For the sake of more interesting choices, I think it’s best to add Rune of the Fallen Crusader as a class passive that is baseline.
With that we can see some interesting choices for our rune enchants. (and hopefully more additions).
Blood will probably use Stoneskin Gargoyle or Sanguination
Frost will probably use Razorice for 2-hander or Razorice + Hysteria (or maybe double razorice for non BoS builds)
Unholy will probably use Apocalypse.
They added razorice as a passive with the talent avalanche this expan.
If they would do this then devs would need to buff the other less used Runes so much. Apocalypse for example would need buffs/debuffs get buffed so much higher then what they are and make it so every undead we summon can give off the effects.
there’s no point to this, the problem is that the other runes suck. we’d take the same enchantments everyone else does most of the time instead which wouldn’t fix the issue.
Its flawed design to have passive razorice over passive FC
For 2 reasons
1 it doesnt benefit the entireity of frosts toolkit to use talents like shattering blade
and 2 because death knight isnt just frost dk, its unholy and blood as well, And they have the same issue of neglecting the runeforge that seems directly made for their spec, To pickup fallen crusader a flat % strength buff universally BiS on all 3 specs
If the passive was FC, And for example frost could use 2h in pvp, and still play shattering blade because our main runeforge would be razorice, we could utilize the whole kit now without losing the necessary FC
Talents like avalanche never needed to apply razorice, A universal death knight change should just be FC made basekit
Then since stuff like rune of apocalypse are kinda bad, could buff them a little bit, I mean rune of sang is really good for blood dk too aside from stoneskin
No. Just no. No.
As others have said it wouldn’t be the best solution to the problem. One of they key reasons is the other Runes are inferior and either don’t scale any near as well or are far to niche to be a choice that DK’s would take over Crusader if it wasn’t available.
In essence without Crusader you’re more likely to see DK’s just ignoring all the other Runesforges completely and running Weapon Enchants like everyone else. Why? they actually scale much better and are more efficient than any of the Runeforges except Crusader.
They could maybe do something like allow Blood, UH 2-hand Frost put TWO Runeforges on their 2-handers, and then make it so DW Frost which already has two but they then change the mainhand with combined offhand proc to trigger around the same average amount as what is happening with 2-Handers. However, you might give the DW ones the ability to randomly give a double proc which a 2-hander wouldn’t be able to do. Not gonna say it would or wouldn’t work but it’s another alternative.
So even you admit it wouldnt change much in the idea of making it interesting as people will just move over to the next most powerful on the list, not to interesting in the end.
As soon as that’s done - everyone will just default to another.
Welcome to meta gaming culture
I mean, a lot of the alternatives are just outright bad with little upside. It’s not really an interesting decision if there’s a clear cut winner.
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a bit and think I finally found an answer to this.
The passive Rune of the Fallen Crusader would only be active if you have an active runeforge on your current weapon. That way there DK’s wouldn’t be forced by meta to use a non runeforged enchant (such as Sophic Devotion).
the other ones are more spec oriented and interesting would be really nice to be able to do that
if it turns into a baseline passive, it’ll get nerfed and wont do anything worth noting. The only real option is to buff all the other runeforges.
This idea is neither interesting nor beneficial. There are so many other glaring issues with dk that need resolution first.