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1 hour ago, Dractus said:

Artifact weapons were horrid, Class halls pointless, and Legendary items where CANCER

Well, at least you went into detail as to why you think those were so bad, otherwise your post would be a completely waste of space. /s

I'm personally not a huge fan of Class Halls either, or spreading the player base over multiple locations in general. It always seems like a desperate act to not have another Northrend-Dalaran situation where the game just could not handle all the players in one location. That's why we see the same thing again now, where everything in our faction capitals is just miles apart. Other than that, at least Order Halls worked pretty well story- and themewise.

The real problem I find with legendaries was their implementation. Making it a random drop was doomed from the start, even with bad luck protection, because you would still end up with trash like pre-buff Sephuz. And honestly, the idea behind them is weird. So you have items that change your abilities with special effects, and you can only wear one (later two) of them at the same time... why not just make a new talent row? If it's for that carrot on the stick, well it didn't work. No one I played with farmed emissaries or low-tier raids just for legendaries. And even if, that's just recycling of already irrelevant content, which just burns out players.

Tier sets need to come back. If you wanna shut up the M+ players, just give them some Dungeon sets that are specifically tailored for that content, or just block the set boni in M+.

Storywise, I'd rather not be part of badly animated cutscenes... it feels half-assed, especially when you have games like SWTOR who do a significantly better job at story telling. Also, please stop calling me "Champion"... that title is meaningless when you grant it to anyone who manages to create a character.

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You also forgot a Suramar like zone with a storyline that advances through weeks, and the BfA equivalent of a Mage tower challenge. It could give us some cool transmog sets (since mounts at this point don't really feel that special)

Some of the things you mentioned had flaws, for example the AP grind or the Legendary system as a whole, but I agree on the last two parts.

In a way, I'm starting to get why Sylvanas behaves the way she does and that being a pacifists is just being a massive hypocrite, but it could have been done a lot better.Plus the fact that Azerite is basically the Azerothian version of the splitting of the atom. And neither Alliance or the Horde are completely innocent. It always baffled why Blizz never hired some Black Library writers like Aaron Dembski Bowden or dan Abnett, instead of fanfic tier Kristie Golden 

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The excuse blizzard gave for dropping tier is bullshit simply because the 2 boss raid coming this month is just reusing the armor art from BfD.

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2 hours ago, Dractus said:

Artifact weapons were horrid, Class halls pointless, and Legendary items where CANCER (oh you do horrible DPS because you can't get lucky getting a random drop once every 2 weeks? o super fun). The last 2 are different. I miss teir a TON!! and the story was being better-built in legion but the first 3 Oh god no! put the booze down before you write stuff.

liked the Legendaries as a fire mage because you had a little bit more variations in play style. Also Def Legendaries had been great for higher M+ (when you also could change your equipt in M+ what im really missing) and raid progress

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Artifacts and AP grinds were boring. Being a "hero" didn't really mean anything, if every average Joe had a copy of some well known weapons like Ashbringer or Doomhammer. These IMO should have stayed in possession of lore characters. I prefer when game acknowledges there are multiple heroes/champions working together. That, and they should finally remove mission table, as these are just boring leftovers from garrisons/class halls. What I liked in Legion the most were it's zones (most of them), overall climate and several plot lines, even though some of them could have been written better (example: whole Greymane/Sylvanas thing felt rather disjointed, as if cut from something larger, it ended so abruptly without direct follow up).

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legendarys were awesome, best idea in a long time..

it was just not balanced...

if every legendary had the same strenght nobody would criy about it

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I actually enjoyed the Legion content for the most part of it.  It was actually a breath of fresh air from playing other MMO's like ArcheAge, Tera, and Aion where it literally would take me 7 months to 2 years doing endgame content for a weapon or gear upgrade for my Main Character.  Loved the Mage Tower challenge when it was available and thought it was very unique and finding the hidden appearances via random item drops to start a chain quest for several of the classes I did played.  Tier sets were nice and started me wanting to raid again in an MMO.  Some of the Legendaries I did like and there was some that just collected dust in my bags that I didn't care for.

BFA is just meh due to very little self progression for the individual.  "Congrats you finally reached Lv.120 now go grind Artifact Power to unlock your Azerite Traits and yes you are going to have to keep upgrading your Azerite Gear to be beneficial in Raiding and Mythic Keystone Dungeons enjoy your current End Game stand still till patch 8.2.? is released and do it all over again till the end of this expansion.  Sincerely Blizzard...p.s. we will have Concordance 2.0 again but this time for your HoA."

