Below are forum posts from Blizzard Devs and CMs about changes to the Death Knight class which are planned, but not yet implemented. Only posts from the last two weeks or so are listed. To see older posts and information, see the Official Beta Forums.
| Death Knight | 08/20/2008: [Suggestion] Upgrade Scourge Strike (Part 2) (Source) |
| I am personally not convinced Annihilation is mandatory. If you remove diseases with Obliterate, you can reapply them again with Icy Touch and Plague Strike. The only time it feels really necessary is if you are Frost and want to get two Oblits in a row, or you are in a raid sitation where you can't afford to let Ebon Plague fall off.
At this point, we are leaning towards Scourge Strike as an Obliterate replacer that hits for Shadow damage and doesn't remove diseases. With it, you wouldn't need Annihilation as Unholy so that point is moot. You would still have Plague Strike (and Blood Plague in general) for the hot removal effect. Desecration would be changed to work off Plague Strike, since the compulsion is to open with it anyway. All other talents that currently affect Plague Strike and Scourge Strike would continue to do so. Then we'd add a talent that converts Blood Runes used in Blood Boil to Death Runes. Blood Boil's AE damage feels good for Unholy. It has already been changed to a non-taunt with no cooldown, so it is basically an AE Blood Strike. With this new talent you could do: That one is a little like Frost. But with Epidemic, you could sometimes do: And if you had Corpse Explosion and / or Bone Armor, you could sometimes do: The Unholy Blight idea is interesting too, but we finally got the current version in a place where it feels fun, so we are inclined to keep it there. | |
