Nerfing dk survivability because unholy and frost r not dying, without buffing blood dks. Won’t this lead to unintended nerfs to blood dk? Decreasing our stamina 
Yes, and not for the first time this season, Bdk will be nerfed b/c of our DPS specs. Feels pretty on brand for bliz, they probably forget we existed after nerfing DS way back in beta.
It’s not like its the first time the DK dev is completely out of touch, they gotta chill on the elmers. The number of drive-by cross spec nerfs this expac is pretty saddening.
*Looks like it’s worded to be only frost/unholy. Elmer’s statement still stands
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there is no DK dev, there is a hunter dev who can’t kill DKs in pvp.
From the patch notes, it looks like they are specifically nerfing the talent for Unholy and Frost, but not Blood, so it should not affect Blood. You’ll note that the patch notes for the change don’t list the nerfs as applying to DKs in general, but are instead listed twice, once for Frost and once for Unholy, presumably because they are exclusive to those specs.
(In case you’re not aware, they actually have the ability to make class trees different for different specs. For instance, warriors have a node that changes between Two Handed, Dual Wield, and One-Handed Weapon Specialization based on your spec. I’m assuming this will be a similar change.)
They were initially posted as general nerfs, they have since clarified.
BDK still needs help though, smooth out incoming dmg and buff dmg output. We dont have the group utility the likes of our Prot Pally kings bring, the trade off for their utility and group healing should be bottom end tank dmg realistically.
It would be nice to see some of the lower tanks getting some love to bring them inline with pallies…
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