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I really enjoyed Legion and I tested every class just to how their story starts and despite some people didn´t like the Artifactweapon I liked it a lot. It gave me the feeling that my Character got stronger when I activated a trait and with the Mage tower you even got a special Skin for it as well wich frustraded me until I finally completed the challange and it felt great .

The Legendries were not well balanced but still the idea was a good one since you can mog them now

The Class odere Halls were blessing and curse at the same time but the way we obtained them made sense and went well with the story.

I also miss the Tier set since they were very important and possesing them made you stronger now every armor looks the same for each class and that´s really boring. And I don´t understand why they removed them.  So far BfA has failed to impress since Blizzard removed most of the good features from Legion but I´m still interested in how the story of this addon will end.

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What I miss about Legion was how every bit of content was relevant all the way to the end. AP came from everything, not just Islands and World Quests, hell you got it from archaeology (until people complained and it was nerfed). No matter the content you did you got a decent chunk of AP, now doing a Mythic 15 gives less than clearing two brainless world quests.

On top of that, despite the problems with legendaries (which was mainly the inability to target what you wanted) it meant that even if you were running older or lower content, such as the original world bosses or a M4, you were still upping your BLP, so you could help out your friends and other people without feeling like there was nothing in it for you.

The other thing I miss is value of alts. If I was feeling a little bored with my main I could level up another character and bamn, there was a new story to see! Over the course of Legion I got every class to 110 (and got 33 of the 36 mage tower appearances, another great system. The healing one was awful though so once I did it on Druid and Priest I never did it again). BFA? I've gotten six there and the idea of levelling through that content again makes me want to vomit. It's all the same, completely the same.

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Missing these:
+Class order hall. Not the place (I can always go back to it), but the absence of class involvment. Though I don't want to be a leader of my class, I would be okay with being just an apprentice mage/paladin/etc. that is eager to learn from Khadgar or carries the weapon-bag for Liadrin.
+Fishing artifact (only artifact I'm really missing)
+As above mentioned: Suramar. Though I think it had the disadvantage that it released very early into the expansion and became a pointless zone to visit by the end of Legion. Mechagon may play a similar role in BfA, let's hope it can deliver.

Not missing them at all:
-Dalaran. Content reusal at it's worst, BfA faction hubs (especially Boralus) feel superior and blend with the continent.
-The way they killed off artifacts. Artifact system indeed was nice, but wielding so powerful weapons yields the obvious question: why won't we use them to fight the next enemy? Having to sacrifice them kind of meant even Blizzard didn't bothered planning ahead - it was an utter disappointment.
-Seperate PvE/PvP realms. Best thing gone from the game.

I have indifferent feeling towards tier sets: they were nice for transmogrification purposes, but having to plan around fixed bonuses sucked. I may be alone with this - but I prefer the switchable azerite gear bonuses over them any day. If it returns it will be probably some mix of the two system.

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Missing these:

  • Class Order Hall:  I really liked that I was able to play content specific to the class I was playing.  It brought a whole new level to the game.
    • Alongside this, the Champions I spent so much time developing, maybe even some attained in WoD... Leeroy Jenkins!!!!!!
  • Artifact Weapons:  Losing this really upset me.  I really liked not having to change weapons every level or so.  I wish they could have left it in the game and added more looks to the artifact.  As my main is a Shaman, I loved having Doomhammer in one hand and Andoros in the other.  Now, however, I can't change the off hand to Andoros, leaving me to give up using Doomhammer as a look.
  • Locations:  I loved Highmountain, Stormheim, and Suramar.
  • Tier Sets:  If I choose to play as a Shaman or Paladin, etc. Then I want transmog for that specific class, not a generic one.  

Don't miss:

- Like Badadada said, "The way they killed off artifacts. Artifact system indeed was nice, but wielding so powerful weapons yields the obvious question: why don't we use them to fight the next enemy? Having to sacrifice them kind of meant even Blizzard didn't bother planning ahead - it was an utter disappointment."

Honestly, I am finding it tedious trying to attain anything in BfA.  The only thing I actually like is the Allied Races, and the Volpera, (I hope they become available as an allied race).  As it is, Blizzard being owned by Activision, has seriously taken the enjoyment out of the game.

