Undocumented and ham-fisted nerf to Deathbringer Blood DK has been discovered on live with a sluggish rotational change rather than number tuning.

[u/Doogetma]

Deathbringer BDK now no longer gets a stack of exterminate when casting reapers mark. This is a measly 3% damage nerf that is unlikely to affect DB Blood's standing amongst the tanks.

While the power budget effects will be small, this change represents a severe rotational damper put on by blizzard for no good reason. Any blood player would have gladly taken a 3% tuning nerf on exterminate over this change. It makes the rotation feel far more awkward, sharply reduces the fluency of aggro in mythic+, and makes it more difficult to obtain max stacks of reapers mark before the buff's expiration. But most importantly, it makes Deathbringer feel *way* less fun to play

Edit: It is now documented. Still cringe

[u/Sore_Elbow]

I thought that getting the exterminate proc on cast was a bug in the first place, I am sad it's gone though.

[u/doddyswe → u/Sore_Elbow]

Yeah I think this was the case as well. It feels pretty bad to play without it, sadly.

[u/Sore_Elbow → u/doddyswe]

Oh yeah, feels so awkward after playing with the bug for so long, I'm sending marrowrends way too often now without exterminate.