AS many have noticed Blizzard has made some changes to UH, some for the better, and some for the worst, i’ll tackle some of this issues here. If you go to PTR forum, i have made a post with my thoughts on some changes UH needs to be more consistent in it’s talent choices.
First lets talk about the bad things.
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- Army of the Dead caps you now to 8 Lesser Ghouls during it’s CD. Now this one is absolute crap change, what this does it prevents us to raise more than 8 LG, this makes Sudden Doom’s effect of Doomed Bidding useless during this window, which is an absolute joke. This changes also effects passives such as Outnumber which now might end up not be worth taking as it’s weak because of the lack of LG in numbers.
- Blizzard removed Commander of the Dead’s effect which extended our Lesser Ghouls based on our Mastery, this has caused our Lesser Ghouls to feel incredibly weak outside our CD, and this is because we can’t make them last longer, they were bumped to 8 sec duration, but this is just way to short, had they increased them to at least 12-14 sec, then this changes would be reasonable.
- This one is a bit 50-50. Soul Reaper raises now 3 LG at the cost of 3 Festering Strike stacks, now i quite like this change, but this also goes to show now that this can’t be a execute CD like it is on live, this button feels way more important now for us to manage the LG economy, now the bad thing is just like Sudden Doom, once army is out, pressing this button will not raise you 3 new LG which again makes army the culprit to our problems on PTR, if you want to see the suggestions i made for this skill, go to PTR if you want to read it.
- We still have to double tap Putrefy/Festering Strike/Death and Decay, i just don’t know how Blizzard still thinks this is fine, FS should have been replaced with Scythe to give us a breathing window to generate stacks during movements, but for some reason they just don’t learn. DnD is such a joke of a button, why this is not changed to something that is a part of our rotation is just beyond my understanding. Putrefy should just burn 3 stacks right away, end of case.
- We still lack a proper talent to tailor our pet to our liking. I have made suggestions on this on PTR.
- we could really use a maintenance button which makes us raise undead that supports our rotation as we play during fights, you can see more on this over on PTR.
In summary with the bad parts, Blizzard needs to work more on the changes they have in mind, and army needs to be reverted the hell back, because nerfing the army feel of Unholy is the single worst thing they have done, they have stolen our aura.
Now the good part of Unholy’s feel good part.
- We raise Lich now based on our Magus of the Dead we raise, now while this did reduce the numbers we raise in total, the tradeoff feels really good, when you can amass 2-3 Lich to fight for you, it makes you from a visual perspective feel incredibly strong, good change.
- Unholy seems to have a much easier time to build Unholy Aura stacks now which makes us feel way smoother thanks to it, i have pushed it all the way up to 17 stacks in AOE, it’s really fun.
- Once again gonna talk about Soul Reaper, i feel that if this had also raised a Magus of the Dead along side those 3 Lesser Ghouls, then this button would feel really impactfull, i recommend buzzing Blizzard to add this.
The changes aren’t terrible, but they have some good/badish changes to them, there is still time for Blizzard to change/revert some of the changes. I once again recommend to go to PTR and post there and like comments to see if the AI.Blizz takes notice of us, the Lich we got is a good indication that they did for a fact listen.