Unholy gameplay feel improvements/feelings/suggestions for 7.2.5



MAJOR ISSUES WITH UNHOLY:

UNHOLY COST VS REWARD STRUCTURE ISNT BALANCED WHEN COMPARED TO FROST DKS.
	-Frost DKs largely use 2 buttons to fulfill their rotation: Obliterate and Howling Blast. No cost vs reward structure, just reward.
	-Unholy has to expend a lot of effort in order to generate damage.
		-Festering Strike: random amounts of Wounds generated.
		-Wound damage: VERY low baseline because Wound talents are too strong.  So are legendary bracers.
			-Our RNG occurs ONLY on the "damage cost" side.  On the "damage reward" side we only pop 1 wound at a time baseline.

UNHOLY OVERVIEW:
	-Unholy spends a LOT of time and resources to generate damage.
    	-Baseline, Festering Wounds do SLIGHTLY more damage than a Virulent Eruption (something we get for free).
			-That doesnt feel rewarding.
	-Festering Wounds as a mechanic are ONLY important because of legendary bracers and bursting sores.
	-RNG is acceptable when the reward fits the cost.  Right now, it just doesnt.  We need rewarding RNG baseline.

	SUGGESTIONS:
		-Make Festering Wounds stronger baseline without throwing talents out of whack.
			-Make it worth using...give it a X% chance to cause a Virulent Eruption?  Buff our next SS/CS?
		-Festering Strike was vital in previous expansions with our diseases and now, it just doesnt feel very important anymore.
		-WE WANT Festering Strike to be important.
			-But simply becoming a combo point applicator isnt enough.  It needs more attention.

BLACK CLAWS (BC)
	-OVERVIEW: Very disruptive and frustrating to deal with.  Almost no positive effects.
		-CANNOT be used at the same time as Apocalypse.
			-Why: It pops wounds before you can combo, dropping wounds below 6.
		-Very weak in damage contribution (even in AoE).
			-The entire strength of Festering Wounds is Bursting Sores and Legendary Bracers.  Weak trait due to weak source.
		-Leads to using more festering strikes which can lead to bad RNG.
			-Why this matters: Because FeS consumes 2 runes and feels weak.
				-Because we lose control of our central mechanic and lose resources we cant always readily replace.

	BLACK CLAWS SUGGESTIONS:
		-Make this an alternative to bracers:
			-How: Apply it to Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows.
				-How: 50% chance for SS/CS to pop 1 additional wound.
		-Make it resource neutral:
			-Why and How: Death Coil cost increase solves resources.  So make this pop a wound, NOT consume it, and NOT generate RP.
		-Change it: Popping a wound reduces the CD of Army of the Dead by X seconds.

	BLACK CLAWS CLOSING:
		-It would be one thing if it was disruptive and strong.  Its not.
			-Its not only disruptive, removes our control of our central mechanic, but its EXTREMELY weak.
		-In its current state, it cannot be saved.
			-If you buff it, it becomes more disruptive.
			-It either needs to be remade, or have its damage compensated somewhere else.

INSTRUCTOR's FOURTH LESSON BRACERS LEGENDARY
	-Unholy is 100% reliant on this item.
		-Unholy has no choices on legendaries: Its always Bracers + some other legendary.  Period.
		-We would like to have more choice on our legendaries.
	-These have incredibly bad anti-synergy with Black Claws.
	-They provide huge swings in damage and resources.

	LEGENDARY BRACERS SUGGESTIONS:
		-Nerf them and make Festering Wounds much stronger baseline.
		-We want Festering Wounds to matter WITHOUT legendary bracers.  Bracers should simply boost an already strong mechanic.

DEATH'S HARBINGER:
	-There isnt much to say here.  3 runes is too much.
	-We would like it nerfed down to 2 runes and have the damage compensated somewhere else.
	-It leads to a MASSIVE gain in resources that we dont need.


MEDIUM Issues:


ARMY OF THE DEAD (AotD)
	-OVERVIEW:
		-This ability leads to degenerate play and overall bad feelings.
		-It is best used 4-7 seconds pre-pull to effectively remove its rune cost via natural rune regen.
		-This ability is only worth using when paired with Bloodlust, period.
		-Our damage is balanced around it.  So if AotD isnt used at the start of the fight, our damage feels weak all throughout.
		-Our damage in Mythic+ feels incredibly weak on bosses when AotD is on CD.

	ARMY OF THE DEAD CLOSING AND SUGGESTIONS:
		-The problem is, its not powerful.
			-The strongest parts about AotD are: The Death debuff and the explosion that occurs when they die.
		-While AotD ghouls are up, we simply dont care about their damage.
			-They melee for something abysmal like 10k damage.  Its just not worthy of its CD and rune cost at this time.

	SUGGESTIONS:
		-Remove the rune cost and lower the CD or truly buff it to be worthy of a 10 minute CD.
			-Compare this in power level to Demon Hunter Metamorphosis and its not even remotely close.

MINOR issues:

MOVEMENT
	-You want us to be slow.  Thats fine.  But give us the reward for being slow.
	-Slow specs were supposed to be rewarded with higher on-target DPS.
		-Unholy definitely does not have higher on-target dps.  So provide us with the dps or give Unholy movement.

NECROSIS
	-This only applies when Death Coil hits the target.
		-This has been problematic twice already this expansion: Krosus and Helya.
	-The delay in receiving the Necrosis buff has caused us to lose GCDs to wait for the buff to apply due to travel distance.