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DK is great but I don't see OP.Follow

#1 Nov 18 2008 at 5:55 AM Rating: Default
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Okay, I'll admit Death Knight is an awesome class, I love just about every ability and Unholy to me is fun as hell. I however do not see how they are OP. Is it because everyone playing one has most likely done all this questing and grinding before and are just smoking through it? Any class played right can PVE without a break and we all know twinks can plow through anything. DK is sort of twinked, hell we even have our weapon enchanted. I'm certain a group of 5 paladin, Locks, Hunter, shaman and probably any properly spec'd other classes could run Ramps. Plus blizz nerfed the crap out of instances so it practically a cakewalk. As far as PvP? Come on, Rogue, Druid, Warrior, Lock these guys are blatantly OP or are they just well geared and well played? Hmmmm....well ok Druid are OP and that's that. The rest I like to think are just well played. ^^ Anyway, I'm open to your flamless opinions. And unless you want another class gimped I hope we can just enjoy what we have, anyone can have and lvl a DK.
#2 Nov 18 2008 at 6:16 AM Rating: Default
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I'm definitely on board wanting a DK of my very own. I'm trying very hard to resist getting the xpac though :P

They just look to have a ton of great abilities and look tons of fun to play.

As far as being OP... could go either way from what I've read. Plus it was comical to watch a level 71 DK duel a level 78 shammy and watch the shammy get his butt kicked 3 times in a row (that was all I could watch :P)...

So they might have a touch more firepower than they need, and that's alright by me :)
#3 Nov 18 2008 at 6:18 AM Rating: Good
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I wouldn't go so far as to call them OP as to this point my experience with Death Knights have been restricted to questing and no PvP or running instances, but I will say that I'm having a much easier time questing than I did with my Rogue Main. Maybe it has to do partially with the fact that as of 3.02 they seemed to have lowered the difficulty but I know with Rogue even using stealth to avoid all the mobs that I didn't need to encounter, it wasn't this easy. I would be lucky to take on 3, maybe 4 mobs in a row that rushed me and that was after popping some cooldowns. Add to the fact that I would have to blow through food and bandages. At level 67 with Death Knight I've consumed 3 foods and maybe 10 bandages. I have stacks and stacks of Netherweave just accumulating to the fact that I've been able to buy my guildies Netherweave bags.

The security of having Plate armor and the STA with it, combined with heavy DPS, combined with having the ability to do AOE, having a minion fight by you, topped with the ability to self heal does seem to give DK's an advantage over some races. Even pallys need to drink every so often, I find that DK's literally has no down time. I've been able to complete the Hellfire, Zangramarsh, and the Tekkorar achievements of questing in a little over 3 days of playing and that was with devoting part of an entire day to skilling up herbalism and mining from level 1 (which I do not suggest for anyone who wants to maintain their sanity).
#4 Nov 18 2008 at 7:33 AM Rating: Good
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i dont think theyre OP, they just seem that way early on (cause of good gear) and later on to most other people (because no one knows really how to counter them).

the people who followed the beta and understand how to use all of the skills do the best as DK's or vs DK's. for instance, i had a gang of three (3) DK's try to gank my DK in hellfire. i had two levels on them (60 vs 58) and a resto druid with me. they chomped my resto pretty quickly (we had about a half dozen mobs on us) and then moved onto me. despite having a half dozen mobs on me and being outnumbered three to one, i was able to outmaneuver and outlast them, and eventually win (then kill the mobs on me). my knowledge of what was happening and how to counter it and best capitalize on my abilities won me the day.

likewise, when a 71 DK tried to gank my 72 warrior in northrend, i was able to pretty easily shut the DK down, barely losing a quarter of my life (with a mob on me) while the DK ate dirt in a suprisingly short amount of time.
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