PTR 3.3 Scourge Strike now working

so far the shadow dmg does scale directly off the physical dmg done, just like necrosis, so if the physical dmg crits, the shadow portion does double but it is indeed magic dmg that is reduced by armor.

and the shadow dmg portion can crit independantly, but heres the kicker, it only crits for 50% dmg like non tallented caster spells, and is based off of your spell crit and does not recieve any bonus crit chance from subversion or vicious strikes or annhilation, wich means in pvp environment your looking at a whopping 8 - 10% chance for it to crit.

that being said my average SS dmg when adding both portions together seems to be lower on PTR than it does on live, accept when you count double crits where the spell portion crits and the melee portion crits.

my average SS on non heroic lvl80 training dummies on live in unholy pressence is 2600, on PTR its 2400, now given the small different one can see how in raid gear with armor penetration and sunder armor its going to be a substantial buff, however it also equates to yet another and very unnecessary PVP Nerf given that your dmg is going way down on anyone wearing mail or higher and will break even on leather and will be a slight buff on anyone wearing cloth.

all we can hope for is that blizzard is cooking up some buffs to compensate for yet another pvp nerf to the lowest rep class, maybe something like adding utility back onto our blood plague wich they removed many patches ago, and providing better disease dispell resistence or a consequence for dispells like unstable affliction, especially since they nerfed glyph of icy touch wich inturn nerfed our deathcoil dmg in pvp, so we cant simply just continue to choose deathcoils over Scourge strikes.