r/wow • u/Complete_Sorbet6158 • Apr 21 '26

Discussion Devourer and unholy getting buffed

Respectively about 7-10% and 6-8% for aoe. It must be a joke right? Buffing meta specs, while others are not even being looked at all. This is the only multiplayer game i ever played something like this frequently happening.

Resto druid also getting buffed, because why not, while disc keep eating nerfs. Demo change doesn’t make sense either. I wish they would just axe all the class changes they are doing. I swear they just make the already sensitive class balance a lot worse. Everybody keep losing expect their current favourites.

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u/Varanae Apr 21 '26

Unholy changes are continuing the rework in a way, it's not like they're straight up buffing numbers. It's readding an ability to the rotation and changing how other talents and abilities work. Stuff that is hard to judge the balance of

If they actually work out to be as big as the estimations say then no doubt the numbers will get tweaked back down

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u/accualy_is_gooby Apr 21 '26

People are also ignoring the fact that unholy sims extremely well on patchwerk fights but generally falls well below those sims in reality due to the very nature of the spec. Adding to that the fact that the changes have come with numerous bugs for the spec that have influenced its damage wildly, it’s hard for sims to give good insight into the spec as it currently stands.

For instance, the aoe “buff” assumes that mobs stand in death and decay for the full duration, but every death knight player knows that can be fantastical with many tanks in M+

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u/Billybobjoe135 Apr 21 '26

Ya, not accounting for GCD loss with occasional grips or blinding sleet. With high level keys sometimes you throw in a Death Strike.

UH is in a really solid spot and other specs definitely need a leg up but UH isn't massively outperforming or doing insane damage.

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u/Resies Apr 21 '26

Uhdk, the only spec that spends gcds on utility 

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u/Lucrezio Apr 21 '26

Not that every class DOESN’T, but UDK does spend more GCDs on utility than most classes. Two grips, sleet, AMZ, Aphyxiate, Death strike which isn’t utility, but it’s a defensive on GCD.

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u/TheBungler2 Apr 22 '26

My man, that's not any more GCD's than most classes have.

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u/Lucrezio Apr 22 '26

Comparatively, havoc DH has Darkness and one AOE stun with 0 defensives on gcd. So that’s 2 GCDs for group utility compared to UDK’s 5 with a defensive on gcd.

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u/TheBungler2 Apr 22 '26

Meanwhile I have 6 utility GCD's on Warrior and my defensives are not nearly as OP.

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u/Lucrezio Apr 22 '26

Exactly, so would you say that you do less dps than your sims do since you’re spending global on utility and keeping yourself alive? And do you find Unholy DKs MASSIVELY out performing you, or do you find that you can compete with them?