Spooncraft

So there’s this concernt hat Frost Strike is doing crap damage when compared to base Death Knight runic power dumps like Deathcoil and such.

By the numbers, Frost Strike should be beating Death Coil. Maybe you can test Frost’s Death Coils vs. Frost Strike, which would help answer the question of whether it’s Unholy’s multipliers on Death Coil or just the base damage of Frost Strike that is causing the difference.

Not so long ago, death knight spells could only crit for 150%. Now that that is no longer the case, some of the melee abilities may be too soft. But at least Death Coil is decent again. (src)

Also they’re buffing Death and Decay now to make it more viable for tanking and the likes.

We did several threat per second tests and decided to increase Death and Decay’s threat in order to make DK’s more effective AE tanks. You still aren’t going to be able to spam it, but an initial D&D should get enough threat against the targets that you’ll have time to Pestilence, Blood Boil or whatever else before losing targets. (src)

It’s all coming up roses for Death Knights it seems especially Unholy ones that are damn near unkillable in PVP lol!