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Legion brought me back to WoW.  I loved being able to wield Doomhammer and I still use the transmogs on my shaman.  Artifacts were a great progression chase, because you could see actual results.  As stated above, you received ap from all forms of content and that help make the chase feel worth while.

The order halls were pretty cool.  I enjoyed the themes for each class.  It is a shame that they aren't still being used.

Legendary items were interesting and also a cool chase feature.  However, as mentioned, they were terribly imbalanced overall.  I did enjoy getting smoldering heart on my shaman. It was fun randomly having ascendance.

The only differences between tier gear and azerite gear is a gui and a boring grind.  

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The class halls alone made the leveling and story experience so much more flexible, that legion made me get all classes to max level.

And i agree with all the other points as well. I know that the legendaries were a annoying for most players, because there were a few incredible and a few really bad ones, and not being able to earn the specific one you want, is tiring, buuuut the excitement was real.

For me those two systems made me stick to legion consistently. class halls to get me startetd, and legendaries to give me a goal. Legion was by far the best expansion for me personally.

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To the Legion haters I have to say : haters gonna hate, but lovers gonna love.

And imho, the topic creator is SPOT ON on what made Legion great and what I miss the most.
The legendaries and the artifact weapon made a sens of purpose and something that I miss a lot : ability points.

I'm not fan at all of this whole tier level choice between 3 things.
I loved the "get one level, get one point to put somewhere".
Because of this I played Skyforge a lot because of their Atlas system, but the 2.0 patch killed all that and got streamlined to "get a tier level choice" ...

The current Azerite trait system should have been an evolution of our artifact weapons, making them new traits to earn and learn.
The class Halls should have stayed something where we could have class-flavored war campaigns.

The current system albeit having me playing a lot , is "meh" compared to the Legion "hero" experience.

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I liked Legion, at least the first half of it. I leveled multiple classes just to see the story lines of obtaining the artifact weapons and have a glance inside the various class halls.

The priest's class hall was gorgeous. The lock's own little planet was very funny.

Opening an emissary chest was like opening the weekly m+ chest cuz of the legendaries.

Suramar, Argus both are unique and  very rich zones and they should be part of the leveling zones at least between 105 and 110.

The invasion made it easy to level alts plus the AK books.

Plus the concept of defeating the greatest evil (forget voidlords) was inspiring. 

BfA is far from the feeling i had in Legion. Due to the current HoA system as soon as I have a new lvl 120 alt, I leave it alone.

Profession is boring. Being alchemist serves me one purpose: monthly token.

Island exp is a joke. The only thing I like in bfa is the PvP talent

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I hope never in the history of this game we see legendary itens like it was in legion.

the narrative of legion, it was the boring, better than "healing azeroth", because for real, i cant care less about magni questlines, they are soo dull, "rise your whatever and see it shine, now you are more powerfull", very lame, in both expansions, but in bfa its the necklace.

Classhalls means more meaningfull quests, some were just to fill holes like getting the artifact quests from that dude in karazhan.

I didnt care about the artifacts after a few days, but atleast were better than the necklace.

plus the burning legion for the first patches felt like iron horde, like it didnt exists.

 

I miss the reforging, gems, this kind of stuff that was until pandaria, and the wod pvp itens, dks frost 2h.

from legion i just miss the instanced pvp item balacing.

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15 hours ago, Dractus said:

Artifact weapons were horrid, Class halls pointless, and Legendary items where CANCER (oh you do horrible DPS because you can't get lucky getting a random drop once every 2 weeks? o super fun). The last 2 are different. I miss teir a TON!! and the story was being better-built in legion but the first 3 Oh god no! put the booze down before you write stuff.

If you don't enjoy the game why are you even playing I like the grind it shows you have worked hard I find a lot of quest are to easy .to many people take the game to serious  they get so up set doing runs calm down take a chill pill it's ment to be fun not idiots who only complain about the game and say they hate it but still play .you hardly find many people who just like to help others what I find  i funny is people are more worried about there dps insted of work as a group the ones who dont get what they want abuse others then leave

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100% agree, Legendaries made everything you did exciting, sure it could be frustrating (I didn't get 2 of my best 3 on my main till my last 2 legos, which was also the week before I went travelling for a year so didn't even get to play with them) but it made everything you did feel valuable. I just don't care about doing anything in BFA other than raiding, no reason to do easier raid difficulties, no real reason to do world quests now my neck is at 44. Less of a reason to do my weekly M+ now my ilevel is 412. Sure I can still get small upgrades, but the chance of a lego was super exciting. Unless I'm trying to push raider io score there's no reason for me to do anything outside of my main raid nights at the minute other than play alts. 

