1. Fix the defile visual… 2. Make DND a character based aura rather than an on ground effect…

I'm sorry, but I just can't see myself playing any other class this xpack. This is like when DH and evoker first came out with their unique mobility abilities. This is game changing.

I'm looking to main DK in TWW and your videos have been great to watch, to get some insight on how it's likely going to play. I imagine you'll have a new video up soon on the recent changes?

Most boring drone like content creator jesus bro i fell asleep

hey Bicep! how to select diseases you wanna see on the target and de select others?

Just give us a passive D&D talent like Ret!

Looks like the most complicated damage spec, so when played properly it seems fair that it should top dps charts

whats sucks most, is that the Bloodbeast for San'layn-BDK looks like a tiny Ghuun. Honestly why in all lazy developers-name they cant develop with a DK reference or better, a vampiric-reference for a bloodbeast?! for example a Bloodqueen or a Deathhound. Ghuun is related to Blood-Trolls, not to DKs. Very disappointing to see that after a good rework.

Does Raise Abomination really need to be an extra talent point after AotD? Seems like that could be a choice node instead. Only thing I can think of is that they don't want you going straight from AotD to the capstone?

I don't like the reversal of Sudden Doom popping wounds. I believe that a cap on the number of wounds that could be burst would prevent runaway burst AOE dps while keeping a passive that improves the feel of the spec while decreasing cognitive load. I otherwise am quite enjoying the changes they're making and look forward to seeing what else they do.

Is Vampiric Strike popping wounds when it's replacing scourge strike?

Guys, did they revert the change where epidemic bursted wounds?

maybe something controversial but i liked to have choose between abom and soul reaper. unholy already feels bloated BUT i love unholy blight is tied with dark transformation as a passive is huge QOL update

the frost dk change is great. besides the overflow of runic power, it also felt bad if you got a lot of rime procs one after the other and neglecting frost strike, which did lead to the overflow. now with the increased cost and km stacking twice, it should be a lot easier to manage resources during pillar windows. also I wish they just made breath replace frost strike and be a "cast to deal cleave damage" instead of a continuous drain, this would probably solve all the issues with variable breath durations, boss movement and having a period of multiple seconds where your rotation is totally different than normal

To start with atleast for Frost id like to see our 2 point nodes reduced to 1 point nodes.

Great video as always! I’m curious, what do you think our m+ build will look like? Would we have some way of making a ST/AoE hybrid build that gives us a decent dmg profile on both?

They still haven't improved Festering Strike, Festering Stcythe, Soul Reaper, Vile Contagion, Ruptured Viscera, Pestilence, we still don't have a choice between Army and Raise Abomination. We are still forced to choose Death Rot, Pestilence, Infected Claws or Vile Contagion when we want to play with diseases... In short, the wound mechanics have still not been improved despite the developer's attempt to encourage its use. Epidemic no longer bursts wounds, which is generally a bad thing, as it was a huge help in bursting wounds when the tank was dragging mobs, and Epidemic helped stack Festermight very quickly and fuel Festering Scythe. Currently, all this has become half as effective.

would be awesome if the intro got changed or atleast lowered the volume, it's a bit much

What are your thoughts on our reliance on DnD to do AoE? Looking at the forums, it seems the vast majority of DK players want it to go away. I am one of them. It might be fine in a coordinated group with pre-planned pulls, but it's a nightmare in a pug when you have no idea what the tank is going to do. I would love to see our cleave attached to unholy blight (on a shorter cd) and remorseless winter.

When in DnD does the sanlayn cleave disease extension onto multiple enemies? Does the scourge strike after pop the diseases on multiple?

the changes for frost futter burry 2H as an option. The way things are now 2H will be a meme next expansion, there's just so much going on towards DW now that there's now way 2H is competing, and by the looks of it blizzard isn't very interested in changing that. RIP 2H frost then I guess.

Bye bye uh and say welcome to Lich King

its lowkey weird the vampire spec is so disease focused

I would love it if Blizzard made all talents meaningful to use that are not viable right now. Example: Ruptured viscera, decomposition, etc. I like the idea of RV but it's sooo far behind and either that it should be removed or updated to be viable. Would love to use it if it's issues were resolved.

