DK 11.1.5 Wishlist

In Development The War Within Patch 11.1.5 PTR
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Unholy

  • Festering Scythe (thematically great) replaces Festering Strike (un-impactful and boring)
  • Remove Festering Wounds (dilutes damage profile) mechanic and replace with following:
  • Festering Scythe - Causes your disease damage to occur 100% more quickly for X sec
  • Scourge Strike - An unholy strike that deals X Physical damage and X Shadow damage. If Scourge Strike hits a target with that is affected by Festering Scythe, there is a X% chance to summon a Ghoul
  • Remove All Will Serve line and add in talents that modifies Festering Scythe and Scourge Strike
  • Example talents: Festering Scythe drops D&D; Free Festering Scythe based on X; Scourge Strike randomly summons Magus of the Dead or Exploding Zombies; Scourge Strike has a 100% chance to summon a Ghoul
  • Merge Apocalypse with Army of the Dead

Frost

  • Obliterate deals half Frost damage by default
  • Killing Machines makes Obliterate full Frost damage, and no longer guarantees Crit (been suggested numerous times by many)
  • Re-tune all abilities accordingly
  • Cleaving Strikes removed for Frost
  • Frost Scythe tuned for AoE instead of Cleaving Strikes (been suggested numerous times by many)
  • 20s - 30s CD Breath of Sindragosa-lite choice node (possibly with CD reset talents)
  • Razorice reduces or staggers healing in PvP
  • Re-tune PvP modifiers
  • Glacial Advance animation: Spikes angle towards the target and scale larger as they traverse
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NO to “Cleaving Strikes removed for Frost”

Frost DK is, above all esle, a DEATH KNIGHT, not a FROST Knight

Death and Decay is one of the most iconic abilities of a DEATH Knight, and I wish it to remain in the FDK rotation

I wish people would stop wanting to dilute the class fantasy and stop wishing to make FDK go all burst easy and boring

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I’ve said this before D&D works great for blood. Remorseless winter should replace D&D for frost and handle cleaving strikes. I said the same for unholy blight for UH but since it’s attached to the pet now maybe unrestored and redesign swarming mists. To be clear a shorter cd that moves with the dps specs should have cleaving strikes attached to it imo. If the cleaving ability moves with the dps s it’s less punishing in multiple scenarios.

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Nah. It should stay, but be activated by Remorseless Winter imo

I hate death and decay in my fdk rotation so much, as do most people.

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Without a raid buff, dps dk doesn’t belong in the current PvE meta.
None of these changes will matter unless we get a raid buff

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I just want WotN to be buffed for blood. I think it’s a great knob to turn to deal with the scaling problem for high keys.