the author, please give me the name of all conduits that are bad in your opinion and how they should work (buffed).
without this information, it’s a load of rubbish.
Of course, I wrote about this bad ending of the story for unholy dk right after its nerf, but I remember that you, dear author of these guides, had a different opinion. Time has verified this and now you are looking for a hole in the whole, blame on conduits, instead of admitting to others people that the nerf was unnecessary.
Convocation of the dead is the most significant bad-scaling conduit. It really doesn’t gain any power after 215ilvl or so. Conduits are generally bad though, shown quite clearly by the fact that we are using adaptive armour fragment, a tank conduit.
Eternal hunger gets a lot of its power from the extended DT duration, causing it to scale quite badly with ilvl.
Embrace death and lingering plague are just weak.
Would love to add an additional effect to convocation, maybe giving strength for every wound burst? Eternal hunger just needs to have its scaling amped. Embrace death needs better numbers is all.
Since it was simple to set up this system for Unholy, these traits were meant to slightly enhance our powerful abilities but our powerful abilities have been nerfed to the point of absurdity.
Strengthening the conduits won’t help much, and certainly won’t catch up with the other classes.
It’s a good idea for CotD to generate strength, but they won’t do it anymore, they can only nerf or buff overall spec.
but I did not feel or see such a problem in 9.0 - ie the problem of scaling conduits, because there was no such problem.
The problem with the scaling of Unholy Dk to the gear we have arose right after we received the nerf for mastery.
It’s a myth that unholy would scale badly with stats. Unholy scales perfectly well with stats compared to other specs.
There are other effects like PI going to other classes, new legendaries being good, specific items being good etc that affect the balance between specs.
You didn’t see conduit scaling issues in 9.0 since we had such low level conduits…
and in my opinion this statement is just a myth,
because you don’t have any conduits that increase wound or scourge strike damage, and these are still low despite much better gaeru. The same is with the festering strike or death coil (even a conduit won’t help here) because the base damage is just low.
as for convocation of the dead - in my opinion it is bugged twice. Firstly, it does not count the reduction cd well, and secondly (if the tooltip is ok), the enhancement of this conduit does not increase the reduction cd, so the reduction cd is the same for a normal conduit as for an enhancement conduit.
but even if it worked properly it affects our weak army.
if I remember correctly the conduits were “balanced” in beta or ptr with the current numbers for unholy dk.
the problem now is that dk unholy was stronger then, then got quite a nerf, and the conduits are still “balanced” under the old version of the numbers for unholy dk, which were larger than they are now.
Along with the mastery nerf, other power sources, such as the conduits just mentioned, should be equalized, i.e. they should be adjusted to the actual numbers.
in fact, that’s right, but even if it works better, it won’t do much damage because the army doesn’t deal much damage anymore.
this conduit should do something else besides reducing cd, or increasing strength (as above), or e.g. (permanently/base dmg/aura dmg) increasing damage to all pets.