After watching lots of vids and talking to some friends I feel that dks will still be strong. With the recent re-nerf of resil to be around 60% opposed to up to 80% oblits are still critting for 1/3 of the opponent's life. In 5's if you can CC out one healer and sit the other with all your burst going (AOE disease application, and are able to get 3 oblits on each dk + frost strikes + more oblits and dumping your rime procs after your burst phase is over you WILL kill something). The main problem is other than the initial burst dks have no AOE presence like they do on live and you can't kill an entire team inside a spirit link.
For boxing 2 though fat tire other than a few small things dks are still very boxable especially if you have a warrior with you as their DPS can be macro'd very simply it seems. Other than jumping away for charges and such for positioning theres no reason to lead from the warrior anymore. Essentially TSG is just going to need a charge stun to remorseless winter and then burst to win.
Now i'm certainly not saying that dks are going to be the optimal thing to box. But their single target burst is on par with warriors and both are superior to rets in that category. Also with the change to how much RP it costs to frost strike allows for good burst as well as those still hit for 30k a piece and can crit for up to 70k...if you can chain 5 in a row thats going to be another 150k damage which is about 1/2 their HP. With 1s global GCD it will be pretty good still. It also allows you to actually get dispels and not rely on warrior stopping to shatter anything but bubbles/ice blocks.
If you have no healer though, you want 4 rets for the healing.
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