The once again time to see what Ghostcrawler and the rest of the development team has to say as they talk about the their thoughts on the Death Knight class going forward. We saw the shaman and mage classes get their Q&A earlier so now it’s the turn for the Death Knight.
If you’ve read the PTR patch notes for patch 3.2, you would have seen the change to Unholy Blight turning it from an AoE effect to a single target effect wherein every time you use death coil the target gets a 10 second DoT worth 30% of the Death …read more

The last installment of the class changes for patch 3.1 are here and like the first two parts, this one didn’t disappoint. In fact this final edition has some pleasant surprises that should be making a lot of people rejoice by now. In this final edition, we get to see the changes for paladins, mages, death knights and hunters. You can find the previous editions in the following links: Part 1 | Part 2
MAGE
# Improved Water Elemental – this talent has been removed and replaced with a new talent that grants Replenishment (similar to Shadow priests).
# We are also working …read more

The current success of the Death Knight as the first hero class has made me quite optimistic that future hero classes could possibly thrive in the game. The death knight has its appeal stemming from the fact that it’s something new and fun. Its potential as a killing machine can be reached without much effort, making it pretty user friendly for people who want to try it out. It’s also different in the sense that it’s made dual wield tanking viable and joins the feral druid as another class/spec that tanks without a shield.
As someone who found the joys of …read more

It’s been almost a month and a half already since the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out so it’s probably safe to make a commentary about my observations about popularity of certain class specs. You can tell that the game has changed quite a bit when certain class specs that were quite popular before suddenly aren’t as popular now and it seems like that’s exactly the case for Wrath of the Lich King.
Perhaps the most glaring example that I have seen (at least in my experience) is the Protection Paladin. In TBC, they were very popular for their …read more

We’ve been seeing several Death Knights running around and it seems like, in my experience, they aren’t afraid to tank whenever you need one. In fact it seems like the presence of Death Knights have really helped the tank shortage problem as was intended. Healers seem to be harder to find now than tanks, at least in my experience leveling up.
Being a new class, it still has some issues that need to be addressed. Ghostcrawler floated around some ideas about Death Knight tanking in a post he made in the official forums. He mentions that they are not prepared to …read more

Being a hero class, the Death Knight gets the privilege of starting out at a much higher level than other classes. It’s a great feeling to be able to jump straight to the Outlands once you get out of the Death Knight starting area at level 58. But this same great thing could also make some feel a bit funny at least in terms of fitting in with the grand scheme of things in the story.
It’s obvious that Death Knights belong in Northrend because that’s when they finally begin to feel like they are part of the story, which is …read more

For a lot of us, the moment we got the expansion we immediately took our characters to either to Northrend, making the decision to go to either the Borean Tundra or the Howling Fjord first. Quite a number of us decided to abandon our 70’s in the meantime to make a Death Knight to be the new main character.
I only got my copy of the expansion a few hours ago so I’ve had a lot of time to mess around in the Outlands for quite a bit on my characters. I’d usually go herbing to supply my druid’s inscription and …read more

Blizzard is really making a good effort to make Death Knights feel like a true hero class. They start much higher at level 55, they have their own starting area in the Plaguelands, they have their own character screen background design and much more. They will also have their own class specific flying mount, a first for World of Warcraft. Druids don’t count since they become the mount using flight form. Death Knights will be able to pick the Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade up for 950 gold from Dread Commander Thalanor in Acherus the Ebonhold in EPL. Take …read more

Update: WoTLK Hunter and Paladin talents are out as well! Click here
Our friendly neighborhood WoW database Wowhead has been providing players with pretty much everything a player needs from quest information, loot information, maps, addon update info and even talent tree calculators and their very own forum. The latest Wowhead has for us are the talent calculators for each class (except hunters and paladins for now) from the Wrath of the Lich King Alpha.
Word about such talents especially the Death Knight ones have been circulating for some time now and finally we can see what Blizzard has in …read more

Ever since the Death Knight class was announced as a hero class, information about the class was always sought after. When the first set of information about the class was released a while back, it painted a picture of a class that is different what what we’ve seen in the past with the runes and runic power system, the spell damage tanking niche, disease based spells and many more.
I’ve heard that the talent trees were lurking around the internet a few days ago but I never really went out to look for them. but after I read a few …read more