I’m a huge Warcraft fan. Demon Hunters are not undead. They have historically utilized high defense, mana burn, and aoe damage. Vampiric Aura was an amazing undead ability in Warcraft history. Why don’t DK’s get all of the leech?
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Probably a similar reason why they got rid of Metamorphosis from Demonology Warlocks. :^)
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Blood DKs, don’t they have litteral leeches?
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Same reason Warlocks have it, being part Demon/being so heavily infused with Fel allows one to siphon life energy/souls from other living things.
If you’ve watched the Warcraft movie there’s several scenes where they explain how Fel energy leeches the life from it’s surroundings and several quests in-game explain this as well.
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Well for DKs it’s called Death Strike. Arguably better depending on the circumstance.
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That was actually a dread lord thing. While they were part of the undead faction in WC3 its clear they are not actually undead themselves in Warcraft but classified as demons. Hence demon hunters getting the leech, which I might point out is from a talent not baseline.
Although I guess shadowlands changed that whole stuff about them being part of Burning Legion so dunno if we still classify them as demons
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Because they already have a melee attack that heals them?
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Dreadlords classify as Demons, Fel has the odd property of mutating former mortals into Demons when absorbed in the correct fashion, therefore Dreadlord Nathrezim specifically are Demons, someone like Lothraxion or Malganis however is not considered a Demon because they are not Fel tainted.
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DH have leech because it fits thematically when they are leeching content off their better party members, especially those skilled enough to select Goblin as their race
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DKs have been demoted to enh shaman status in the devs eyes. We don’t get nice things.
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I feel attacked.
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I’ve played DH since it came out, and to be 100% honest, I don’t understand it either XD
Considering how WoW puts gameplay first and everything else second, I think they wanted a leather class that was straight forward, no steal, and clearly needed to be able to take hits, but they didn’t want it to be a monk 2.
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That means you’ve been promoted to actually getting changes and dev attention though. You should rejoice!
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- Death strike - massive spammable self heal
- Blood plague - drains health from all targets to heal DK
- Voracious (talent) - grants leech after death strikes, which means you basically have permanent 15% leech
- Blood worms (talent) - alternative to Voracious, are actual blood leeches
- Swarming Mists (Venthyr) - with the free cov lego in 9.2, this will provide massive aoe life steal to Venthyr BDK
DK has a lot of leech.
Leech is a feature available to many classes easily, including rogue, hunter and DH. Should they not have it?
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I agree, nerf DH.
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They use Fel. And in the lore, Fel leeches life. So it makes perfect sense.
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its funny watching my health bar jump back up to 100% while pummelling everything in site, lol
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Hahahaha /10
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DKs should have a proper magic immunity like rogues as well. Them not having one makes absolutely no sense. But like Rensi said:
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Blood dks literally steal hp from enemies.
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