Analyzing the upcoming changes to Death Knights in World of Warcraft

by Kyle Horner Dec 13th 2008 at 11:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Patches, News items

The Death Knight is a pretty fun class, but anyone who's been playing one since launch knows it's a bit lacking in the tanking department at times. And for a class that wears only plate armor and has talent builds that focus on either giving damage or taking damage, it's kind of important to be able to take a few hits. So when the new Death Knight changes hit the public test realms, WoW Insider was all over it.

Overall it looks like each of the three talent trees have been tweaked to fall in line with what they're supposed to offer a player. Blood gives good singular-target damage, while healing the Death Knight, Frost is all about tanking and taunting and Unholy is a blend of support and area of effect damage spells. So, in other words, it looks as though Blizzard is making mostly positive changes here. We'll be curious to see if anything is changed as it's tested out by players, because well, that is the point of testing out an upcoming patch after all.

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Tags: activision-blizzard, blizzard, death-knight, patch-3.0.8, patches, warcraft, world-of-warcraft, wotlk, wow, wow-insider, wrath, wrath-of-the-lich-king

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