8885: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

8885: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly [UPDATED]

Kenzi August 30 2008 7:48 am 17 Comments

Build 8885 was released last night and had several huge changes. Lots of changes to to other classes, that I’m not listing here, you can check out MMO-Champion for all the details. Here are the Death Knight changes and additions:

Blood

Hysteria (Tier 7) changed to: Induces a friendly unit into a killing frenzy for 30 sec. The target is Enraged, which increases their physical damage by 20%, but causes them to suffer damage equal to 1% of their maximum health every second.
Blood Aura (Tier 7) is now passive.
Bloody Vengeance (Tier 6) now affects Frost damage as well as physical and shadow.
Dark Conviction (Tier 3) now increases crit chance with weapons, spells, and abilities by 1/2/3/4/5%. (Previously just affected weapons)

Frost

Frost Aura (Tier 7) is now passive.
Improved Icy Touch (Tier 1) changed to: Your Icy Touch does an additional 10% damage and your Frost Fever reduces melee attack speed by an additional 2/4/6%.
Toughness (Tier 1) now reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 10/20/30/40/50% in addition to its armor increasing effect.
Howling Blast damage slightly reduced. Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds. (All Ranks, Previously was 10 sec cooldown)
Icy Touch now only affects melee attack speed and reduces it by 14%. (Previously worked on Ranged, Casting and Melee speed, reducing it by 15%)

Unholy

Unholy Command (Tier 2) now affects the cooldown of Dark Command.
Scourge Strike (Tier 9) changed to: An unholy strike that deals 100% of weapon damage as Shadow damage plus 333 and 50% additional damage for each of the Death Knight’s diseases on the target.
Desecration (Tier 7) now affects Plague Strikes instead of Obliterates.
Unholy Aura (Tier 7) is now passive.
Reaping (Tier 6) now affects Pestilence and Blood Boil. (Previously affected Death and Decay)
Raise Dead changed only work on a humanoid corpse that yields experience or honor.
Deathcharger renamed Acherus Deathcharger.
Death Coil is no longer modified by attack power. (may not be true)

Not listed above are our two new abilities:

Horn of Winter:

Dark Command:

Also with this build where a slew of new achievement titles. They are mostly centered around “server first” achievements. Before you read, I’ll go ahead and say that the Death Knight server first to 80 title is “of the Ebon Blade”, which I think is a massive crock of shit. I have zero problems at all with rewarding…ahem…titling the people that make it to 80 first, but don’t give away a title that every Death Knight would be proud to wear!

I have a thread, crying if you want to call it, on both our forums as well as the Death Knight Beta forums. I hold on to the small hope that this is a “Place Holder” title, but the logic in me asks “why would you need a PH for text?”. What do you think?

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Here are the rest of those titles:

Achievements Titles

Arena Master – Complete the arena achievements
Salty – Complete the fishing achievements
The Diplomat – Raise your reputation level from unfriendly to exalted with Timbermaw Hold, Sporeggar and the Kurenai / The Mag’har.
The Hallowed – Complete the Hallow’s End achievements
The Seeker – Complete 3000 quests.

Feats of Strength

Twilight Vanquisher – Participated in the realm first Sartharion the Onyx Guardian kill (25 player).
The Supreme – First player on the realm to achieve level 80.
Assassin – First rogue on the realm to achieve level 80.
Warbringer – First warrior on the realm to achieve level 80.
Archmage – First mage on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of The Ebon Blade – First death knight on the realm to achieve level 80.
Stalker – First hunter on the realm to achieve level 80.
The Malefic – First warlock on the realm to achieve level 80.
Prophet – First priest on the realm to achieve level 80.
Crusader – First paladin on the realm to achieve level 80.
Arch Druid – First druid on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of the Ten Storms – First shaman on the realm to achieve level 80.
The Magic Seeker – Participated in the realm first Malygos kill (25 player).
Conqueror of Naxxramas – Participated in the realm first Kel’Thuzad kill (25 player).
Of Gnomeregan – First gnome on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of Quel’thalas – First blood elf on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of Argus – First draenei on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of Khaz Modan – First dwarf on the realm to achieve level 80.
The Lion Hearted – First human on the realm to achieve level 80.
Champion of Elune – First night elf on the realm to achieve level 80.
Hero of Orgrimmar – First orc on the realm to achieve level 80.
Plainsrunner – First tauren on the realm to achieve level 80.
Of the Darkspear – First troll on the realm to achieve level 80.
The Forsaken – First forsaken on the realm to achieve level 80.
Grand Master Blacksmith – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in blacksmithing.
Grand Master Alchemist – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in alchemy.
Iron Chef – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in cooking.
Grand Master Enchanter – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in enchanting.
Grand Master Engineer – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in engineering.
Doctor – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in first aid.
Grand Master Angler – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in fishing.
Grand Master Herbalist – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in herbalism.
Grand Master Scribe – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in inscription.
Grand Master Jewelcrafter – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in jewelcrafting.
Grand Master Leatherworker – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in leatherworking.
Grand Master Miner – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in mining.
Grand Master Skinner – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in skinning.
Grand Master Tailor – First player on the realm to achieve 450 skill in tailoring.
Hero of Northrend – First player on the realm to gain exalted reputation with the Argent Crusade, Wyrmrest Accord, Kirin Tor and Knights of the Ebon Blade.

