during wotlk classic: my dk was in a hc dungeon with 3 other dks and one priest, the tank died and INSTANT all 3 of us dd-dks turned on the frost presences to take the aggro, sychroniest 3 blue skulls appeared over the dks heads, it looked awesome in that moment

Anyone childhood memory lvling your low lvl character being shocked and in awe of the enemy player dk in the world on their amazing dk horse or haunting bone shield? The class fantasy, though it was subtle it was at least eminent....

a few things, Necrotic Plague actually had interesting implications for Unholy, as Festering Strike would increase disease durations back then, which meant you would keep extending Necrotic Plagues duration to align with Unholy Blight's cooldown, at which point you would reset it. The best thing about Icy Touch that just wasn't mentioned was that for a while we had a Glyph that allowed Icy Touch to dispell a magic buff off of enemies, giving us a Purge. Also, current DK doesn't even *have* Icy Touch anymore, and Frost Fever does not have the slow effect anymore either. Lastly, how did Shadow of Death not get mentioned? The Unholy talent where you would come back as a ghoul yourself for 30 or so seconds after dying? That shit was insane, and really cool.

A little correction: Unholy Death Knights could actually "refresh" Necrotic Plague with Festering Strike, extending it's duration, which could be potentially infinite as a result.

I remember back in mop DKs had something called like "Desecrated Ground" which removed all ccs on them and made them immune to cc while they were standing on it.. So in pvp it was like they had 4 trinkets: the regular trinket, iceborne fortitude(for stuns), lichborne(for fears), and desecrated ground

Number 1 is removing my blood dps spec. I'll forever miss you

The abilities I miss the most was the ability to raise as a temporary ghoul on death. It was excellent in pvp if you were killed and saw one or two low hp enemies nearby, you could get a couple killing blows after dying. Then there was also a glyph if I'm not mistaken that added an aoe fear effect to your death and decay. That was OP when fighting around flags or choke points in BGs.

I remember having quite a bit of fun with Dark Simulacrum when it was a thing. Good times.

The DK presences were changed in cata so that blood pres was the tank one and frost gave bonus damage. And later frost was changed to reduce the cost of frost strike instead of the damage bonus and increase your runic power generation. The ones you showed here were only the wrath versions.

Hungering Cold was always my favourite ability. You send out a wave of ice and it freezes everything in a block of ice around you. It was so thematic and so cool. It's too bad they did away with it for seemingly no reason.

Necrotic Plague was such a defining ability, and what we got in Legion instead was an incredibly boring rework of the Unholy spec.

I miss old blood DK, so unkillable it was funny

Haven’t watched but already liked. This one is mine!

nice video hiru. , i wanted to mention one talent that was useless to spent point on, but I did spend and called Acclimation . it did came handy in some instances.

Nice video, last time i was running some old content and see a bunch of characters in old hillsbrad that become iconic so i was wondering if that makes a interesting video for you, love your content

Back in Wrath raiding days in ICC my friend died on the other ship on the loot ship boss. I raised him with my DK spell as the ghoul and he managed to stay stay alive across a couple of phases of us jumping back and forth from ship to ship . while in the ghoul form some how he managed to hide while we were on our ship and came out and helped us fight when we jumped over a cpl of times . he did die when their ship went down but it was a lot of fun

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I miss running my Unholy DK. Everyone i knew either ran Blood or Frost, so i chose to run Unholy because i wanted to be the oddball plus green is my favorite color. Fell in love with the playstyle of unholy.

Death Siphon was absolutely fucking broken for low lvl players in mop and was buffed in WoD to be basically mandatory for all DKs at max lvl in both pvp and pve. I still remember and miss it well. As long as you had runes to spend on it, you were literally unkillable, it was just that good. I had an 80 twink UH DK in mop and every press of Death sip would full heal me and it was my main way to deal damage, at 80. In WoD I still remember taking on the whole enemy team in BFG BG at the WW base, by my self. My whole team went mines to take their starter base, I went WW alone and fought against the whole horde team, and because of death sip (and the fact I was fully geared) literally won and took WW. I couldn't have done it without death sip, the super OP 40 yard range attack that also healed for loads, (as well as Dark Succor passive, which makes Death Strike free and heal for 20% of your max HP ONTOP of it's normal heal after getting a killing blow) No, I was not blood spec, I was 2 hand frost. I was also using necro plague talent which you also mentioned on this list. Damn I miss WoD's class design so much.

