Sigil of Awareness.  Which this build could ultimately be the way to go.  The one thing that does suck about this build is missing 5/5 on tundra stalker.  That is 15% increased dmg to all my abilities to targets inflicted with frost fever, which could ultimately hurt the build in the long run and not make it viable.  We will see.

I will, of course, post my results.  Though, I still have a feeling this is going to be a bust.

*edit ... looking back at it, dunno how the game treats frost strike, but if it gains the bonus from impurity it could possibly make up for the loss of tundra stalker, which in all again makes frost strike as the go to dmg ability for this particular build.  But, if I remember correctly frost strike isn't affected by impurity because it is considered a melee attack and not a spell.