For many of you tanking DKs you may have noticed how sometimes single target threat can be a challenge.

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Death Knight Single Target Threat Being Addressed

A new PTR build was pushed last night and and one of the biggest changes was the removal of the Blacksmithed tanking weapons . Ghostcrawler The two-handed Blacksmithing tanking weapons are not going to be implemented

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Patch 3.0.8 Build 9438 Death Knight Changes

Well, not the exact date, but in a recent conference call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime had this to say:

We have said that it will be coming out this year. I can tell you it’s not coming in the July to September quarter.

So maybe that October 30 release date will turn out to be true!

In other news, I have been busy playing around in the Wrath beta, mostly on a warrior, but I have also been playing a Death Knight as well.

The new talents and abilities are a lot of fun and the Death Knight intro quests are very well done

The intro cinematic for Death Knights gives you a little insight as to your origins and how you came to be a Death Knight.

Dk intro from xhuha on Vimeo.

Enjoy

Well, the beta is now up for grabs for those lucky enough to have beta accounts. Just so happens that I have access! I loaded up the new beta today to give it a spin. First up, the login screen is now WOTLK specific as seen here:

WOTLK Login Screen

I created my Death Knight and proceeded to check it out in all it’s glory. The quest line that introduces you to the Death Knight was very well done in my opinion. One thing of note, being a Death Knight, you are EVIL. And I mean that. If any of the more unsavory Horde quests made you uneasy, these Death Knight quests will downright turn your stomach.

It took me roughly 3 hours to go through the intro quest line, which also got me to level 57 and all the talents that go with it. You don’t really have a lot of abilities as only a few are unlocked for you as you go.

As you complete each step in the quest line, you are awarded talent points, which you can then spend to get new talents and abilities.

The quest chain was pretty solid and I only encountered a couple of bugs. It was a lot of fun too. One thing that I’m not sure I liked was the way it ended. It ends rather abruptly, with a nice action scene, and then you breaking your bonds with Arthas to go about your merry way.

However, up until that final moment, you are taught, and may even learn to enjoy, being very evil. When it came time for me to have broken my bond with Arthas, I still felt like I was onto something in the quest chain FOR Arthas. I wanted to continue that story line, but alas, such is not the case.

Once the quest chain is over, you start out at Light’s Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands, and that is where your old school WoW journey begins, in which it is time to grind out some levels and prepare for whatever it is you wish to do afterwards