Frost Strike damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
Obliterate damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 10%.
Glacial Advance damage reduced by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
Few weeks back we got.
Frost
All ability damage reduced by 5%.
Glacial Advance damage reduced by 15%.
Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 15%.
Frost Strike damage increased by 8%.
Obliterate damage increased by 8%.
Breath of Sindragosa damage increased by 12%.
Shattered Frost now deals 60% of the damage to nearby enemies (was 65%).
Enduring Strength now grants 15% Strength (was 20%).
Shattering Blade now causes the next Frost Strike when consuming 5 Razorice stacks to be increased by 115% (was 125%).
Glacial Advanceâs global cooldown is now properly reduced by Haste.
Frostsyctheâs global cooldown is now properly reduced by Haste.
Cryogenic Chamber now has a 30 second duration.
Cryogenic Chamber now resets at the beginning of a raid encounter and Mythic+ dungeon.
Cryogenic Chamber now displays the amount of damage event it stored as stacks.
Icy Death Torrent now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets (was 8). The tooltip will be updated to reflect this change at a later date.
Pillar of Frost is now displayed on the personal resource display.
So let me get this straight. The âbuffsâ we got are now even further reduced this next week. Mean while, Arcane and Fury wars receive ZERO balance tuning. Have yaâll seen arcane or Fury?
But again lets be honest here, weâre in preseason, things die fast as it is, how can this team at Blizz really think a tuning can be evaluated when the season hasnât started.
The nerfs a few weeks back still left us in S tier, they werenât a problem. FDK was genuinely cracked during beta. We still are on live right now.
What has me concerned, is that Frostâs base numbers are getting hit before Deathbringer. DB is dramatically overpreforming for both Blood and Frost, and I donât see a universe where it doesnât get heavily nerfed before the M+ season opens.
The obliterate part of this nerf is odd to me. Our single target is already behind most other classes. They could have nerfed our aoe potential without hurting us more in single target. Iâm also new to DK so maybe Iâm missing something.
i come back to retail because frost dk was finally good again and now they just gonna non stop nerf them back to C tier. if they nerf them one more time after this im just gonna quit again.
Weâre still S tier, but that status is predicated on DB staying the way it is.
Itâs way, way too soon to start throwing around âC tierâ as a legitimate concern. The way FDK mechanically works right now is incredibly advantageous.
oh i know we will still be okay for now but if they keep going with it being constantly nerfed from here on out its demoralizing to want to play the game. i know things need to be tuned in new expansions but if it gets to the point where its every time a new tuning post comes out then its gonna get old real quick
Burden of Power can no longer be double dipped by spell queueing.
Arcane Phoenix damage dealt reduced by 10% for Arcane.
Arcane Soul base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
And the irony of crying about your nerfs but wanting to see other classes get nerfed. Stick to your class and how to make it better instead of throwing others under the bus.
DK discord is saying roughly 2.5% nerf in ST, and 5% in aoe. Not bad at all
Uhhh⌠yes it did
Sunfury
Burden of Power can no longer be double dipped by spell queueing.
Arcane Phoenix damage dealt reduced by 10% for Arcane.
Arcane Soul base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
This has literally happened at the start of every expansion. They have ways to test internally and have access to more data now. There will be another big pass after the WFR.
GA is good if you plan to do 2H over DW. Before beta it was a net positive at 2+ targets and before nerf it was a net positive at 3+ targets and is really good in M+ packs. Now, itâs probably going to look like 4+ target.
That said, itâs really clear theyâre nerfing Arctic Assault and not the ability itself. Something needs to be done about separating the two, Arctic Assault should be a âlesserâ version and GA should be buffed to where it was pre-beta.
Both ability GA and Frostscythe needs some love and Deathbringer needs to get the nerfs and power transferred into FDK base kit.
Anyone not expecting another round of big nerfs before s1 begins is in for a rude awakening.
I will always remember how hard fdk got slapped before SL and the sickening deathstrike nerfs which crippled us. One thing which is confusing me and not consistent with blizzard is most of these nerfs not crossing over to pvp. It normally gets killed in the crossfire. Or they take aim at unholy and kill frost too. Overall though these nerfs havenât worked out as a huge % overall of AoE and single target. Itâll work itself out again once we get full purples.
Yeah Blizzard is just single handedly deciding for me not to play DK this expac. Which is a damn shame, because pre-patch it felt so fluid and nice as Frost, because Iâve been looking for an excuse to drop Unholy because well itâs not that much fun to micromanage 3 to 5 skills on weird cool downs that donât line up well resource hyper vigilance only to be 3rd or 5th on the meters because I couldnât perfectly farm gear drops from M+ because the drops suck, and the vault sucks and itemization was questionable. But hey I farmed the leggo which was a marginal upgrade for DKâs anyway. Just depressing all around. So sick of this nonsense.