In addition to Unholy’s latest changes we have a few updates we’d like to make to their talents that affect resource generation. The choice to replace it was done to add what we hope is a more interesting decision point as you navigate toward the capstones especially factoring in the synergy of the new Blood Plague talents and existing Vampiric Blood talents. Unquenchable Thirst had a bit of design overlap with both Bonestorm and Shattering Bone on the opposite side of the tree. New Talent – Umbilicus Eternus: After Vampiric Blood expires, you absorb damage equal to 5 times the damage your Blood Plague dealt during Vampiric Blood.ĭev Commentary: This talent has been cut and replaced with Umbilicus Eternus. New Talent – Coagulopathy: Enemies affected by Blood Plague take 5% increased damage from you and Death Strike increases the damage of your Blood Plague by 25% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. New Talent – Sanguine Ground: You deal 5% more damage and receive 5% more healing while standing in your Death and Decay. New Talent – Bloodshot: While Blood Shield is active, you deal 25% increased Physical damage. New Talent – Iron Heart: Blood Shield’s duration is increased by 2 seconds and it absorbs 20% more damage. New Talent - Blood Feast: Anti-Magic Shell heals you for 100% of the damage it absorbs. Now centrally located within the tree with multiple pathing options to reach it.Ĭan now only be obtained directly after Gorefiend’s Grasp Now grants 3/6% Versatility instead of Haste when Crimson Scourge is consumed. Renamed to Perseverance of the Ebon Blade This has moved higher into the tree and is available immediately after unlocking the 1st gate. Now available above the first gate, directly below Marrowrend. Now increases Haste by 10% while Bone Shield is active. Our goal here is to open up more options throughout the tree as well as avoid making one style of gameplay feel mandatory permanently moving forward. In order to address this, we will change Everlasting Bond to be a flat duration increase in addition to its existing mechanic of summoning one extra copy of Dancing Rune Weapon. While the act of extending your Dancing Rune Weapon with Heart Strike and Death Strike can be fun, it quickly can overshadow the rest of Blood’s gameplay decisions. Now increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 8 seconds. Due to the sheer amount of changes to the talent tree we will just highlight some of the bigger changes to the tree below.ĭamage per rank increased to 15%, up from 10%.ĭeath Strike and Heart Strike no longer increase the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon while its active. In the next alpha build, Blood tree has undergone significant changes including updates to pathing, new connections, 6 new talents, updated existing talents, and 3 max rank talents have been reduced to 2 max ranks. New Talent – Gloom Ward: Absorbs are 15% more effective on you. Now positioned where the Runic Corruption/Runic Empowerment node was located. These two talents will be returning to their respective specs baseline (Unholy – Runic Corruption and Frost - Runic Empowerment) Positioned where Horn of Winter was located New Talent – Insidious Chill: Your auto-attacks reduce the target’s auto-attack speed by 5% for 30 seconds, stacking up to 4 times. This will return as a Frost talent in a future build. Now positioned where Death’s Advance was previously located in the talent tree. New Talent – March of Darkness: Death’s Advance grants additional movement speed. Now positioned where Lichborne was previously located in the talent tree. This has moved baseline and is now learned at level 9.

In addition to the resource talents being shifted around, we’ve also made Death’s Advance and Lichborne baseline.* This has been reduced 2 (specifics noted below). The left side of the class tree had 4 talents all dedicated to resources, which felt a little excessive. In order to do this, we’ve made several abilities baseline and cut talents that were proving to be problematic for the overall health of the resource economy for the specs. In the next alpha build the Death Knight core tree is being updated to better increase talent choice. Blizzard detailed some big changes coming to Death Knights with the next Dragonflight build, with modifications to the core tree, Blood and Unholy.

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