Mage vs. Death KnightFollow

I was wondering what everyone thought about the Death Knight from a mages perspective. Will the Death Knight be the mages ultimate bane, will it surpass the warlock in terms of how bad it kills us, or do you think it will just be a pimped out version of a warrior to ***** around with while murdering its minions.

There really is no answer to these questions. If you want to speculate, Lhivera tried to get Blizz to answer whether or not the mage class was "Working as intended." It went to max posts on 2 or 3 threads without a single response from Blizzard. Whether the mage class will continue to be underrepresented in arenas and be significantly worse compared to other classes is up in the air. If you think Blizzard thinks we are the way we should be right now, expect a similar boat when WotLK comes out.

Having played multiple classes, I find this not to be true. For example, locks have problems with warriors and rogues, hunters don't seem to have a problem with specific classes, rogues avoid warriors and resto shamans/druids. I actually think the mage class is a bit gimped as locks are such a strong counter to them. Mages are great for PvE and I wish I had their CC abilities on my lock, as I have been put on standby for some instances when the group would rather have a mages very nice CC (the ability to keep something out of combat for an indefinate amount of time is hot... esp. when you don't care if it's a full health or not). I think mages are just not so balanced around 1v1, or at least aren't as easy to be good on 1v1 as other classes can be.

I do think its sad that a mage has to be uber skilled to take out alot of classes when say a lock can kill u by just punching their keyboard......But the thing about a mage is that i feel a sense of pride when i own classes that should tear me apart....I dont really no where im going with this but mages are fun and have the tools to take down other classes......Personally I dont go into fights thinking wow this guy is going to dominate me because he is my anti-class, I just light them up and hope I react to their moves enough to win.

LOL. Mages are countered by warlocks, but not all classes are. In fact, rogues find warlocks easier to kill than mages (no blink). Stunlock to death (if your trinket is down), if not, trinket, deathcoil = cloak of n00bs, dead again. I find it very funny that mages kill warriors fairly easily (unless they are highly skilled warriors), but warlocks get chopped in half by them.

i guess i only have a problem with rogues. As a frost mage with imp CS a warlock is really not that hard to kill. Start out with CS right of the bat. Freeze them with ele or just frost nova. Then cone of cold, ice lance, blink away and start charging frostbolt. If u get feared let him get all his dots on u then ice block. By that time ur CS is up again. Ice lance as much as possible cause it also slows there cast speed when it comes to fear. Then again a druid can be a problem for mages at times too.

Peterhump - Eonar

Even know your fire, don't forget your frostbolt. Use rank 1 to kite them.

Never blink when they charge. It's a 1 sec stun and they'll just follow that up with a intercept. Get your distance right after the charge with a nova+trink n run. Then blink after intercept.

Use ice armor instead of molten armor against wars as well.

Remember, against a war distance>damage. If they are nova'd but still pretty close to you then use that time to put some ground between you and them rather then cast a spell.