world of warcraft

World of Deathknight?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
by badr

Well, the first thing I did on my new Beta account was roll a new Death Knight.

After playing through the “campaign questline” Blizzard designed exclusively for the Death Knights and doing my favorite quest lines in the game (the Western Plagueland Cauldron Quests), I was about 9 bars from level 60, so I decided to go to the outlands.

Here I planned to grind some of the mobs in Legion Front. They provide very quick exp, they are “easy” to kill and will help me finish off my level. After level 60 I would proceed to doing my Outlands Quest cycles.

The DK class, is simply overpowered. My whole time grinding, I did not drop below 90% health. I was not being conservative either. I’m spec’d Unholy, which is a decently high damage spec. I burned through mobs quickly in about 4-5ish hits. Not dropping below 90% health once. No downtime at all.

I told myself as I was actually “creating” the character:

“I will roll one now because I know everyone on my blog is DYING to hear about them, but when it comes to retail.  EVERYONE will be playing them… so will I stick with one of my other characters… No Way Jose!“

I know this sounds a little dramatic, but what do you think about the death knight having the potential to literally taking over the game? Will your current characters just collect dust because they will be of no use?

Even though I’m pretty stubborn and I stick to my word.. I have totally changed my mind. Tons of people will be playing this class, and they SHOULD. It’s a very fun class with a very new feel to it.

Right now it’s just simply over powered. On the beta we are able to run 5man DK groups. Which is kind of scary.  I thought the reason for implementing this character was to eliminate the “need” for player roles, such as warriors, since every group needs one.

But with a large band wagon of players jumping to play the Deathknight, what if the class became the game? Why pick up a hunter for a group, when you can add another DK? Why use a priest, when DK’s can virtually keep themselves alive?

However, I know for a fact I will be rolling a Death Knight of my own when it comes to retail.