Unholy near me Patch#

The difference between the three specs, regardless of specific gear point, is never more than a couple percent in any direction, and some may ignore a slight dps gain in favor of the various non-quantitative benefits one spec may bring over the others. Which one is the best option largely depends on your current gear level - they're presented with the spec most optimal for the lowest gear level first, up to the spec most optimal for the highest gear level last.

Unholy near me Patch#

With this latest patch and its changes to the Frost tree, there are several truly viable specs, all of which are listed below. Anything to the contrary is utterly incorrect, be it coming from some random forum troll, a fellow guildmate, or an ignorant Blood/Frost DK. The point is: Unholy is more than worthy of its raid spot. It all depends on your personal circumstances, and there honestly is no right or wrong answer - at least not one which can be provided by others, only by yourself. Blood and Frost are obviously not worthless and, depending on your typical raid composition and current level of progression, may in fact be ideal. Whether you choose to spec it or not, is completely up to you. The same cannot be said about Blood or Frost. In a world of increasing homogenization, this fact makes Unholy one of the most 'different' specs around today and, as such, it becomes one of the most valuable. Everything Blood* and Frost bring to the table, on the other hand - be it their raid buffs, their single target dps, their survivability, their playstyles, whatever - can be matched or, in several cases, surpassed by others in a raid & often by the Unholy DK itself. It provides you with dps in an area (AoE) which no other spec can hope to reach. It provides you with tools which no other class or spec can bring. The fact of the matter is, speccing Unholy makes you unique. Bone Shield is essentially passive and grants you dps.

Both are active cooldowns which cost you dps to use.

Vampiric Blood and Unbreakable Armor, although excellent from a tanking point of view, don't compare for dpsers. It's highly underrated, but can be the difference between life and death in a million and one situations. That's 20% less damage from every single AoE, every single nuke, every single add melee hit you take - everything. It's a must for almost any raid.īone Shield provides a near-passive 20% damage reduction. EP is often underestimated and simply clumped together with CoE/EM, when it provides huge benefits which those two debuffs do not. Not only that, but with Devouring Plague being 10-15% of a shadow priest's damage, it's 3-5% more additional dps for them. If your raid contains at least two DKs, one being you, it is always worth it for one to go Unholy for EP alone, even if you ignore the other strengths of the spec. What more is that Ebon Plague does something no other class or spec in the game can do: It increases disease damage by 30% - a significant amount. Warlocks and Moonkin cannot provide their magic damage debuffs on multiple targets at the same time - not without incredible hardship and the sacrifice of their entire personal dps (or a majority thereof). Ebon Plague, on the other hand, cannot be.

Although AoE isn't quite as omnipresent in ICC as it was in TotC/TotGC, it's still important on a number of fights.Ībomination's Might and Improved Icy Talons, although obviously excellent, can be provided by other classes and other specs with the exact same potency. With the previous tier of content being heavily AoE-centric, this virtue came to shine and gave the spec its claim to fame. The lead in this area isn't a matter of a couple percent it's quite significant (varying on the exact number of mobs - the more, the larger the gap becomes). No one - caster or melee - can top an Unholy DK on any fight with significant AoE, not if the DK knows his stuff. Unholy is, unarguably, the strongest spec in the game at this role. The more notable advantages of Unholy include: After all, if there were no reason to spec Unholy over the alternatives, why would this thread even exist?įortunately, Unholy has more than its fair share of upsides, thus it's an easy argument to make. This question is vital to the understanding of anything in this thread. Why spec Unholy when you could go Frost which now holds equivalent (if not superior) single target sustained dps, superior AoE burst, Improved Icy Talons, and a more dynamic rotation to its name? Why spec Unholy when you could go Blood which currently holds superior single target sustained dps, superior single target burst, Hysteria, and Abomination's Might to its name?