Unholy Death Knight, guarantee kill in PvP | 700k health absorption with necro

**finisher7** · 08-21-2014

Hey this is my ever post on this site

1. Get to a training dummy
2. Turn all your frost runes and blood runes into death runes, by either using festering Strike, icy touch or blood boil.
3. Wait for all of them to regenerate.
4. Now spam icy touch (using your blood runes with icy touch.)
5. Now your unholy runes magically turn into death runes, though your blood runes were used.

I'm not sure if this is intended in the game but I read the spells and the passives and nothing suggests that it should.

What happens is that your blood death runes suddenly force your unholy runes to become death runes, though your blood runes go on cooldown and turn back to being blood.

I use the trick a lot to build up my burst - the only problem is waiting. But once your blood runes fall back off cd, and use you use 2 blood boils you will be sitting on 6 death runes.

With blood tap and soul leech that's another 4, so a total of 10 necrotic strikes and with strength procs that is 10x 70k health absorb which will 700k+.

I'll be making a video about it soon on my youtube because I know it can be hard to understand.
In the meantime please check my channel out for more content like this

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChaz112

**Sirdots** · 08-21-2014

This seems more like a guide, And the title suggests diffrently i though 1 shot bug meant 1 attack not 10 attacks to do 700k dmg. I do that with 1 spell as a warlock

**finisher7** · 08-21-2014

I think you're being over critical and if you knew about dk runes, you'd understand how this really shouldn't happen. I think it's an exploit because it makes no sense than when I use my blood runes (which have been turned into death runes), with icy touch, my unholy runes randomly turn into death runes. It doesn't do so with any other ability either.

700k chaos bolt? That shit should git over 2 million.

**Sirdots** · 08-21-2014

Originally Posted by finisher7

I think you're being over critical and if you knew about dk runes, you'd understand how this really shouldn't happen. I think it's an exploit because it makes no sense than when I use my blood runes (which have been turned into death runes), with icy touch, my unholy runes randomly turn into death runes. It doesn't do so with any other ability either.

700k chaos bolt? That shit should git over 2 million.

Oh my Chaos bolts do hit for ever 2.7mil easily. But it was just a statement that a 1 shot bug that requires u to attack said target 10 times to do roughly 700k dmg is well not all that excitting because that would be like doing your full rotation on a player in pvp circumstances or even pve.... So there is nothing making this much of an exploit in my oppinion

**Epicrisis** · 08-21-2014

While this is an exploit (to an extent), I highly doubt you would be able to get use out of this in arenas and I'd guarantee it's a DPS loss in PvE. Title is also highly misleading, however, thanks for contributing. +1

**~~skythex~~** · 08-22-2014

the definition of "one shot" is to kill a player with a single hit

**finisher7** · 08-22-2014

Originally Posted by Sirdots

Oh my Chaos bolts do hit for ever 2.7mil easily. But it was just a statement that a 1 shot bug that requires u to attack said target 10 times to do roughly 700k dmg is well not all that excitting because that would be like doing your full rotation on a player in pvp circumstances or even pve.... So there is nothing making this much of an exploit in my oppinion

I don't think anybody understands because you don't play my class, so I'll try even harder.

Necrotic strike isn't about doing damage its about doing health absorption. Imagine the dps I'm hiting is at 100k health and he has 500k health toal, this means that the healer must heal him 400k to max health. Now imagine 700k health absorb on the dps added onto the 400k that's 1.1 million. now ask that healer to out heal that within 10 seconds while he he also taking huge damage from from dots, pet and gargoyle and possibly another dps if you are playing 3s, on top of crowd control that is impossible. (Btw in pvp there is a thing called battle fatifue which reduces healing by 60%)

I was playing some 2s at about 2000 cr when I discovered this and I was winning every game by exploiting this. If I do with with my cds up and my procs its a a gurantee kill or at least some extreme mana consumption, followed by an easy kill.

I agree the title is misleading but I was trying to make it sound more interesting - point is that if you do this its a guarantee kill or less you get peeled really well.

**finisher7** · 08-22-2014

Dude this will get you 700k health absorption on a pvp target, it is impossible to outheal, whenever I do this I score a kill. Yes it takes a little time to to build up, but there is no point in necro bursting when you have no blood taps or strength procs so its more worth building up a bigger burst for when you have more blood taps and strength procs.

**Xrakra** · 08-22-2014

70 k one necro? Hum... no.

**finisher7** · 08-22-2014

Originally Posted by Xrakra

70 k one necro? Hum... no.

With all strength procs and trinket yes.

**Baengbum** · 08-22-2014

Played a dk myself last season and this "exploit" is fairly useless. The downtime you get by building up the deathrunes is just too much. You won't even need 6 deathrunes since you have to get out soul reaper and possibly a death and decay or plague strike.
Besides that every decent team above like 2,1-2,2k will peel you and you won't have enough gcd's in melee range to get out all the necrotics. (Thats also the reason why plague leech is bad. 4 gcd's to get 2 necros and the dots back up -> not worth it)

**finisher7** · 08-22-2014

Originally Posted by Baengbum

Played a dk myself last season and this "exploit" is fairly useless. The downtime you get by building up the deathrunes is just too much. You won't even need 6 deathrunes since you have to get out soul reaper and possibly a death and decay or plague strike.
Besides that every decent team above like 2,1-2,2k will peel you and you won't have enough gcd's in melee range to get out all the necrotics. (Thats also the reason why plague leech is bad. 4 gcd's to get 2 necros and the dots back up -> not worth it)

I only do this during my downtime - so when I have no blood taps or strength procs - I'm personally finding this extremely useful for building up a burst, its like a filler while I wait to stack up more blood taps and wait for some procs. Once I unleash this burst perfectly it's unstoppable and I'm scoring kills easy.

Yeah true you can peeled but dks have many cc breakers, and even when you are peeled you can on the target soon again and just refresh the stack. I don't see the point in bursting necros when I have no blood taps or strength procs/trinket, so I feel its worth the 7 second wait, especially if you have all your cooldowns coming back soon.

I agree this isn't a simple thing to do, but its not impossible either and I'm personally finding it a huge advantage at certain times.