I think in PvP the class is sucking because most the modifiers are bugged. If you follow tooltips it looks like a hard hitting, good class. But when you test it on dummies or players it only does a fraction of the tool tip. That and our heavy hitter Reapers Mark is bugged to explode early half the time. Anyone else notice?
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There’s PvP modifiers on reapers mark, it’s nerfed 40% in pvp and exterminate I believe is nerfed 30%. As for the rest of the dk talents they’re pretty much all nerfed 20-50%. The spec is just gutted in pvp sadly.
The devs like to gut FDK in pvp every season. Its never good. D tier spec every single season and will remain that way until the end of time.
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Frost has some of the most negative pvp modifiers out of any spec in the game, sadly. Cold heart is nerfed by 80% alone, if I’m not mistaken, and 66% on frostwyrm’s fury.
You’re basically an obliterate fishing bot, and even chill streak no longer does the damage it used to.
I had a Tooltip bug going on that fixed itself after the update, all the values shown were not modified but were hitting at the modified value. I was stoked then bummed real quick when I figured it out.
Reepers Mark is still bugged. Can’t really keep up with the other melee classes in PvP with damage and most defenses lean towards anti caster. Just sucks man, really fun class to play.
I swear this is blizzards way of saying “we’ll deal with that later, we dont have time for this spec”
there is absolutely no way this spec was tested in pvp
it is just completely horrible yet one of the funnest to play
I think that’s somewhat of the issue. The fact its so “cool” and fun. When FDK performs at or above average in PvP you see numbers like pre patch where every BG had 4 FDKs. Its a good problem to have cuz it means they made a spec ppl enjoy but it creates this false sense that FDK is super OP when everyone is playing it. Its a psychological thing, the more times you die to a spec you think its OP but in reality its just popular. For some reason hunters and Wars dont get this same treatment and are expected to always be at or above average and have high participation.
For some reason FDK is just one of the specs the community loves to hate. The fact the forums aren’t on fire due to how strong enh has been since launch proves that.
I think it’s because a lot of DK players have given distance to WOW because our specs are just average or flat out terrible right now. Like unholy going against arms or BM hunter is just a slaughterfest for us. Why play to put in 4x the effort to win for the same results a 1400xp player getting 2k because the spec if broken on BM? We’re just sick of it
Death Coil is a runic spending ability, with icy talons active it should be shadowfrost (dark talon), it’s not. It just goes to show they sadly just kind of back burnered this class. Reapers Mark is broken, the main ability added in this expansion.