4.2 PTR PVP Discussion

[zenga]

I'm not gonna hold my breath on the balance druids. They are gonna need a little more to be competitive damage-wise with DK teams.

Not so much for arena's. But a boomkin can blow up anyone at the moment in a bg when given the time to cast. In rated bg's they rock. Giving them 2x 23% extra damage is pretty insane there.

And unholy dk's and 20% strength is nuts as well. Necrotic strike scales with attack power (and 2 AP = 1 STR). Not to mention the physical abilities that will rock. Both in pve and pvp. They nerf the fuck out of frost and now boost unholy like mad. Either way 4x necrotic strike is going to be fun for boxers, but i rather see balance in the game than that we can run OP comps.

[Noids]

So unholy DKs were considered OP at the start of Cata with 10% unholy might so it was nerfed to 5% along with rage of rivendare to 36%. Since then RoR is back to 45% and now unholy might is getting the x4 treatment??? Plus they still keep the Death's advance talent into the mix. I suppose pet damage has still been nerfed but it seems they have just transferred that damage all to the DK instead. If this stays through live, unholy DKs are going to scale amazingly as gear improves.

[zenga]

now (in frost spec) on my dk:
4.1
frost: 5k strength = 10k AP -> 7500 necrotic strike
unholy: 5250 str = 10.5k AP -> 7875 necrotic strike
4.2 (same gear)
unholy 6k strength = 12k AP -> 9000 necrotic strike

factor in extra damage done due to str buff and value of necrotic strike nearly doubles compared to heal

[Umbaalo]

Yeah, can see the boomkins tearing up rated BGs. Guess I should have specified or implied somewhat I was referring to arena. May be inclined to try pve with them, but feral looks better except for being prone to AoE damage more often.
I've only toyed with unholy spec right after the release of WotLK, so I'm way behind the curve there. I'm sure there will be quite a few here that will be experimenting with it before I get the DK team to 85.