Did everyone miss the part where we're all allowed to play all three specs now? We don't have to be Frost DKs or Unholy DKs; we can be both and Blood too!
Did everyone miss the part where we're all allowed to play all three specs now? We don't have to be Frost DKs or Unholy DKs; we can be both and Blood too!
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If Unholy isn't allowed to move faster than the rest then please lets talk about the assload of stuns and slows Frost has...
Cause from Day 1 Unholy was about adding haste. Heck they even probably took it from the Haste spell Death Knights used in Warcraft 2, and Unholy Aura in Warcraft 3. Unholy Presence gave haste and move speed. It's about using unholy power to quicken movement with unnatural speed. It could even be argued to make more sense than diseases for unholy, but that's beside the point.
Here's how silly these changes have been: Unholy always had bonus move speed as part of their class flavour, in the form of Unholy Presence. Death's Advance was given to Unholy to stop them from being slowed so much. Then they gave DA to *all* specs as a talent. Then they changed Death's Advance into Wraith Walk for everyone, removed Unholy Presence, and baked it's movement speed into the new Death's Advance for Unholy again, so they retain part of the Unholy Presence that they used to have. Only now they've decided to just take that away too.
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Yeah but you could say that about anything. "Just because druids had shapeshift forms in the past doesn't mean it can't be changed."
They can nerf the class all they want. I've played Unholy since Wrath and nothing will ever make me reroll.
Trust me dude, frosts mobility is the least of the specs concerns. Frost playstyle is pretty garbage and boring while doing terrible damage to top it off. Yes this is only prepatch and things will be different in legion. Instead of trying to balance both specs by nerfing one and doing nothing to the other is bad for dks as a class. Why not just give frost the nessesary buffs to bring it to unholys level instead of just nerfing unholy and bringing it down to frosts level. This just makes us weaker in general. I don't get blizzards logic on this. Their whole balance team has completely missed the point on what balance should be about. Balance should take every class/spec into consideration not just the specs within each class if that makes any sense.
Explain then why Paladins and Warriors are more mobile than Death Knights. Explain to me how Rogues can move faster in Stealth. Does that make any sense? You're sneaking, yet you move faster... The lack of mobility should be compensated by being able to do more DPS, Blizzard even said that themselves. But really, all I've seen is a DPS nerf to Unholy Death Knights.
This shouldn't be based on logic, or class fantasy, lore, whatever; it should be based on fairness, on balance between the classes.
Statix will suffice.
Here is a post where I wish MMO-champ had up votes.
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And if you are an adult that isn't inclined to play a video game for 3+ hours a day?
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Yes, and how many hours will it take to ensure all 3 artifacts are on the same level?
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All of which are almost entirely irrelevant in PVE.
Yup that's probably why he's still stuck in lfr... The bottom line is that frost gameplay is so damn boring that why should a spec that takes half a brain to play reap the most reward? Unholy has and will always be harder to play than frost. Unholy's playstyle was always better than frost as well. The most logical explanation here is since unholy is harder to play than frost, unholy is the more rewarding spec once played to perfection. I have no problems with this, frost to me is more of the beginner dk dps spec and unholy is the spec that all players switch to when they are more experience and want to get the most out of the class in general. I personally mained frost when I started playing my dk only to switch to unholy for mythic progression because it performed better and my raid wouldn't even let me or any other dks play frost. I thought I would've hated unholy but I ended up loving it and I never specc'd back into frost again. I still haven't even tried frost in prepatch and I don't plan on it anytime soon. Unholy is the harder and thus more rewarding spec. unholy is kind of dumbed down in legion compared to other xpacs but it is still way harder than frost.
I believe that the Frost Dk just need some Damage buffs.Maybe the Artifact makes up for that,he is fun to play just need more damage.
Boring/fun is entirely subjective. To me, relying on pets, dots and magic to deal death while you stand in the back with the women and effeminate limp-wristed weaklings is boring. But whatever floats your boat.
As for difficulty, every spec now has a range of complexity depending on talent selection. Chose all passive talents that don't require stack monitoring and every spec is very simple. Chose all of the active maintenance talents and every spec becomes much more intricate. If you go the latter route in Legion, frost is arguably more difficult than unholy. In any case, if frost is so easy, you should be able to pull straight 95+ percentile ranks right?
But regardless, your assertion that difficult specs to master should be rewarded with more damage output is obviously not supported by Blizzard, i.e. see Mage.
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Yeah, I know they don't do the harder class = more rewarding class method when it comes to balance, they definitely should though. Just trying to figure out how blizzards balance team thinks about issues like this, but I doubt they even think about balance between all classes anymore. All they do is nerf certain specs to balance it out with the other spec in the class. They never do class balancing which is why mages and rogues are insanely overpowered while we dks (mainly frost atm) get the shit end of the stick. In terms of your boring/fun statement, to me it's not so much about the abilities/certain theme'd attacks it's more about the gameplay, at first I didn't like that unholy was a pet spec and thought the minions were funny looking, but since the gameplay was great I grew to love it. Unholy always required way more micro managing, disease tracking and resource pooling than frost did. Alot of min/maxing/thought and planning was involved if you wanted to get the most out of Unholy's rotation. I couldn't say the same about frost. Personally I just don't like frost anymore, but will definitely play it if it becomes the more superior spec when raids come out in legion. Whatever it takes to get the most out of my dk is always the number 1 priority.
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Just here to remind you, wait till you get the artifact to a certain level before moaning too much about imbalance, thank you. Current tuning is designed around level 110 and having artifact.
You'll be slower, the world quests take maybe an hour a day, dungeons take maybe another one or 2 or 5 or 6 depending on how many you chain. The main part is the artifact research and that is done via an NPC in your Order Hall and takes a couple of days per one... but doesn't need your input at all other than a couple of button clicks.
But really the amount of time is irrelevant it's an MMO it is designed from the ground up to suck in vast amounts of time, perhaps if you don't have the time to spend you should take up a different style of gaming and stop fucking this one up for those of us who do?
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When I was younger I used to hope bad things wouldn't happen.
Now I just hope they're at least funny when they do.
And those fights where you need to stun or interrupt usually have to happen with particular timing. During a cast or an enrage.
A 5 second lead in for a group stun that burns your best dps cooldown, or a 10% chance on a critical obliterate to stun aren't either not on demand or reliable.
While unholy has 100% chance to happen immediately stuns, via ghoul or asphyxiate, albeit only to a single target.
For slows unholy can spec for a better toolkit than frost. While frost has the better baseline.
Both have chains of ice, and remorseless winter being the only baseline advantage frost has.
Talent wise the only slow frost can gain is white walker while unholy essentially stole frosts old chillblains with destabilising infestation, giving them a ranged spammable aoe slow that refreshes itself for 6 seconds around the main target, so it actually turns into a 9 second slow.
So overall it would seem unholy has better on demand single target stunning capabilities and can exceed frost in the slowing area with frost only having an edge in group stunning by blowing a dps cooldown and combining it with remorseless winter if they can stay within range for 5 seconds.
I hardly classify that as an assload of stuns or slows for frost, especially when comparing the specs.
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