DEATH KNIGHT

• All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated. 
• New Talent: Subduing Grasp – When you pull an enemy the damage they deal to you is reduced by 6% for 6 seconds.
• New Talent: Osmosis – Anti-Magic Shell increases healing received by 15%.
• New Talent: Null Magic – Magic Damage taken is reduced by 10% and the duration of harmful Magic effects against you are reduced by 35%. 
• New Talent: Vestigial Shell – Casting Anti-Magic Shell grants 2 nearby allies a Lesser Anti-Magic Shell that absorbs magic damage and reduces the duration of harmful Magic effects against them by 50%. 
• New Talent: Ice Prison – Chains of Ice now also roots enemies for 4 seconds but its cooldown is increased to 12 seconds. 
• New Talent: Runic Protection – Your chance to be critically struck is reduced by 3% and your Armor is increased by 6%. 
• New Talent: Unyielding Will – Anti-Magic Shell’s cooldown is increased by 20 seconds and it now also removes all harmful magic effects when activated. 
• Chains of Ice is now learned at level 13 (was a talent).
• Anti-Magic Shell is now learned at level 14 (was a talent). 
• Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle can now be Runeforged on 1-handed weapons.
• Abomination Limb no longer grants Bone Shield, Runic Corruption, or Rime based on specialization.
• Rune of the Apocalypse has been updated:
  • War Effect – Damage taken increased to 4% (was 1%) and duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Pestilence Effect – Damage increased by 500%.
  • Famine Effect – Damage dealt to the caster reduced to 5% (was 2%).
  • Death Effect – Healing reduction increased to 5% (was 1%).
• Icebound Fortitude cooldown reduced by 60 seconds.
• Cleaving Strikes now also retains bonus effects for being within your Death and Decay for 4 seconds when leaving its area.
• Veteran of the Third War now grants 20% Stamina (was 10%). Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Icy Talons now increases attack speed per stack by 6% (was 3%). Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Unholy Bond now increases effectiveness of Runeforge effects by 20% (was 10%). Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Assimilation now reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Zone by 30 seconds. No longer increase Runic Power when absorbing damage.
• Suppression now grants an additional 6% damage reduction to area of effects when you suffer a loss of control effect. Moved to gate 3.
• Blood Scent Leech increased to 5%.
• Blood Draw now also grants a buff reducing damage taken by 10% and reducing Death Strike cost by 10 for 8 seconds when falling below 30% health. Now a 1-point talent.
• Blood Draw cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Might of Thassarian
  • Merciless Strikes
  • Clenching Grasp
  • Empower Rune Weapon
  • Rune of Hysteria 
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• Unholy
  • New Talent: Doomed Bidding – Consuming Sudden Doom calls upon a Magus of the Dead to assist you for 8 seconds. 
  • New Talent: Raise Abomination – Summons an Abomination to attack nearby enemies applying Festering Wound with its melee attacks and infecting all nearby enemies with Virulent Plague. 90 second cooldown. Replaces Army of the Dead.
  • New Talent: Foul Infections – Your diseases deal 10% more damage and have a 5% increased chance to critically strike.
  • New Talent: Menacing Magus – Your Magus of the Dead Shadow Bolt now fires a volley of Shadow Bolts at up to 4 nearby enemies.
  • New Talent: Festering Scythe – Every 20 Festering Wound you burst empowers Festering Strike to become Festering Scythe for 12 seconds. Festering Scythe: Sweep through all enemies within 14 yards in front of you, dealing Shadow damage and infecting them with 2-3 Festering Wounds.
  • New Talent: Decomposition – Virulent Plague has a chance to abruptly flare up, dealing 50/100% of the damage it dealt to the target over the last 4 seconds. When this effect triggers, the duration of your active minions are increased by 1 second, up to 3 seconds. 2-point talent.  
  • Epidemic is now learned at level 18 (was a talent).
  • Outbreak is now learned at level 13 (was a talent).
  • Sudden Doom has been redesigned – Your auto attacks have a 25% chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost 10 less Runic Power and critically strike. Additionally, your next Death Coil will burst 1 Festering Wound.
  • When talented into Harbinger of Doom, Sudden Doom now displays the activation overlay images separately, left and right, for each stack.
  • Unholy Blight has been updated – Passive ability. Dark Transformation surrounds your ghoul with a vile swarm of insects for 6 seconds, stinging all nearby enemies and infecting them with Virulent Plague and an unholy disease that deals damage over 14 seconds, stacking up to 4 times. 
  • Dark Transformation cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds).
  • Army of the Dead cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 8 minutes).
  • Apocalypse cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 90 seconds).
  • Apocalypse now always summons 4 ghouls regardless of Wounds burst.
  • Apocalypse ghoul damage reduced by 15%.
  • Vile Contagion cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 90 seconds).
  • Clawing Shadows damage reduced by 15%.
  • Raise Dead ghoul damage reduced by 10%.
  • Scourge Strike damage reduced by 15%.
  • Death Coil damage reduced by 15%.
  • Magus of the Dead damage reduced by 15%.
  • Epidemic damage reduced by 15%.
  • Festering Wound damage reduced by 15%.
  • Defile damage increased by 200% and no longer increases Mastery when dealing damage to enemies. 
  • Festermight now functions like Druid’s Ironfur, allowing multiple instances to overlap.
  • Ebon Fever now also affects Frost Fever and Blood Plague if Superstrain is talented.
  • Dragonflight Season 4 class set bonuses have been updated to the Dragonflight Season 1 class set bonuses:
    • 2 Set Bonus – Bursting a Festering Wound grants your ghoul Vile Infusion, increasing their damage by 25% and Haste by 10% for 5 seconds.
    • 4 Set Bonus – Your primary ghoul’s attacks have a 8% chance to increase your damage and Haste by 8% for 8 seconds. This chance is increased to 15% during Vile Infusion.
    • Developer’s note: In The War Within pre-patch we had several season 4 class sets that were made into spec talents. In order to prevent any oddities we are updating those select few class sets with earlier tier sets from Dragonflight to prevent any overlap or potential bugs.
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Ghoulish Frenzy
    • Improved Death Coil
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Replenishing Wounds
    • Army of the Damned
    • Unholy Command
    • Feasting Strike