Attempt to nerf DW failed pretty bad.

#0 - Jan. 9, 2009, 3:43 p.m.

Overall DW DPS on the PTR is up from live servers.

The Icy Touch glyph change, new sigil and Howling Blast change are more than accounting for the Killing Machine nerf (which isn't even that significant due how how many prior KM procs were being overwritten and wasted). You can't honestly expect 10 PPM when DW before haste to be a significant nerf; you can only actually use so many KM procs per rotation. DW made the most gains off the Necrosis change as well.

You may have moved Blood and Frost slightly closer, but they were already lagging behind 2H Unholy much less any of the DW builds. All you really accomplished here was that you pushed 2H Unholy down just far enough that all three 2H builds are roughly the same distance behind DW.

There's still probably a 10-13% gap between any 2H build and DW builds. If that's good enough for you guys, just come out and say it please. I'd like to have a better idea how to gear my character in the future.

Ghostcrawler

#8 - Jan. 9, 2009, 5:27 p.m.

Scaling to infinity isn't an issue per se since we aren't going to hand out weapons of infinite damage (at least in this expansion). It's cool if Necrosis and BCB favor DW. We don't think they will drive all DKs to be DW, at least with gear available in Lich King.

It sounds like something didn't work right with the Killing Machine change, because the intent was to bring down the proc rate and make it more consistent between 2H and DW. We are investigating.