WoD Death Knight Changes

[Faenlyn]

This stuff about NP was posted prior to the latest buff to it, when it was at 1.5% of AP and an actual DPS loss to spec into (1.8% with the disease perk) and it's been buffed to I believe 2.25% since.

Doesn't mean they're done with it.. if you're turning a dial I would imagine you turn it up slowly.. then slowly some more.. Not turn up.. ooops.. too far.. turn down.. nope turn up..

[Iysdexia]

Doesn't mean they're done with it.. if you're turning a dial I would imagine you turn it up slowly.. then slowly some more.. Not turn up.. ooops.. too far.. turn down.. nope turn up..

I take it that you have not taken a shower before.

[Sliippy]

Necrotic plague was doing a ton of dmg for me. The 2/4 seem ok, one thing I thought was weird was some buff was canceling out my flask.

[Taninsam]

I just got the t17 2pc and I can't believe how well it complements with 2H frost BoS! The cleave burst is great and it really promotes smart gameplay and planning ahead. My only gripe is that it won't really play that well with DW or even UH, but I guess that once we have less downtime, it's going to be really, really good to have such a massive aoe burst tool at our disposal. Sims can't really make justice of the possibilities of this talent.

[Deleted]

Not sure if its been mentioned already but BoS now proccs Shadow of Death for blood (aswell as rune regen obv.)

[Maxweii]

It should have been procing Shadow of Death anyways, if it wasn't that was probably a bug. It had been doing so in much earlier builds, and we hadn't gotten word that it was changed.

[Schizoide]

Yep, BoS was always supposed to do that. Conversion was not.

[Deleted]

Oh right I mixed them up in my head ... Remember playing a lot with Conversion when it still only costed 15 rp and was sad we didnt get SoD

[Gemini Soul]

I'm SOOOOO glad that they took off Disease bonus damage on our special attacks, we won't be as hindered now when it comes to dealing with adds. Just hate spending runes to put disease up on stuff that dies 5-15 secs vs just using runes to attack them and have my attacks not hit as hard because of the lack of diseases.

Did some more testing and love how when DC MS you shoot off a mini-DC also.

[Milocow]

does auto attack multistrikes trigger crimson scourge?

also if you take defile does crimson scourge make defile free? or only blood boil?

[Gemini Soul]

does auto attack multistrikes trigger crimson scourge?

also if you take defile does crimson scourge make defile free? or only blood boil?

It makes Defile free because it's more or less an Improved DnD and MS should trigger CS, don't know if its bugged or not.

[psyquest]

well, the background dowloader for patch 6.0 is about to be started officially. I think the eggs are cooked!

Do not expect any more changes to DKs, it seems that we will ship as is, only changes if anything is broken OP.

[Deleted]

I absolutly hate that they are trying to make the T17 2P work.

For those who didnt see the new beta build, its now provides 5 stacks of Shadow Infusion after a Soul Reaper.

[tru]

Alright look at them dk changes woooo.... oh wait. At least wars got a lil bit of love

[Sinzaram]

I absolutly hate that they are trying to make the T17 2P work.

For those who didnt see the new beta build, its now provides 5 stacks of Shadow Infusion after a Soul Reaper.

Seems like a great set bonus, specially considering soul reaper is usable from 45% of HP as Unholy.
1 soul reaper tick seems much faster than pooling 5 deathcoils.

[Slant]

Say what you will about Ghostscrawler but he certainly was more willing to speak to the playerbase than Celestalon is.

Speak to the player base? Sure. But he rarely agreed with us. And he told you about it, too. But instead of Cele, who does it in a 140 char tweet, Ghostcrawler droned on for pages about how he's still going to fuck your class up.

The problem is not that Blizzard wants to do the game "their way". I think nobody would have an issue with that. The problem most people have is that Blizzard is ignorant to the class mechanics they themselves implement, have no clue how they play out in a proper raid environment and then make judgement calls based on that lack of knowledge, ignorign the well meant input from theorycrafters and players that know the class better than anyone @Blizzard. Yes, anyone... since they spread out all classes among all devs, there is no specialist that knows half as much about the specific classes as the players of that class do.

Disagreement is fine, ignorant disagreement is what pisses people off.

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I'm SOOOOO glad that they took off Disease bonus damage on our special attacks, we won't be as hindered now when it comes to dealing with adds. Just hate spending runes to put disease up on stuff that dies 5-15 secs vs just using runes to attack them and have my attacks not hit as hard because of the lack of diseases.

Did some more testing and love how when DC MS you shoot off a mini-DC also.

Huh, I'm sure we made sure that putting diseases on is sensible, right?

[Nayami]

Wow havent seen any notes mentioning DKs lately, except the unholy 2p bonus lol

[Rooskie1993]

What is shadow infusion?

[psyquest]

Wow havent seen any notes mentioning DKs lately, except the unholy 2p bonus lol

It seems to indicate that the dev are happy about the state of DKs, otherwise they would have already introduced changes for testing. In all likeliness the 6.0 prepatch will be live in 2 weeks. Any changes might just be some tweaking to numbers followed by knee jerk nerfing :-)

[GhostShaman]

All I know is that I got really excited when I started seeing the spell "Shadow of Death" and low and behold it's something completely different than what it was. = \