The unique class order halls with the actually worthwhile rewards were great as well, unique mounts and artifact skins and generally just good story made you actually want to play through as multiple classes. 

Don't forget the mage tower as well! That was awesome and with some excellent rewards with the skins. 

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16 hours ago, Stan said:

I don't really know why Blizzard constantly feels the urge to reinvent the wheel with major features of the game that are well received among the community.

Because otherwise people will whine that they're paying full price for an expansion where nothing changes. So they're kinda forced to make new mechanics for each expansion to make them compelling and different from one another. I agree with you, though, that they could have kept some stuff from Legion and embedded better in Battle for Azeroth.

I also agree that they should have kept the Artifact Weapons given how customizable they were in terms of appearance (plus there is Transmogrification already). Having an Artifact Weapon gave players a sense of scale in terms of power. Even if the rest of your gear was *filtered*, you at least had your weapon to rely on.

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Legion had its flaws early on but around 1/4 of the way through it everything started to come together and come together it did, beautifully. I wonder from time to time why Blizzard didn't just introduce 6 new skins for your artifact weapon, give every class 15-20 new legendaries and continue the class hall into BFA (Have new locations for class halls on Boralus and Zandalar but still make the old ones relevant, maybe missions connecting the 2). I hate it when blizz has something that works and is really good then the next expac comes out and its erased. Even worse they keep all the stuff that didn't work or make new stuff for ppl to do that is garbage (island expos). Why they do this I'll never know. I can only hope going forward they have learned from their mistakes. 

Probably the #1 feature from Legion I miss is the ability to change your playstyle  through the use of Leggos. I would go as far as to say I miss that more than anything taken from WOW ever. Those leggos made playing my character fun, something in bfa that my characters are in desperate need of. Ion said in a interview they were looking at how the artifact weapons worked for inspiration on developing the Heart of Azeroth progression path. I hope they get it right. Fingers crossed.

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      Head to a bazaar in any zone to purchase everything from class transmogs, to Mists of Pandaria mounts, toys, and more. This allows players to purchase items that were previously unable to obtain or difficult to obtain as random drops by simply spending this new currency to add them to their account’s collection.
      Inifnite bazaars can be found at the following locations:
       
