Death Knights

As I promised, I’m following up my previous post with a bit of rambling about DKs.

So far I’ve grouped with 6 death knights, two of which were on my paladin. One was played my an acquaintence of mine, second was a random pug. The other 4 were in a 5 DK group I ran on my DK Deathridden. For this post I’ll stick to the experiences from my paladin (the others were a group of power-leveling raiders that rerolled).

I understand that the Death Knight is a new class, deemed a “hero class” by Blizzard. This combined with several other factors have absolutely ruined the DK class for me. My conclusion of the issues:

• Previously mentioned, Hero class
• They wear plate armor
• Stated to be able to tank utilizing any talent tree
• The class is only a few weeks old

So Blizz has said DKs can tank as any spec. This doesn’t mean that every tree is a tank tree. It means every tree has tank talents. 9/10 people take the dps talents because they are much more fun than the mitigation/utility talents. Additionally people seem to think they are gods because they are THE hero class. I have run into an abundance of problems grouping with Death Knights and I’ve really only run with two “average players”.

Just because these stars have seemingly aligned does now make you the gods of WoW. You’re just another dos in my group that will kill the boss while he pays attention to me. I don’t want you to dps frost presence, out of marked order, claiming you’re offtanking. I don’t want you to Death and Decay in FP either. It’s your job to kill things, not make our healer freak out because they don’t know who’s going to get the next big hit.

So now I’m done with my rambling. Maybe I’ll go play my DK to try and put one more good player closer to the level cap.