Hello all once again,Today im going to look into the first hero class of the newest WoW Expansion Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) and how I feel he will deal with the coming season.
Meet the Death Knight
As you can imagine, throwing a new class into the mix can pretty much change everything and in the case of this class, it has. The Death Knight has 3 primary specs - all of which are literally split by talent builds; Blood, Frost and Unholy.
I will first quickly sum up Blood and Frost:- these will not be ideal for start of the season, simply because of the problem many will face, of being locked out and of virtual no use. However its not quite that black and white in DKs case, a Blood spec DK can be without doubt a competitive member, however you will need to get the comp right so you do not have the DK as the easy choice. Blood does have the burst that is important in these early times and as long as you can give him a chance to breathe, he will be able to destroy the other team. However the other enemy will most likely know of this and successfully focus him down, and without any real self defense compared to Unholy, most comps will not have too much trouble of taking them down quite quickly. Though the core talent that interests me in Blood is Hysteria, it effeively removes any CC that would otherwise break on damage, and can be cast anytime during the CC. I have made the suggestion of a 31/0/40 spec that gives the Death Knight a lot of the Unholy survival options, along with this insane CC breaker that can change a fight completely. However a lot of Death Knights were put off by the lack of burst damage they will lose, taking away a lot of the reason why they are there. There obviously is a sacrfice of burst for versatility and may require a specific comp to make this spec effective in any way, if at all.
Now onto the important spec - Unholy. Unholy offers crazy burst and continuous dps along with survival for themselves and the group that can almost turn a team with only 1 healer into what will feel like a "Turtle" comp. I will say this to all right now, do not bother trying to kill the Unholy DK first, not only do they respawn (with a few second delay which is critical) as a ghoul which still provides good damage and survival they also have amazing defenses vs both melee and casters. I doubt even a 3 dps team would be able to take one of these down provided there is at least 1 healer (even a hybrid healer would probably be enough). I cannot see Blizzard allowing things to stay the way things are right now, however I still forsee that their core strengths will remain and they will always be a high contender in every arena bracket going. Their lack of CC is made up by possibly the strongest peel-off ability in the game. Despite the cooldown, when well timed it will totally ruin a timed nuke by the opposing team and not to forget their chains of ice ability that can put a complete stop to any melee trying to stick onto your caster. Its so good I can see many people using trinket on this alone. When your first nuke fails, don't expect a second attempt with an Unholy Death Knight sitting on you.
In conclusion, be afraid. My only only advice is to slow them and run, however don't get too excited when you manage to kill his teammates with all your players still remaining. Agaisnt a cooldown used, half health, low mana group of 3 people, the Unholy DK which you would have been stupid to try and do damage to prior, will put up a very good fight and if they are good, then try and not be shocked when they take all 3 of you out.
As you can imagine, throwing a new class into the mix can pretty much change everything and in the case of this class, it has. The Death Knight has 3 primary specs - all of which are literally split by talent builds; Blood, Frost and Unholy.
I will first quickly sum up Blood and Frost:- these will not be ideal for start of the season, simply because of the problem many will face, of being locked out and of virtual no use. However its not quite that black and white in DKs case, a Blood spec DK can be without doubt a competitive member, however you will need to get the comp right so you do not have the DK as the easy choice. Blood does have the burst that is important in these early times and as long as you can give him a chance to breathe, he will be able to destroy the other team. However the other enemy will most likely know of this and successfully focus him down, and without any real self defense compared to Unholy, most comps will not have too much trouble of taking them down quite quickly. Though the core talent that interests me in Blood is Hysteria, it effeively removes any CC that would otherwise break on damage, and can be cast anytime during the CC. I have made the suggestion of a 31/0/40 spec that gives the Death Knight a lot of the Unholy survival options, along with this insane CC breaker that can change a fight completely. However a lot of Death Knights were put off by the lack of burst damage they will lose, taking away a lot of the reason why they are there. There obviously is a sacrfice of burst for versatility and may require a specific comp to make this spec effective in any way, if at all.
Now onto the important spec - Unholy. Unholy offers crazy burst and continuous dps along with survival for themselves and the group that can almost turn a team with only 1 healer into what will feel like a "Turtle" comp. I will say this to all right now, do not bother trying to kill the Unholy DK first, not only do they respawn (with a few second delay which is critical) as a ghoul which still provides good damage and survival they also have amazing defenses vs both melee and casters. I doubt even a 3 dps team would be able to take one of these down provided there is at least 1 healer (even a hybrid healer would probably be enough). I cannot see Blizzard allowing things to stay the way things are right now, however I still forsee that their core strengths will remain and they will always be a high contender in every arena bracket going. Their lack of CC is made up by possibly the strongest peel-off ability in the game. Despite the cooldown, when well timed it will totally ruin a timed nuke by the opposing team and not to forget their chains of ice ability that can put a complete stop to any melee trying to stick onto your caster. Its so good I can see many people using trinket on this alone. When your first nuke fails, don't expect a second attempt with an Unholy Death Knight sitting on you.
In conclusion, be afraid. My only only advice is to slow them and run, however don't get too excited when you manage to kill his teammates with all your players still remaining. Agaisnt a cooldown used, half health, low mana group of 3 people, the Unholy DK which you would have been stupid to try and do damage to prior, will put up a very good fight and if they are good, then try and not be shocked when they take all 3 of you out.
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