Mortal Strike vs. Scourge Strike

#0 - May 20, 2009, 9:41 p.m.

Is it balanced that DKs regularly do 2-3x my damage in 2v2 Even though they have a multitude of damage reduction abilities(let's not even talk about frost presence), armor ignoring stirkes that regularly crit for 7-8k on 800 resil, and a ranged spammable snare?

I think the highest I've ever MS crit a DK for was somewhere in the 1700 ballpark.
I get scourgestrike crit regularly for ~7200.

Please answer why it's fair not only for DKs to have massive utility BUT double my damage. I'd really like to know.

Ghostcrawler

#1 - May 20, 2009, 11:30 p.m.

MS hits for physical damage. DKs wear plate. SS hits for shadow damage. Warriors wear plate.

MS requires rage. SS requires two runes and two diseases to already be active on the target.

SS hits. MS hits and causes a healing debuff.

You can't just compare two abilities out of context like this. Shred likely does more damage than MS or SS. Many rogue attacks hit for far less. I'm not sure what conclusions you can draw from such facts.

Now, if you have evidence that over the course of a match the DK is consistently doing much more damage than you, that might be something worth digging into.