The buffs are almost here as Blizzard detail all the enhancements Unholy will be receiving shortly after its big nerf session in the class tuning pass. There’s an overall 8% damage buff, with the same amount for minion damage on top, as high as 30% buffs to individual abilities, bug fixes, and even some targeting improvements!
We’re finished with design and testing, and the following will go live to all realms soonTM.
- Death Knight
- Unholy
- All ability damage increased by 8%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- All minion damage increased by 8%.
- Death Coil damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Magus of the Dead damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Dread Plague damage increased by 50%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Soul Reaper damage increased by 100%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Melee damage increased by 30%.
- Scourge Strike and Vampiric Strike damage increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Festering Strike and Festering Scythe damage increased by 35%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Resolved an issue allowing Necrotic Coil to be parried, dodged or blocked.
- Resolved an issue causing Sudden Doom to reduce the effectiveness of abilities that function with the amount of Runic Power spent.
- Resolved an issue causing Plague Mastery to not interface with eruption effects of Virulent Plague and Dread Plague.
- Resolved an issue causing Scourge Strike to sometimes not spread Virulent Plague.
- Putrefy has been updated to be more consistent in its targeting and now takes target radius into account.
- Unholy
All of these changes will also appear in todays Hotfixes Update.