I liked the video just because raise ally was #1. Truly such novel fun. I used to duel people and have them die to fall damage in durotar so I could bring them back and vice versa. Those were the good days.

I remember in Cataclysm arena, the only way to burst as a DK was corpse explosion on the Ghoul + recent Shadowmourne balancing left the class quite burst-starved. I kind of miss the Icy Touch visual and sound. Very early during alpha, they also had an ability that would convert HoTs into DoTs.

Corpse Explosion being usable on allied corpses as well was both an insult and kind of cool as a non-DK lmao. Like, I was mad bc my corpse was desecrated, but on the other hand, at least if I died during an encounter I was still technically doing damage in an indirect way? It's just a really cool ability for class fantasy and it's a shame it's no longer ingame

They need to bring back presences. A movement speed presence like unholy was would be so great for soloing old content and maybe pvp.

You should do warlock abilities. Mana drain, metamorphosis, tanking, the demon shell (?) where it absorbed 25% of your go on a 30 second CD was nuts. The glyph to make cookies restore health over time. I was unstoppable in bgs lol.

This is not an ability, but a feature of the ghoul. I've been playing for DK since they appeared and I remember that at the very beginning the ghouls said phrases! I don’t know how it was in other language versions, but in my (Russian) the ghoul said the merchant’s phrases, supposedly he likes to trade and “shiny things.” It was cute and funny. And then they just started screaming.

That Death and Decay Glyph during early wrath that would fear enemies who stood in it and it was crazy CC in PVP and people hated it with a passion lol

I swore thar necrotic strike was gonna be on the list

earlier this year i started maining unholy death knight and i gotta say i really enjoy it and im excited for the cool new stuff in tww like rider of the apocalypse

Original raise ally is neat, but much more fun was the original unholy captstone talent (not sure the name), it was like raise ally but for yourself. When you died you became a ghoul like that. And like mentioned for raise ally, it worked in arena... That raise ally is probably gone for good now since they made it an actual brez, but I dont think it was inherently unbalanced or anything it was straight up just worse than a brez besides ghoul corpse explosion being really strong. That would be really cool for them to bring back --hero talents would have been a great opportunity-- but ofc it couldnt work in arena

Corpse explosion was fun to use when coming across dead players of either faction. Especially satisfying if the dead player had annoyed you previously.

necrotic plague how I miss you...also it did insane dmg if you were unholy and prolonged it with festering strike even in single target fight

i miss frost being tank spec and blood as dps

We need that original bone shield again looks dope to be surrounded and good for defence on unholy and frost

Top 10 most reworked / changed abilities

I loved the auras and presences. I thought it was a great stance dance mechanic.

turning friends into ghouls is best. I still want a glyph that does that instead of the "seethrough" ghostly appearance

Necrotic plague could be extended with festering strike. It was used in the unholy dk plague build

Necrotic strike was so fun paired with soul reaper. Warriors with second wind didnt stand a chance

How'd you miss the original Death and Decay? Had that "cower" effect that made it an aoe stun.

After playing dk for so long, i really dont miss any of this spells. the only thing what i really miss and this was so fucking op and great to play was season 3 set on shadowlands

I knew I wasn't tripping, when I told my friends that old raise ally was raising ghouls xd Cuz I remember I was playing wow in the "internet-caffe" when wotlk was released and jumped into playing dks as 1 of world firsts.. and I remember raising my friend in plague lands and we both rolling on the floor cuz of how goofy it was, when he was running around and then suddenly collapsed xd Also there was a blood worm ability, blood dk tree that allowed summoning blood worms that healed you per hit.. pretty sure it's not a thing anymore xd

I still miss the self revival as ghoul to this day. So sad.

Please make top 10 best /popular healers in WoW

Top 10 Long Buffs on World Of Warcraft, such as stances, presecenses, rogue venoms and others

Necrotic plague definitely didn’t suck. It was amazing in PvP, especially large scale PvP in Ashran etc.

DKs in Wrath were just so fun.

death siphon was such a brilliant ability ☠️🤍

I dont remember the name of the strike, but it build a heal absorb debuff on the enemy. Was pretty fun for pvp in cata.

