http://deathknight.info Death Knight class and fan site Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:52:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not to long ago I embarked on a journey to swap my dps spec from Blood to Frost and it's been a fun ride. It has also taken me pretty deep down the rabbit hole into the mechanics of how to dish out the damage properly and learn many of ... http://deathknight.info/2010/06/so-you-want-to-frost-strike/ I think there is a good amount of anticipation for this patch which will be releasing the new boss Halion into the Ruby Sanctum. It will also be the end of AVR in it's current form as well as the addition of Battle.net Real ID. There will not be any ... http://deathknight.info/2010/06/patch-3-3-5-released/ Cataclysm Friends & Family Alpha The Cataclysm Friends & Family Alpha just started. Important: The Friends & Family Alpha is restricted to employee's friends and family, the only way to enter this phase of the alpha is to have a Blizzard employee request a key for you ... http://deathknight.info/2010/05/cataclysm-alpha-testing-begins/ Love him or hate him, GC took the time to get pretty involved in a discussion about DK's success and failures throughout WotLK. The discussion was in the tanking forums and titled "3.3.3 Worked (sorta) for DKs" and can be found over at the official forums here. Among the topics discussed ... http://deathknight.info/2010/04/gc-gets-involved-in-a-dk-discussion/ Not the greatest illustration, I'm not the best at Gimp/Photoshop but this should give a rough idea. Instead of the 200% example that GC was giving, it's better to think of the strikes as taking 50% of our rune pool. It's going to be hard to differentiate between Runic Power used ... http://deathknight.info/2010/04/an-idea-of-how-the-new-rune-system-should-work/ Blizz released their DK preview for Cataclysm yesterday and there are some pretty interesting changes. It's still far to early to make any conclusions about the class and reactions have been both good and bad. We already know they are making blood the "tank" tree, but they gave some properties ... http://deathknight.info/2010/04/death-knight-cataclysm-preview/ Blizz has announced that the three trees will no longer be both dps and tank. Instead, the Blood tree is becoming the tank tree while Frost and Unholy are the dps trees. They will be releasing more details tomorrow so stay tuned. Read more. Source We're doing our Cataclysm preview on the death ... http://deathknight.info/2010/04/blood-will-be-the-tanking-tree-in-cataclysm/ According to Blizzard, they will begin releasing information about the classes this week. "Beginning Wednesday, April 7 we will begin releasing class previews containing an overview of some of the changes currently being planned for each of the 10 World of Warcraft classes. The type of information you ... http://deathknight.info/2010/04/cataclysm-death-knight-info-coming/ mmo-champion.com reports: Cataclysm Testing Will Start in April Many people wonder when will the beta of Cataclysm will start, it's time to (try to) answer that question! As far as I know, the Beta is supposed to start in April. At this point it's not very clear if there ... http://deathknight.info/2010/03/cataclysm-beta-to-begin-in-april/ Quote from: Bornakk Listed below are recent fixes we have applied to the game. Keep in mind that some of these changes may not be active until after the realm has been restarted. To review previous in-game fixes, please visit: 3/24 The Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player) meta ... http://deathknight.info/2010/03/324-in-game-fixes/