![]() This will enable you to use Epidemic immediately, without using Outbreak on them after they have spawned to apply Virulent Plague. Additionally, you can pre-cast it 2 seconds before a set of enemies appear to apply Virulent Plague to them instantly and still have enough time for it to apply 4 stacks of the pet damage debuff. Not only does it give your Apocalypse Ghouls, Dark Transformation, and Army of the Dead an additional 12% damage at 4 stacks, but it also applies and reapplies Virulent Plague every second for 6 seconds to all targets within 10 yards of you. Unholy Blight - is the default choice for almost every situation it’s versatile and great for AOE and single target scenarios. With the other options on this talent row performing far better than this one, it has not seen play since and is not worth considering. With the change to Outbreak (no longer reapplying Virulent Plague every second during the 5 second Outbreak debuff), it has lost a lot of damage. Another talent that falls hand in hand with Bursting Sores is Pestilent Pustules, which we will discuss soon.Įbon Fever - This talent is severely underwhelming and has been bad since the class changes in the Shadowlands pre-patch. The build also requires the rest of your group to allow your pet to stack up Festering Wound s to get the full value of this talent. It does not have much use outside of these scenarios, so you will most likely only see the use of this talent in MDI style pulls/dungeon runs. Bursting Sores also does Shadow Damage, so it scales very well with your Mastery: Dreadblade. You will always pair this talent with Infected Claws so your pet can spread Festering Wound s across all the targets it cleaves during Dark Transformation. Mythic+: Clawing Shadows / Infected Clawsīursting Sores - You want to take this talent for very big pulls in Mythic Plus or with consistent burst AOE situations with a large number of targets. Raiding: All Will Serve / Clawing Shadows / Infected Claws ![]() However, it is capped at 5 targets, so Infected Claws will be more effective with the more targets you are fighting when used in conjunction with Bursting Sore or when using the Night Fae build. In AOE/cleave scenarios this talent is very good as it does a lot of damage in your Death and Decay windows, because of its 100% Shadow damage (which again is not mitigated by armour and scales with Mastery: Dreadblade), so you will want to use Clawing Shadows in most AOE situations. Another reason to take Clawing Shadows is when the Skeletal Archer from All Will Serve has poor uptime due to boss design, as discussed above. So if there is a fight where you need to move away from melee range often, this talent will be the better option. The damage you miss from lack of melee uptime and Scourge Strike uses, is greater than the damage you will gain from All Will Serve. While this talent is generally not better than All Will Serve on Single target, it does become better when you frequently need to move away from the boss due to mechanics. This means it benefits greatly from your Mastery: Dreadblade and makes your Scourge Strike do more damage overall (the physical damage element of Scourge Strike is mitigated by the armour of the boss). It makes your Scourge Strike usable from up to 30 yards away, and also makes it 100% Shadow Damage instead of a 50% Physical / 50% Shadow mix. It will often have very poor uptime in these scenarios like Sire Denathrius and Sylvanas Windrunner are two great examples of fights you would not want to use this talent on.Ĭlawing Shadows - A solid choice for multiple situations. However, the archer's movement can be very inconsistent if the boss moves vast distances or between platforms. It's ranged, so it keeps a good uptime on your primary target and performs better than Clawing Shadows on Single target fights. The Skeletal Archer it summons does good single target damage, although, in heavy cleave/AOE scenarios, All Will Serve is not very competitive (it deals only a minor amount of cleave damage). If you are playing the Night Fae build, then you will be taking this talent most of the time over the other two options in this row.Īll Will Serve - This is the go-to talent for almost all Single target scenarios. However, it is typically not worth taking without Bursting Sores in Mythic Plus. Infected Claws - You take this talent when playing the Night Fae build, or if you want to prepare some big AoE damage for your Death and Decay windows when using Bursting Sores.
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