I really like most of the Unholy DK changes, but Sudden Doom procs feel awful now. The proc made sense as a free coil and a slight discount just feels like a passive effect, not a proc.
Yes, there was a ton of resource bloat, but I don’t think giving coil a 25% runic power discount is really fun. Turning Sudden Doom into a magus engine is extremely fun, but please Blizzard revisit the way Sudden Doom procs work. Yay 30 RP instead of 40 just doesn’t feel right.
I actually go the other way. Having it still spend RP so I don’t have to consider using a second death coil to avoid RP capping and can go back to maintaining other effects feels nice.
I think the free Crit wound pop for DC and talent interactions make up for the feeling of it not being free for me personally and think this is a fine way to improve resource balance.
Honestly I’d prefer the proc to turn into something else when it does, maybe a free summon for an extra ghoul? Magus? Then with the talent you summon two magus, would be really cool
It does however burst a wound now…and crit. So…it is actually alot better to me.
its the best its felt…it feels so good,like execute in pvp.
At first I was agreeing with you but since I have I have been playing round with it it does not feel bad with the discount of rp. It helps with rp bloat. There are sometimes that I do run out of rp or runes but for the most part this change does not effect how unholy feels.
It feels more restrictive to use but its overall better for the class. I’m not dumping an overabundance of runic power to get rid of it, I’m actually using it conservatively.
Feels stronger than it was too, as it should.
Nah, new Sudden Doom hits like a mac truck. Free crit and a wound pop is fantastic for ST and Cleave, while festermight+bursting sores builds go nuts with Epidemic.
As you mention, the resource overflow for Unholy was insane, and cuts to resources like these are pretty required for Unholy to feel like resource management actually matters. Add in that RP spenders haven’t really hit all that hard since BfA, and I’m pretty content.
Unholy needs a tuning pass, and kinda desperately needs flex points to spend in the spec tree, but new SD feels sick.
Big chance its not staying this way lol it chunks hard.
Well said, I feel the same way. This was one of the major things that could bork your rotation dps wise.