I think I’ve seen maybe 3 instances of this talent being used in the top logs across every heroic boss in Venomous Abyss and those are (hopefully) mistakes.
Superstrain is such a bad 2T talent that it’s completely unused in a raid full of 2T cleave bosses.
That’s because it doesn’t apply a second Dread Plague, like most people thought it would. It just cleaves DP eruptions and even for that, targets have to be stacked very close together. I don’t know what to think of this design aside from dumb.
This is not only a missed opportunity but a testament to the subpar design of reworked UH.
How about making it actually apply a second Dread Plague so UH can be slightly above trash tier in this raid. Or at the very least, give 2T Death Coil back.
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I miss back in Shadowlands when Superstrain actually gave us frost fever, blood plague and virulent. Made it feel really good to use and fed into the disease spreading fantasy of DeathKnight well.
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That version of Superstrain would be better than the current at least.
However, one of the reasons UH is so bad this tier though is because its damage profile is terrible for the current raid that has a lot of 2T fights. So the irony of not taking the only talent in our tree that’s solely designed for 2T fights is just too palpable.
Hopefully they’ll at least buff UH to the point that our bad damage profile is less detrimental.
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the profile can be fixed with SS & diseases Dmg increase but… main problem is 35-45% of dmg is coming from the new Pet and Tier set … the rest of the buttons are almost meaningless aside from spawning the new lord pet more often.
Agree! please give us the split DC again plz
Lord of the Dead is the only thing keeping the spec remotely alive right now and it’s our only source of viable 2T cleave. 3 options that I can see:
- buff Lords more (more procs or stronger)
- buff ST so hard that it compensates for bad cleave
- give us more sources of 2T cleave (double coil, sudden doom giving necrotic bolt, etc.)
Right now UH is just bad at everything in the raid.
If Blizz just wants to dumpster the spec this tier, at least say so and give us a refund on sparks spent on 2H weapons.
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That’s called Necrotic Coil bud.
I don’t see how 2 x death /necrotic coil is a bad thing. Depending on implementation (if it fired 2 coils regardless) it could also be the kick in the pants that our ST needs.
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There is serious discrimination on unholy dk. BDK get buffed with 2 tars, 3tars cleave dmg. Unholy DK is just bad at everything and our dmg meter bug looks like will be lasting forever.
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Yeah at this point I have to agree with you.
UH’s performance is bottom tier by basically every raid metric. This is almost as bad as the beginning of last season when they nerfed the spec so hard that they had to do a round of emergency buffs to make it playable again.
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They also do not appear to be buffing UnH DK. I haven’t seen anything that would indicate we’re getting a buff/tuning around 9/22. I agree with your comment in the other thread… if we were Ret Paladins… the internet would be on fire right now… and Blizz would be tripping over themselves to fix their mistakes.
The only indication is the schedule that blizz put out so I’m sure some tuning will happen on the 22nd, but whether we’ll get any decent UH changes is anyone’s guess.
I was so sure they were going to buff UH during the last tuning, since it was already showing as garbage tier at that point. Instead they just buffed everyone but UH 
It’s unbelievable that this is the tuning for a spec that’s always bugged and needs you to work twice as hard as most other melee just to keep its plates spinning. Even playing well, you’re doing the damage of other specs’ blue/green parses.
I was doing H Ulatek tonight and the fact that our diseases don’t even spread off ulatek to adds that are literally under him was just the perfect metaphor of how absolutely terrible this spec feels to play right now.
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Yup during ula’tek fight, I need manually apply diseases to the adds.