Feedback: Death Knight

Unholy Death Knight feels so bad to play with right now, we have so many dead talents in the talent tree, and we don’t even use Gargoyle because it’s design is just a massive dodo.

My suggestion for Gargoyle is to move it as a choice nod with Unholy Assault, and Gargoyle should be redesigned to synergies better with our rotation. What they can do here is to make it so we raise 3 Gargoyles to bombard our enemy target with each of them having a chance to apply a Festering Wounds, in addition, why not slap on a increased chance to proc Sudden Doom while Gargoyle is active and make it so our Undeads also deal increased damage while Gargoyle is active. I think that is way more interesting than mashing your face on the Death Coil Button.

Also can the entire side where All Will Serve be changed, i would rather see the return of Raise Sludge Belcher after you have talented All Will Serve. Not only does our Pet get improved skills, but they could make it hit harder to give some more focus on our minion damage profile over Clawing/Death Coil.

As for Ruptured Viscera, this talent is absolutely bad when we are not raising undeads all the time. My suggestion here would be to add a new passive that makes it so when we have talented in to All Will Serve, we can use Dark Transformation on it as well. Just turn it in to a giant Bone Lord that use Bone Storm that charges in to the enemy once every time you use Dark Transformation on the Skulker.

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I so wholeheartedly agree with your post.
I am an Unholy main baseline, played it in s1 because rider kinda fits it, but moved to frost for this season because of San’layn - and not caring about the meta-.
It’s weird beause the UH part of the DK discord is very popular right now, quite the change compared to s1 lol, but yet, that gives a false vision of where the UH is at right now.

San makes you pretty much ignore wounds for half of your uptime, spam 1 button, massively boost DC which makes a lot of our damages coming from less resources, even though UH has always been (one of) the specs with most damages entry.
That right side of the tree is so dead (UH pact was okay-ish in s1, but people dislike it) as you say, but the fact we are meta right now (and have no dedicated dev, I think ? I’m not 100% sure) and the current popularity of the spec makes me pessimistic at seeing changes that go the right way, and god knows I’m tend to be always optimistic.

UH vibe is great. I like your suggestions and seeing a return of the Gargoyle, and tuning of these talents would be great. (I rather have such talents tuned that uninspired Ghoulish Frenzy like talents lol) All will serve and its evolving talent would help the UH on the priority target damage profile in a much, muuuuch tastier way than just buffing Death coil + Scourge strike.

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