Makes sense. Thanks.
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One other question in regards to trinkets. My DK is just my main alt for the time being and as such I'm only going for LFR gear, but I do have Fabled Feather of Ji-Kun (LFR). Is Brutal Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault better than Primordius' Talisman of Rage (LFR)? If neither are the best options, which trinket should I aim for?
Based on simcraft profiles from EJ, this is a 2.40% total single-target buff to Festerblight and a 2.47% buff to normal unholy. So unless Festerblight is only 0.07% better than Unholy (it's much more than that) or they changed something else like setting diseases to recalculate every tick, Festerblight remains on top.
Unholy (with festerblight) is the top spec in the entire game right now; it does not need/deserve buffs. I suspect there are more changes to come.
At the festerblight changes, first remember to keep calm and don't panic. It's on the PTR only, and just like tri-spec, there is a decent chance it will never make it to live servers. There is also a decent chance there are more changes to come. More info to come.
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Theres no way they intended to buff FB. I would expect nerfs.
since they're not touching disease damage, i believe their intent is more to switch UH to be a "re-apply strong DoTs, and use SS with death runes" instead of "Roll super dots throughout whole fight"
this seems to be a buff on any fight where we can't do a full festerblight rotation, and it makes not getting all your procs lined up at the start less punishing.
To be honest this isn't really a nerf at all. Most DKs are already weaving a large number of Scourge Strikes on trinket procs/synapse springs.
Going from my Durumu kill last night
520 ilevel
517 Shinka
502 Feather
6.6% Festering Strike - 5,492,992
5.1% Scourge Strike Physical - 4,307,143
3.9% Scourge Strike Shadow - 3,281,178
Totals Before Changes
Festering Strike - 5,492,992 Damage
Scourge Strike - 7,588,321 Damage
Total - 13,081,313 Damage
What the numbers would look roughly look like after changes
Festering Strike - 4,882,660 Damage
Scourge Strike - 9,257,752 Damage
Total = 14,140,411 Damage
One other question in regards to trinkets. My DK is just my main alt for the time being and as such I'm only going for LFR gear, but I do have Fabled Feather of Ji-Kun (LFR). Is Brutal Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault better than Primordius' Talisman of Rage (LFR)? If neither are the best options, which trinket should I aim for?
With these changes, they didn't intend to kill FB but to emphasize that Unholy should be a spec where you roll high-AP diseases and spend Death runes on SS.
Now, there will simply be a bigger gap between DKs who overuse FeS and those who actually play the spec properly: use SS upon trinket procs.
I have a couple of questions. My ilvl is 504 and im curious as to whether i should be using the realism stat weights Mendenbarr provided. Secondly, I got Gaze of the Twins(LFR) the other day. Should i use that over 496 Darkmist Vortex?
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I wouldn't get too excited.
Unholy is arguably the strongest non-cloth DPS spec in the game, and that should set off warning bells. Only cloth-wearing, weakling nancy boy specs are allowed to be outliers for long, and it seems very suspicious that Blizzard would buff a spec that is already well above average.
Im pretty sure those changes will be coupled with a disease nerf in a future build. In total this would accomplish less pvp dmg (where our dmg is op atm), less aoe (too strong aswell), but same single target dmg...
Well these are only tooltip changes so they will probably be changing something internally with diseases that justifies this buff.
That's what I thought too, until this tweet.
Worst case scenario, 5.3 goes live with Unholy being buffed, leading to a quick brutal hotfix nerf.
I was wandering what Festerblight was, then i came here. Are you telling me this is something new? I thought this is how unholy was supposed to be played. Jack up your disease from trinkets and such and keep them from falling off. How else do you play unholy?
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