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17 Comments »

Damadar said:

Really titles are rare enough as it is and the ones above are fairly cool. I think that once a player achieves lv 80 or skill 450 they should obtain that title, there are so many titles there that one single player could possibly get that you wouldn’t see the same one all the time on everyone.

# 30 August 2008 at 9:28 am

Slipshade said:

Dunno if i care to much about a title, but yeah, every DK from what i understand is tied to the Ebon blade, so its pretty stupid to only award to the first DK to reach 80, also i cant really see all “prestige” of being the first lonely guy/girl who hits 80 first, i might sound abit like a steorie type right now, but well, im fairly sure you would have to be without work or school to have any chance to hit 80 First

# 30 August 2008 at 9:33 am

jackson said:

is there a cooldown on horn of winter?

# 30 August 2008 at 9:40 am

Keglen said:

Yea, and the people that are in beta right now have a head basicly becasue they know where most.. if not everything… is in northrend. I know I wont get first to 80 on a DK, i really like to level slowly in new places.. really take in everything and stuff. Lore FTW :)

# 30 August 2008 at 9:48 am

goatman said:

any deathknight to reach lvl 80 should get of the ebon blade but then they would have to change all racials titles for if u just reach lvl 80. personally i think it would be fair if you reach lvl 80 that u can have the option to put the title on of ‘hero of orgrimmar’ (as long as your an orc) and the same for every race

# 30 August 2008 at 12:14 pm

Virty said:

that horn thing rocks! whats the CD?

# 30 August 2008 at 12:45 pm

Qetz said:

The only problem with giving everyone certain titles is as soon as you hit 80 there’s 2 titles, one for getting 80 with your class and another for getting 80 with your race..

Mind you, the “of the Ebon Blade” title seems like it would be rewarded for.. i don’t know.. getting exalted with the Ebon Blade? This title should be available to everyone just like the title “Blood Knight” should be available to all the BE paladins that want to wear it.

# 30 August 2008 at 12:46 pm

shynz said:

It’s disappointing to me in the sense that DK will instantly be taken out of the running for firsts in race and profession simply because they start at 55.

Also, people leveling in beta over and over again have a huge advantage over those that aren’t because they’ll actually know where the hell they are going all the time.

Poorly thought out and designed achievements for the loss.

# 30 August 2008 at 3:49 pm

Egma said:

Agreed, I would like to see more titles, but if they are only going to add “first person to xxx” titles they might as well remove them completely, I don’t remember anyone b**ching about how “easy” it was to earn rank private by just getting 15 HKs (which generaly you get within 1 or 2 BGs), or how easy sergent and master sergent ranks where where as on most servers all you had to do was do 1 BG a week to keep sergent and 5 every 4 weeks to keep master sergent. I think titles are a nice idea, I think yes some should be hard to obtain, but not make it so all titles are “elite”.

Back in the good old ranking days pretty much anyone could achieve the 3 lowest ranks, but you actualy had to work to get one of the top 11 ranks, that was a good system and it was nice. I say bring back the having some simple to achieve titles but make the better ones where you have to work for, but boo to this only .0000001% of people can have titles now, I know they are prestige but seriously no one complained about how easy lower ranks where, why not add lower titles such as take your “first to 450 Alch” as Grand Master Alchemist change it to ElderGrand Master Alchemist and have one that is just “reach 450 alch”

also add a few for “Grand Master gatherer” and “Grandmaster Worker” where who ever has 450 of either 2 professions or 2 gathering skills gets them.

# 30 August 2008 at 10:12 pm

Egma said:

Sorry, to summerize take all those “first to xxx” titles you have, add the word “Elder ” infront of them and then make the exact same goals, but rather then just reaching it first making it reaching it period and have it the names now. (Besides maybe obtain 80 since that would be just tossing out titles, but profestion wise it wouldnt, anyone to cap a profesion should get a title not just the one single person that did it .5secs before them because of lag)

# 30 August 2008 at 10:16 pm

rivendare said:

On a completely different note, how do the talent changes affect frost tanking ? i see endless winter doesnt aply frost fever through frost strike and mind freeze anymore? is that now implemented in those skills similar to icy touch , or have we been given a thorough screw in the ear?

If any1 who plays beta has any information on this , plz post.

# 31 August 2008 at 6:40 am

Saoul said:

I think Horn of Winter is gonna act like the Warrior’s Shouts.

same principle atleast

# 31 August 2008 at 11:52 am

Sidary said:

Nah i think the Horn of Winter is gonna act like a Shammy Heroism
for twice as long but around same CD. Just my thought.

# 31 August 2008 at 2:37 pm

lordminkie said:

honestly Horn of Winter is a lot like Shammy totem (strength of earth) except that it’s probably a dispellable buff.

Also, I think they just removed the text about AP affecting spells out of all DK spells. It’s a class function and it’s repetition is silly.

The numbers and understanding of it isn’t necessary to the average player, and is best reserved for theorycrafters and min-maxers =D

# 31 August 2008 at 10:46 pm

Draakie said:

i think it’s lame that only the first one gets that title, only the people with no-life have a change to get it.

# 8 September 2008 at 7:32 pm

Sol said:

Just do a whoever hits 80 within the first 2-3 weeks of WotLK’s release..or first gross amount to hit 80 kinda thing. etc. etc.

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