Crit modifiers on unholy dk

Classes Death Knight
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whats the point with 5% crit? 10% on diseases? could be better spent on other mechanics for the class

2

There’s also one on clawing shadows…if it crits then the wound I pops hits for 20% more damage

Seems like they are trying to make crit viable for unholy

3

:dracthyr_lulmao:

4

Theres nothing that increases crit chance. at all. except for the 5% on diseases. so with 10% on diseases on 5% on everything else seems low low value. now if a coil crit had the same effect as a clawing crit then that would make more sense

5

Those nodes are not meant to be mechanical by the nature of its design.
This is the stuff you get when people want talent trees with 60 points to spend. Filler.

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Its completely possible for filler to make sense

7

just Blizzard’s way of reminding us the class is balanced by interns between latte runs.

8

Are you saying crit amp doesnt make sense…?
It makes perfect sense to me. Its passive damage. You just want more out of a filler node.

9

again we have 5% crit CHANCE.

10

If you understand how the spec works, then no.

You’re clearly talking out of a hunter brain here, not an Unholy one. Unholy has never scaled well with Crit — our damage comes from uptime, resource generation, and shadow scaling, which is why Haste/Mastery are king. Crit has always been the dead stat. Slapping a crit amp on a few abilities doesn’t suddenly rewrite that. It just puts us in a weird spot where Blizzard’s nudging us toward a stat that fundamentally doesn’t mesh with the spec.

So either:

  1. They’re trying to force Crit into our design without fixing why it’s bad in the first place (maybe hinting at a future rework),
  2. They didn’t have time to do anything deeper and threw in a band-aid, or
  3. They’re just out of touch.
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Again, it is still passive stat gains.

I have played significantly more UH DK than Hunter in the past 2 expansions.
UH DK does not need to scale well with crit for crit amp to still be numerical gains.
It could be as little as 0.01%. It is still gains.

12

Hit a target a dummy. Virulent plague ticks 657 and only crits 67 of those times. You are thinking with a hunter brain clearly

13

Insignificant gains.

:dracthyr_lulmao: :dracthyr_lulmao: :dracthyr_lulmao:

Crit is just undesirable in Unholy. Much like Mastery for Demo. For a reason.

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Congrats on discovering that +0.01% is technically ‘a gain.’ You’ve cracked the same logic that makes stamina on a grey item an upgrade if you’re naked.

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