Good day and evening brothers and sisters, i make this threadto cement some thoughts and examples i have written about in long posts that people mass flagged because they did not like my spicy takes alongside my critical words, but this time i will not leave in anything that might cause such a thing to happen, so lets start!
many often say BoS is ontop because it is the most complicated and hard to use DK skill, and therefor it is justified to be on top, people often quote blizzards own words with this and while i will admit, such a case had merit in Legion, but the current BoS, paired with Empower rune weapon is quite frankly, the most easy long burst window you can do in PvE bar if much movement or if you mistime the boss phases or thrash pulls, let me explain:
BoS itself gives runes when activated now, and even ends or somehting i have not moused over the skill since legion ended, but i know about the changes to it and such, you build runic power ot near max, get all your runes ready, then you pop breath and watchout for mechanics and see the dps meter rise, and all you have to do is to keep pressing obliterate (or horn or anything else baked in to keep that rune regen vs runic power drain balanced, people often use empower rune weapon alongside of course, making it even smoother, , make sure to use remorseless winter before and mash oblit, one buttom, ignoring rime procs if you are losing the upkeep battle etc, or not using the leggo that gives RP with rime, presto, Dps meter shows your prowess. add in venthyr Dk and this window is even bigger… wich brings me to my second point, let me explain:
The Maldraxxus obliterate Dk, to fully utilzie all the free rime procs form abob limb you need to be very careful, especially when playing with high haste, when you approach the boss, you start with pressing abob limb, giving you a free rime, you wait and use remorseless winter, in between the GCD now you use pillar and then press rime, giving you a crit obliterate, you then press that button, seeing if it procced rime, if it did, mash it, abob limb would generate it’s second rime any second now, this is very hard with low haste, but lets say you managed, you press oblit again and free rime comes… but this time if you are using eradicating blow conduit, FS takes prio since you now have 2 stacks, sue FS, use oblit, use the old free rime (bake in empower rune weapon shortly after the first obliterate aswell, forgot to mention), then you continue, watching for the third free rime and using any generated free rime immideatly…but not if you have 2 stacks of eradicating blow, with high haste this is a very fast paced and reactive rotation, something that can run away in your hands if you dont pay much attention, mind you that this Dk also has to watch movement, cleave and other hazards.
So now with this observation, which Dk has to work the hardest? and which playstyle feels the most rewarding for the work put in it?..(who am i kidding, Unholy takes that trophy at all times with the work they have to put in, but this is frost)
many arguments for BoS and against Obliteration is made in this manner, only reversed, the fault lies not only with Bos, that in my eyes is one of the biggest crutches on any class in WoW, Chill streak is the BoS of PvP, so we have that going for us aswell.
Anyone with any clout or contacts, be it outside of this forum or any media needs to think about this: Why does it have to be this way? i will tell you my thoughts in giving another example that is a little sad but brings my point across aswell. we dont have any Influencers with big clout that sees these errors, on both sides of the camp. Bos. PvP… people are silent? why?.. afraid to lose good standing? afraid to let concerns out on the table to blizz?.. i got of on a tangent but my example i mentioned earlier is Savix, a great paladin player and a great memer that can touch subjects with great explanation and editing, when paladin felt like trash during beta he made his concerns known… blizz kinda listened, not much in mobility but busted damage… which he said they would nerf once live was in a few weeks… and indeed the nerf came, but paladin could still perform, he got his glad mount a few days back, the whole kit, the damage and burst breakdown for paladin is well thought of, with apparent weaknesses, compared to a Frost Dk for example, that has so many PvP only special nerfs that it feels we are carrying christs cross.
and this whole mess is further diluted with the current way 2 handed was re implemented again, bringing more vitriol and more reason for blizz to hate us, taht we only screech and hate them even when they kinda try, and i will admit, i am one very capable of doing that, and i have done that for the past half year, the problem is not that we are angry, there is some truth in our anger and mistreatment over the past years since legion… but there exist not ears to hear them in the way they need to be heard, As far as i know of, there are two dudes in charge of classes, they have to listen to every forum’s hate, every complaint, and the classes they dont play are hard to understand the essence of the complaint itself, it is lost in translation, because they cannot imagine the situaion in a way.
so… it hurts to realize, but the whole mess and class bustedness and brokenness can only be fixed by having class design teams. or one person in charge of every class, or even spec, and i know these things cost money, everything in life does, but at this point it is the best option for WoW in general, to my confident theory.