Was there ever a time when unholy would weave Death Coil and Scourge Strike? Like death coil would directly buff the damage of your next scourge strike. I feel like I remember playing like that sometime around Blackrock Foundry but I can’t remember. (Just remembering hold old dk used to play because wounds blow).
I quit for 22 months during WoD, which in hindsight was much better than DF.
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I quit most of WoD. Came back during dragon flight. Dragon flight was much better than WoD.
I remember Necrotic Plague was a thing in Blackrock Foundary. And a powerful one after the 90% damage nerf during its beta.
You do use Scourge Strike for Unholy Rune, Death Coil for Runic Power and Festering Strike for both Blood & Frost (even both in Death Runes) for a Plague that lasts absurd amount of time.
Trashcan take.
Why cant anyone actually answer the question asked by the OP?
In cata, the answer is no. Unless there was some tier set that did it, it wasnt in the spec. Scourge Strike was amped by diseases at that time along with mastery and it did quite a lot of damage. It could have came in later expansions, but I dont remember anything that had death coil amping scourge strike while it scaled with diseases and mastery. People are already close to 30% of overall damage coming from scourge strike in cata classic.
Okay. Cry more I guess?
You 3 need to stop derailing the thread. The question was if DC amped the damage of Scourge Strike. Not if an expansion was good or bad, not about necrotic plague, but if death coil amped scourge strike.
The question was answered. By a couple people. Yourself being one. But hey. Thanks for white knighting the whole scenario and replying to me instead of the one that was actually derailing the thread. The world will turn better, and everyone can sleep soundly now that you are heee.
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The question wasn’t answered. Saying “I didn’t play during WoD” isn’t an answer. Talking about Necrotic Plague also isn’t answering the question that was asked.
The question was very specific, quote who else answered the OPs question if Death Coil and Scourge Strike was weaved in that Death Coil increased the damage of Scourge Strike.
I read the whole thread and not a single person answered it. You and Outbreak were having a pissing match and Locutus was off talking about his obsessive compulsion to talk about Necrotic Plague whenever Unholy is brought up.
Not a single one of you actually answered the question.
I’m sorry that your super thin skin was ruffled by my opinion.
Edit: It looks like you have never even played this game, no idea why you are talking about it.
Hey, shut it with your dumb little hate match. No one gives a damn, either talk about the thread or leave.
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I don’t believe there was anything that directly buffed the damage from one into the other (unless there is a set bonus I’m forgetting). However I do remember running blood tap, and having it provide a guaranteed rune after using a certain number of death coils. This means that it was possible that if you were out of runes but had some existing blood tap charges (but not enough for a rune) you could death coil, blood tap, scourge strike back to back with no cooldowns.
Because there was no RNG getting in the way, no delayed rune recovery with runic corruption, and our GCD was previously 1.0 instead of 1.5 it was much smoother and more reliable to play. I miss old dk because you could actually learn these complex resource states and dish out a long form combos off of them instead of the modern “whack a mole” setup.
off and on here and there, its a playstyle that comes up from time to time but hasn’t really been constant, same situation as standing in DND for ST damage. currently you can keep runic corruption procs a bit more consistent and prevent overlaps by weaving, but its not always the best gameplay in the moment.
There was an artifact trait on Legion. Scourge of World or something like that.
I still played it in HFC and got all my CMs with it. Necrotic Plague was peak Unholy design and gameplay. Removing it for wounds in Legion was a tragedy and I will never forgive whatever dev was responsible for it.
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I have ideas of how we can make Necrotic Plague work… alongside with a minion-based augments I would call Necrotic Progeny.
Would it happen? No. But is it fun to think about? Hell yeah!
It wasn’t WoD. I even reviewed mmo-champion /threads/1650523-Unholy-DK-Warlords-of-Draenor-Guide
Nothing about Death Coil buffing anything except Dark Transformation.