in the current form that pvp is in i have a hard time getting soul reaper to procc because with all the instant heals the enemys health bar is often jumping so much between under 35% and over 35% .
this leads to me often not getting soul reaper to procc its execute damage. there is so much to keep track off to get it to procc that it feels somewhat underperforming when compared to other executes like warrior or monk have.
they can actually just press it when their target falls below a certain threshhold.
how do you guys cope with this. are there any tips my fellow unholy pvpers can give me?
should we ask blizzard to rework soul reaper? as i said it is pretty lackluster compared to other executes, also it is a talent and not even baseline. which makes it even more lackluster
It’s either time your damage so enemy will be low enough once soul reaper activates or just pressure the target to force healer spend major cooldowns to prevent soul reaper from proccing.
Long time ago, when Necrotic was actually absorbing a significant amount of healing it was common strategy to stack necrotics and then pop reaper to prevent healer from healing the target out of threshold.
But I agree, it should be baseline for unholy.
DK pvp in general is quite bad right now. Unholy is infact completely useless. If you’re trying to do any pvp you should be playing frost because unholy just doesn’t do any damage.
Soul reaper was reworked for shadowlands and sort of went back to the execute it used to be. It’s clunky and is hard to land properly given the bursty nature of this meta. Soul reaper should of been left alone the way it worked previously was fine. Personally i don’t ever play it not because i’m not playing unholy but because it’s very hard to land and even then doesn’t actually make a impact. Id rather take sudden doom which is another near useless talent.
Stop using soul reaper in pvp but you should stop playing unholy in reality. Unh is a disaster.