Death Knight Soloing Romulo and Julianne in Karazhan
Posted by vultuk
Well, after almost a year of soloing content on my Death Knight I finally beat my nemesis which was Romulo and Julianne in Karazhan. The fact that Romulo has a poison debuff that reduces maximum health made this encounter particularly tricky. But with a gear upgrade and some correctly placed interrupts and shields I finally managed to solo the event.
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Death Knight solos Halls of Lightning
Posted by vultuk
To celebrate my triumphant return to the world of soloing with my Death Knight I am pleased to bring you the first in the "Khed Solos" videos. So here it is, straight to the point...
Khed Solos Halls of Lightning
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/SoloHallsOfLightning%20-%20Computer.m4v[/podcast]
What Happened to the Death Knight!?
Posted by vultuk
So, if you've been coming here for a while you will have noticed that I've not done many updates in recent days. This is for a number of reasons. Firstly, my Blizzard Authenticator randomly blew up on me and stopped working. Thanks to Blizzard Tech Support this took 2 months to fix leaving me without an account in those 2 months, in fact the turn around was so slow I ended up starting a new account and levelling a brand new druid to 80 and was geared out in Trial of the Champion 10/25 man gear before actually getting my account sorted! Also, I really don't like the state of Death Knights at the moment! Death Knights maybe the kings of Faceroll DPS (yes in my current dps spec with limited gear i'm pulling 4.5k using a /castsequence macro) but when it comes to tanking unless things change with really high level gear we are currently the squishiest tank in game. Yes in patch 3.3 I will probably actually get back into tanking and get some T9.1 gear from Emblems but until that point I actually have heard healers complaining about healing me in heroics... Really not something I've ever heard before!
If you have tried to armory me you will also notice that Deathet of Quel'Thalas has vanished! With the onset of Faction Changes I decided to move around a few of my characters. Deathet has now become Khed and my priest has also recently become a traitor and renamed himself/herself as Khep (Gnomish Sex Changes ftw). So there's the current update. I've not solo'd anything recently apart from the usual ZG / AQ runs to fund my lust for Gold. Maybe I will again in the future, maybe I won't and maybe you'll see 'Solo Druid' arriving at some point but who knows!
Death Knight solo videos – Attumen, Moroes and Maiden
Posted by vultuk
Just a quick update, I never got round to doing videos of the first part of Karazhan yet a few people have commented about the fact I haven't done them. So last night on my weekly Void Crystal run I decided to record the kills.
Attumen the Horseman
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Attumen.mov[/podcast]
Moroes
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Moroes.mov[/podcast]
Maiden of Virtue
[podcast format="video"]http://dk101.net/podcast/Maiden.mov[/podcast]
I Just Lost the Game! :( – Announce your failure!
Posted by vultuk
The first installment of the DK101.net merchandice has finally arrived. I've been working on it for a while now but it finally became a reality with the new "I Just Lost the Game!" T-shirt line. It's available in Standard T-Shirt, Female Skinny Fit and Female Strappy Top! You can find them at Zazzle, but make sure you bookmark the page as there will be many many more coming! 
Death Knight soloing Heroic Magister's Terrace
Posted by vultuk
Deathet from EU Quel'Thalas solo's Heroic Magisters' Terrace.
THE most annoying instance to solo. Especially Vexallus. I personally need Army of the Dead on Vexallus and Kael'thas so don't rush the instance! 
Total Time Taken: Around 1 hour 10 minutes on average but i'm managing to speed it up
Death Knight Soloing Heroic Arcatraz
Posted by vultuk
Deathet from EU Quel'Thalas solo's Heroic Arcatraz.
Fun instance to solo, especially the final boss... Who doesn't love that little gnome!
I'm gonna light you up sweet cheeks!!
Total Time Taken: Around 50 minutes
Death Knight Soloing Heroic Dark Portal
Posted by vultuk
Deathet from EU Quel'Thalas solo's Heroic Dark portal.
The final instance I needed to complete the Heroic Outland instance achievement. They've all been done solo, this was the one I was dreading. So much to do without a healer I was worried but it turns out it wasn't as hard as I thought.
Total time taken: around 30 minutes
Death Knight soloing Auchenai Crypts and Underbog Heroic
Posted by vultuk
Couple more videos of me soloing stuff on my Death Knight. Below we have Auchenai Crypts and Underbog Heroic Being solod
Death Knight Tanking and Solo Tank specs
Posted by vultuk
A few people have asked me about specs lately so I thought I would throw a few out there!
I'm mainly tanking as blood now, the changes to the frost tree mean I cannot spec how I used to. I really liked my old spec and the high Hp it gave me, I also liked the bonus crit chance I used to get, it was lovely to see crit spam on my screen. But with Howling Blast as a 51 pointer this is no longer possible. Soooo I've switched to Blood.
Patch 3.1 means that Blood tanking is just as good as it was on single targets, but now the damage put on targets from Blood Boil has now gone through the roof making it much easier to AoE tank. We still have to tab Heart Strike but it's now much easier than before.
The tank spec I will be using is as follows...
Combined with Glyph of Death Strike and Glyph of Pestilence you find a nice spec where you can chuck on diseases in an AoE pack and heart strike and Death Strike your heart out and only need to hit pestilence to refresh your diseases on all targets! Loads of crit, and 9% increase to your strength across all the trees which in a 25 man raid environment should mean your hitting 7, 8, 9, 10k tps depending on classes in the raid. Just solo i'm easily able to hold down 5.5-6k tps on single targets which i'm personally quite happy with.
Ok the other spec i'm going to link is the one I use to solo with. As most people know i'm spending a lot of my time at the moment soloing heroics and raid instances. I do this because... Well 1. I make good gold out of it.. but 2, and more importantly, I enjoy a challenge! So this is the spec I use for this...
I don't need to worry about threat because i'm soloing however the most important thing I need is healing. This spec pulls all the blood healing talents available including worms, aura and improving Death Strike talents.
It means a constant 300hps plus a nice amount when worms proc. Around 1k heals from death Strike (1.7 on crits) and a 6-7k heal from Blood Tap. Sure is good for soloing! 
Hope people found this an interesting read!
Also Posted on or guild forums: http://wotlk.bloodlineguild.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3214