PvP Upcoming Class Tuning for DKs

[Krissignacia-eldrethalas (Krissignacia)]

DEATH KNIGHT

• Improved Death Strike is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

• Frost

  • Frost Strike damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.

  • Obliterate damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.

• Unholy

  • Magus of the Dead’s Shadow Bolt damage is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

  • Festering Strike damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
    https://www.wowhead.com/news/upcoming-class-tuning-with-the-weekly-reset-many-pve-and-pvp-changes-377006

[Akitosh-sargeras]

Can I actually believe my eyes? Like is this serious?

[Tsalera-kiljaeden (Tsalera)]

Neat!
This means Improved Death Strike will increase healing by 60% instead of only 30%. End of the day this will increase Death Strike Healing by 23% in PvP.

I also think the festering strike buff is an interesting way to buff our sustained damage without really buffing our spike damage.

[Gripe-thunderlord]

Deathstrike long overdue but glad they’ve done it. Curious as to how hard magus and frost strike are going to hit now top end. Some top players already running commander, could REALLY truck now.

[Veritania-kelthuzad]

Hmmm… Well it’s a start. When I return to the states, I might consider PvPing as a DK.

That’s a huge might.

[Chillpills-stormrage]

For reference, If a Deathstrike was going to heal for 1.1M it will now heal for 1.4M

over 3 deathstrikes thats an extra 900k health

A very strong start at addressing dks pathetic survivability, But probably isnt the sole solution. AMS needs a facelift as well (dont forget how bad it got nerfed, and how its also affected by dampening)

[Lucael-durotan]

@Krissignacia-eldrethalas

• Frost Strike damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
• Obliterate damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.

Won’t do damn thing if you’re fighting an enemy you can’t reach. It’s almost as if the devs don’t understand class designs and think tweaking numbers are a solution to fundamentally flawed mechanics…

[Arbitér-moonrunner]

@Krissignacia-eldrethalas

Improved Death Strike is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Not bad but the armor bug needed fixing more to be honest.

@Krissignacia-eldrethalas

Magus of the Dead’s Shadow Bolt damage is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

interesting if the pets attack who they should be.

[Alwaysnerfed-sargeras]

Well since Magus SB is for w/e double nerfed in pvp and hits for 40k currently these buffs won’t do really anything for it /sadge

[Krissignacia-eldrethalas (Krissignacia)]

Here’s the thread on the general forums if you wanna voice over there

Class Tuning Incoming – May 27

We continue to regularly monitor class balance and make adjustments to specializations that over-and under-perform in group content and in PvP. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following changes. CLASSES EVOKER Augmentation Nerub-ar Palace 2-piece class set increases Upheaval damage by 15% (was 30%) and Eruption damage by 15% per stack (was 30%). Developers’ notes: With recent buffs to Augmentation’s personal damage, this older class set became stronger than …

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