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A while back I posted about hadeniaz, the crazy Korean that 3 manned Kara. Well now they are back at it again, this time tackling Magtheridon! They downed the once 25 man raid boss with only 4 people, the group consited of:

Unholy Death Knight (Tanking)
Ret Paladin
Resto Druid
Holy Priest

You can see his forum post about it [...]

Ghostcrawler finally dropped word on the before mentioned upcoming DK changes. Overall I think we just got a graze by the nerf bat, I’m happy and excited about the chagnes.

Ghostcrawler

We have talked about making some of these changes and wanted to provide more details. You should be able to try these out yourselves on [...]

GC spoke out today on a number of topics ranging from tanking and healing to upcoming Death Knight changes. He even mentions that duel spec may be in the next upcoming content patch!

Ghostcrawler

Raid difficulty

Naxx is an entry-level raid.
Many players have seen the encounters before.
Players were allowed to learn the encounters on beta.

“Hardmode” Rewards?

I think [...]

We haven’t heard much from any blue or developer in regards to Death Knights or anything for that matter since WotLK release. I’m sure with the next patch looming we’ll start to hear more blue feedback. Yesterday GC hit on a few tank topics and also chimed in on a gear itemization thread.
Tank scaling is [...]

Ghostcrawler hit the forums today with some major tanking changes coming (in the next build?).

Ghostcrawler

We have been doing some more tests on DK tanking, this time especially on raid bosses. We think the DK design has some limitations, which weren’t showing up as much on tanking 5-player dungeons.

Specifically, as many people suspected, the death [...]