I wish NP would come back in a better form that still spreads. It really adds flavor to DKs. I hate how Aff Warlocks function mechanically like how an unholy DK should.

All specs of DK used to get Army of the Dead but they made that Unholy only... not sure when or why but I can see why that didn't make the list. It wasn't hard removed like the ones mentioned. I may be wrong but I feel like they may of removed one or so of our runes from the runeforging window but I got no clue how to check that

very sad no desecrated ground or necrotic strike but good ass video none the less

Icy touch used to dispel ennemies at some point

I thought i saw unholy aura passive few weeks agot from the latest talent tree

Dark simulacrum. You "steal" the next cast from the opponent. Usable on some dungeon and raid mobs.

Necrotic plague was so awesome in Asharam ans pvp.

I miss the unholy aura and the spec presences

"back in my day..." blood was single target tank/dps/off-tank/pvp dps/tank, frost was aoe tank/off-tank/dps/pvp tank/dps, unholy was solo dps/dps/pvp dps

Cata DK is miles more fun to play than retal. 1) Snapshotting adds depth; 2) Lack of resources is much more fun 3) More choices to make. Almost no meaningful choices in Retail. (played DK since Wrath, myth raider) And I will argue. Necrotic plague actually was much stronger than defile and breath back then (For Unholy and it was stronger than Frost). For example Breath was only used on an Iron Reaver. I believe they removed it cuz they couldn't balance it. Same as why they removed Snapshotting.

Like very much

I miss having an abomination minion.

Raise Abomination. Sometime between WoD and Legion, Unholy DKs could replace their ghoul with an abomination. Dark Transformation turned the abomination into one of those big flesh constructs like Rotface and Festergut.

I thought relic would I be I guess it is not technically an ability more of only class that could hold one I just remember you need a strong to perform well like I had do the mount hyjal think to get one of those 2 because they where so strong it took me not a lot of play time for all alts back but death knight in lich king was the best

How is Dark Simulacrum not on here?

Thoughtseize never forget...

Dumb question didn't versatility become a stat in wod not mop?

The original bone shield was never good for tanking even in meme specs because it had 3 charges on a 1 minute cooldown, meaning if you're tanking you could potentially only take 3 hits until you lose it and have to wait a whole minute to put it back up

uh, versatility didnt exist in MoP so idk where you got information about unholy aura from

People complain how op rets where and dh is after the reworks. I would tell everyone nope. When dks first came out they where so op in arena a 2k player got glad on a dk because it was that broken. It's hard to even comprehend how truly op Dk where.

I miss Blood Mirror

No abomination sadge

Very cool! Thank you for your attention to detail! 💖😘

Didn't they also lose the ability to summon a Gargoyle ?

Versatility wasn't a mop thing

what about the death knight ability that was briefly after worlk release that allowed you to ressurect yourself as a ghoul and attack others for a bit (not that last one which allows you to rez others), it was for unholy I believe

fs in chat. long live frost dk tanking

This is the best unity for a just cause I have ever seen 🔥😛

Is this nerdslayers alt?

this Video realy hurts my dk main Heart :(

no simulacrum? 0/10 list

did you say.... "howmever"

we need MORE diseases as UH dk, like TONS thats the fant. because im NOT A NECROMANCER!! im more a budget necromancer while being a walking disease vector

No dark sim? :(

yoo

Literally everything removed in cata thanks blizzard

You actually believe the company behind Overwatch and Hearthstone when they say anything about balance?

hey, could you make a video about top 10 specks of dust removed from under my toenails next? think it'll be equally as entertaining and insightful, maybe even moreso than this video/topic.

What about top 10 removed warrior abilities

he copies and paste audio from other videos saying talents start at 15 lmao dks start at 55 talents start at 56 as the picture shows (just wanted to point that out could have just been a drone from the editing of other videos(drone as in brain too tired to process what he was saying))

Fuck it, top 10 " top ten removed abilitiy video" video top 10

Sorry, the DK and giving allies shaman and horde pallie, long list of how BLIZZTARD killed the whole game. Gold buying, powerleveling, ah , multi accounts crappy expansions the list was endless

The talent changes happened in Cataclysm, actually