Hands-on with the WWI '08 Death Knight demo
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 30th 2008 at 9:00AM
- General gameplay impressions
- Blood spells and talents
- Unholy spells and talents
- Frost spells and talents
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
grofer Jun 30th 2008 10:13AM
In World of Meleecraft I really don't like this, a strong melee class with added anti caster capabilities and strong spells and temporary pets of his own. More so after seeing what was revealed as new talents for caster classes last weekend which doesn't appear to stack up against the arsenal of abilities a Deathknight gets.
Ichthus Jun 30th 2008 11:10AM
You might also be looking at it from a 'Casters get this in the next 10 levels' as opposed to 'Deathknights get this to cover 80 levels'.
We might find out that a couple of these DK abilities suck and no one will use them. Think of how many things you've got in your spellbook which sounded cool, but are rarely used and haven't been on a hotbar for 30 levels or so.
grofer Jun 30th 2008 11:16AM
thing is, a lot of the never used spells and abilities are legacy-crap, accumulated over the years this game was developed. With Deathknights everything from 55 to 80 is being put in place now, I somewhat doubt they are making as many and as stupid mistakes this time around as with other classes years ago. Well, if anything their forum will likely be the one who is for the next two years being subject to a barrage of Nerf posts.
William Jun 30th 2008 3:25PM
Maybe we should start the posts now: NERF THE DK's THEY ARE OP!!!
Ozzy79 Jun 30th 2008 7:15PM
It would be nice to see the nerf bat move away from rogues for a while, perhaps DK will provide the distraction we need to restealth.
Yossarian Jun 30th 2008 7:25PM
Wait...they nerfed rogues? Really? When? Rogues need a HUGE hit from the nerf bat IMO. Like, they need to fall out of the nerf-tree and hit every nerf-branch on the way down.
(Yes, I'm bitter cause I spent 2 hours last night getting stun-killed by rogues on the Isle last night while attempting to do my dailies)
Max Jul 1st 2008 8:10PM
This was the dumbest idea blizzard ever came up with. As if the game wasn't unbalanced enough - lets add a completely new OP-mode HERO class! wheeee!
imo they should have made more faction-specific classes. (I also didn't like when they gave pallies to the horde and vice versa)
UberNoober Jul 1st 2008 2:01AM
It's a bit too early to be complaining about Death Knights and class balance. Just wait till we have a more finalised version of them and more info on the spells/talents the other classes will be getting.
Classes are always being balanced. I'm sure Blizzard doesn't want to upset the balance too much by bringing in Death Knights.
Kitteh, Twilights Hammer EU Jul 1st 2008 5:22PM
There's not enough random QQing about the death knights so:
OMG! they get like a full set of gear that matches at 55? The rest of us have to wait till at least 60 to get matching gear. Totally OP.