"With talents that boost dmg done and total AP ( Bloody Vengeance and Abomination's Might ) Wouldn't crit be a more reliable stat?"

Talents the boost damage and AP boost by a percentage, and as a result have more of an effect when you stack it. And there are also talents which boost strength (like Abomination's Might, which increases the DK's total strength by 2%, and Veteran of the Third War, which increases by 6%).

Also, Abomination's Might doesn't proc on crits. It procs on half of your Blood/Heart Strikes and all your Obliterates, regardless of crit. So +2% strength all the time, with +10% ap (which you get 2 for every point of strength), makes it a talent where you want to stack strength.

When it comes to instance DPS, slow and steady wins the race, and going with strength over crit raises your total DPS because it makes both your crits and your regular swings hit harder.

To look at it another way, there are several talents which rise critical strike chance naturally. Dark Conviction for 5% with everything, Subversion for 9% with Blood/Heart Strike and Obliterate, Annihilation with 3% for all special melee attacks, Vicious Strikes with 6% for Plague/Death/Scourge Strike, Rime with 15% for Icy Touch and Obliterate. Then there's Sudden Doom, which gives your Blood/Heart Strike a 1 in 5 chance of giving your next Death Coil a 100% crit chance.

For example, my Death Knight has every talent I just listed with the exception of Rime. His base crit chance it about 21.5%, which includes agility, Dark Conviction, and about 400 crit rating, which is pretty easy to come by between trinkets, jewelry, Sons of Hodir rep, and having friends who are leatherworkers and jewellers. 6 pieces of my armor have crit rating naturally, and they all are between 20-50 rating per piece. About a third of my crit rating comes from jewelry, trinkets, gems, and enchants (I'll ignore the Box of Horrors procs for the moment).

So, 21.5% crit chance. My build's mainstays are Heart Strike and Obliterate. With my talents, that's suddenly 33.5% for both of them. So my two main strikes each have about a 1 in 3 chance of critting every time I hit the button. And when I use Heart Strike, on top of it having a 1 in 3 chance of critting, it has a 1 in 5 chance of giving my next Death Coil a 100% chance of critting.

So, my personal advice is to gear and spec first to raise your base damage. Then raise your crit chance with talents, enchants (since +crit enchants are not hard to come by), and maybe find a Feral Druid or Fury Warrior to hang out with if you still don't feel like you crit enough.

I agree with the comment made about mine but in total I always have Abomination might up.

I'm also guessing your rotation reflects 100% on your Overall dps, my white dmg only out weighs my yellow dmg by a total of 1.22% according to heroic dmg meter readings. Im am usually top on the list of other DK's and Ret paladins.

I'm just wondering because I believe I have a good balance of stats I just prioritize crit a tiny bit higher than Strength.

Here is my armory http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uldaman&n=%C3%90efiance

Maybe anyone can give me some insight (I realize im still a bit lvling spec but have found no need to completely change it yet as we are not doing Naxx quite yet.

I'm not completely against AP I just know that heroic buffed alone I can easily reach over 4k AP .... (Party dynamic plays a role as well)

Thanks for the reply's

-Jeff