New abilities - Beta build 12604

[masterkiller]

The latest changes for DK's:

Frost

    * Festering Strike *New* - An instant attack that deals 150% weapon damage plus 840.54 and increases the duration of your Blood Plague, Frost Fever, and Chains of Ice effects on the target by up to 6 sec. / 5 yd range, Instant
    * Runic Empowerment *New* is now baseline - When you use your Death Coil, Frost Strike, or Rune Strike ability, you have a 45% chance to activate a random fully depleted rune. /
    * Chains of Ice now reduces movement speed by 60% for 8 sec. (Down from 95% + 10% movement each sec over 10 seconds)
    * Chill of the Grave now has a chance to generate 5/10 Runic Power. (Up from 2.5/5)
    * Nerves of Cold Steel is now a Tier 1 talent, down from Tier 2.
    * Improved Icy Touch now increases the damage of Icy Touch by 10/20/30%. (Up from 5/10/15%)
    * On a Pale Horse is back as a Tier 2 talent.


Unholy

    * Anti-Magic Shell no longer costs Runic Power.
    * Ebon Plaguebringer is now a 2 ranks talent (Down from 3) and now increases damage taken from Disease by 15/30%. (Old - 10/20/30%)
    * Dirge now has a chance to generate 5/10 Runic Power. (Up from 2.5/5)
    * Virulence now increases your chance to hit with spells by 2/4/6%. (Up from 1/2/3%)


Blood

    * Crimson Scourge is now a 2 rank talent. Increases damage dealt by Blood Boil by 20/40% (Down from 15/30/45%) and 50%/100% chance to proc. (Up from 33/67/100%)
    * Improved Blood Presence is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 5.
    * Blood Parasite is now a 2 rank talent with a 5/10% chance to proc. (Up from 3/6/9%)
    * Toughness is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.
    * Sanguine Fortitude is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 3. 2 ranks instead of 3.
    * Hand of Doom *New* - Reduces the cooldown of your Strangulate ability by 60 sec.

[masterkiller]

Festering Strike looks very interesting. Looks a lot like a short Glyph of Disease?

On a Pale Horse has returned to the tree.

I'm not sure why they moved Nerves of Cold Steel to Tier 1 instead of Tier 2...allow players that are levelling up to DW early on?

[masterkiller]

Festering Strike takes a BF rune combo. I"m not sure when you would fit this into your rotation as frost since it would take the place of an obliterate and only extend the disease duration by 6 seconds. PvP talent? Any ideas? Scourge Strike only takes 1 Unholy now so perhaps this could be used in an UH rotation? Not sure why it'd be in the frost tree then...

[dywolf]

not tree so much as the frost page in the spell book sounds like.

[Desecrate]

not tree so much as the frost page in the spell book sounds like.

It's probably just in the Frost tab of the spellbook. And it's about time, as burning my Frost on Icy Touches was no fun.

[Europeon]

Something I'm seeing is a fourth disease possibility coming from unholy with a blood subspec, I mean in theory you could have an addition 12% damage from Scarlet fever, Cons? You dont really gain any dps at all from the application(blood boil is weak sauce) or disease itself. But seeing how it makes your Scourge Strike hit for 48% additional shadow damage couldn't it be worth it? Feel free to call me crazy.

[Desecrate]

Something I'm seeing is a fourth disease possibility coming from unholy with a blood subspec, I mean in theory you could have an addition 12% damage from Scarlet fever, Cons? You dont really gain any dps at all from the application(blood boil is weak sauce) or disease itself. But seeing how it makes your Scourge Strike hit for 48% additional shadow damage couldn't it be worth it? Feel free to call me crazy.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but Scarlet Fever is classified as a physical debuff, not a disease, in the beta.

But I haven't played my DK in a bit, and it's been pretty lonely 1-71 so far.

[Europeon]

I haven't a had  real chance to try this build yet I was just looking at it, If scarlet fever is as you say just a physical debuff then it's useless to a dps

[Desecrate]

Got a chance to dick around with Festering Strike.

It feels like what Unholy's Blood Strike may be, after SS was changed to Unholy runes only, as I tended to have Frost Runes just sitting around, being general wastes of space.

Needs some more field tests instead of dummies.