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Hi guys, today I’m giving you my first thoughts on the DK DPS tier sets for the upcoming 9.2 patch!
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00:00 Intro
00:42 Frost 2P
01:42 Frost 4P
06:04 Unholy 2P
08:32 Unholy 4P
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Thanks for the video Biceps! While the unholy set bonuses look great for raiding, I am a little bit concerned how it will affect our m+ gameplay. I can imagine that it will be very clunky and bringing only little damage increase, especially compared to the bonuses of other classes/specs 🙁
why can blizzard not bring good and fun things for frost dk ? Is it so hard for them ? I feel like they dont even care about frost dk at all because nobody plays it ?
the ghoul haste can proc outside of execute range too, right? Or did I misunderstand it? You said that the ghoul haste needs the secondary effect, but it just sais Soul reaper, so I'd think that the initial cast of soul reaper already gives the haste, no? Also I'd say unholy also needs a buff to really be good, not just this, as our covenant legendary is by far not as good as say a rogues. We are already behind almost everyone else, will get a lackluster covenant legendary, and a 'sounds good, hope it will be as good as it sounds, at least if the ghoul haste is triggered outside of execute' set bonus. I hope 2h frost will be a real thing tho, fingers crossed!
Super excited about unholys set. Love the playstyle!! Thanks for the video man, always love listening to your opinion.
Noticed that I went off incorrect wording on the Unholy 2p. The ghoul attack speed triggers off the primary SR effect, not the secondary. The 2P is therefore more valuable than what I projected. Furthermore, it might mean that we use Soul Reaper outside of execute, just to trigger the attack speed bonus…
In practice, we will get a strong execute, but with time, when players farm bosses, this bonus will lose its value.
In practice, we will also use only one set bonus for most of the fight, while others use two, which will allow them to gain a greater advantage.
In practice, Soul Reaper is no longer as effective as in 9.0 (after the mastery nerf)
I would prefer a bonus in the form of increased damage, e.g. by 200% (base dmg and extra dmg) and
The question is, how will this work when, for example, overlapping twice?
Maybe i already know the answer but, this tier set can make icecap viable in both st and aoe or its just a dead talent we'll never use until maybe next exp?
Thanks Bicep! Any idea how this work with covenant legos and does it change meta for dk dps? Night fae obli build should be fun 😀
9:24 I'm a DK and Warrior main, Arms is pretty much getting Test of Might back from BFA, there's no way unholy competes imo. Thanks for the video though, informagive as ever, stoked to try fdk in 9.2!
the frost tier set with oblit 2hand and nf covenant + korayn soulbind with nf leggo + bitting cold sounds noice, if G.A procs km in oblit windows like the talent this build maybe will pump very hard in cleave content, an alternative for breath.
there is the interaction of oblit tallent and GA since consuming KM procs GA and in pillar GA procs KM when it hits a target
Cheers! Curious to see if they stay like that and what implications they bring. Unholy gets strong for ST/execute progress, Frost gets even stronger for cleave, we can probably work with this.
for me the frost set bonuses are not that exciting at all. However the unholy set bonuses are gonna be crazy strong imo and i believe we will see an insurgence of unholy dks again…myself included
Keep up the great work !
Played Icecap in Nyalotha and loved it. Started with Obliteration in SL but was forced to play breath for myth Raiding and M+.
I hate breath. It has so much fail potencial and you can overaggro tanks if you pull the trigger too early in a big pull.
Really looking farward for 2h Obliteration in M+
Do you think we will play BC + Kyrian legy?
I know this isn't about the video per se, but what addon or UI is that that makes the circle and puts the message (or emphasized message) above your character when mechanics come out?
nice vid!
hey Bicep just a quick question,
Do you think frost dk's talent tree should get reworked next XP when it gets released and if so do you think it should have less passive damage in it
right now when i look at the options they seem to not serve any impact for the spec to play more sustained/bursty in it's options their are a lot of passive damage that only gets added on obliterate/howling blast/melee swings,
Personally i would like to se talent that replace our rise dead to summon lich when he uses hes spells it gives stacks that can buff the next KM obliterate you spend things like this or your next pillar of frost summons a dragon after 2-3 seconds why the cast time is to add that cool summoning animation like the one in Naxx from Sapphiron but also to balance it in pvp.
I look forward to the future videos! I have a question: Do you think nightfae will be the best overall covenant for 2H frost? With a short CD on Deaths Due to line up with each pillar/oblieration and the ability for oblierate to cleave in additional to Necrolord not having much synergy with 2H frost to begin with I think this is a real possibility. Nighfae also has solid soulbinds and DKs having access to soulshape would be huge. The covenant legendary for nightfae while not powerful relative to other legendaries feels the strongest out of the covenant specific ones as well.
Does this mean that power infusion is going to be on us while execute phase pops? We are going to scale even higher on pi spreadsheet?