MMO-Champion BlueTracker - New death knight changes

2008-10-03 16:29:16

From http://www.wotlkwiki.info

Blood

* Blade Barrier - Changed to when you have no Blood runes. (Old No runes)
* Heart Strike - Damage increased. (Now Rank 6 60% weapon damage plus 220.8, and an additional 110.4 bonus damage per disease.) (Old Rank 6 50% weapon damage plus 184.0, and an additional 92.0 bonus damage per disease. )
* Dark Command Range increased to 20yds (Old 5yds)

Frost

* Frost Presence - Armor contribution from items increased to 65%. (Old 45%)
* Frost Strike - Now cannot be dodged, blocked, or parried.
* Black Ice - Frost damage doubled (Now 6/12/18/24/30) (Old 3/6/9/12/15)
* Tundra Stalker Passive Icy Touch damage lowered by 25%, expertise increase doubled. (Now 5/10/15/20/25% increase to icy touch damage, and 2/4/6/8/10 expertise) (Old 20/40/60/80/100% increase to icy touch damage, and 1/2/3/4/5 expertise.)
* Rune Strike - Runic Power cost lowered to 10, and damage increased, now only useable after an attack is dodged or parried. Can't be dodged, blocked or parried. (Damage Now - 200% weapon damage plus [200.0 * AP * 10.0 / 10000.0].) (Old 65% weapon damage, and only usable after a critical hit with an ability that causes a disease)

Unholy

* Blood-Caked Blade - Chance to proc doubled. (Now 10/20/30%) (Old 5/10/15%)
* Scourge Strike Damage lowered. (Now Rank 4 60% of weapon damage as Shadow damage plus 190.5, and an additional 95.25 bonus damage per disease.) (Old Rank 4 60% of weapon damage as Shadow damage plus 226.8, and an additional 113.4 bonus damage per disease.)

[ Post edited by Vanden ]

Vanden

2008-10-03 18:03:53

Re: New death knight changes

Here is my standard caveat that if you read notes from other websites, take them with a grain of salt.

* Black Ice - Frost damage doubled (Now 6/12/18/24/30) (Old 3/6/9/12/15)

Black Ice no longer affects Shadow damage. Unholy was continuing to do too much damage, even if you ignore the fact that they get more dps from their Ghoul.

We had to buff Frost's expertise to keep their threat per second up there with Blood and Unholy. Frost doesn't get enough boosts to white damage, even with their haste, to compete with things like Bloody Vengeance and Ebon Plague. Their dps is pretty close when doing dps though. They were just falling down tanking a little. Expertise and Rune Strike should help them make up for it, without changing their dps that much. Unholy has the lowest expertise, but they get enough buffs to damage (especially damage that can't be parried, like Death Coil and diseases) to make up for it.

Ghostcrawler

2008-10-03 20:35:15

Re: New death knight changes

Q u o t e:
DK's may very well be the only class full of people competent enough to take a nerf to the face, pause for a moment, raise their eyes (visual thinking), nod, and say something like, "Yeah that makes sense...hrm. *fiddles with a talent calculator to find the next best build*"

Yeah, I can't tell you how pleasant that is. I'm also sure a lot of it is that DKs have gotten a lot of presents the other classes never got (mounts and blues from quests etc.) and that nobody has a DK with 3 years of /played on it yet. Meet me back here next year and we'll see if it lasts. :)

Yes, we test with and without Ebon Plague and with and without Sunder and other buffs and debuffs too. We test on dummies and Mr. Patchwerk, front and back. And a lot more.

The Black Ice tooltip may very well still be wrong. Sometimes text doesn't get updated at the same time. But the spell effect should be that Black Ice only buffs Frost. Frost got some other buffs and Unholy got some other nerfs too. These might not all be in the build. I am also going off of memory here, so I may be mistaken.

Tundra Stalker buffs Obliterate and Howling Blast. Adds double expertise.
Acclimation buffs Rune Strike (in addition to its normal effects).
Crypt Fever down to 10/20/30%.
And the big one... when you miss, your runes activate in 1 sec instead of 2. This makes misses, dodges and parries a lot less painful.

We are also getting reports of Tundra Stalker not causing extra damage as it should. I can't verify that, but keep it in mind.

Ghostcrawler