That’s one of their main design goal.
You’d think a patch like this would be the ideal time to put some power and creativity back into Unholy’s plague/rot identity, after it was completely ignored for 12.0.
Yet here we are with no meaningful changes to disease abilities/talents in the dev notes.
Nothing regarding the dead San’layn tree…
Another patch where Unholy is condemned to existing as half a spec, thanks to the unimaginative design that reduces it to undead bm/demo.
They also flipflopped again on Soul Reaper consuming Putrefy, they really can’t make up their mind on Unholy DK.
Soul Reaper has been updated – No longer consumes charges of Putrefy to cast. Now consumes up to 3 Lesser Ghoul stacks to summon them instantly.
This is fantastic and very welcome change. They had time to cook and delivered big time.
Disease builds were meta for 2 last expansions, are you guys not bored with it? Obviously would be nice to have playable San’layn with disease focus but having fresh summoner identity more fleshed out and complete is a good thing.
Yeah feels like they’re just throwing stuff at the wall.
SR went from spending 1 → 2 → 0 Putrefy charges, which sucks because the double spend was the only time Putrefy felt remotely good as an ability. Otherwise it lacks impact and, again, a baseline disease interaction.
Not at all. Diseases have always been core to UH and its class fantasy. It’s actually a lot more jarring not to have viable disease gameplay.
I think they made a huge mistake in replacing Festering Wounds with Ghoul charges. It should’ve been sometime like Pestilence charges or something like that, which could be spent on either pets or diseases.
Yeah unholy has it real bad. Barely viable.
It does make more sense for it NOT to consume Putrefy though, because if you hit your execute while Dark Transformation is on cooldown then you’re essentially wasting those charges which would otherwise extend the duration of DT.
I don’t disagree with that.
The problem is more with Putrefy itself being a lackluster ability, partly due to the lack of interaction with plagues.
The fact that San’layn and the disease capstone are completely dead right now is proof of the fact that they completely ignored a core aspect of the spec. The fact that Putrefy and ghoul charges skew so hard to the pet side shows the lack of foresight that went into the rework. They literally designed half a spec, despite a ton of feedback on this topic during beta.