Why are you making a death knight?Follow

Im making a death knight because they sound awesome. And the lore behind them is good (from what ive read so far) As for DPS, farming/tanking, i think farming may be a waste of the talents available to them. Im just gonna go for dps, oh, and exact revenge on any ally pala i see because i loath them so :P

After playing since release, playing a new class is very refreshing.

Completely new playing styles and strategies - how can I not want to play one ^^

Plus - they are cool, dark and powerfully versatile.

I will DPS and Tank, I love tanking.

The more I learn about them, the more I beleive they could really make it as decent tanks.

So, what you are attempting to say is that PvP people are those who are pathetic (that's worse than hopeless) at role playing, and due to envy enjoy putting down the reason for the server in the first place (like you)? Wonderfully inventive logic. On the other hand, I know that PvPers have a big case of willy envy to start with, so perhaps it's not so inventive at that.

1. DPS.

2. I needed a DPS alt to farm mats and dailies since my main is a healer. I very much liked the Deathknight concept and lore, and though I have to admit I'm not particularly crazy about the playstyle thus far, you really can't beat the fact that a DK saves me 55 levels of work.

ZZZzzzz...Im sorry what?, i missed that.

Then go back and read it again, if your single neuron allows you to do that. Sorry if you went AFK in the middle of a flame-war, but BGs probably trained you that way.

flame war? I see no flame war just a pissed RPer who doesnt like that fact that his type are the bottom of the barrel.

who cant pvp so he says its crap.

Edited, Nov 19th 2008 5:04am by redbarronthesecond

Rolled a DK to experience the game content. I liked the part when I needed to kill civilians for a DK quest. The npcs will run and scream at your mere presence, they will even tremble and beg for their lives. To top it off, you don't just hear 1 or 2 npc voices. There are sound effects of mass hysteria and screaming.

I have plans to tank with my DK in the future, after my main hits 80 and raiding schedules has settled in my guild.

In all honesty, you should avoid planning on/trying to tank with your DK as much as humanly possible. It's painfully obvious that Blizzard designed this class primarily to DPS, with the ability to tank being thrown in almost as an afterthought. (I mean, level 65 before we get our taunt? Seriously, Blizzard?) Their mechanic and abilities as a whole are awkward and incredibly unforgiving when used to tank; they have almost zero ways to react and/or recover if things go wrong.

Unless their tanking aspect gets a makeover, I would be very surprised to see any guilds running with a DK tank in their raids once the novelty wears off and people start getting down to serious business.

That having been said, do try to learn how to tank at least enough to make it through a five-man if there's nothing else searching; just don't plan on making a career out of it.

I made a DK for the change of pace. I really like the fact that it uses a new mechanic, which is quite a bit different from my other toons. I decided to go Unholy because the style is so much different from anything else that I've played before. Blood just seemed too much like an Arms Warrior/Ret Pally.

So far I'm having a ton of fun with it.

1) Role - Blacksmith or Engineer, not sure which yet. I don't have toons with either one, so it will be one or the other. If I play him extensively, he'll be a tank, but he'll be 3rd or 4th on my priority list.

2) Reason - Because I could.

Not quite. You put yourself forward as a PvE'er, who PVP's on an RP server while putting down RPers. That is, one who doesn't know how to RP, one who is lousy at RP, one who is jealous of those who can RP, and therefore one who must take cheap shots at what he cannot either fathom or do (much less do well). I suggest that you grow a pair and move your bony tail over to a server that welcomes your unwholesome ilk.

I agree to this at low gear levels; it isnt possible for a DK to just 'tank an instance' because as you point out, the basis of the class is something like a hybrid between an Arms Warrior and a Warlock, neither of which are tank-oriented. A DK with mostly greens and blues will get torn to shreds by even the easiest of bosses currently.

However.

At higher gear levels, DKs do begin to gain a truly impressive avoidance stat, mitigation is lower by about 5-10% so healers have to stay sharp but Frost Presence mostly helps out. On beta I've seen DKs tank Heroics which are pretty damn difficult, although every single one of them was Frost. The other advantage being comparatively large tank DPS and good front-loading, that 2H essentially puts a DK ahead of the other tanks in DPS.

That said, they dearly need to finish fine-tuning particularly on the actual 'tank' abilities. Dark Command on such a cooldown is frankly stupid and smacks of a Warrior dev looking out for his own, the threat on DnD needs to be buffed A LOT and I'd really like to see some reactive damage component attached to Unbreakable Armor and Bone Shield, as well as something like Mocking Blow to peel a boss off some stupid DPSer.

Other than that, cool bananas.

On the RP topic, I have to say wandering around an RP server can be a funny experience. The guys who invent new scenarios and go rob banks, explore in teams and 'make maps', go fishing and talk in-character, I have to say I actually like. They are playing a different game to me and that's fine, and some of them are really creative storytellers and I applaud their origninality. Then there are the insecure types who are there because they really want to forget their real life and be "Lythithrien Nightsilverbladewhisper, Scion of the Thrice-Damned House of yadayada zzzzz..." and I find those people a bit hard to get along with. I recall being reported for 'immersion breaking' by one of these types for asking (verbatim) "Where is the bank?", which I would probably say even if I was a Night Elf Druid.

Signs of the Over-Immersed RPer:
1) ******* exactly the same way other WoWkids do (loot/nodes/raidslots) but makes up RP reasons for doing so
2) Seems to bear genuine, grinding hatred for the players who occupy the opposite faction
3) Seems to bear genuine, grinding hatred for players who chose a certain class/spec (usually Warlocks, but whichever class is currently OP) and makes up RP reasons for doing so

and

4) Cybers (or attempts to cyber) with sexy lvl4 Night Elves in Darnassus, probably created for this purpose and almost certainly played by a balding gas engineer from Croydon called Reg.