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What does patch 3.2.2 mean for DPS Death Knights?
Patch 3.2.2 brought the return of the Brood Mother: Onyxia. As usual, not only did the patch bring some new raiding content, but it also brought some class changes.
The class changes for Death Knights were not too huge, noting that this is not a major patch, but the change that stuck out the most was the 12% Armor Penetration nerf. So what does this Armor Penetration nerf mean to us Death Knights? Well if you’re unholy you can just sit back and relax, because it doesn’t mean much to you guys. But, if you are Blood or Frost make sure to pay attention. A decent amount of Death Knight gear has some Armor Penetration slapped on there. This means that the immediate affects you might notice is a drop in DPS. So what can you do about this? First and foremost, keep in mind that Armor penetration is the 2nd best stat to get for a blood or unholy Death Knight. So whenever you have the chance to get strength over armor penetration I suggest you do that.
Other than the Armor Penetration nerf, your ghoul's Gnaw ability has a cooldown of 1 minute.
Now for a quick overview on the three spec changes:
Blood:
Heart Strike: Secondary targets of Heart Strike now take half as much damage.
Subversion: Now also increases the critical strike chance of Scourge Strike by 3/6/9%.
Vampiric Blood: Cooldown reduced to 1 minute and duration reduced to 10 seconds.
So this means Blood AOE will be lower, Scourge strike is back in the rotation for Unholy and Vampiric Blood can be used more often (Specifically for tanking).
Frost:
Threat of Thassarian now also causes Rune Strike to use both weapons when dual-wielding.
Unbreakable Armor: Cooldown reduced to 1 minute and changed back to granting 25% additional armor while active instead of flat damage reduction based on armor. The amount of strength granted has been reduced to 10%.
Frost Presence: The damage reduction granted by this ability has been increased from 5% to 8%.
This means Runestrike is good to use when speced into Threat of Thassarian and Dual Wield tanking, Unbreakable Armor can be used more often and got a Armor buff, but the strength you gained got nerfed, and finally Frost presence got a well deserved buff.
Unholy:
Bone Shield: This ability now has 3 charges instead of 4. Cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
Dirge: This talent no longer grants additional runic power from using Obliterate.
What this means is Bone Shield can be considered a nerf, but the 1 minute cooldown balances it out, and the nerf to Obliterate tempts the player to spec back into Scourge Strike.
Well that’s about it for us Death Knights in the patch 3.2.2. Have fun AOEing down those whelps in Onyxia.
If you have any other questions or comments, you can contact me at DeathKnightHub@gmail.com or go to http://www.youtube.com/user/DeathKnightHub to watch my videos.
Till next time guys, thanks for reading!
The class changes for Death Knights were not too huge, noting that this is not a major patch, but the change that stuck out the most was the 12% Armor Penetration nerf. So what does this Armor Penetration nerf mean to us Death Knights? Well if you’re unholy you can just sit back and relax, because it doesn’t mean much to you guys. But, if you are Blood or Frost make sure to pay attention. A decent amount of Death Knight gear has some Armor Penetration slapped on there. This means that the immediate affects you might notice is a drop in DPS. So what can you do about this? First and foremost, keep in mind that Armor penetration is the 2nd best stat to get for a blood or unholy Death Knight. So whenever you have the chance to get strength over armor penetration I suggest you do that.
Other than the Armor Penetration nerf, your ghoul's Gnaw ability has a cooldown of 1 minute.
Now for a quick overview on the three spec changes:
Blood:
Heart Strike: Secondary targets of Heart Strike now take half as much damage.
Subversion: Now also increases the critical strike chance of Scourge Strike by 3/6/9%.
Vampiric Blood: Cooldown reduced to 1 minute and duration reduced to 10 seconds.
So this means Blood AOE will be lower, Scourge strike is back in the rotation for Unholy and Vampiric Blood can be used more often (Specifically for tanking).
Frost:
Threat of Thassarian now also causes Rune Strike to use both weapons when dual-wielding.
Unbreakable Armor: Cooldown reduced to 1 minute and changed back to granting 25% additional armor while active instead of flat damage reduction based on armor. The amount of strength granted has been reduced to 10%.
Frost Presence: The damage reduction granted by this ability has been increased from 5% to 8%.
This means Runestrike is good to use when speced into Threat of Thassarian and Dual Wield tanking, Unbreakable Armor can be used more often and got a Armor buff, but the strength you gained got nerfed, and finally Frost presence got a well deserved buff.
Unholy:
Bone Shield: This ability now has 3 charges instead of 4. Cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
Dirge: This talent no longer grants additional runic power from using Obliterate.
What this means is Bone Shield can be considered a nerf, but the 1 minute cooldown balances it out, and the nerf to Obliterate tempts the player to spec back into Scourge Strike.
Well that’s about it for us Death Knights in the patch 3.2.2. Have fun AOEing down those whelps in Onyxia.
If you have any other questions or comments, you can contact me at DeathKnightHub@gmail.com or go to http://www.youtube.com/user/DeathKnightHub to watch my videos.
Till next time guys, thanks for reading!
