Marcus McCurdy's Blog

As I mentioned in my last post about the huge crits with the new Death Knight Scourge Strike I have a brand new video that shows a monstrous crit of 6907 against the 64 elite Deathskitterer in The Bone Wastes.

Without further ado here is that video:

I signed on to Wrath of the Lich King this morning and had to download a 488 MB patch. I was eager to check out all the changes, but for some reason the patch notes are several builds behind so I have no idea what has been changed.
As soon as I logged in I noticed I had an available talent point so I check out my talents and noticed in the Unholy tree that scourge strike had been changed. Previously, it was exactly the same as Plague Strike, but did all the damage as Shadow Damage vice physical damage. Now, it has been buffed to extreme levels.
I was fighting some same level mobs in Zangarmarsh and I my normal hits were around 2K+ with crits getting as high as 5.2K!

To me, this seems to be a bit too powerful now. The only way this wouldn’t be over powered is if there is only one rank of this spell. 5.2K crits at 80 probably won’t be very noteworthy, but at level 63 it pretty much tags out any non-elite mobs I’m fighting.

I’ll update this post with some screen shots later today after I do some more testing.

update: Here is a video of Scourge strike doing 2.7K

[photo via flickr]

Last night, I wanted to see if I could solo Boglash in Zanagermarsh on my Death Knight and I decided to record it. Well, I soloed him very easily as you can see in the video. I don’t think my HP dropped below 75%. Sorry for the poor quality of the video I dropped my resolution down because I didn’t realize Fraps increased its max recording resolution. Anyway, I’ll record and post some more videos later.

I expected to get presents today since it is my birthday, but I got one present that was totally unexpected. As you can probably guess from the title of my post I received an invite to the WotLK beta from Blizzard. Currently, my download of the client is 98% so I’ll post some more info about the Death Knight as soon as I have the beta client installed.