Frost DK cleaving strikes should work off Remorseless Winter not Death and Decay, DnD doesnt fit well with frost theme, adds clunk to rotation and is bad with movement.
If you are worried about not having enough butons, maybe make 15~30 sec frost scythe or chill streak
I think the bigger issue here is why this design philosophy still exists, but only for a few specs? They have gradually made it easier for most melee specs to cleave or aoe with passives, but simply picking talents.
Why DK has to put DnD down, or their abilities will magically miss X amounts of targets is beyond me.
DnD should be a standalone ability with solid damage, instead of just something you have to place down to hit mobs with other abilities.
Yeah I agree, it’s more fundamental than what ability cleaving is tied to.
Frost DK has howling blast, frost scythe and glacial advance, why is it that it has to rely on this kind of system to begin with?
The same thing goes for unholy and blood.
Standing on your special little circle in order to perform a fundamental mechanic just has no place in the game anymore. They removed for Mages with Rune Of Power, why do we still have it?
DnD and Defile could operate more like Blizzard or whatever the lock version is called, and have talents that synergise with other core abilities (for example, Defile could amplify disease damage for unholy by X% but then active cleaving comes from elsewhere)
Frost needs to have Frostscythe be relevant. Make it work synergistically with RW in some interesting manner too. Gathering Storm is an interesting talent that allows for skill expression, why can’t we have more interesting talents like this?