Dk healing in the ptr

Classes Death Knight
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Since when dk healing is this pathetic? I was trying out my dk on some duels and DS doest heal for crap

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It’s because it heals for 50% now - so instead of a 10% heal, it heals for 5% of our maximum health in PvP. It heals 3% if you are Blood.

It’s an absolute joke. Apparently it was too much beforehand - so they nerfed it. Demon Hunters healing and stuff was fine though.

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Oh, so healers can be imortal gods, locks take no damage while hitting 200k chaos bolts but the 10% max hp healing was too much? Makes sense…

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That just PvP I presume?

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Yep - you can find the changes earlier this year.

  • Unholy, Frost

    • Death Strike now heals for 30% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 40%).
    • Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 10%).

  • Blood

    • Death Strike now heals for 19% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 25%).
    • Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 3.5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 7%).
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So, who was the incompetent dev that got handled by a dk to make that nerf?

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Who knows? At least we have Lichborne now I guess - that heals decently.

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These numbers are ridiculously low. We should be kicking up a storm over this.

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They nerfed DS healing in PvP. This is why blood DK is no longer valid in PvP under most circumstances. BDK already brings little to PvP, now we can’t even survive.

The nerf was honestly uncalled for. Meanwhile havoc DH still 1v3 in arenas.

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I like the class fantasy of wading into combat, but Blizzard keeps nerfing it. It’s like they don’t want my money?? Guess there’s always FFXIV.

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DH was gutted hard. If they are doing 1v3 that other team is trash. Their self healing, defensive’s and meta uptime took a huge nerf. There are only a handful of classes left that actually have pretty decent self healing in PvP come SL.

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I suspect that will somewhat change in Shadowlands.

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It hasnt, all of the stealth pvp nerfs are still in the game.

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I was running around with like an 80% or 90% winrate in BGs when I was farming my BotE in Febuary. Unholy was basically an one man army. Sit in chokes, get Plague rolling and applying on all targets, and spam Death Strike and Clawing Shadows. It was absolutely overtuned. You never had to even touch the enemy melee line to rip them to shreds with Plague, and when you actually engage on the line, you could Death Strike yourself to safety every time.

DK has been really abusive in BGs for the whole expansion. Blizzard can’t just balance for arena.

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Will these DS healing PVP nerfs be in SL too? TBH they should get rid of all of this self healing. 4 of use were beating on a bear in a bg yesterday for 2 minutes.

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Players can handle locks, mages and dhs but not dks, seems plausible

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I don’t see why it wouldn’t be - bears are overtuned - yes, but they need some healing.

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Guys they nerfed it because of a conduit dk’s have that increases minimumhealing done by desthstrike. 1% at rank 1 going up to rank 15.

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that won’t help us for the month and a half of prepatch.

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Shout out for PvP nerfs to Cold Heart, Frostwyrm’s Fury and 150% Crit Damage.

Like Cold Heart has downsides
Frostwyrm’s Fury is… I admit, kinda bonkers but 70% is a bit excessive. There has got to be some other way.

50% healing in Death Strike? Like, this nerf looks malicious as someone really hated DKs as a DH.

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