Kinda bummed out what they did to defile removing the mastery buff was the only thing it had going for it. Even 200% more damage isn't great considering that on retail defile currently hits to about 40k with player health pools being near 2 million and with 200% extra damage that still only equates to 120k, really hoping they do more with this talent instead of leaving it that that state. many players have said this before and I'll echo it further, make dnd/defile an aura.

RAAUUUUGHHHHH festering strike and runic mastery still in the game

YES a biceps vid, finally

Pillar is a core main CD for Frost. Affecting solely Frost Strike for DK's spenders it means that this is hard forcing us to play oblit over Breath. Am I missing something? After tuning let's see how GA also gonna make a dif. Would we still pick GA in m+ with this change?

Ebon plague without superstrain seems off to me since they are multiplicative with each other now

Blight changes was huge, i wonder if they could do the same on Scourge Strike applying Soul Reaper when target is < 30%

Need to give DPS DK's better grip/gorefiends/better AMZ like blood. My only REAL complaint. Great vid as always Biceps

7:48 the previous version, Visceral Regeneration, was the talent that gave you a huge chance to refund runes spent by vampiric strike, which was what allowed you to spam it like a degen madman.

i feel Blizzard have to address both Unholy Aura and it being just so damn bad to keep on the enemy. i read a guy on the EU Beta forum that suggestion replacing Unholy Aura for a talent that raise 1 skeleton every time you burst 1 wound with scourge strike raising one minion per gcd, he even told about how Ruptured Viscera would be a legit passive as a result of having constant undeads charging in and attacking them. i highly recommend go a read some of those who have posted on EU beta forum some good suggestions there.

We're still the only mele DPS class that needs to sit and stay in a zone of our Death and Decay to do proper AOE... Really fun to play that way :l ... -.-"

I don't understand Blizzard's persistence in maintaining the cleave on DnD. I haven't found a single guild member who likes this. It's boring and horrible.

I think it's beta now. :)

As always great video, so thank you very much. I am pretty much decidedono deathbringer frost death knight for tww, but still not sure which one will be better, two handed or dual wield. Guess we will have to wait for actual sims from theorycrafters. Are you playing beta - how is your experience with frost dk so far? Also, doesn't artctic assault make spending a talent point on glacial advance kinda redundant?

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man i don't play wow right now and haven't for a while yet I still watch your videos :D I'm still somewhat interested how dk turns out next expac i suppose.

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Im kinda new int he game, do you recommend to do a macro for the core rotaation?

wats dat sword?

Thanks for the guide! Had to relisten to many many parts due to mumbling, but helpful reminders abound!

My only issue with San’Layn is the resource bloat. There’s got to be something else to help us spend more runes and rp.

So great changes for sure. But i will have to change my build wile i am running Dungeon What is this(some Macro? will I have to chose 1 target or AoE? again ? Am i going to enjoy it? Were is my horse?-is it Out?

DnD/Defile gameplay? Fuck that

on top of that, hav,ng 15+ stacks of festermight always up is awesome

I DID IT with fresh dk , honor gear nothing special , it was hard but i didi it ty .

unholy numbers are really good on beta at the moment playing this exact tree/hero setup , but in dungeons we still have a bloated rotation . Unholy Blight > fester > dark transformation > abomination > abom limb > unholy assault > Vile contagion > maybe apoc > dnd > spam scourge strikes and epidemic when proced . now obviously im testing in heroic dungeons and shit dies very fast , it just feels poop when you don't have the full line up . dont get me wrong unholy is still a pumper when you aoe anything regardless of cooldowns , but i would love to see some more testing done and more builds pop up that can compete with my 4m dps aoe on 8 mobs . also i changed out i think Infected Claws and Pestilence for Reaping and Harbinger or Doom to get some extra execute damage for higher keys , along with way more procs of magus of the dead , which does some pretty good damage in both aoe and st .