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Hi bro, how is it (Cadence DK) compare to Bladearc DK? In term of survival/clear/single target dmg?
You can PM me or ask in discord, I dont wanna hijack protoss thread unless that question was actually meant for him.
I have not played Blade Arc DK myself, but generally Cadence has better single target, Blade Arc better AoE. That said Idk how the two compare exactly head to head, I only know both are good 
You should probably PM crittrain about that or @Crittrain can also just answer here. I don’t care too much about that kind of hijack.
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Blade Arc performs better as Witchblade with Gutsmasher, even though you focus Physical Damage rather than Bleed, Curse of Frailty provides both RR’s which increase your DoT damage, and inevitably single target damage. Spectral Wrath doesn’t have Bleed RR.
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Blade arc DK no sweat in SR 90:
Blade arc Witch blade struggle SR 75:
Its really pretty close now , blade arc wont get close to cadence for single target (without fantasy greens) but the overall fluid /bit more AOE gameplay that blade arc gives would still be preferable by most.
Survivability isnt an issue on any of the setups really (That I ever ran across) I dont think Witchblade is on par with Death Knight when it comes to either skill / physical damage in general.
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have you considered using prime ring of morgoneth instead of Cornleys Signet? the morgoneth ring looks like the perfect match for this build imo. Whats your opinion to this? im really interested. Super Strong build btw. - playing it for a few days now. its insane
I have not understood why prime ring of morgoneth is “perfect match” for this build. What is the motivation?
at first i have to say: im not a “build theorist” as many others here. And i do not fully understand (yet) how the tons of stats all work. But the dmg reduction, OA, + cold and vita dmg which are partly converted to physical via laviathan AND additional Skillpoints to distribute seems the better option for me. Downside: No additional attack speed anymore. Pls correct me if i tell garbage.
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The OA is nice, yes.
The +2 to blitz and bone harvest is like … 98% of damage output of the build is still autoattacks
The damage reduction on the proc will not stack with war cry
The flat damage on the proc is not added to the autoattacks, and the numbers are so low that the damage skill proc will deal even when converted is extremely small.
For auto attack build, speed is king, specialy with 2H 
i see. thank you mate
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another question then: why not wearing two of the black matriarch rings? missing OA?
Procs dont stack. Well chance will stack but not proc. Bladetwister could be interesting, would lack OA and maybe hard to get chaos res.
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allright. thanks again !
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I’m new to this game so the following question might seem trivial:
Does the Bone Harvest tree serve any other purpose in the build than being an additional source of damage? If so I personally want to drop it and use the points to max out other weapon passive skills (And perhaps pick up Markovian’s advantage) since I prefer a one-button wonder player style.
I got a few reasons for your question. this “additional source of damage” you said is a big- permanent- flat 120 physical dam to all of your atk (just from soul harvest alone). And that damage bypass bosses’ armor (since they are converted to physical dam). you can always drop it if you dont like big DPS for some reasons. Most of AA build i played, the WPS skills mostly worth 1 point. Max those skills just a waste of points, since they have low chance of proc, and most important - Cadence hit cannot proc WPS like MA.The final part is if you prefer a one-button build play-style, then what did you use to proc devotion skills? with this build you need at least 4 consistent proc skills (Ulzaad, Assassin Mark, Maul, Shifting Sands). Dont tell me you gonna use those pitiful low chance WPS to proc these stuffs, its a waste trust me
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I see, guess I will have to look into stuff like GDAutocaster then. Like you guessed, I had all of my celestial power binded to WPS like reaping strike and MA.
yeah dont do that. taking Maul for example, if you bind that to Reaping Strike, then if you want to proc it, you need 2/3 non-Cadence hit + 20% chance of proc RS + 15% chance of proc Maul (the chance of celestial power only increase with high cooldown skills, not WPS) -> total of 2% chance to proc Maul for every basic default atk. thats so awful to such a wondeful skill to shred armor like Maul.
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