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Upcoming Death Knight and Mage Changes

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Various sites are reporting on a couple of posts from Blizzard poster Ghostcrawler on both the Death Knight and Mage classes.
Ghostcrawler explains the philosophy behind the DK changes as:
* Making tanking still rely on cooldowns, but rely on them a little less.
* Make Blood a more attractive spec, and particularly for tanking.
* Chill out some [...]

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Upcoming changes to Death Knight tanking

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Blizzard poster Ghostcrawler has made a detailed post regarding DK tanking. Highlights include:
the death knight really suffers when attacks fail to land, especially opening attacks. Having a Plague Strike dodged or parried can throw off an entire rotation, eventually leading to bad Obliterates because both diseases weren’t up at the same time. Missing attacks is [...]

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Mini Death Knight tanking Q&A with Ghostcrawler

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Blizzard poster Ghostcrawler has made an interesting post regarding some common questions/concerns about DK tanking.
Highlights include:
Q: Is there any plans to give us spam able Aggro-generation skills back?
A: Abilities that add too much straight threat don’t scale well. Paladins would have been far and away the best tanks for threat in Sunwell if [...]

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