I didn’t follow what happened to this spell but it costs too much and doesn’t heal at all. If this is the way that devs want this spell to behave, they should add some sort of a spell like enraged regen to make DS free and can be used for couple of seconds. It may solve a lot of problems.
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OK but in that case hybrid specs healing (at least self healing) should be buffed significantly
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yes i miss double dps in 2s. since sl and 2s is just healer/dps dominated its so boring
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Which hybrid spec other than druid currently doesent have an immunity or multiple of them and instant top heals?
You cant compare a dk been able to heal 5% of his hp with an ability vs hybrid heals of priest/ret when they have things like disperse,life swap, lay on hands, bubble, magic bop, karma, fortifying, diffuse magic the only hybrid spec that has been left behind in that regard is boomy/feral and they have the same problem dk has damage mitigation but no way to heal or get out of situations during high dampening.
Even ele/enhance has burrow now and the wall lasts for 12 seconds at 60% or 40% and a 1 min 30 sec cd.
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Once upon a time deathstrike was basically immortality for death knight in days of old, this lasted a long time and was accompanied with many other healing abilities which made it a very prominent hero class, I don’t think it was probably properly nerfed until late BFA / Shadowlands.
Dispers isn’t an immunity, makes you afk for the full duration and swap is 5min CD.
Can’t compare sp with any other hybrid with their broken tools come on dude xD
Also feral isn’t a easy spec to play, but 3walls +bear form + hotw + mobility clone is more than enough, don’t see an issue here.
Thats like saying ice block is not an immunity because you cant move during it yes its not a full 100% immunity but it is useable in stuns and your not dying if you use it at a decent HP and with most of your damage been dots you dont lose much pressure while doing it.
There is only ret that has better tools to help teammates than SP and thats only because MD is on a long CD now swap is on a 5 min CD why would it be lower its an extra healer defensive cd.
Feral has walls yes but can die in stuns and you wouldnt see an issue you are like the feral defenders everytime they pop up even when its op you will always have a bias towards sp even when its in a decent spot like it is now.
The fact still stands that my deathstrike which costs 40 runic power and i have to be in meele range with the risk of been disarmed to counter it should heal more than 300k the maximum you can do is 2x with necrotic wounds healing component been removed next patch it will be even worse.
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Dispers is a 75% wall, the healing is reduced by ms and dampening, not similar to block/bubble at all xD
Also dot do 0 dmg itself, try doing it on a random spec, health go up with dot on them, only devouring plague is doing dmg.
Swap used to be only sp and it should have stayed that way, it’s dumb to find the excuse it’s ‘’ an extra healer def’'when it was only sp def CD.
A lot of spec dies in stun, not only feral, rogue do as well as dh ele etc… Dumb excuses.
Death strike itself shouldn’t heal for million anyway, it’ s like saying my flash heal that heal barely 500k with a cast time (so easily intertuptible same as your ds) should heal for more just because there is counterplay about it.
Try again 
When was the last time you died in disperse a 75% wall is massive while usuable in stuns and you can move while using it
Spriest dot damage is fine right now every dot class is weak vs the current way heals work they do more damage than dk dots do.
You also used to have to pick between stun/silence but now you get both while it was removed from dk no its an extra healer CD its not a DPS CD it heals and stops kill attemps magic bubble is an extra healer cd too.
Feral is the only hybrid out of the ones you mentioned the other 2 specs have a lot better mobility and ways to immune damage outside of stuns.
You mean your flash heal that is on a different spell school castable in shadow form now and also gives you a damage reduction when it goes off?
IBF is a 30% wall ofc it should heal more when the entire spec is built around the more damage it takes in a short ammount of time the more it heals back no1 is asking for baseline deathstrike to heal 1 million but if i take 5 million in 3 seconds and use a deathstrike it should not be healing for 500k it should be around 2 million we even take a talent for it to do 60% more.
Try what again? you only play spriest you are talking on classes you have 1600 rating on.
Spriest is one of the tankiest casters in the game with the only reason it is not S tier atm is coz aff lock is so good and fury/BM.
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As both sp and dk player I can confirm that death strike is not at all comparable to sp flash heal or any other dps spec heal for that matter. The problem with death strike is that it’s impossible to balance for pvp, so it always ends up being totally useless. Meanwhile it costs a massive amount of our second resource, so if you’re spamming it you’re just losing because of lacking dmg, and you will still die through it.
It should have a short cd and actually do something instead. The only use for death strike is to proc the 3 sec wall from a kinda bad honor talent (which is worse than the flash heal wall that sp gets for free).
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Feral have 1 wall and 1 Barkskin
wall is 50% dmg reduction, barkskin is 30%
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I disagree. They have endless options:
- Put an internal cd to avoid spamming it. Buff healing to compensate cd.
- Make it work like Enraged Regen
- Revert it to the old 400% healing during IBF
- Add another healing option such as conversion.
We can go on and suggest a lot of acceptable fix to this.
Which is what I suggested, yes. I meant they can’t make the numbers balanced without changing the ability.
Or just bring back death siphon and all the deleted utility Blizzard purged in legion. Corpse shield would be nice to have back too.
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