Articles in the Death Knight Category
Death Knight, Guides, PVP, Spells »
I know many of you are scratching your head right now thinking, “Rune Strike? Isn’t that for tanking?” Well, you can wipe the dead skin cells off your keyboard because I’m about to show you how Rune Strike can be beneficial to a Blood/Unholy Death Knight in PVP. Keep in mind that Frost will never want to use Rune Strike, as your RP is best served cold with a Frost Strike.
I haven’t used Rune Strike since I was leveling, What does it do again???
Well you aren’t alone since not …
Death Knight, Featured, News, Opinion »
If I was asked what makes a good class-toon normally I’d be looking for nice gear, following instructions, and being on vent as the top three. However Death Knights have built up a shady reputation over the lifespan of Wrath (DeathTard anyone?), in that everyone has played one, and a lot of people persist in playing them, making the opinions of the class are very broad.
To my perception after so many players trying the DK class it seems that even this long after release we are still seeing really bad …
Blue News, Death Knight, Featured, PTR, Reputations, User Interface, cataclysm »
3.3 is looking awesome. The new bosses we’ve seen on PTR are looking innovative and challenging (albeit, Blizzard have said they’re not trying to make Icecrown as daunting as Sunwell).
We’ll see Unholy DKs going back to a traditional deep spec, but necrosis has lost its value in that spec. Current EJ theory is seeing either Dark Death or Disease glyphs being top; I personally would prefer to use Disease, and for AOE it’s the winner. Runeforge Gossip wrote how to use disease glyph. He also likes the scourge strike change to …
Death Knight, Guides »
A few addons recently updated or have caught my eye, and some well-written reviews.
But first a quick personal update from me. I’ll be posting on dk.info less often for the remainder of the year, as I’m busy with a move back to Australia. Then to frustrate me, tonight pwnwear is up and down for maintenance whilst my hosting company upgrades my blog’s server, so I thought heck I’ll ramble on here instead.
Blue News, Death Knight, PTR »
We’ve got a few discussions actively going on the tanking and dps changes in PTR 3.22. I think PvPers will like the bone shield cooldown being reduced to 1 min too. MMO-Champion has done a spell comparison with very promising results.
Ghostcrawler has commented now, read the discussion.
Death Knight
Blood
Heart Strike now has its total damage increased by 10% for each of your diseases on the target to the primary target, and half that to the secondary target.
Vampiric Blood now lasts 10 sec. (Down from 20 sec.)
Subversion now also affects Scourge …






