Death Knight vs Rogue

This is a guest article submission on Death Knights vs Rogues.

Rogue is not very difficult for the death knight because of the parry chance and heavy armor. You can use the rune strike to increase the power of your melee attack. However, you should not use the death coil except you want to kite them.

You should not attempt to stun but save it for his kidney shot. If you possess the runic power, you can tricket out from his cheap shot and use the Icebound Fortitude to defend from a kidney shot. You can also put Mark of Blood on the rogues and this will effectively defend you from the rogue’s fast attack speed which can damage you for 20 seconds. While keeping the rogue at range, you can use the death coils or ghoul to damage them. After that, you can use Icy Touch and Chains of Ice to damage them depending on the situation. Most of the time, you will not want to use icy touch on the rogue except in frost spec condition. If you manage to escape from their stun lock, you can pop cool downs to ease the severity of the damage and kite the rogue. If you follow these steps, you should win the fight.

If you possess the glyph of raise dead, you might get lucky because of the reduced global cool down. If the rogue chep shot you, you must trinket out of it. Next, you should summon the ghoul for 20 runic powers and use the icebound fortitude to escape from the kidney shot.

If you come across a rogue and they attack you, you can use icebound fortitude on him. If the rogue discovers your immunity and waits, you can spam them.

You can also cast diseases on the rogue to stop vanish. However, you can use the CloS to eliminate them completely. Since the rogue will keep on attacking while in invinsible form, you should cast Unholy Blight or Summon Gargoyle anytime.

You can also stop a running rogue by telling your ghoul to follow you and attack them again. If the rogue stealth, your ghoul will know their whereabouts.

Most death knights is not familiar that the rogue poison can be absorbed by the anti magic shell. When a rogue use poison on you, you can pop the AMS to kite them and watch how it absorbs the crippling poision. Despite that, this technique is useless if the effect of the crippling poison already get you. If the Icebound Fortitude did not successfully defeat the enemy, you can pop the trinket and instantly pop the AMS to kit them. The trinket has the ability to remove crippling. By using your shield, you will be immune and able to kit the rogue. You should attack with the chains of ice on the rogue until it wears off. Most of the time, the glyph is used as the glyph of anti magic shell. The glyph of anti magic shell will lengthen duration of the AMS by 2 seconds. Although 2 seconds is brief, it can be used to determine a battle in PVP.