So I decided to go unholy with Kaegi in Naxx25 to make full use of the T7 set bonus. Naturally, while my DPS was a respectable 3.3k sustained, I am no match to Ascent's more experienced players. But it did show me one of my weaknesses playing a death knight.
With my paladin, I have the habit of spamming the button I need to cast next in my rotation while waiting for the ability's cooldown to wind down. Naturally, this is not best practice, but it is something that I've gotten used to doing and, frankly, especially when all my abilities are on cooldown anyway, it does no harm. My keyboard is unhappy though.
However, using the death knight, I found that spamming the buttons is just not a good idea. Well, not with unholy anyway, or any spec that uses a 2-rune ability as a primary strike.
The problem arises after an Icy Touch -> Plague Strke -> Blood Strike -> Blood Strike -> Scourge Strike rotation. After this rotation, which can take just 5-6 secs to do, my habit, from being frost spec, of spamming the Icy Touch button after the runic dump tends to use up my frost rune and the second one causes the death rune to go back to being a blood rune. Which, in turn, allows for fewer scourge strikes.
I know death knights have been out for a while now, and Kaegi isn't exactly a fresh 80, but the importance of managing her runes just hit me. I do plan to get a UI mod that brings my rune info to the center bottom of my screen...perhaps a HUD addon. This will allow me to just relax and wait for my runes before using any ability. This also might be good practice for other classes as well. I'm sure my keyboard will be happy when I start being smarter, not faster, with using character abilities.
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