Alpha Patch (8391) Brings Death Knight Changes

admin May 31 2008 8:11 am No Comment

Here is the list of Death Knight Changes in the recent Alpha patch. This should open up the door for a whole new round of mathcrafting. Taken from the WotLK Wiki.

Most places mentioning “Runeblade” changed to “Rune Weapon”
Death and Decay damage changed to (100/121/190/241)+0.039*AP and random component removed
Death Strike deals 60% weapon damage
Icy Touch cooldown reduced to 4 seconds
Blood Tap – Level 55, Costs 15% of Base Health
- “Immediately activates a Blood Rune and temporarily converts it into a Death Rune. This rune counts as a Blood, Unholy, or Frost Rune. Lasts 30 seconds”
Chromatic Rune Mastery – Replaced by Death Rune Mastery – “Whenever a rune activates, it has a 2% chance of converting into a Death Rune.”
Degeneration – DOT Stacks up to 3 times. “Unable to be healed by periodic heals” effect removed
Mind Freeze – cooldown increased to 10sec and duration increased to 4 seconds
Death Coil – Works on undead enemies
All presences have 1 second cooldown, but won’t trigger GCD
Butcher changed to Butchery
- “Whenever you kill an enemy that grants experience or honor, you generate 10/20 runic power. In addition you generate 1 runic power per 3 sec.”
Scent of Blood – charges reduced to 2
Mark Of Blood – Cooldown removed, can only be placed on enemy
Vendetta – Heal reduced to 3%
Sudden Death renamed to Sudden Doom
Blood Rune Mastery (NYI) – proc chance changed to 10%
Unholy Rune Mastery (NYI) – proc chance changed to 10%
Heart Strike renamed to Obliterate, 150% weapon damage + 300 per desease
Merciless Combat (NYI) changed
- “Your Frost attacks do an additional 20%/40%/60% damage when striking targets with less than 20% health.”
Pestilence renamed to Infested Corpse
Crypt Fever – stacks up to 3 times
Ferocious Dead – added “Death Pact grants a heal over time effect for 15 sec equal to 50% of the amount healed”
Lichborn – 15 minutes cooldown removed, 5 minute category cooldown added (shared with what?)
Frozen Rune Weapon – Also has a chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to Frost damage
Frost Strike – changed: “A strong attack that increases melee damage by 200 and causes your attack to deal Frost damage. Has a 30% chance to freeze the target.” GCD removed
On a Pale Horse – changed:
- “You become as hard to stop as death itself. The duration of all Stun and Fear effects used against you is reduced by 10%, and your mounted speed is increased by 10%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.”
Midnight Sun replaced with Unbreakable Armor
- “Whenever you use a Frost Rune, you have a 5% chance of increasing your armor by 30% and your Parry chance by 30% for 10 sec.”
Chillbanes – renamed to Chilling Focus. Effect changed to 25%/50%/75%
Shadow of Death – Duration increased to 45 sec
Corpse Explosion – changed
- “Unleashes all available runic power to cause a targeted corpse to explode for 12 Shadow damage per 10 runic power to all enemies within 20 yards.”
Improved Icy Touch – changed
- “Increases the damage done by your Icy Touch spell by 5%/10%.”
Blade Barrier (NYI) – duration reduced to 8 seconds.
Howling Blast – changed
- “Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing 719-782 Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Deals triple damage to frozen targets.”
Frozen Dread Plate replaced by Frigid Dreadplate
- “Enemies who hit you in melee have a 5% chance to become unsettled, decreasing their attack speed by 50% for the next 3 swings.”
Will of the Necropolis – effect changed to 10%/20%/30%
Hungering Cold – NYI removed
- “Unleashes all available runic power to eradicate all heat from around the Death Knight, freezing enemies within [???] yards and preventing them from performing any action for 2 sec per 10 runic power. Enemies are considered frozen, but any damage will break the ice.” Stun renamed to “Frozen.”
Summon Gargoyle – “The Gargoyle remains until the summoner runs out of Runic Power.” changed to flat 1 minute duration
Wandering Plague – Changed “This damage will not cancel spells normally cancelled when targets take damage.” to “This spell ignores targets with effects cancelled by taking damage”
Glacier Rot – Hungering Cold removed from affected spells
Spell Deflection – changed to “You have a chance equal to your Parry chance of taking 20%/30% less damage from a direct damage spell.”
Dance of the Dead – renamed to Dirge
Deathchill – Changed to
- “When activated, increases your critical strike chance with Frost spells by 100% for the next 6 sec.”
Blood Gorged – changed to
- “When you are above 75% health, your melee damage is increased by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10%.”
Tundra Stalker – Howling Blast removed from affected spells list
Anti-Magic Field replaced by Anti-Magic Zone – “Places a large, static Anti-Magic Zone which can protect any party members inside it. The Anti-Magic Zone absorbs 75% of the damage dealt by the next harmful spell. Absorbs a limited amount of damage”