This is not one of those “Blizzard do this, Blizzard do that” posts. I cannot dictate a course of a spec, I am not an influencer, not a developer, not a tryhard progression guy - I am a mere ordinary player who started casually playing the game 5 years ago and settled with Unholy because it felt like the only spec I understood and enjoyed.
Now since the pre-patch I have more questions than ever and I am constantly left scratching my head about the direction of this spec.
First of all - Soul Reaper has been a great rotation addition ever since Legion. The rune recovery it offered was incredible being used in an opener and now it just feels as if there is a void. Without using Soul Reaper to recover 2 runes there is a deaf 2-3 sec time. Why change the talent if the purpose of it did not get replaced?
Secondly, while I was ready for it from the PTR, why oh why do we have to reapply Outbreak on new pulls? We remove Soul Reaper as a runes recovery and then add a system in which we have to spend more runes because the spread timer from Outbreak is gone.
And finally, for now I am using Memory of the Lucid Dream for runes recovery, but once SL comes I cannot imagine what the spec will feel like without it. Does it feel more RNG based and leaning more towards warrior-like burst spec now? Because for me it never did feel like that before but it does a bit now.
I just… Don’t understand where the spec is going right now and I am confused. Is somebody else a bit disappointed and feels the same way? I feel people generally do not mind the unholy changes but this is the first time in 5 years for me when I am feeling slightly annoyed with the spec.
Please mind this is not a rant post, I am just curious whether it’s just me.
you will get a ton of free resources in beta.
dont forget apoc will give u 2 free runes so that compensates
u can use SR in m+ snipping mobs to basicly never run out of runes due to runic corruption
unholy blight is arguable the superior talent, speacily if u go 4 disease unholy, this will basicly keep u from actualy needing to use outbreak. there is still a 3sec down time which in itself is only anoying but there are conduits that increase ur disease uptime so blight can 100% uptime of virulent, altho the 3sec isnt a real problem
u say its disapointing, i say its way better and more flexxible, specialy later when we got plenty of haste that dont need RC so much we can swap to harbringer of doom and use the conduit that increases DC dmg by 40% (100% at rank15) inreased by mastery also.
or if u dont like SR u can use pestilente postules with low haste, so apoc not only will give 2 free runes but also have a 40% chance of procing RC. again later on with haste we can sawp for hargringer of doom. postules also increase ur chance of RC during aoe in m+
all of the above is not taking into consideration deathcoil has a 64% chance to proc RC alone
Thanks for this response because it made me realise one thing - were all these changes made so the spec would be more viable in PvE progression?
As I stated I am a casual player, I do one m+ like once a week for a box and most of the time I grind things in open-world.
But from what you are saying it does seem as if they are trying to tweak the spec according to the needs of high m+ and raid progression, which is unfortunate for us “casual scrubs”. It’s surprising too, since I have a feeling the game is becoming more and more casual and here we have a spec that was very easy to understand and now we have to discuss and theorise about it on the forums… Gotta withstand till the next expansion then am I right?
