Blood DK's armor buff is nice, but we need utility buff (reduce CD of GG)

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First of all, thank you devs for some attention, that has been the first blood DK’s targeted tuning since like… october or november last year?
My guts tell me that this small armor buff won’t address our issue of getting nuked within one global by melee attacks in any meaningful way, but it is a good start and a good short term approach to our survivability.

The issue of utility, however, remains the most pressing even in mid to lower keys. With the loss of abom limb and by giving frost / unholy shorter grip cooldown, you made us even less desirable in groups.

1. Quick minimal solution - reduce CD of Gorefiend’s Grasp to 45-60 secs.
2. Quick Okay solution - give blood DK back abomb limb + reduce CD of Gorefiend’s Grasp to 45-60 secs.
3. Quick good solution - give back abomb limn + reduce reduce CD of Gorefiend’s Grasp + revert changes to AMZ or make it a choice node.
4. The proper solution will ofc be rework of talents and abilities, but that’s not something possible within a week before the season.

Again, thanks for finally paying some attention to us. I hope you won’t stop just at this minor change.

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8% Aura buff and 15% Armor buff, we are still cooked for season 3. but hey at least they took Abo limb and Unholy ground away and nerfednthat useless cloak

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Boneshield makes up to 50% of our overall armor, so it’s 7.5.% armor buff, not 15%.
8% aura buff was given to Vengeance DH as well and 13% aura was given to the guardian druid.

Also San’layne tiet set bonus was nerf twices recently. so our overall damage gain is less than 8%. And let us not forget about gigantic nerf to blood beast (from 50% to 10%).

Thus damagewise trunings do not give me any optimist, but the fact that for the first time for many months they gave the first blood DK targeted tuning (meaning boneshield buff), gives a bit of hope. In the short run, though, we’re screwed coming into season 3, yeah.