      Location
      Zone
      Tian Monastery
      Jade Forest
      Halfhill Market
      Valley of the Four Winds
      Temple of the White Tiger
      Kun’Lai Summit
      Niuzao Temple
      Townlong Steppes
      Kor’vess
      Dread Waste
      Star’s Bazaar (Alliance)
      Shrine of the Seven Stars
      Golden Terrace (Horde)
      Shrine of the Two Moons
          Players won’t be able to use the Auction House in World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria.
      World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria goes live May 16 at 10:00 am PDT worldwide. We’ll see you in Pandaria!
    • By Staff
      Today's War Within Alpha build focuses on the overhaul of the Destruction Warlock tree, aimed at simplifying talent choice and improving underutilized abiltiies.
      The developers wanted to reduce fluctuation in power, enhance underutilized talents, and simplify decision-making within the talent trees with the latest Destruction tree update.
      Some highlights:
      Chaos Bolt is now baseline for Destruction Warlocks. Avatar of Destruction has been removed. Decimating Bolt is reintroduced to boost the power of your rotational spells. Underutilized talents like Soulfire and Cataclysm have been improved to increase their viability. (Source)
      Today’s Alpha update focuses primarily on Destruction.
      The Path Ahead
      Before we dive in, we want to acknowledge that our work with each specialization tree is not complete. We’ve seen the recent discussions regarding how bloated the Demonology and Destruction tree are in terms of available talents and ranks, as well as thoughts on the pathing of the Affliction tree.
      In the near future, you will see that the Demonology tree is being restructured and condensed. Both the Destruction tree and the Affliction tree will also undergo a restructuring in the near future. In this context, a restructuring means that: the amount of 2-rank talent nodes will be reduced, talents may be removed, talents may be added, new pathing will be added, and talent nodes may be moved.
      Destruction Update
      Here are our stated goals, with the addition of a new goal, for Destruction moving into the War Within:
      Reduce the fluctuation in throughput in relation to the number of targets in combat. Improve underused talents such as Soulfire and Cataclysm. Condense the number of talents and talent ranks available. Beginning with our general changes, we are moving Chaos Bolt to be baseline. This is mainly to provide a Soul Shard spender once your specialization is chosen. We are also removing Chaosbringer but plan to provide additional tuning to Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn baseline to ensure their power remains relatively the same.
      Avatar of Destruction
      We are removing Avatar of Destruction for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, we want to highlight Summon Infernal as a powerful moment and Avatar of Destruction lessens that by increasing the cadence in which an Infernal is present.
      Secondly, Avatar of Destruction provides Destruction warlocks with a powerful, multi-target stun on a frequent basis. We could remove the stun, but we want to stay in line with our philosophy that when a player sees a demon there’s an understanding of what function that demon provides.
      To replace Avatar of Destruction, we want to try bringing back Decimating Bolt as it fits the fantasy of a Destruction warlock well and provides more power to your rotational spells. We plan to iterate on this decision based on feedback we see from the community.
      Inferno
      We have redesigned Inferno to reduce how much throughput fluctuates based on the number of enemies present during an encounter. This will allow us to tune Destruction in all situations, regardless of the number of targets available. Additionally, this allows us to tune this talent to be a competitive option against Cataclysm rather than have it remain the correct choice.
      Soulfire, Shadowburn, Channel Demonfire
      We want to make each of these spells more appealing. In this build, you’ll see a redesign of Decimation as an experiment to accomplish this for Soulfire however we plan to expand more on this as well as Shadowburn and Channel Demonfire with the restructuring of the Destruction tree, mentioned earlier in this post. Stay tuned for future updates as we work to address this goal.
      Thank you for the discussions thus far. We appreciate the continued feedback!
      You will find all the changes that went live for Warlocks this week linked below.
      (Source)
      WARLOCK Hellcaller Seeds of Their Demise has been redesigned – Blackened Soul damage increased by 30%. When Blackened Soul deals damage, you have a chance to gain Ritual of Ruin/Tormented Crescendo. Malevolence, Wither, and Seeds of Their Demise icons have been updated. Demonology You now have a 35% chance (was 100% chance) to generate a Demonic Core from your summoned Dreadstalkers when they fade. Destruction New Talent: Devastation – Increases the Critical Strike chance of your Destruction spells by 5%. New Talent: Emberstorm – Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2/4% and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 10/20%. New Talent: Decimating Bolt – Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing Shadow damage and increase the damage of your next 3 Incinerates by 40%. Decimating Bolt’s damage, and the bonus to Incinerate both increase as your target’s health decreases. New Talent: Summoner’s Embrace – Increases the damage dealt by your spells and your demon by 3%. Ruin has been redesigned – Increases the Critical Strike damage of your Destruction spells by 5/10%. Inferno has been redesigned – Rain of Fire damage is increased by 20% and its Soul Shard cost is reduced by 1. Decimation has been redesigned – Your Incinerate and Conflagrate casts on targets that have 35% or less health reduces the cooldown of Soulfire by 5 seconds and reduce its cast time by 40% for 10 seconds. Chaos Incarnate has been redesigned – Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn always gain 70% of the maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies. Chaos Bolt has been removed from the Destruction specialization tree and is now baseline. Conflagrate has been moved to row 1. Backdraft has been moved to row 2. Roaring Blaze and Improved Conflagrate have been moved to row 3. Ruin has been moved to row 9. The following talents have been removed: Avatar of Destruction Chaosbringer
