Death Knight First Impressions

2rbear — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:07 GMT

Nice article, looking forward to test the DK when WotLK goes live =) (pre-order's been in place since January^^)

Death Knight First Impressions

Dayon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:06 GMT

Seeing the Death Knight's abilities makes its arrival very, very bitter-sweet for me. I can't stand the universal racial availability. I really, really don't want to see the class in the hands of, say, a Tauren or Gnome because it feels like it -belongs- to Humans and Undead. I'm staunchly against anything else, and I'm stubborn to the point I almost refuse to accept the idea, even now.

...But it looks so damn cool.

Death Knight First Impressions

salvogpwns24 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:05 GMT

Awesome =D

Death Knight First Impressions

Padreviejo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:04 GMT

so now to decide what to do with my other toons which this class will replace ... the pally I can respec holy, but will this replace my mage and lock?

Death Knight First Impressions

Joshwestern1992 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:03 GMT

I'm hoping someone can help me here i'm really confused on the whole DK situation. Okay, so you start of at level 55 right? Does this replace an exsisting character or not?

Death Knight First Impressions

Magnumopus84 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:02 GMT

no it doesnt replace an existing character. you will have the ability to create a DK as you would be able to create any other race.

Death Knight First Impressions

spork_man22 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:01 GMT

yes, it does actually replace one of your characters. you have to have a character level 55+ to turn into a death knight. once you transform that character, you can't change it back.

Death Knight First Impressions

Kushie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:00 GMT

Wrong.
You need a character 55+ and then you can create a Death Knight.

Death Knight First Impressions

Seph666 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:59 GMT

YOU DONT LOOSE A CHAR TO ROLL A DEATH KNIGHT....how many time must you be told....as long as you have a spare slot to create a new char, AND have a certin lvl toon (not sure if its 55 or 70 ) you are ready to go.

Death Knight First Impressions

Golconda — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:58 GMT

I still think only having one class is bad form and this is more of a horde class. It would have made more sense to have a similar class but different for alliance. THe concept of a draenai (the I am holier than thou race) or a gnome as a death knight is absolutely ridiculous.

How can Blizzard not see how absolutely ridiculous this is?

Death Knight First Impressions

Thecow101 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:57 GMT

They should remove gnome warriors as well, blood elfs can't be warriors, but gnomes can? gimme a break.

Death Knight First Impressions

northman — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:56 GMT

almost correct... youll need to have 1 slot free, 1 character above lvl 55 AND you need to lvled up your 1 character at lvl 80, DO epic chainquest something like for warlock epic mount and THEN youll have chance to create dk character and THEN you can AGAIN lvl up but this time with dk :)

Death Knight First Impressions

luckyOhara — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:55 GMT

honestly, ur complaining about getting a DK as alliance? u should be happy that they are giving DK's to alliance, not wanting more u ungrateful ***.

Death Knight First Impressions

albany199 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:54 GMT

Yea luckyOhara is right and to add on I think they should make one hero class for alliance and horde, so we can balance the whol alliance shammy horde pally thing. That way its not always the same. right now the olny differance is races and places but other than that were pretty much even. Blizzard, get to it Yah Yah

Death Knight First Impressions

Anoyarou — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:26:53 GMT

I'm not often prone to making predictions, but i suspect that barring serious changes to Warriors with WotLK, we may see the DK supplant them in the following roles:

PvP: Note that the majority of classes are mana-dependent. Healing + Resilience is rapidly overtaking Mortal Strike + Melee DPS that PvP Warriors output.

Ranged Mob Tanks: No current Tanking class has the ability to pull ranged mobs to them - instead, they must rely on LOS pulls or ranged silence skills that other classes have (e.g. Counterspell, Silence Shot)

Tanking appears to be based on DPS, like Feral Tanks, which means more general utility - unlike Protection Warriors and Paladins. More importantly, it is SCALING DPS/Threat

But as has been mentioned before: too early to tell - Blizz has a nasty habit of releasing OP classes prior to release, then nerfing them into oblivion shortly after :P