8970 and Bye Bye Death Chicken

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8970 and Bye Bye Death Chicken

By Kenzi • September 20, 2008

I’ve been out of town since yesterday morning so haven’t had a chance to post about a small 8970 patch. It didn’t really have any huge changes DK wise, below is a list via WotLKwiki:

8970 Death Knight Changes

General Blood

Blood

Blood Aura - Now healed by 2% of the damage done, up from 1%. (Rank 2)

Blood Presence - Now “heals the Death Knight by 2% of damage dealt” instead of “heals the Death Knight by 2% of damage dealt by abilities”.

Will of the Necropolis - Now reduces the cooldown of your Anti-Magic Shell by 1/2/3, down from 5/10/15.

Blade Barrier - Duration increased to 10 seconds from 8 seconds.

Blood Strike - Now does “an additional 33.0 bonus damage per disease” instead of “Each disease on the target causes an additional 33 damage”.

Heart Strike - Wording change to “bonus damage per disease” from “Each disease on the target causes an additional”.

Veteran of the Third War revamped - Now increases your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4/6%, and your expertise by 2/4/6.

Frost

Blood of the North - Changed to only work when spell hits, not on use. Now is caused by both Blood Strike and Pestilence.

Frost Presence - Now reduces spell damage taken by 5% instead of increasing magic resistance by 1 per level.

Icy Touch - Now reduces melee and ranged attack speed by 14% for 12 sec

Obliterate - Now does “bonus damage per disease” instead of “additional damage for each of the Death Knight’s diseases on the target”

Unholy

Death Grip - Now has an 8 to 30 yd range.

Bone Shield - Changed to “Each damaging attack that lands consumes 1 bone” from “Each spell or attack that lands consumes 1 bone”.

Death Strike - Now “heals the Death Knight for a percent of damage done” instead of “heals the Death Knight for 100% of the damage done “.

Reaping - Changed to work only whenever you hit instead of whenever you use a spell.

Scourge Strike - Now does “bonus damage per disease” instead of “additional damage for each of the Death Knight’s diseases on the target.”

I think the best news of the day comes in the form of a confirmation that our ugly ass class specific flying death chicken is JUST A PLACEHOLDER!

Valnoth

Updated model coming in the next build. Let’s stop the hate.

Categories: Blue News, Patch Notes
Tags: 8970, Beta, Mounts, WotLK

6 Responses to “ 8970 and Bye Bye Death Chicken ”

goatman Sep 21st, 2008 at 12:16 am

i dont see the difference between the old dk flyer and this one.
raxx Sep 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am

That is the old one. The new one isn’t patched in yet.
Puffed Sep 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am

this is in response to goatman’s post. This isn’t any different than the old flyer because this IS the old flyer. The new model hasn’t been implimented yet.
Anarchron Sep 21st, 2008 at 7:03 am

Thanks Blizz!
Zenanor Sep 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 am

THANK GOD/blizz for removing the dead chicken!!
Dariex Sep 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

YAY! the death chicken is no more!!!!! Finnaly… DK’s would end up being a laughing stock if this was the actual flyer.