DK is unplayable (~14% nerf)

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Wait it’s not Wednesday yet? Guess I’m a few days early

Friendly reminder that nerfing a class by ~14% (!!!) will make it unplayable.
Dk will be on an enhancement level with these nerfs, getting S1 flashbacks already

Why does DK get a huge nerf while every other class remains the same (or gets buffed like destro or warr) ?

maths:

Assuming a dk did 10 Million damage in an arena game which consists of:

  • 40% Necrotic Strike absorb (4.000.000)
  • 10% Abomination Damage (1.000.000)
  • 50% other attacks (5.000.000)

Then 50% of the DK’s total damage is affected by the nerfs.

Necrotic strike gets a nerf from 7% to 5%, meaning a 28.6% (rounded) reduction in damage (healing absorb).
This means that Necrotic strike damage (healing absorb) will go down from 4.000.000 to 2.856.000

Abomination gets a 51% reduction in damage, since it does both 30% less damage and has 30% less attack speed.

This means that Abominations damage would go down from 1.000.000 to 490.000 in the same period of time.

This means that DK’s new damage will be 8.346.000, which is 16.54% lower than the damage it used to have

Now, DKs damage will consist of

  • 2.856.000 Necrotic strike healing absorb
  • 490.000 Abomination damage
  • 5.000.000 other attacks

Assuming that every attack (besides healing absorb) gets buffed by 5%, the damage would change to

  • 2.856.000 Necrotic strike healing absorb
  • 514.500 Abomination damage (5% increase)
  • 5.250.000 other attacks (5% increase)

Which leaves us at a total of 8.620.500, which is a 13.8 % (rounded) damage reduction

(these numbers are generous because DK also loses burst potential and a few necrotic strikes per match since abomination applies less wounds with less attack speed, therefore the actual number would be closer to 14%, but I didn’t want to make it too complicated)

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What’s the problem?

This is BFA not meant for gameplay or viability.

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Bahaha what? Dk will be fine.

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Unholy is overtuned by 15% so sounds good

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They aren’t like locks who can “W” key at their kill target anymore.

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I thought the meta was supposed to develop organically?

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Atleast it’s not as bad as MDI rofl

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damn youre still crying? imagine not being able to get glad pre nerf. back to 1200 it is

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idk i still foresee a dk melee cleave w keying at me with a couple of s keys thrown in there and still making my life harder then it should be, along with rmpal but that is another story.

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good let it die forever and buff frost instead

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Thats why it kinda shocks me we have not seen more rdruid nerfs they’re soooo dominant in mdi.

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Frost is even more braindead and even more toxic for arena when it’s good.

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this drae guy plays on a controller

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No
10 chars

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There must always be a Battlezone.

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Battlezone thinks MM is OP probably…

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just ignore this guys still crying about how “bad” dk will be sjhshdhdj

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drae whats ur dks name?

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I feel like this is a kid from EU like cutiepie the level 10 monk, so probably a nobody. just posting on NA arena forums because more active then EU.

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https ://check-pvp.fr/us/Maelstrom/Drae

yw

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