I will be writing a few blog entries on the upcoming 3.3 patch over the next coming days so stay tuned and ill try fill you in!
The first area of the 3.3 patch I'm going to cover is the new Icecrown 5man instance :).
Below you will see a very interesting preview including story lines and lore involved in the new instance:
One thing to keep in mind though is that you have to unlock the Halls of Reflection by doing the Pit of Saron and the Pit of Saron is locked until you do the Forge of Souls.
For complete loot listing on normal and heroic modes check this out, you will notice some very strong items including a new OP armor pen trinket NOMNOMNOM: http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=912
Thats about it as far as the 5man instance goes, like I said I will be focusing my blog entries on this patch in the upcoming days :)
Quick word about the leveling of my mage, It is current level 43 any level 80s on Ravencrest EU are more than welcome to come boost me through ZF :D
This is a guide for Death knight dps, the current patch is 3.2.2 so this specc is relevant for here and now :). I've played all three speccs in Pve and even though the other two speccs are fun, blood specc is clearly the most damage output.
First of all you will want to reach the Pve hit cap which is 8%, this will make sure you don't miss any special attacks such as Heart Strike and Death Strike. (Hit cap under 8% will result in a serious loss of DPS)
Blood rotation:
(PS:PlagueStrike, IT: Icy Touch, HS: Heart Strike, DS: Death Strike, DC: Death Coil)
Tip 1: Keep above 25runic power at all times, this will ensure your Death Strike hits as hard as possible. (Death Strike scales with Runic power when glyphed)
Tip 2: Keep Plague Strike and Icy Touch on the target, it significantly increases your dps.
Tip 3: Spam Death coil when your runes are refreshing.
Tip 4: Dancing Rune Wepon as much as possible, try to refresh diseases after you summon it to increase damage, it is also a good idea to use Hysteria before summoning it.
Talent Tree:
Note there is 4 points spare that you can put into what you want in the blood tree, I have chosen Bloodworms and Vampiric Blood because you do more damage when over 75% health (Bloodworms help) and VB helps tricky situations + viable tanking offspecc.
Glyphs: Glyph of Death Strike Glyph of Dancing Rune Wepon Glyph of Dark Death
I'm sure I am not the only one who thinks World of Warcraft charges like payed character transfer are way too over priced, examples of these costs are below:
In my opinion these charges are quite ridiculous, considering it will be a computer system that does the transactions anyway.
Think of how much profit blizzard are making per transaction.
Lets go through the cost of a typical year playing the game!
Ok so the games will cost = £32.92 (And thats the cheapest i could find)
Monthly subscription to the game costs £8.99 : £8.99x12= £107.88
God why did i chose to be human male i hate it, lets go human female and change to a more feminine name ! = £12.00
My friend plays Horde on another server so you have to pay for realm transfer £15 and faction change £20, my friend had to do this recently and he was not happy! = £35
God i need race change because the other race's racial is so much better in PvP! = £15
Overall Cost = £202.80
These costs do not even take into consideration people having multiple characters on realms, usually if someone transfers their main character off to a better server they will want to take their alts with them aswell.
Now remember around 11.5million people play World of warcraft, thats alot of money!
I've been playing Death knight since the start of wrath and whilst staring at the character screen deciding on gnome male or female I had no idea of how strong the class was going to be!
I was in a pve guild and took that aspect of the game seriously untill i realised being one of the best geared Death knights on the server would probably help me in arena (When resilence was about as usefull as a blind car driver) Ofcourse it did and within weeks i was in the gladiator bubble, this was with no focus macros and hardly any solid tactics other than right click, collect points, repeat.
Season 6 came and It appeared to be slightly more balanced, I played in a successful Paladin Hunter Dk comp which was pretty strong against everything apart from wizard cleave variations. After getting full furious set, Tier2 wep and titles such as Arena Master i was pretty happy with the outcome of the season, my only regret was not pushing hard enough for Gladiator.
After an arena break (More pve focus) i stepped into arena in season 7 only to be hit by this:
Oh, did i mention Elemental shamans could do this sort of thing aswell!
and... Warriors could burst so much harder than me, have similiar overall damage and have mortal strike.
Ok, so now you are probably laughing at a Death knight QQing, dont get me wrong the class is still pretty decent it just doesnt compare to the 3 classes mentioned above.
Death knight is not FOTM (Flavour of the month) anymore so I will be rerolling like every other noob, a wise man once said 'Stick to what you are good at' and what i am good at is mage, so let the power leveling commence!
Steezey, gnome mage, Ravencrest EU current level 38!
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