State of the DK on PTR 4.1 12 April 2011

Here are the relevant DK notes for the PTR Patch Notes. MMO-Champion as well provided that Death Strike healing will be up from 15%-20%. Thank you to them and Blizzard. These are not final, so do not hold your breath or whine about it just yet.

"Dark Simulacrum now works on numerous additional spells in dungeon encounters.

• Raise Ally has been redesigned to be a battle resurrection, analogous to Rebirth. It is instant cast, but costs 50 Runic Power to use, and has a 10-minute cooldown. It shares the same global battle resurrection cap with Rebirth and Soulstone.

Talent Specializations

• Blood

- Blood Shield now only works while in Blood Presence.

- Death Strike self-healing no longer generates threat.

• Frost

- Blood of the North (passive) now permanently converts both Blood Runes into Death Runes. There is no longer any proc interaction with Blood Strike required to activate Death Runes.

- Frost Strike now deals 130% of weapon damage, up from 110%.

- Howling Blast damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area-of-effect splash now does 50% of the single-target damage, down from 60%. The net result of this change leaves the area-of-effect damage roughly the same as 4.0.6 numbers. In addition, Howling Blast now has a facing requirement.

• Unholy

- Desecration no longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.

- Rage of Rivendare again applies 15/30/45% additional damage to Plague, Scourge, and Festering Strike, up from 12/24/36%

• Glyphs

- Glyph of Raise Ally is now Glyph of Death Gate, and makes Death Gate cast 60% faster."

Source

Also, there are rumors that 4.1 will be out probably last week of April or early May. So it might take a while. If not, then that would also be a welcome change. Kudos to those hardworking men and women at Blizzard!