It’s not just parse, it’s also most of the top io DKs are running frost now. I switched to frost and yea it overtook my unholy dmg. It is harder to play than Unholy tho, definitely, and I have an organized m+ group. So I personally do think if ppl have a big prob with frost dmg, they’re not playing it well or they’re suffering from pug tanks doing weird stuff or something.
That being said- Frost def feels bad outside cooldowns, despite overall dmg being very good. Unholy’s dmg profile I think it’s really nice, and I think obliterate should always hit relatively hard.
I think spending runic power in oblit build feels fine to me? It helps recharge runes and is aoe filler. Idk i don’t actually have a huge prob with it, though it’d be great if it felt a little more like Epidemic, where if I’m outside cooldowns but there’s still a lot of mobs, it still does something.
But best improvement that could be made to frost is just taking out/replacing death and decay reliance for cleave. It’s so clunky and flavorless, Pillar should just have cleave built in, or remorseless winter should be reworked to be the cleave mechanic, which would also fix RW’s problem of just being a thing you press when it’s off cooldown. They’re getting rid of mage rune, get rid of dnd for frost too lol.