A rather uneventful PTR build 9742 was pushed today and an even more uneventful BlizzCast 8 came out today. Looks like the PTR DK changes are basically tweaks or rollbacks from previous changes and BlizzCast 8 basically focused on D3 and SC2.
Here is a rundown of the DK changes via MMOC.

9742 Death Knight Changes

General

Glyph of Heart Strike – Your Heart Strike also reduces the movement speed of your target by 50% for 10 sec. (Up from 5 sec.)

Blood

Blood Boil range has been reduced from 20 yards to 10 yards.
Will …

The December 2009 edition of TokyoPoP’s Word of Warcraft Manga will feature the story of the first known [Alliance] Death Knight Thassarian.

You can get full details of the issue over at BlizzPlanet.

The latest PTR build showed very few changes, mostly spell changes, this might be a good sign that fine tuning is taking place and a live release may be soon. Below are the DK changes and some updated tier 8 pics via MMOC.

9733 Death Knight Changes

General

None

Blood

None

Frost

Howling Blast cooldown has been reduced from 10 sec to 8 sec.
Rime now has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on Howling Blast and cause your next Howling Blast to consume no runes.

Unholy

Death Strike damage has been lowered, it now deals …

It’s been a while since we’ve seen an update from the comings and goings of the Death Knight community, so I figured I would put these latest two emails I’ve received to good use. This isn’t meant to be a “world first” post, so please don’t email me saying you was the first, this is simply a way to recognize some nice achievements.
Over 7,000 Achievement points!
7,020 to be exact, and while that isn’t even close to being the highest (overall) it is, in fact, the highest in the world by …

What a better way to get caught up on the PTR patch notes then to have an official update! Today Blizzard updated the official 3.1 PTR patch notes and below are the DK changes. There are several key tanking “nerfs” which concern many that DK’s are being pidgeonholed into speccing frost in order to tank. GC responded to those fears today as well and even mentioned that DPS changes are incoming next! (I hope good ones).

Ghostcrawler
Our intent is not to force DKs down one tanking tree any more than they …