Everyone is on about frost. Does anyone play unholy? Anything bad about it?
Unholy is doing fine. Frost is currently doing better.
You could play unholy and still do well regardless.
Unholy and Frost are pretty even in raid atm, court is definitely in frost’s ballpark though.
Lots of fotm’ers on frost currently, I wouldn’t let that sway opinions. You can play either spec without much worry.
Strictly speaking Frost (specifically DW Breath) beats Unholy in M+ and I think in most of the current raid tier. Unholy pulls ahead in sustained mass AOE though thanks to Epidemic not having a damage cap and exponentially scaling.
It’s not so wide a gap that you should let it dictate your chosen spec though. This is just an anecdote, but I have been just fine in DPS as Unholy in keys and in raid. Frost has stronger burst and 2-3 target cleave but Unholy is stickier, movement affects Unholy much less so it’s easier to keep uptime on bosses.
I do, and it’s awesome.
The CE players and meta slaves will always gravitate to the highest performer, which is frost atm.
Nothing wrong with UH at all really, frost is just a bit better atm (still won’t stop me from playing my fave spec)
I enjoy Frost’s cadence more in general at the moment playing Rider Obliteration. I don’t raid Mythic or do world first keys, so it doesn’t really matter what I play and I’m playing what I enjoy at the moment.
As someone who has been maining Frost since Legion, I am playing Unholy in War Within myself. I feel they got a lot of the warts out of it and it feels good to play.
Plus there’s just something fun about popping all your cooldowns with Rider of Apocalypse and throwing an army at your enemy.
I’d say if played right unholy puts up just as good numbers as frost but it is a bit more difficult to play. They’re really equal atm imo, just a lot of fotm players playing frost now so
I’ve played DK for a while. Frost is doing top tier which is why a lot of fotm players, and dk players alike are liking it. Unholy got nice button reduction, though their burst still consists of 4-5 buttons. better then the 6-7 they had but still.
One of the big reasons though to consider is stats. Since both Frost and Blood’s Deathbringer hero tree is doing so well, they share very simular stats allowing you to flex both Frost and Blood with little gear shifting. Unholy is still very Haste/Mastery heavy while the other 2 specs have been favoring Crit/Mastery which just kinda leaves unholy on a bit of a sideline for multi-spec players like myself.
In PvP Unholy reigns king though I know still.
One thing to add. Deathbringer is getting some killer changes on the ptr which will be out with the anniversary patch.
They are extremely fun and make frost even crazier imo.