Clean guide! Thank you, sir!

this was a while ago now. we were all in such high spirits before the release of SL

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i am sure that was throne of the tides you just died in...... was this not a M+.......... obviously got carried in retail!

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thank you it was very helpful

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1:12 why you humping the phone? and why didnt we see that cut backwards....... 👀 loved the video :)

haha Love your work Darkmech brother dont ever change! pure comedy haha <3

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Dayum. Can you do a video for Prot Pally? Ive always been VDH main / BDK alt, but for TWW I just dont know which classes to roll- some Hero talents look awesome

Just following this now but you say "now you have the entrance" and I have no idea where you are lol Edit: Entrance at 37, 21

Using this in Season 4 since I just started in DF. Been using your guides since I found you last week for Amidrassil. Cheers

U are my Hero

I wonder why they would force a certain type of game play rotation when everything else they seem to be driving at is freedom and self expression? I hope they change it so we can feel good about playing how we want and not punished for it.

I love it keep it simple and keep the visuals looking good. A few tweaks to smooth it out and have it make sense but they are on the right track.

I started this with my Druid first fight, insane heart race, blown off the platform with first golem, then 2k gold In repairs later I got to phase two, died on stupid lines and adds and then had my dead corps blown off the platform, 3k gold in repairs later I’m now getting to phase two easier but, I’m seeing how much damage people put on varis so quick, and I don’t know what I’m not doing as I keep dots on varis all the time, and he takes for ever to go down, even if I bear him down, still takes for ever, so much going on in phase two… I walk out of the game room, wife asks, “ did you get your teddy bear thing?” Me: No…😢 I’m not worthy 😞 Wife: awww… Me: mmhmmm 😢

Can you still use this in the dungeon?

So what changed?

I wasn't all that wowed at first glance when I first saw Deathbringer. Maybe it wasn't hitting the "class fantasy" vibes too well for me. However seeing it laid out like this, AND seeing the visuals. I do like it. I love the Argus-esque big sweeping scythe that seems to cover 70% of the pack when triggered. Now, the Elephant in the room. San'layn vs. Deathbringer. In its current state Deathbringer is gonna struggle to find its place. Honestly, I think there needs to be more "outward facing" discussion on a topic such as this. Feels better to have open discussion and get DK's views, ideas with merit to them. Because, direct feedback is one thing, but feels way too quiet. Especially after the "fuss" started with the initial incarnation of Oracle Priest, though I guess they knew going in that tree would be divisive. Anyway, back on topic. I can see why it's attached to VB, not LB or IBF. Thematically, it makes sense.. Vampires, Vampiric Blood is the Logical path. I'm even fine with Hero Talents pushing you to take certain talents, HOWEVER I'm against it when it's this rigid. Push me to take certain things, fine.. but allow some flexibility. You mentioned tying it to Lichborne, thematically that's totally illogical. However, could be fixed with one easy trick. Essence of the Blood Queen (Replaces Lichborne) <Lichborne perks> <New EotBQ perks> Some of the hero tree could still have flavorful ties within VB, but turbo-loading it with everything just feels unhealthy for the spec. In a similar vein, you mentioned Bonestorm. I'd love to see it get some use again. I do wonder if it'd find more use if it were moved up the tree, or just straight up baseline. Because, for as much as I love the ability it is functionally a dead talent. Its so rarely if ever taken. Thematically it'd be the perfect fit for Deathbringer if the tree had some kind of interaction. Bones and death are pretty intrinsically linked. Heck, I'm pretty sure Marrowgar itself has a big ol' Death Scythe Similarly, make Blooddrinker baseline.. give us a short-ish range ability that lets us heal when we can't touch the boss. (Thinking Painsmith in SL, Nymue even, in recent memory) Our whole shtick is taking damage and healing it back, we're heavily punished for being away from something we can't Death Strike. Not to mention being out of D&D. Blooddrinker, even Consumption with a little retooling for Vampiric animation and maybe mechanics are perfect tie-ins for San'layn. Much like Tombstone and by extension Shattering Bone, alongside Bonestorm are for Deathbringer. I don't think they really need to reinvent the wheel where adjustments for San'layn are concerned, but outside of my previously stated favour for San'layn class fantasy.. As it stands I don't see myself playing much Deathbringer, as fun as it seems it could be. I just REALLY hope their solution isn't to just take a giant sledgehammer to it.

Just around San'layn and the how to possibly fix it conversation, to expand I will likely do a video about this if we see no action. Switching it off VB to LB or IBF will help if they aren't willing to change anything around essence behaviour. Speaking with Mandl around this, at the moment he thinks the best thing we could see regarding balance would to be reducing essence stacks, think how they change the tier set in shadowlands from 75 to 40 stacks etc so hopefully we see something like this, Deathbringer is so good to play with, really want to see it have just more than a "chance" to maybe be seen in a raid environment.

