Lichborne: State of the Death Knight
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Talents, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
It’s Wrath of the Lich King Beta time, and finally time to meet the new Death Knight class. Unfortunately, we can’t really guarantee you’ll be meeting the same class that you’ll see in the live game, per se. It’s not that the class isn’t shaping up well or isn’t quite distinctive, it’s more that there’s just so much that’s changing.
The next build that’s scheduled to hit the Beta servers is a perfect example. Not only will talent trees be changing extensively, with some talents becoming baseline and some baseline abilities becoming talents, some talents switching tiers, and others even switching trees, but the very way we inflict and stack diseases will be getting some tweaking as well. In addition, many of the Death Knight’s baseline abilities, especially related to disease and damage rotations, are changing as well.
So with all these changes, what can you say about a class that’s changing drastically on a weekly basis, and may look completely different from how it does now by the time Wrath goes live? Is it really possible to speak about an overarching unifying theory of Death Knights?
Well, let’s try. Welcome to the first annual State of the Death Knight address.
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