No, it's not a "whos bestest blud def nite or worrier??" thread... and yet, it is, but I'll see if I can make it slightly less mind-numbing (I'm not making promises here, though).
I'm just curious, because currently I'm struggling with leveling a Death Knight and Warrior at the same time. My Death Knight is level 74 and my Warrior is level 52. Like the thread's title implies, they're spec'd Arms and Blood. Now, I don't know if you've played a Death Knight to level 80, and it's not paramount that you have, but I'm wondering how Arms Warriors fare compared to Blood Death Knights in PvE and PvP.
I've noticed that in PvE, my Warrior is pretty much screwed if there's more than two opponents and one is a caster. The only health regenerating ability I have is the Second Wind talent which rarely procs in PvE encounters and even then, the healing is meagre. On the other hand, my Warrior really delivers on burst damage which makes her deadly in PvP. At level 52 I've surprised quite a few level 59's in Warsong Gulch. With Juggernaut, Taste for Blood and Sudden Death, the burst potential is massive. With a little luck, I'll end the fight before my Charge reloads. Sometimes I get nothing but plain hits and no procs and oddly enough that usually happens whenever the odds aren't in my favor to begin with.
My Death Knight is a powerhouse. I've never been level 52 with him, but I believe his damage is on par with the Arms Warrior, with slightly less burst potential (no real procs), but massive self-healing in return. I've got an instant 20% health pot on a 30-second cooldown or something like that (Rune Tap). I've got the ability to summon a temporary pet which I can sacrifice for a 40% health pot. The pet's on a 3-minute cooldown, though. I've got a 2-minute cooldown which increases healing done to me by 35% (combined with the previous two, it's pure awesome). I've got a talent which causes my opponent to heal me for 4% of my maximum health every time he hits me and finally I've got an attack that deals massive damage and heals me in the process. Casters? Psh, I've got an interrupt on a 10-second cooldown, a silence on a 2-minute cooldown and a shield that absorbs 75% spell damage when activated.
It would seem that the Death Knight is an amped up version of the Warrior, right? Still, I found a level 75 Warrior roaming about in Howling Fjord and he wiped the floor with my Death Knight and I used almost all my cooldowns. Maybe I'm just a horrible player, though I like to think that I'm not, but his burst damage was massive.
This had me wondering, because I love my Warrior just as much as my Death Knight, but I've been considering putting it on standby for the moment because the Death Knight seems so powerful compared to it. This recent encounter with a Warrior, however, made me rethink that thought.
So there you have it. A "wuts best dk or war??" thread that hopefully didn't fry your brain.