    • By Staff
      The latest Alpha build introduces significant changes to Death Knight's core and Unholy talent trees and here is what the devs had to say about the changes!
      The core class tree has been restructured to provide damage abilities earlier, improving the leveling experience and offering more flexibility in talent choices.
      The Unholy specialization has been streamlined to reduce the complexity of its rotation and cooldown management, making it less reliant on specific talent builds.
      Epidemic and Outbreak are now baseline and Sudden Doom has been updated.
      Here is what the devs had to say about the latest Death Knight changes.
      (Source)
      Greetings, Death Knights.
      This week’s alpha build has our first round of changes to both the core class tree and the Unholy spec tree. As stated in our initial messaging our goals for the core tree updates were to shift some of the damage throughput at the end of the talent tree to earlier in the tree. For Unholy our goal was to address some of the flood of resources, reduce the number of things that need to be tracked to play optimally, increase pathing as well as choice, and reduce the number of nodes you need to pick up to play the spec fluidly. We will go into a little more detail below for both the core and Unholy changes.
      Core
      The core tree has undergone a decent reshuffling of talent placement, node pathing, ability’s becoming baseline and talent rank reduction.
      Due to the unique leveling experience Death Knights have and not starting from level 1, they had a reduced amount of abilities baseline and had to “buy back” several abilities that other classes and specs would have normally earned as they levelled. Heading into The War Within we are reassessing the stance on this for Death Knight not only for abilities they had to talent into in the core tree but also their spec trees. The hope here is by freeing up some of these talent points you had to spend to make a functional leveling experience you gain a few points that allow you to flex into more optional talents without locking you into one build.
      We have also updated several pathing nodes and moved around a few nodes to better fit the new tree philosophy. Structurally the bottom of the tree no longer holds 9 throughput talents and they have been shifted to earlier in the tree and many of them have been reduced to 1 point. Again, allowing for more build variety and the ability to pick up situational talents when you might need.
      We hope that the update to the core tree allows for more expression when building out your talents and not as if you are locked into one talent build with very wiggle room to pick talents reactively for the situation you are facing.
      Unholy
      The Unholy talent update focuses on reducing the number of talents that you had to pick to make the rotation function in a reasonably coherent way. This includes Epidemic and Outbreak baseline and addressing the number of ability cooldown reduction talents. Unholy suffered from having to choose multiple talents that reduced their cooldowns to align in a way that made sense from a gameplay standpoint. This made playing the spec any other way unreasonably convoluted especially if you were new to the spec and trying to learn to play the spec. We have removed any talent that had any sort of cooldown reduction to abilities and baked them baseline into the spec (this includes Army of the Dead which is now a 3-minute cooldown).
      Secondly, we wanted to address Sudden Doom which has been feeling lackluster for awhile now. Most notably we’ve updated its proc functionality to be more consistent instead of using our RPPM system which is usually found on trinkets and other item procs. It now has a base 25% chance to proc with bad luck protection built in. The hope here is this feels more fluid and a normally occurring proc that fits well int your rotation instead of one that feels like you can go long periods of time without it. We are still noodling on the base percentage chance and values are subject to change, but we’ve found this to be a good starting point. We’ve also updated its functionality to cause your next Death Coil or Epidemic to crit to add a little extra punch to the proc. Alongside some talents that interacted with Sudden Doom and the new talent Doomed Bidding we hope that Sudden Doom feels much more impactful as a class proc.
      We’ve also cut several talents that felt somewhat lackluster or just did very little for Unholy, most notably Feasting Strikes and Replenishing Wounds. We hope that with the reduced amount of must pick Cooldown talents, never picked “useless” talents, and new talent choices there are more appealing choices to be made within the tree that allow you customize in a way that fits your needs. Lastly, there are a couple talent nodes that have temporary “Not Yet Implemented” talents. We will be updating in the future build and eyeing talents that add a little more interaction with diseases in potentially exciting ways.
      Thanks for your patience! We look forward to hearing your feedback on the above. Next up-- we’re working to get our planned Frost and Blood changes in.
      And here are the specific adjustments made to the class, from the development notes:
      (Source)
