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Given the rune and runic power system, the death knight becomes a very sequenced play style. Maximizing rune usage is key.
A basic attack rotation: Icy Touch (IT) -> Plague Strike (PS) -> Blood Strike (BS) -> Blood Strike (BS) -> 1 Frost Rune (1F) and 1 Unholy Rune (1U) Finisher -> Runic Power (RP) dump
This basic rotation, IT->PS->BS->BS->1F1U->RP, maximizes rune efficiency by using all 6 runes every rotation.
The 1F1U finisher will typically be death strike or obliterate. Early on, the only RP dump available will be death coil. Depending on spec and level, new RP uses will be available.
There are variations to the rotation depending on your talent spec.
Blood spec with death rune mastery uses death strike (DS) or obliterate to generate more blood runes for heart strike (HS). This spec uses two rotations to maximize the usage of death runes.
IT->PS->HS->HS->DS/Oblit->Dancing Rune Weapon(DRW) or Death Coil(DC) IT->PS->HS->HS->HS->HS->Death Coil
An alternative "lazy" death knight to this blood spec forgoes using diseases to generate even more death runes for HS.
DS/Oblit->DS/Oblit->HS->HS->DRW or DC
HS->HS->HS->HS->HS->HS->DC
Unholy spec can also make use of a death rune generating spec with the reaping talent. This spec generates death runes from blood boil(BB) and blood strike. The death runes are then used for additional scourge strikes (SS).
IT->PS->BS->BS->SS->Gargoyle or Unholy Blight or Death Coil
SS->SS->SS->DC
Frost specs utilize the blood of the north talent to convert death runes using blood strike. Runic power is then used to spam off as many frost strikes as possible.
IT->PS->BS->BS->Howling Blast or Oblit or Death Strike->Frost Strike(FS) or Hungering Cold (HC)
IT->PS->HB/Oblit/DS->HB/Oblit/DS->FS
With all the stacking damage bonuses to icy touch, it becomes very viable to use death runes to spam six icy touches at lvl 80 by specing for both death rune mastery and blood of the north.
Oblit->Oblit->BS->BS->Frost Strikes Icy Touch x6->Frost Strikes