Blizzard on Death Knight Updates in War Within - Reduce Build Friction
Blizzard has posted Death Knight updates in the War Within, noting that the goal is to reduce build friction.
Like our last round of changes for Unholy, we looked at talents that felt more appropriate to be baseline for the spec and talents that worked better as 1 rank instead of 2. Notably, we made Fatal Fixation and Rime baseline, reduced Frostwhelp’s Aid, Enduring Strength, and cut both Cold-Blooded Rage and Invigorating Freeze and reduced their new talents to 1 rank.The goal with the above changes is to cut down on build friction allowing for more customization as you spec through the tree.
These changes alongside other talent movements and new pathing connections should help create a better experience for build variety.We’ve also created a variety of new talents and added 2 new capstones that focus on your auto-attacks which should help give some better sustained damage outside of Pillar of Frost windows. These talents also complement both Obliteration and Breath of Sindragosa builds and add some unique gameplay that expands on the Shattering Blade talent node.We’ve added Razorice to the targets unit frame to allow easier tracking on when to use Frost Strike.
Frostscythe has also seen an update to move it out of the regular rotational rune spender to a big heavy hitter on a medium cooldown. Its rune cost has been increased to 2 and its damage has been greatly increased and is always guaranteed to critically strike.
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