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WotLK and Death Knights

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Shihli — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 08:26

So I've been reading up on Death Knights ...

When WotLK comes out I might just switch to a Death Knight full-time.

I know it sounds frivolous, possibly even akin to the rampant "I want to be the first Downfall shaman!  I WANTS TO RAIDZ!"  However, Death Knight sounds like it will play in a fashion similar to the Dark Knight from FFXI (here he goes again).  That fashion is as a sturdy two-handed weapon user that also uses a limited amount of spells and has the ability to tank as needed.  One could say similar about enhancement shaman (minus the tanking part) and arms warriors (minus the spellcasting part), however Death Knight just seems to wrap it all together into a package that sounds REALLY attractive to me.

I won't make any guarantees at this point, but you might anticipate the "guild's first raiding death knight" to be none other than me, come WotLK.

The best name I've come up with is Deadhli.  Like "deadly" but with a twist using my typical online moniker.  Get it?  How lame.

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Delirium's picture

I called dibs 34 years ago,

Delirium — Thu, 05/15/2008 - 23:22

I called dibs 34 years ago, same as Gares and Kog!

 

Mine will be named Deathknightiliriumtime.

 

I'll kill you. 

garreth's picture

I like it when Delirium

garreth — Thu, 05/15/2008 - 23:50

I like it when Delirium finds the site every couple of weeks.

Delirium's picture

I like you Garreth, you're

Delirium — Fri, 05/16/2008 - 00:09

I like you Garreth, you're my friend.

What the fuck is a Death

chrislow — Mon, 05/12/2008 - 09:31

What the fuck is a Death knight??

Dragon's picture

Will I have a Death

Dragon — Sun, 05/11/2008 - 02:40

Will I have a Death Knight.....Yes
Will he be level 80 by the time Garreth's is lvl 51 (assuming they start at 50).....probably
Will He be my main.......Doubtful(I got Dragon amirite!?)
Do I think WotLK will be a whole lot better if I could xfer my shaman, hunter and warrior back here.........Most Definitely

I will have a Deathknight because they are another melee class. So far the only melee classes im missing at 70 are rogue (gee mine is 48) and a druid (next pet project?)

As far as the name of Shihli's deathknight. I'm thinkin Deadwrong (goes to reserve it for himself)

~Legendary Nobody

Minor Edit: BTW as far as DK's go I believe they will be like Alliance with Shaman and horde with Paladins with TBC. Everyone will say "zomgs im rollin one when they come out and im gonna be the first one uberness" and everyone was complaining that all players from a given faction were gonna roll the new class. It hasn't turned out that way and although since DKs start at higher level and I expect to see many. I doubt that we will be swimming in DK mains.

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I'm gonna keep sneakin and

Barqz — Sat, 05/10/2008 - 06:07

I'm gonna keep sneakin and huntin, Garreth a year after release we should quest together and get our DK to a whopping 58, or even 59.

I would like to add, (and this has nothing to do with dk's) I like the idea of each raid having a 10 and 25 person instance, its nice to know that for the people that get RL blocking their hardcore raiding they can still experience all the raid zones on a lesser scale.  This is a Completely NONsarcastic GG to Blizzard.

 

 


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Derchlon's picture

QFT is "Quoted For Truth,"

Derchlon — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:56

QFT is "Quoted For Truth," Gares.

saedo's picture

I prefer "Quit Fuckin

saedo — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:59

I prefer "Quit Fuckin Talking"   ;p

Gares of War's picture

I can totally see this death

Gares of War — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:13

I can totally see this death knight stuff get ugly in the future lolololol.  No matter who wants one :-P

garreth's picture

Yeah, this has me a little

garreth — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:37

Yeah, this has me a little leery of WotLK.

garreth's picture

LOL, I like the way you put

garreth — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:45

LOL, I like the way you put that.

Does remind me: How many of our healers are going to stick around for Wrath?  How many will want to raid (yes, we WILL be raiding :P)?

You know me, I'll still be on Garreth.  My Deathknight will be a whopping level 57 a year after release...

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Which, as an addendum, does

Shihli — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:40

Which, as an addendum, does not imply that I'll necessarily have a death knight and a "guarantee" at a raid position with one.  Same with everyone else. 

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Ultimately, it's up to

Shihli — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:39

Ultimately, it's up to everyone which toon they will want to bring to 80 and raid with in WotLK.

Likewise, it's also up to the raid leadership (Garreth, Katibug, Keisjaa, Nuitarin, Epat, myself, etc) on what number of each class will be present at each raid.

In short:

It's your choice to play a toon, it's our choice to bring it :P 

Gares of War's picture

QFT? Quantum Field Theory?

Gares of War — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:55

QFT? Quantum Field Theory?

mav's picture

Necroshihliac imo  WARNING:

mav — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:45

Necroshihliac imo 

WARNING: This post will probably contribute absolutely nothing to the conversation, it will only waste a few seconds of your life. Mavandon's shenanigans should not be taken by children 10 and under or adults over the age of 70.

garreth's picture

Absolutely QFT.

garreth — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:49

Absolutely QFT.

Gares of War's picture

Dikymo was right, death

Gares of War — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:44

Dikymo was right, death knights will be the end of WoW

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With 10 Deathknigths, and

Ewiges — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:28

With 10 Deathknigths, and taunt lasts ~5 seconds. We can have a 50 second rotation allowing for 45 seconds that each deathknight has to heal back to 100%. This assumes taunt lasts for 5 seconds, a deathknight can tank 5 seconds without heals, no taunt gets resisted, and taunt is on a less than 45 second cooldown.

saedo's picture

25 imo.   They can take

saedo — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:23

25 imo.   They can take turns tanking and heal themselves up in the meantime while the others dps.

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Saedo is onto something

Ewiges — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:26

Saedo is onto something there. We can try it in the ten mans while we wait for the slackers to get to 70.

garreth's picture

I can't wait to raid with 24

garreth — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:22

I can't wait to raid with 24 Death Knights.

Grasen's picture

I'm gonna keep on Huntering

Grasen — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:08

I'm gonna keep on Huntering

Ewiges's picture

I already reserved the name

Ewiges — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:19

I already reserved the name for my deathknight. Deafnight. Try and take it. You can't! Its mine.

Ewiges - Absorbing the stupidity of the world for over 20 years.

Ewiges's picture

And to add on, I told G I'm

Ewiges — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:20

And to add on, I told G I'm going deathknight for WotLK and he told me no.

Barqz's picture

Nope I vote closer, then

Barqz — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:19

Nope I vote closer, then Darkspeed, then casecold will make one, lvl it and gear it out in t7 then never ever play it again..then a few more raiding DK, then i will make one half way into its "lvling grind" and give up hope ot continue the rogue.  at which point some server xfer DK in full t10 will come in and wow us with his amazing..whatver dks do and boom wala. there ya go

 

 


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Gares of War's picture

Darkspeed will be first

Gares of War — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 11:08

Darkspeed will be first

Atar's picture

Closer will get there first

Atar — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 10:41

Closer will get there first imo.

saedo's picture

And it'll be her 10th level

saedo — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 10:57

And it'll be her 10th level 80 too.

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"You and every other player

Shihli — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 10:20

"You and every other player wants to be the first raiding death knight lol.  Sorry, Kognus and I called dibs first :)"

First, there's no "dibsies"  :)

Secondly, we'll have to see who gets there first!  :D

I am torn between who I want

Ardea — Fri, 05/09/2008 - 10:04

I am torn between who I want to level first... I know that I am not going Death Knight main.

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