Yeah, here’s to hoping they nuke Lock/spriest survivability soon as well!
DH being left alone is the funniest part. (oops sorry, 10% hunt nerf…)
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Some DK nerfs were deserved, I won’t try and deny that. But hold crap did they go so heavy handed. 50% here, 30% there.
Meanwhile DH’s who are absurdly OP while being braindead got a single 10% to one ability
I think my favorite part of the Ian interviews was when he talked about how overnerfing and heavy changes can really feel bad for players who invest time into a character. Except DK though… overnerf them back to the graveyard they came from
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Pretty sure dk deserved many of these changes. It was one of the broken tier specs of the demo dh unholy dk trinity.
However dh needs to be nuked and so does lock and rogue.
If other broken tier specs got nuked in PvP like this it would be a interesting season.
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please do, send me off, free me from my torment, save me from myself
send me kaska’s email. i will personally send my ip address to him
blizzard brainlessly nerfed every defensive in our toolkit. can’t wait for death strike to heal for 4% of my health with ms on me. not even worth pressing
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just play with prevoker u never die
Honestly they should do what they did to DK to DH, sub, and fury as well. Sp and Aff can get a slight nerf to healing, but no Non-hybrid melee spec should have any sort of high healing with so much convenience.
The game feels fun when pure DPS classes die and aren’t just insensibly topping themselves off without a healer or staying mega tanky.
Yeah, DK needs to be nerfed because it can tank people who have no gear in BGs.
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My f@#s given are somewhere in the patch notes you’ll have to really dig deep to find them…
Oh wait no they’re not.
This is precisely why i didnt level my DK. I had mained Dk for the better part of wrath launch till shadowlands with lock and ironically DH as my main alts. Dh is so stupid atm that i cant even play it without feeling guilty and lock is going to get a similar treatment…however this pass was waaaay overkill. Physical melee has always been rough for DK and now they are going to roll them over in seconds. Pretty lame.
Meanwhile rogue kit is still mind bogglingly OP and this is what they do lol.
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Been a while since I visited these forums. The bias is still strong lol.
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These changes bring me joy <3
Bias, Flaps? No offense, but are you really this clueless about the scope of this nerf and its consequences for DK as a whole? Not one DK I’ve met thinks that the class didn’t deserve nerfs, because it was admittedly too tanky. But you don’t fix the issue by utterly gutting its main defence against most melee specs, which is what they’re doing.
Death Strike wasn’t the issue. Will of the Necropolis was. And yet along with nerfing WotN they also destroyed Death Strike along with it. If that’s not an overkill, then I don’t know what is.
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And static totem, ring of peace, Earthgrab,
If they’re being fair then every aoe spell should only affect players once.
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I like how Will of the Necropolis literally caused all of our defensives to be gutted.
If they never added that talent to the DK tree we would require minimal tuning. The Death Strike nerf is going to cause ANY melee dps with mortal strike to walk through us with ease.
Thankfully I unsubbed after reading this so I wont be around to feel the pain.
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Dk will still be really good in certain comps no need to give up so easily
i think twd will be the best comp.
it was already doing the degenerate hit and run playstyle where it comes out of pillar every minute to do burst and goes back to hiding
The problem isnt having comps to play with, its getting run over by melee for another expansion.
Dk has no mobility but really good magic defenses, and hardly any physical which leads to polarizing matchups and frustrating games for everyone involved.
These nerfs did not address that at all. If anything nerfing deathstike and will of the necropolis made the gap between magic and physical defense even larger.
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Same happened with ENH they went into extreme a month ago and nerfed all damage done by 25%.
Then they gave us 10% , then 5%.
I think they will re-give some % overtimes , but ya its lame… to nerf it to the ground just like that. Now be the BETA Tester.
My alt has been dk for 2 xpacs now.
I couldnt get through the intro quests when you have to kill 3 proto drakes flying above. I tried for 30 min and couldnt kill one.
So my alt is now a DH lol
*note: my shaman was able to kill 3 of them at once and end with full health (was over geared to start xpac though but still. what a contrast)
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