Item - Death Knight T16 DPS 2P Bonus - Killing Machine and Sudden Doom grant 500 Haste or Mastery, whichever is highest, for ($hnd * 2 + 4) sec, stacking up to 10 times. Blood death knights are definitely going to want to gear toward their 4 piece bonus this patch if it stays how it is. Plus, your Dancing Rune Weapon will be up during this to do even more damage. Having trouble keeping a group of adds under control? Hit Dancing Rune Weapon and use those death runes on Blood Boil. This is not only great for surviving damage spikes like never before, it gives you the freedom to unleash even more burst damage or threat with the death runes. The 4-piece bonus not only acts like a souped-up Empower Rune Weapon, but it gives you free Death Strikes. You can also look at it as an opportunity to build up charges on trash and have an extra-beefy Bone Shield when it's time to face the bosses. This means that Bone Shield becomes less of an always-on thing and more something you deliberately save for when you need an extra burst of avoidance. The two piece bonus is especially interesting because it specifically adds the charges to your next Bone Shield, not your current one. Item - Death Knight T16 Blood 4P Bonus - Dancing Rune Weapon will reactivate all Frost and Unholy runes as Death Runes, and make your next 4 Death Strikes free.īlood death knights get some excellent bonuses this tier that offer some fun new ways to play. Item - Death Knight T16 Blood 2P Bonus - Every 4 Heart Strikes, Rune Strikes, or Blood Boils will add one charge to your next Bone Shield. You'll still need a few heals to prevent yourself from immediately dying anyway, but death knights are in a special place to take advantage of that thanks to Death Strike and our other self heals. We assume both stack, of course, so this basically means death knight tanks get a couple extra lives depending on their talent choices. It's also worth noting that unholy will get more weapon use out of this than is usual for the spec, but it seems doubtful it will be so much as to massively change the way they gear up.Įndurance of Niuzao ends up being kind of a pseudo- Purgatory, except a bit better because it completely prevents the attack rather than creating a health debt. It seems likely they will apply it to both weapons, but if they don't, dual wield frost could suffer for it this patch. The two biggest questions are how often it procs, and how it will work for dual wielders. This looks like, overall, it will be a solid damage increase for death knights.
It does, however, require the enemies to be in front of you, so once you have this, you will need to pay more attention to your positioning - which you should be doing already, to be fair. While the language suggests its channeled, it looks like it won't prevent you from using other abilities.
The final reward from Wrathion's quest line will include cloaks with some very intriguing procs.įlurry of Xuen is a proc that will let DPS do extra damage as weapon damage over time. Rather than weapons (unless Gorehowl gets made into a legendary, which seems possible), we'll be getting legendary cloaks this patch. With that in mind, today we are going to examine the new tier 16 set bonuses for death knights, along with Wrathion's new legendary rewards. While we haven't seen many major death knight class changes for death knights on the patch 5.4 PTR since the last column, we have seen a lot of information on items that we have yet to cover. Let's show the other classes how a hero class gets things done. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights.
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