Thanks for this overview!! Here's hoping Blizz gives us a reason to be able to choose Deathbringer over San'layn in at least some circumstances - seeing some of the animations in this video as well, Deathbringer also just looks so visually pleasing but, like you said, you can't really say no to functionally permalust. Hopefully whenever Blizz gets to these DK revamps we see some movement happening here.

lol your “retail” screen snaps are from like legion. What’s that now, 4 expansions ago? Hardly “retail” now is it…

Welcome to being a guardian druid during Incarn 😂

Having quit playing and raiding for a while now, I like to see that you're continuing the grind and playing some Alpha! I'd like to come back and play again, so I can do some keys with you sometime again. But great video man!

69th like hehe this actually seems something that can be really great

“Blood Wings” instant cast - lasts 10 seconds - conjure vampiric blood wings allowing blood dk to double jump/glide for ten seconds. Upon expiration blood wings pull all enemies in ten yard radius to you… Just sayin’ how about this?

at the 1:11 mark that is the Blood Strike icon when he says Heart strike.

DND is still stationary on the ground? Cringe

Man, I've always had this headcanon since Legion of my BDK being this San'layn Vampire Tank. So, thematically I'm on board. As much as I'm not sold on "Blood Beasts" they just seem like re-flavoured juicier blood worms. Gameplay loop though, not so much. It sounds like such a gross way to play. I'm not to against defensives used offensively, for instance the Lichborne radiating Death Coils.. that Torghast talent, while BDK has little to no synergy within the tree for Death Coil (something that could be remedied via talent options perhaps), said Coils could self target as you're treated as undead so you have free healing and a touch of damage. HOWEVER. We already have DRW filling that "offensive defensive" role, we don't need to turn VB offensive just for the hell of it. The degeneracy is driven harder by the fact we have stuff to reduce VB's cooldown faster, in Red Thirst. (To be clear I'm not advocating removal of Red Thirst) But it's hard to argue that isn't a big contributor to the degen loop. Furthermore, isn't the season two set bonus basically a "San'layn lite" experience, iirc it has VB as a key part of the tier bonus. If it has to be gameplay and not purely cosmetic, surely there's a better way of reaching the same goals from a Hero Talent class fantasy PoV. Look at Lana'thel, Kelseth and so on. If Rider of the Apocalypse can hit that mark, they can do better than this. Without going to overboard, give blood as a default class more vampirism feel than just "blood and gore/bones" feel, and you'll have a better starting of point. Blooddrinker baseline fits the vampirism theme, heck a talent that turns Death's Caress into blood drinker would be.. different, without adding extra buttons. (I miss using it, and having PvE Dark Simulacrum spell stealing ;_; ) Blooddrinker seems to never get any use anymore. Consumption feels similarly dead as a talent. To cap off this wall of text (sorry), I really wish they'd fecking do one with all this root in one place compounding effects inside D&D. I've made peace with the slow inevitable end, coming to face you that is the BDK fantasy as they'd have it, but the root in one place D&D is a far from pleasant experience. Movement, M+ guess I'm out of D&D now till I can drop a fresh charge. Forced I have to be away from the boss, I can't smash it in the face movement, Raid. Just give us the old auras back, if you can give warriors Stances and Paladins their auras. You can grant them to DK's. Or just retool the Necrotic Aura, Decomposing Aura, <insert Frost one> to be PvE auras, have whatever spec thematics they desire, allowing switching if you talent into alt paths. But they all have D&D effects around the player in a given area. Okay, I'll stop now, I just love BDK, I'm so sorry for this. 😂

I feel like even if they change up the BDK baseline I don't have great hopes for this. I don't mind the spinning plates I have right now, I actually enjoy managing the resources we have. What I don't want is them to dumb down that stuff so they feel it is acceptable to make San'layn more plates to spin when the problem really is that it's just not fun. I really like the class fantasy so I'm hoping they end up doing some major reworking on it. Tired of this proc a buff now spam heartstrike to keep it going gameplay.

Thanks for the video Dark! As a quick aside, one thing I haven't seen really talked about is just how gorgeous those icons are for the Hero Talents, both for DK in San'layn and Deathbringer but also other speces like Priest's Voidweaver. Art team always knocks it out of the ballpark but these are especially gorgeous artpieces that I'm just not seeing get the recognition they deserve. On the actual topic though, while I love the vampiric aesthetic of San'layn in Blood, it seems in it's current state kind of like Breath in Frost - super powerful when you pull it off but with an annoying play pattern it encourages and limited flexibility. I hope Blizzard at least opens the options up a bit and brings Deathbringer up slightly to be able to compete with San'layn, or it'll feel bad having to lean into a degen play pattern for that sweet haste.

Who gave Dark too much Monster before recording this

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this is literally everything i wanted sanlayn to be. group buffs. and mad rampage. kind sucks that its inflexible so hopefully all the builds are pretty close.

Thanks for giving us Your point of view Darkmech! I hope they are going to polish the talents some more!

Thanks for the Info

The beginning intro made me laugh. <3 I love how fun you always are! BRAAAAAAAAAANZ!"

I play every expansion without fail but far out TWW is looking realllllll damn good.

i swear i had delves as dwarven elf babies......

just started tanking raids and this short guides are super helpful!

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watched 9 minute Darkmech video, Darkmech never even tried to open the giant WoW branded cardboard box behind him 🤔 unsub...

Have they removed the shit rune of power mechanic from blood dk yet?