Death Knight Season 2 Dragonflight Tier Set Bonuses Reviewed - Guide Writer First Impressions

PTR Pubblicato 21/03/2023 alle 09:00 da Jaydaa

Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set bonuses

We've datamined Dragonflight Tier Set bonuses for all 38 specializations in the Patch 10.1 PTR. Check out all the bonuses and armor models below.

Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses & Models for All Classes & Specializations

Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set bonuses. Check out all of our released opinion articles below.
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First Impressions of the Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set BonusesBlood Death Knight Season 2 Tier Set First Impression

2-Set - Death Knight Blood 10.1 Class Set 2pc - Heart Strike and Blood Boil deal 20% increased damage and have a 10% chance to grant Vampiric Blood for 5 seconds.

4-Set - Death Knight Blood 10.1 Class Set 4pc - When you would gain Vampiric Blood you are infused with Vampiric Strength, granting you 10% Strength for 5 seconds. Your Heart Strike and Blood Boil extend the duration of Vampiric Strength by 0.5 seconds.

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Set Effects

Our tier 30 set effect is as follows:

2p: Assalto al Cuore and Ebollizione del Sangue deal 20% bonus damage and have a 10% chance to grant Sangue Vampirico for 5 seconds
4p: When you would gain Sangue Vampirico, you are infused with Forza Vampirica, granting you 10% Strength for 5 seconds. Your Ebollizione del Sangue and Assalto al Cuore extend the duration of Forza Vampirica by 0.5s

At all times, Assalto al Cuore and Ebollizione del Sangue deal 20% increased damage. This is a welcome damage boost to abilities that should probably have seen an increase in season 1 (particularly Ebollizione del Sangue). Spell copies cast by Arma Runica Danzante are also buffed by 20%.

Whenever Assalto al Cuore or Ebollizione del Sangue is cast, you have a flat 10% chance to gain Sangue Vampirico for 5 seconds. This refreshes to 5 seconds if you gain a second proc while Sangue Vampirico is up. If you hardcast Sangue Vampirico while a proc of Sangue Vampirico is active, it instead overwrites the buff and resets it to default Sangue Vampirico duration.

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Just before you hard-cast Sangue Vampirico, you have a very strong incentive to /cancelaura any existing Sangue Vampirico

If you gain a Sangue Vampirico during Sangue Vampirico, instead of getting bonus Forza Vampirica uptime, you effectively lose potential uptime you could have had if you could (hypothetically) predict the proc.

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Procs of Sangue Vampirico are not extended by Sangue Vampirico Migliorato

Procs of Sangue Vampirico do not trigger Ombelico Eterno

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It adds an additional dimension to Sangue Vampirico - which is great!

It provides completely random procs on a very low proc chance without RPPM smoothing and with zero prior knowledge of procs on a major defensive cooldown. This is really bad, especially when you consider that casting Sangue Vampirico while a proc of Sangue Vampirico is active straight up causes you to lose uptime

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2-Set - Death Knight Frost 10.1 Class Set 2pc - Howling Blast and Frost Fever damage increased by 10%. Your Rime-empowered Howling Blasts reduce the cooldown of Frostwyrm’s Fury by 2 seconds.

4-Set - Death Knight Frost 10.1 Class Set 4pc - After consuming Rime 15 times you call down Frostwyrm’s Fury on your target at 100% effectiveness.

The Frost Death Knight receives a tier set that's thematically fun and exciting that primarily sees an AoE gain. The single target boost by equipping both the 2p and 4p is around 3%, with AoE going up to 8-12%. The set provides some passive damage increase to Folata Gelida and Febbre del Gelo as well as a CDR to Furia del Dragone del Gelo. This is quite interesting as this is a talent quite far down into the tree. One has to pick it up to gain any of this value. The 4p send a full-strength Furia del Dragone del Gelo whenever you've used up 15 Brina. I must say that I like the idea of more dragons, however the prospect of ninja-pulling trash in Mythic+ does not entice me. It has the same hitbox as Aiuto di Alagelida, extending a whopping 40 yards in front of you. Given that ninja-pulling with Aiuto di Alagelida already happens frequently (I'm guilty of this as well I'm afraid), getting a Furia del Dragone del Gelo when you're just pressing your Folata Gelida is bound to pull even more. Sure, one can easily track the buff so that you're ready for when it triggers. Still, it is bound to ninja pull even more...

