8962 Death Knight Changes

Kenzi September 18 2008 8:48 am 4 Comments

Lots of new items and changes this patch. It appears to me they are adding in the “finishing touches”. Things like rep vendor items, DK set bonuses, DK armor skinned, etc. I’m going to go ahead and post a few pictures and then update this post as I go. Make sure to check back. I just want to get the set bonuses and new armor skins up.

It appears that set the rating requirements and point costs have also been added:

PvP set bonus

New armor skins

(Savage Gladiator)

(Hateful Gladiator) – Looks the same as Savage, just recolored.

	Rating Requirement	Cost
Chest	1725	6000 Honor 700 Arena
Shoulders	1825	4800 Honor 550 Arena
Legs	1695	6000 Honor 700 Arena
Gauntlets	1665	3600 Honor 400 Arena
Helm	1785	6000 Honor 700 Arena

(Deadly Gladiator)

	Rating Requirement	Cost
Chest	2020	2250 Arena *
Shoulders	2200	1800 Arena
Legs	1960	2250 Arena
Gauntlets	1900	1350 Arena
Helm	2140	2250 Arena

* The chest also shows a gold cost as well, I am going to assume that it is a bug. Here is a SS of it:

Talents and Skill Changes

(via WotLKwiki)

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Glyph Changes and Additions:

(via MMO-Champion)

Glyph of Blood Boil – Lowers the damage of your Blood Boil by 20% but causes it to slow affected targets for 5 sec.

Glyph of Death and Decay – Targets of your Death and Decay have a 20% chance to cower in fear for 2 sec. (Old – Your Death and Decay spell deals 10% additional damage but the cooldown is increased by 10 sec.)

Glyph of Icy Touch - Your Icy Touch does 10% less damage but generates 10 additional runic power.

Glyph of Frost Strike – Your Frost Strikes have a 10% chance to Freeze the target for 8 sec.

Glyph of Rune Strike – Increases the critical strike chance of your Rune Strike by 5% but increases cost by 3 runic power. (Old – 5 Runic Power)

Glyph of Vampiric Blood – Heals you for 3% of your total health.

Glyph of the Ghoul – Your Ghoul receives an additional 20% of your Strength. (Old – Increases your Ghoul’s total Strength by 10%.)

Glyph of Corpse Explosion – Any target killed by your Corpse Explosion will also explode. This effect cannot happen more than once every 6 seconds.

Glyph of Pestilence – Increases the radius of your Pestilence effect by 5 yards.

Glyph of Rune Tap – Your Rune Tap also heals your party for 10% of their maximum health.

Glyph of Blood Strike - Your Blood Strike causes an additional 20% damage to snared targets.

Glyph of Death Strike – Your Death Strike’s damage and healing increase by 2% for every 5 runic power you currently have.