Whether you choose to spec it or not, is completely up to you. The same cannot be said about Blood or Frost. In a world of increasing homogenization, this fact makes Unholy one of the most "different" specs around today and, as such, it becomes one of the most valuable. Everything Blood* and Frost bring to the table, on the other hand - be it their raid buffs, their single target dps, their survivability, their playstyles, whatever - can be matched or, in several cases, surpassed by others in a raid & often by the Unholy DK itself. It provides you with dps in an area (AoE) which no other spec can hope to reach. It provides you with tools which no other class or spec can bring. The fact of the matter is, speccing Unholy makes you unique. Bone Shield is essentially passive and grants you dps. Both are active cooldowns which cost you dps to use. Vampiric Blood and Unbreakable Armor, although excellent from a tanking point of view, don't compare for dpsers. It's highly underrated, but can be the difference between life and death in a million and one situations. That's 20% less damage from every single AoE, every single nuke, every single add melee hit you take - everything. It's a must for almost any raid.īone Shield provides a near-passive 20% damage reduction. EP is often underestimated and simply clumped together with CoE/EM, when it provides huge benefits which those two debuffs do not. Not only that, but with Devouring Plague being 10-15% of a shadow priest's damage, it's 3-5% more additional dps for them. If your raid contains at least two DKs, one being you, it is always worth it for one to go Unholy for EP alone, even if you ignore the other strengths of the spec. What more is that Ebon Plague does something no other class or spec in the game can do: It increases disease damage by 30% - a significant amount. Warlocks and Moonkin cannot provide their magic damage debuffs on multiple targets at the same time - not without incredible hardship and the sacrifice of their entire personal dps (or a majority thereof). Ebon Plague, on the other hand, cannot be. Although AoE isn't quite as omnipresent in ICC as it was in TotC/TotGC, it's still important on a number of fights.Ībomination's Might and Improved Icy Talons, although obviously excellent, can be provided by other classes and other specs with the exact same potency. With the previous tier of content being heavily AoE-centric, this virtue came to shine and gave the spec its claim to fame. The lead in this area isn't a matter of a couple percent it's quite significant (varying on the exact number of mobs - the more, the larger the gap becomes). No one - caster or melee - can top an Unholy DK on any fight with significant AoE, not if the DK knows his stuff. Unholy is, unarguably, the strongest spec in the game at this role. The more notable advantages of Unholy include: After all, if there were no reason to spec Unholy over the alternatives, why would this thread even exist?įortunately, Unholy has more than its fair share of upsides, thus it's an easy argument to make. This question is vital to the understanding of anything in this thread. Why spec Unholy when you could go Frost which now holds equivalent (if not superior) single target sustained dps, superior AoE burst, Improved Icy Talons, and a more dynamic rotation to its name? All in all, The Unholy should say three "Hail Marys" for the sin of being boring.Why spec Unholy when you could go Blood which currently holds superior single target sustained dps, superior single target burst, Hysteria, and Abomination's Might to its name? The scary stuff is perhaps most disappointing, relegated to jump scares, buzzing or flickering lights, and a stale old digital monster that twitches and contorts and lurches ahead in fast-motion. (Other characters barely develop at all.) The plot twists happen too quickly, and mainly on the surface. Yet his character changes rather rapidly from a self-obsessed, hard-drinking wreck into a man who cares deeply about others. Morgan is terrific at this kind of thing, grizzled and sturdy but with an undeniable warmth. But once the story is underway and the mysteries are revealed, the mood is undone. There's whispered dialogue about the ancient mechanisms of good and evil and God and the devil. The Unholy is set in a small town where faith plays a key role, which means old churches and plenty of statues and candles, stained-glass windows, and other symbols - and even a creaky church basement and a musty old book. This atmospheric horror movie starts off well, with plenty of intriguing imagery and history, but it eventually drifts into autopilot, falling back on routine scares, lazy dialogue, and shortcuts.
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