6.2 Death Knight Changes Discussion

[Nangz]

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General
Anti-Magic Shell now absorbs 100% of all magical damage (up from 75%). However, damage absorbed no longer causes Resolve.
Frost
Frost Strike now deals 20% more damage.
Howling Blast now deals 20% more damage.
Obliterate's damage has increased by 20%, but deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets.
Unholy
Necrosis now deals 17% less damage.
Glyphs
Glyph of Ice Runes has been removed.

[Ayrithiavia]

I'm surprised Unholy is getting nerfed o.O

Icy Runes change was expected, but they didn't nerf BoS. Wow.

[Zatheyll]

These frost buffs are very near and dear to my heart. Hopefully it makes it competitive again.

[Nangz]

Unholy is arguably the strongest melee so a nerf wasn't particularly suprising. The hope is that this doesn't shake up our stat weights significantly!

[Deleted]

The usual force you to play the other spec and regear patch DKs get every expansion.

[WskyDK]

The loss of Icy Runes glyph is ridiculous. BoS management was pretty fun to do as Blood

[Deleted]

These frost buffs are very near and dear to my heart. Hopefully it makes it competitive again.

Glass of wine was in order

[Piz813]

finally! I can go back to Frost!!

<3 <3

[WarpKnight]

I hope the increased gear levels from Hellfire Citadel raid make up for the loss of Glyph of Icy Runes for Breath of Sindragosa.

NEED MORE MULTISTRIKE

[Saiyendra]

What is the point of the AMS change?

[Golden Yak]

Frost buffs, woo! Won't be sorry to have those.

[Stiffkittens]

Eh... I'll just ride the magic carpet and play whatever the tell us we should play.

[Blighter]

The loss of Icy Runes glyph is ridiculous. BoS management was pretty fun to do as Blood

Unless there is no multi strike gear next tier we weren't really going to need it that much anyway to achieve good value from the talent. Having Breath at 50% uptime will be more then sufficient to have us pinned as the DPS tank.

Good riddance to the chains of cancer playstyle.

[Zatheyll]

New sims by Skullflower based on the buffs. Said to "be taken with a grain of salt".

[WskyDK]

Unless there is no multi strike gear next tier we weren't really going to need it that much anyway to achieve good value from the talent. Having Breath at 50% uptime will be more then sufficient to have us pinned as the DPS tank.

Good riddance to the chains of cancer playstyle.

Ehhh, I spose you're right

[Deleted]

oh look its the same buff frost get every patch/expansion, how about some mechanic changes instead

[Schizoide]

All good changes.

Frost buffs were incredibly overdue, and should have been hotfixed in. Very happy with the PvP special casing.

Icy Runes glyph should have been hotfix nerfed too.

Surprised they still aren't addressing blood's bonkers RP generation.

[Deleted]

Oh god of the dead, please not frost again. That..damn..spec.

Had to put up with it for way too long before wod. It's somewhat expected, though. Unholy in its current state is a jack of all trades, guess they want to put us in a more cleavy spot with less aoe again.

[Deleted]

if the removal is next patch then I don't see the big deal... By then everyone should have enough multi on their gear to not need the glyph

[zAFierCe]

RIP CoI, but more MS NEXT TIER!