With this change, it may see a comeback, though we may need to wait for the PTR to come up to confirm how much it benefits.
Mastery has strictly been a bottom barrel stat for unholy due to the fact it doesn't affect pets at all.
This is significant because it may mean that Gary will finally gain a benefit from Dreadblade, the unholy mastery.
#Unholy death knight Patch
In addition, the gargoyle will do plague damage in patch 5.2, which is a combination of nature and shadow damage. Given the rather low amount of damage it does and the fact it is an uncontrollable pet, which means it may not attack when and where we want, making it a "freebie" seems to be a rather fair way to bring it into equity. The first is that the gargoyle costs no runic power. In fact, the math suggests that if the gargoyle (dubbed Gary by the unholy community) stays how it is, there's a swiftly approaching gear point at which you'll get more DPS from spending the 60 runic power cost on Death Coil instead of the gargoyle.īlizzard is aiming to fix this with two changes on the patch 5.2 PTR. It's one of the only real ways unholy death knights can get an on demand burst of damage that stacks with Heroism and similar haste effects, but its strength hasn't been legendary as of late. Summon Gargoyle has long been a point of contention between the unholy death knight community and Blizzard. There's already some addons being worked on to help calculate this, so if this change makes it live, look for those for sure. This could especially prove true if you have a couple strength trinket procs up and an active strength potion. With Plague Strike now a quick and easy way to apply diseases, death knights may find that it's worth it, in the long run, to sacrifice a Scourge Strike to use Plague Strike and refresh diseases for higher damage. For the duration of the diseases, those modifiers stay the same, determining the exact damage and critical strike chance of each disease tick. When you apply diseases, their damage is determined by taking a snapshot of your current stats, such as attack power. Diseases are a solid chunk of unholy's total damage. One new facet this does bring to the unholy rotation is the advantage of refreshing diseases.
Regarding, Festering Strike will continue to extend diseases, so in single target fights, at least, you'll still be able to use Scourge Strike to your hearts' content most of the time. While Plague Strike certainly does do significantly less damage than Scourge Strike, it's not as much lost as if you had that orphaned rune hanging out there. All you do is apply a Plague Strike when you would normally apply a Scourge Strike. The ability to apply both diseases on one strike with no cool down means that your rotation isn't interrupted at all.
This means that single target fights will become a lot smoother. However, in patch 5.2, Ebon Plaguebringer will allow Plague Strike to apply both Frost Fever and Blood Plague. Applying via the usual Plague Strike/ Icy Touch model leaves orphaned runes that cannot easily be spent on a standard strike that fits into the basic unholy priority system, throwing off the rotation in a pretty jarring manner and making fights with multiple target switches a bit of a pain. Luckily, Blizzard decided to give us the greatest Christmas gift of all: Meaningful balance and mechanics changes to the unholy death knight on the upcoming patch 5.2 PTR.Īpplying diseases when Outbreak is on cool down has been one of the most awkward parts of playing unholy ever since Scourge Strike was switched to a single rune model. Given that I have been talking the past few weeks about unholy's woes and some things Blizzard will probably never give us, I wanted to spend this week talking about some of the good things Blizzard has given us. Let's show the other classes how a hero class gets things done. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Lichborne Unholy death knights get some gifts in patch 52Įvery week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights.
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