      DEATH KNIGHT New Talent: Subduing Grasp – When you pull an enemy the damage they deal to you is reduced by 4% for 6 seconds. Located at Rune Mastery’s previous location. New Talent: Osmosis – Anti-Magic Shell increases healing received by 15/25%. Located at Unholy Bonds previous location. New Talent: Null Magic – Magic Damage taken is reduced by 15% and the duration of harmful Magic effects against you are reduced by 35%. New capstone choice node with Vestigial Shell replacing Soul Reaper. New Talent: Vestigial Shell – Casting Anti-Magic Shell grants 2 nearby allies a Lesser Anti-Magic Shell that absorbs magic damage and reduces the duration of harmful Magic effects against them by 50%. New capstone choice node with Null Magic replacing Soul Reaper. New Talent: Ice Prison – Chains of Ice now also roots enemies for 4 seconds but its cooldown is increased to 12 seconds. Available in gate 1 after Blinding Sleet. New Talent: Rune Protection – Your chance to be critically struck is reduced by 3% and your Armor is increased by 3/6%. Replaces Icy Talons old position within the tree. Chains of Ice is now granted baseline and learned at level 13. Anti-Magic Shell is now granted baseline and learned at level 14. Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle can now be Runeforged on 1-handed weapons. Rune of Hysteria has been removed. Developer’s note: Rune of Hysteria was a problematic design especially as it pertains to Breath of Sindragosa and the volatility of its uptime. We felt that for the overall health of the spec it would be best to remove Hysteria at this time to better enable us to meet our goals with the upcoming changes to Breath. Empower Rune Weapon has been removed. Developer’s note: This will still be available for Frost in their spec tree but both Blood and Unholy were often flooded with resources and a big unnecessary contributor to this was Empower Rune Weapon. To better dial in resources on Blood and Unholy we feel its best to keep Empower Rune Weapon for Frost only. Abomination Limb no longer grants Bone Shield, Runic Corruption, or Rime based on specialization. Developer’s note: In Shadowlands it was important for the spec hooks to exist to better balance between the other covenant ability choices. With its re-introduction in Dragonflight its added to the influx of resources/procs that can often come at inopportune times or add to the feeling of being unable to spend down the bonuses it grants. By removing this it allows the ability to “breathe” on its own and lean into its strength of AoE control and damage. Rune of the Apocalypse has been updated: War Effect Damage taken increased to 4% (was 1%). Duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds). Pestilence Effect Damage increased by 500%. Famine Effect Damage dealt to the caster reduced to 5% (was 2%). Death Effect Healing reduction increased to 5% (was 1%). Cleaving Strikes now also retains bonus effects for being within your Death and Decay for 4 seconds when leaving its area. Icebound Fortitude cooldown reduced by 60 seconds. Veteran of the Third War now grants 20% Stamina (was 10%). Now a 1-rank talent (was 2). Icy Talons Now increases attack speed per stack by 6% (was 3%). Now a 1-rank talent (was 2). Unholy Bond now increases effectiveness of Runeforge effects by 20% (was 10%). Now a 1-rank talent (was 2). Assimilation now reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Zone by 30 seconds. No longer increase Runic Power when absorbing damage. Suppression now grants an additional 6% damage reduction to area of effects when you suffer a loss of control effect. Moved to gate 3. Blood Scent Leech increased to 5%. Moved to gate 3. Blood Draw now also grants a buff reducing damage taken by 10% and reducing Death Strike cost by 10 for 8 seconds when falling below 30% health. Now a 1-rank talent. Moved to the left capstone position. Unholy Ground moved to gate 1 available after Cleaving Strikes. Sacrificial Pact is now a choice node with Enfeeble. Runic Attenuation moved to gate 1 available after Coldthirst. Soul Reaper moved to gate 2 available after Unholy Blond or Death’s Reach The following talents have been removed: Might of Thassarian Merciless Strikes Clenching Grasp Unholy New Talent: Doomed Bidding – Consuming Sudden Doom calls upon a Magus of the Dead to assist you for 8 seconds. Now a choice node with Summon Gargoyle. Ghoulish Frenzy is now available in the 2nd gate replacing Unholy Command. New Talent: Raise Abomination – Summons an Abomination to attack nearby enemies applying Festering Wound with its melee attacks and infecting all nearby enemies with Virulent Plague. 90 second cooldown. Replaces Army of the Dead. New Talent: Foul Infections – Your diseases deal 10% more damage and have a 5% increased chance to critically strike. New Talent: Menacing Magus – Your Magus of the Dead Shadow Bolt now fires a volley of Shadow Bolts at up to 4 nearby enemies. Epidemic is now granted baseline and learned at level 18. Outbreak is now granted baseline and learned at level 13. Sudden Doom is now learned in gate 1 directly after Scourge Strike and also causes your next Death Coil or Epidemic to critically strike Sudden Doom is no longer an RPPM proc and has instead been updated to have a 25% chance on auto-attacks to proc with build in bad luck protection to provide a more consistent proc. Army of the Dead cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 8 minutes). Apocalypse cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 90 seconds). Dark Transformation cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds). Vile Contagion cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 90 seconds). Festermight now functions like Ironfur, allowing multiple instances to overlap. Ruptured Viscera is no longer a choice node with Magus of the Dead. Ebon Fever is no longer a choice node with Bursting Sores and is available directly after Bursting Sores. Updated to also affect Frost Fever and Blood Plague if Superstrain is talented. Unholy Blight moved to gate 1. The following talents have been removed: Replenishing Wounds Army of the Damned Unholy Command Feasting Strike
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