Lichborne Deathcoil combo is back!
edit - nvm, tooltip says heal undead ally >.>
well theres alot of good news in there for us, but some of those changes tho
aoe is getting capped for alot of classes n specs
AOE dmg getting capped is lame for Unholy DK, they better buff us to make up for it.
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Itâs getting capped for everyone, not just unholy dk. Outbreak and virulent plague donât have target caps though, so you can still pull large aoe numbers, you just canât boost it with epidemic as much.
they apparently tried to do that in legion but reverted, maybe they will revert again, who knows
some people said its for the CCs and pulls matter more, others norted that not all abilities are capped, like mage, blizzard isnt capped but Frozen Orb is
Confirmed that outbreak/virulent plague donât have target caps judging by the wording. Neither do remorseless or howling blast (it has a damage reduction to multiple targets tho). They also removed the wording from virulent plague tooltip about damage being divided among every afflicted enemy. Itâs now a flat 24% (up from 20%) ap shadow damage.
Caveat: Itâs first build so itâs likely theyâll cap them later.
Edit 2: Doesnât look like epidemic has a target cap either lol. At least not that I saw.
The real reason is the planned console release, whatever excuses they use is just excuses.
I am not a fan of death strikeâs healing minimum being 7% of our health. Even though understandably itâs to counterbalance our new ways to heal.
On a better note Anti Magic Zone is still a beefy 60% and not reverted to 20% like it was in WoD
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Yeah but with Death Pact, Sacrificial Pact and Lichborne leech and maybe death coil self-healing, I donât think itâll be that bad.
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bummer AMZ still pvp side but we all have it so yeah
EXCELLENT.
Certain posters are going to be furious, but I am absolutely loving this change!
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2h frostâŚhmm. Maybe this time theyâll have solved the vast discrepancy between them that existed in the past. Used to be that 2h was really strong at the start of expansions, but DW outscaled it later on because of mastery levels.
Would certainly be nice to swap between UH and Frost without needing 3 weapons. Always hated DW for that reason.
Unholy having a better pet scaling is also nice - currently, pets only scale with mastery during DT, and only the permanent one, but having army and others also scale is a long overdue change. Mastery scaling is pretty much essential for abilities to work well with unholy. No idea why DC healing undead was removed in the first place, so it coming back is also welcome(also a nice out-of-combat RP dump to get runes regenerating.)
Not sure how I feel about AoE capping, especially in the context of unholy, which has had a niche of being the go-to DK AoE spec since late MoP. All depends on how other classes stack up, and how their single target/cleave capabilities compare. With the mastery scaling on all minions, unholyâs ST looks much stronger, so it probably evens out.
The biggest interest to me, however, is AMZ returning for all specs! Hopefully it remains as-is this time, unlike in MoP and WoD where it was only 20% for a miserable 3 seconds, rendering it an irrelevant talent. Itâs a very cool ability that I loved to use pre-MoP, but itâs either been trash or a PvP-only ability since then.
The return of class(note class, not spec) utility is welcome overall, rather than everything that isnât a healer or tanks being a raw throughput machine. DKâs have always been a âselfishâ class though, so I donât expect them to have much, but looking at something like paladins has me kind of unimpressed so far. The concept of auras are back, but the execution is stillâŚmeh. A bit too niche, not really desireable.
What remains to be seen is how M+ and raids play out. One of the things that turned my away from BfA was M+ just not being as fun as they were in Legion. Too finely tuned, very little room for creativity - more frustrating than anything. Raids have been pretty annoying/exhausting in the same way, solving the davinci code through syncrhonized dance with group 1, 2, and 3 having to break out into the YMCA at random intervals it feels like; Classic raiding is so chill.
Also professions; if crafting professions continue to be nothing more than food for disenchanting, then screw it. I wanna be able to make something worth more than its mere value in DE mats, something myself and others would actually want to use. The epic plans for gear crafting suck because theyâre BoP, and by the time you get them, youâll probably have something equal or better from M+ or a raid. The items themselves arenât special - just random rolled generic armor.
Back to the point; the DK class changes look pretty great so far, but itâll take more than that to bring me back.
would dw fs gets km and 2h oblit gets km be to imbalanced?
also they are sticking with blinding sheet and now after the disorient it slows for 50% for 6 sec
Unholy abilities currently donât have target caps, except the Bursting Sores talent. VP and Outbreak and Epidemic are currently not affected. But that might be changed upon people actually being able to test.
Edit: Missed Bursting Sores being capped at 8 targets now.
It says Death Coil heals undead allies because otherwise some players might think it heals undead enemies as well, itâs gotta work on yourself with Lichborne active or thereâd be no point to bringing back either
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i hope cause i still have my lichborn heal macro from 10+ years ago
yikes 10char
I bet theyâre going to make HB do more damage baseline so itâs worth casting in some situations without a proc.
They are going to nerf the aoe part of the damage so I hope they revert it
itâs 300% total still, just separated into two ranks
I canât include a link apparently, but shadowlands wowhead com / death-knight-specialization-abilities#50+20 insert appropriate dots