A new ability/talent/spell was datamined in 8982 and until now it was unclear what it was for. Runic Focus, as seen in the tooltip, gives 100% damage bonus to your spells critical strikes. So how do we get Runic Focus? Today Ghostcrawler sets us straight:

Ghostcrawler
Death knights now do double damage on melee and spell crits. Normally spell crits are only 1.5x damage.

This was an intended change. Death knights derive a lot of damage from spells, but not so much that it made sense to give them a talent to increase …

Anyone that has played in a group with a DK or especially multiple DK’s knows what a cluster fuck Desecration was. There is no denying what a nice graphic the old one was, but it really became too much chaos to make it worth it. Death and Decay is in the same boat; it looks nice, but in the end it was just too much business. Below is a video and some SS’s showing the new animation. It sucks that the old ones didn’t work, but I think the replacements …

It seems Path of Frost will allow more than just water walking. Here are two screen shots that show the edge of the world! Fatigue anyone?

 
Thanks ColdFire

I think most of us have been waiting since August of 2007 to finally see this spell in action! It’s not OMG based on this video, but it’s potential is there. I’m embedding the YouTube version of it below, you can also download the higher quality version at FileFront. The video was posted in our forums, but the author originally posted it in the EJ forums. Thanks Pyros!

So, just hit 80, got Army of the Dead, I’m uploading a video atm, but it seems rather weak. I expected it not …

How can you not like this? DK Jesus here I come!