I believe an easy fix would be to attach the Furia del Dragone del Gelo to some other spell. For instance, if the tier set said something like "consuming 15 procs of Rime empowers your next Pillar of Frost, unleashing a Frostwyrm at 100% effectiveness when you press the ability". This would gives us far more control, and wouldn't make us more prone to ninja pulling than we already is! This also resolves issues around holding on to your procs. If a big add wave is coming up, you'll want to avoid consuming your Brina procs to unleash the Frostwyrm on the adds. This will cause detrimental gameplay where you'll be avoiding a significant part of your rotation to optimise the tier set.

I do feel the weakness of the set in single target must be addressed as well. As it stands, simply holding on to your T29 set will be by far more powerful than swapping to the new one! I believe something more is required that isn't just the extra Frostwyrm's. If we continue on the attaching to Pilastro di Ghiaccio idea, it could increase the buff further whenever it's empowered for instance. I'm sure the devs can think about a lot of fun and interesting ways to make the set better in single target!

Overall, the Frost Death Knight tier is fun and exciting to use. Unfortunately, it's incredibly prone to ninja-pulling in Mythic+ and its single target power is far too weak.

Unholy Death Knight Season 2 Tier Set First Impression

2-Set - Death Knight Unholy 10.1 Class Set 2pc - Death Coil and Epidemic damage increased by 10%. Casting Death Coil or Epidemic grants a stack of Master of Death. At 20 stacks, Master of Death is consumed and you gain 15% Mastery for 20 seconds.

4-Set - Death Knight Unholy 10.1 Class Set 4pc - When Death Coil or Epidemic consumes Sudden Doom gain two stacks of Master of Death or increase the Mastery bonus to 25% for 5 seconds.

The Unholy tier set consists of an okay 2-piece that adds 3-4% throughput as well as a 4-set which is very weak at 0.5% increase. The effect has bad synergy with our current damage profile and can potentially result in us halting a large part of our normal rotation to align it with our burst CDs. The set essentially gives you a mastery buff every 40-80 seconds or so, depending on haste and procs. You have control of when it triggers with your usage of Spira Mortale/ Epidemia, allowing you to delay it by not utilising these spells.

One of the major negative aspects of the set is that it's a buff which we want to align with our other cooldown, but the nature of the set makes it very difficult to do so. The first proc you'll get is 40+ seconds into the fight, long after our burst has actually finished. Furthermore, aligning with our second set of CDs will prove to be a huge pain. I can see potential scenarios where we replace our normal casts of Spira Mortale with Assalto della Morte if it allows us to delay the proc by 15-30 seconds and align it with our burst. The nature of Unholy's damage profile, that sees the highest burst in the game every 3 minutes with lower-than-tank DPS in the middle can push us to these extremes.

Finally, the 4p is simply far too weak of an effect to matter. As it stands, holding on to the previous 4p from the old raid will be better than equipping new higher ilvl set pieces. I would much prefer if they implemented the tier set in a way that synergises with our rotation in a good way. For instance, the 2p could be attached to Trasformazione Oscura, granting you a mastery buff for every Spira Mortale/ Epidemia used while its active for instance. The 4p is tricky if it's to be attached to Condanna Improvvisa. The low frequency of these procs demands a powerful effect. However, you quickly start to approach similar design to Marciume di Morte and Tocco Marcio if you're not careful.

I'm generally optimistic about new stuff but in this instance I must let forward my pessimistic self. The Unholy Death Knight tier set bonus is unfun, unimpressive and weak.

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