8820 Death Knight Changes

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By Kenzi • August 21, 2008

I’ll hit the big ones before I hit the sack.

Rune Masteries are gone.
New talent Rime: Increases damage of Icy Touch and Howling Blast by 15/30%.
New talent Reaping: Whenever you use Death and Decay, there is a 30/60/100% chance all three runes will come back as Death Runes.
New ability Path of Frost (aka DK Jesus).
New ability Rune Strike.

Dancing Rune Weapon cooldown up to 2 min.
Lichborne duration increased to 15 sec, cooldown increased to 3 min.
Merciless Combat changed to ‘targets less than 35% health’.
Unbreakable Armor cooldown reduced to 1 min, also adds 10% strength.
Summon Gargoyle changed to 3 min cooldown.
Wandering Plague changed to proc based on your melee crit chance.

I’m sure there are a shit ton of more talent and ability changes that are undocumented. Keep an eye out in the forums for further discussion.

Also, everyone by now knows the level cap is indeed level 80. Tigole posted about it and the dungeon releases:

Tigole

The level cap will be 80. Storm Peaks will be available. Icecrown is still unavailable.We’ll also make the following dungeons available:

Halls of Lightning

Halls of Stone

Caverns of Time: Stratholme

The Occulus

Utgarde Pinnacle

Heroic: The Nexus (No attunement necessary — just get level 80)

Gundrak and Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom almost made this patch but there were a few issues which held them back. Also, we sped up the leveling curve from 70-80. We’re still dialing in the leveling speed so feedback is appreciated.

Level 80 premades you ask?

Premades will be available at a later date and on a different server.

PvP sets and costs are also out. I’ll be posting the screenshots of the Death Knight Armor as soon as they are available. Check out MMO-Champion for the rest of the class changes and other various beta changes!

Categories: Death Knight, WotLK
Tags: 8820, Beta, Patch Notes, WotLK

7 Responses to “ 8820 Death Knight Changes ”

Egma Aug 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 am

Reaping sounds very nice…strange that the rune masterys went away though… oh well just 15 billion more changes till it actually goes live so I guess non of the new changes matter to much since they might change their minds on it again if it doesn’t work the way they want it to.
Shaman Power Aug 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 am

Another class that can walk on water? Can’t wait to see how this “Path of Frost” looks!
ChaosHaven Aug 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 am

Path of Frost honestly made me go “Roflmao!” xD
test Aug 22nd, 2008 at 7:54 am

Check Unholy Command talent in Unholy. What is Demand?
John Aug 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 am

demand is the new DK taunt

devs thought it might be crippling to DKs to keep one of their best pvp tools linked to taunt

it already has a long CD, and if it proved to be OP they didnt want to nerf pve tanking for the sake of pvp balance
John Aug 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 am

death grip no longer taunts btw
coragun Nov 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

What is the purpose of death runes?