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[9 Aug 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

…’cause that’s about how often they are updating. It’s madness with all the changes. Thank god we have Boubouille and Wowhead to keep shit straight.
Here is a list of the talent changes from yesterdays new build via MMO-Champion.
For your build building pleasure, check out the calculator at MMO-Chamion.
Wowhead is showing build 8714, but I am pretty sure it is the current build as well.
The official talents page seems to be out dated as of this post.
Blood

Butchery (Tier 1) now only generates 1/2 runic power per 5 sec. (Previously 1/2 runic power every …

Blue News, Death Knight, Spells, Talents, WotLK »

[27 Jul 2008 | One Comment | ]

Awesome feedback, guys. Keep it up!
I’m not sure if it made the talent trees, but we changed Frost Strike to be an instant attack with no chance to Freeze but bonus damage vs frozen targets. Use Chains or get a random freeze and then use Icy Touch (if talented) or Howling Blast at range or Frost Strike in melée.
We’ll talk about some of the other feedback, especially Death Strike.
It looks like our friends at Blizzard finally heard our cries, Frost Strike will now be an instant attack, as seen in …

Death Knight, Patch Notes, Talents »

[26 Jul 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

MMO Champion recently compiled a list of all the new changes in the official talent calculator. These changes are assumed to be part of the next patch.
Death Knight:

Blood

Will of the Necropolis now increases your expertise by 3/6/9 instead of 4/8/12
Blood Gorged now only affects melee damage
Vendetta nerfed to a max of two talent points, 2/4%

Frost

Frost Aura increases your Frost Resistance by 32/65 instead of 22/45.
Improved Icy Touch buffed, now grants 10/20/30/40/50% more damage or 20/40/60/80/100% more to frozen targets.
Nerves of Cold Steel moved from tier 3 to 2.
Annihilation moved to …

Death Knight, Talents »

[21 Jul 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

I guess it doesn’t get more official than this. Blizzard released their own Beta versions of the new talent calculators today. Here is a look a the Death Knight version:

Here is a link to the DK version:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/deathknight/talents.html
You can find the rest here:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/talent-index/wrath.html