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Welcome to
Lichborne, WoW.com's death knight column.
Remember when I said that
it looked like Patch 3.3 was going to be relatively quiet for us? I may have spoken too soon. There's been a pretty major shakeup to Unholy DPS (again), and there's one or two other changes we might want to discuss, including news of some armor tier bonuses. Let's get to it.
Scourge Strike Rebalancing: The Neverending StorySo before we delve into this change, let's take a moment to review the star-crossed history of
Scourge Strike. Scourge Strike is meant to be the basic Frost/Unholy attack of an Unholy death knight, and the hardest hitting of their attacks. In theory. Here's the thing with Scourge Strike: It does shadow damage. That means it completely bypasses all armor, meaning it does a lot more effective damage than you might guess just from glancing at the tool tip. The problem back in the early days of the class is that it was doing far too much, easily outstripping
Obliterate. So, Blizzard nerfed the damage, and all was well for a while.
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Publish Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST
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