DK Changes for Oct 8th

[Grandelderx-eitrigg]

@Linxy

Death Knight

• Blood
  • San’layn: Vampiric Strike damage increased by 30%.
  • San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow now deals 20% of the remaining disease damage to the enemy when it extends its duration (was 15%).
  • San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow now deals 130% of the remaining disease damage to the enemy when it consumes it (was 100%).
  • San’layn: Visceral Strength now grants 12% Strength for 12 seconds (was 8% Strength for 8 seconds).
  • San’layn: Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of Death Strike by 6% per stack (was 5%).

@Linxy

Player versus Player Changes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Death Coil damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Virulent Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Frost Fever damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Blood Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Some interesting nerfs

[Näglfär-tichondrius (Näglfär)]

Sanlayn buffs are cool though, wonder when it’ll finally be worth taking.

[Grandelderx-eitrigg]

@Linxy

• Virulent Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Frost Fever damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Blood Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Why didn’t they just nerf the talent superstrain instead of these abilities? That would of made more sense.

[Fatback-andorhal]

It was needed. Unholy damage was too high. They’ll still be more than viable.

[Thebeastile-amanthul]

Unholy only has dots as main damage. Our top two highest damage is frost fever and virulent plague. Unholy doesn’t really have abilities to terminate the opponent.

In arenas we were only useful to peel our enemy to help our second dps get the kill. Now that all our diseases took a huge nerf with coil (highest single target damage), the class is no longer viable. Let alone how bad our tier set is, it’s pretty much completely useless.

[Acheilos-dalaran]

Coil nerf was too much, the others were fine, imo.