Alliance Race?Follow

What ally race should a DK I'm thinking Night Elf cause I love shadow meld plus they got good armour at the begining.

Bumping your own thread won't help you and will just annoy people.

Nobody knows what to pick yet, the expansion isn't out for us either. Small details and mechanics are going to change between beta now and its release. Just choose whichever race you can stand to look at for as many levels as you decide to play it. Unless you're looking to do seriously high end raiding or PvP then racial details won't make much difference. Pick whatever you prefer.


Edited, Oct 2nd 2008 6:36pm by Smallsword

Well I think it's just a matter of what you like. Like the above post said racials make only small differences and are hardly even noticed by the casual gamer.

I personally plan on either making a female human or gnome, why? because I don't have any high level toons of the race and my reasoning is as simple as that : )

Anyways GL hope you can wait the month!

Be unique! Pick a Gnome!

Edit: As per Patch 3.0.2, or whatever it's called, Humans now also get a racial called Every Man For Himself, which works just like the PvP trinket and is on a 2-minute cooldown. Unfortunately it shares CD with the trinket and other such things.

Edited, Oct 17th 2008 7:42pm by Mazra

I'm 99.5% sure that faction of the 55+ character doesn't matter on normal servers. They just don't want brand new players making the class.

for alliance,

human: sword and mace expertise (+3), spirit bonus, rep gain bonus (huge), slight increase in stealth detection i think ( i know perception is gone), and pvp-type trinket in pve. a very solid choice for dps pvp or tanking. The only thing i could argue against is if their trinket ability shares a CD w/the 2 minute trinket, and you are a pvp min-maxer you would want the 40k honor trinket for the extra resilence.

dwarf: treasurefinding, stoneform, mace specialization (+5) frost resist.
great for tanking and ok for pvp because stoneform breaks bleed/poison/disease effects. for max benefits you're pidgeonholed into 2h maces. dont know how easy it will be to obtain them. a fairly solid tanking race

gnome: escape artist, expansive mind, arcane resist.
very subpar for pve. the mind will give very little to spell crit cause DK have so little. arcane resist can be decent but too situational. escape artist for pvp can be great because DKs have trouble with classes snaring them.

night elf: shadowmeld (vanish-like effect), quickness (reduces chance to be hit 2%), wisp, elusiveness, nature resist.
best pve tank build, decently good for pvp as well. dps not so great. shadowmeld is awesome for pvp and for solo pve when you need to get something off of you. if you pull hate as a DPS you can use it to hopefully get some time for the tank to regain aggro. this is the best pve tank build because of quickness and nature resist.

draenai: 1% bonus to spell and magic hit rate, gift of the naaru, shadow resist.
decent. overall decent. not bad at all because the 1% bonus to hit works for spells and melee for the whole party and compared to the expertise talents it lets you use any weapon. the benefit isnt as good as expertise for a tank though. gift of the naaru is a great solo talent, and for a dps dk its very good too.
because heroic presence doesnt stack, most raids usually have a draenai in them anyways for heroism, so really this wont bring much for a tank. in pvp kinda either way.

personally i'd go human or night elf.

Edited, Nov 6th 2008 2:01pm by EnthalpyTheBurninator

Human for PvP, and dwarf or night elf for PvE, I think. Perhaps draenei, but I'm never sold on draenei.

Gnomes are probably the worst possible racial choice for a death knight, so all those wishing for minute pink-haired deathbringers will regret their actions later on.

I think I prefer the new human racials. Perception was entirely broken in Arena, but that was basically the only place it was useful. EMFH is like always having a PvP trinket on you, plus freeing up a slot for a passive trinket along with a +AP trinket.

Now they just need to revamp dwarves so that they can turn into huge stone god-men...

Yea make a Night Elf... There are not enough Night Elves running around...