Comments on: Some Thoughts on Death Knight Versatility

By: Ronne

Ronne — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:16:36 +0000

Personaly I think frost is great for solo pvp, howling blast gives a great AOE, just make sure you stay in unholy presence while frost spec or your gonna be to slow to be useful. Blood spec is best for long term quest grinding though, the fact that you will never need to heal your self, so no stoping to eat, and no mana either, means you can just straight quest and grind indeffinatly. World of Weirdcraft.net your source or all things WOW

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:29:03 +0000

Celerann, Where do you have your DK?

Where I can have them. The hordie on Dragonmaw atm, the alliance test one on Draenor.

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:26:31 +0000

The one thing that disappoints me about the three trees is that, in my view anyway, Frost underperforms solo.

That’s my first impression too. Reminds me of the early patch 2.x paladin. Leveling prot with AoE was viable until late Zangarmarsh, and then suddenly dropped off. Nagrand in particular became hell, the mobs you needed for quests usually too spread out to be useful.

And that’s ever been the trade-off for AoE specs. Can’t say I agree with it because it gimps solo play for non-AoE situations, but heck, two levelling trees with quite some variations is better than what many classes used to get.

By: Adventsparky

Adventsparky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:57:36 +0000

Celerann, Where do you have your DK?

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:02:41 +0000

The disease duration thing isn’t that important in Outland, but you’ll really notice that 18 seconds of disease makes a big difference in the late 70’s when there’s less of a gear gap between you and the mobs. (Well, at least, unless they tweaked the damage/mob hp numbers in the last month of beta.)

The one thing that disappoints me about the three trees is that, in my view anyway, Frost underperforms solo. With Blood, you’re getting the worms for major healing potential and some generally nice DPS for yourself. With Unholy, you’re getting the ghoul to off-tank for you and a third disease debuff for Death Strike. With Frost, you get impressive burst AoE potential (literally massive damage with your cooldowns) via Howling Blast, but you’re still limited by the need to keep at least Frost Fever up on the target, and it didn’t feel good enough to justify what you’re giving up in the other two trees. Ah well, I’m sure your healers will appreciate you if you’re AoE tanking as frost.