Death Knight Tactics

Tank EPIC-Fail

Sep 10 2009 8:25AM

I haven’t posted in a while; I have a lot of reasons for that. I initially wasn’t too happy with the Cataclysm announcement, but it’s grown on me a little bit since the first announcement. When I started this site, there weren’t a lot of blogs out there about DK’s; the expansion hadn’t been released yet. I’d hoped to jump in and get a new site going and corner the market on it. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Onyxia Returns - Revenge of the Retred

Aug 14 2009 8:43AM

Blizzard's doing it again. If you think that I'm about to say that they're adding a new innovative dungeon, your wrong. They're recycling more old models and content. If your like me, the first thing that caught my eye was that they had decided to "reuse" the Tier 2 helm models. I thought they already did that back in Burning Crusade ... can we say Greathelm of the Unbreakable or any of the bazillion Tier 1 or Tier 2 look-alike pieces from BC. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Do Patches Bring Out the N00b in Everyone?

Aug 6 2009 7:53AM

Overall, the new dungeon was pretty interesting; I ran it twice on normal and once on heroic. I don’t think anyone died on the normal mode. Interestingly enough, the idiot group leader I was with gear-checked me before allowing me to join his group for normal. I hardly see why that’s necessary unless you’re an elitist whore. Once in the dungeon, the group leader, who was a hunter, messaged me with “just so we’re clear, the trinket is mine. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Who Stole All The Runeblades?

Aug 4 2009 8:24AM

The Runeblade from the end of the DK starting zone is, in my opinion, one of the best looking weapons this expansion. Having gone through Ulduar, my guild suffered from a lack of choices in weapons. I’ve been stuck with Stormedge because it’s pretty much all that has dropped for us. It got me thinking about the starting zone weapon. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

3.2 Tanking Specs

Aug 4 2009 7:58AM

Here are the tanking specs I’ve picked out for 3.2. For the most part, blood and frost are pretty similar to 3.1. Unholy has had notable changes made to it that affect both dps and tanking. The first and most obvious change is that Unholy Blight has been redesigned as a single-target effect that increases Deathcoil damage. As a tool for AoE tanking, UB has lost its allure. Each tree provides their own perks for DK Tanks. The Blood tree provides enhanced health regeneration. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

3.2 Spec Compendium - DPS

Jul 29 2009 7:19PM

I’ve had some trouble lately working on content. Part of my problem is that I haven’t liked the way Blizzard has been jerking around our class over the last few patches. Also, my role in the game has changed a bit. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

3.2 Changes On The Horizon

Jul 14 2009 10:33AM

Greetings Deathnuggets; with 3.2 on the horizon, it’s time to talk about and digest some of the latest DK news since the opening of Ulduar. Ulduar definitely felt different than Naxxramas, my hats go off to the Devs for making such a pretty and challenging instance. It seemed to me that Blizzard’s new dungeon strategy worked. Casual players were greeted with a challenging instance, while hard modes preserved the difficulty for high-end guilds. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Has Blizzard Forgotten

May 20 2009 7:40PM

We haven’t heard anything new on DK Duel-Wielding in recent days. I was hoping The Blizz would get on that, but there hasn’t been anything new since the last slice of news. I imagine that said changes will require some talent changes. I don’t think this is something that Blizzard will be wanting to do outside of a large patch like 3.2, so I regret that for the moment we’re all stuck. I’ve tried both Unholy and Blood in Ulduar. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Patch Analysis - So I Fired the Server Gnomes

May 14 2009 5:23PM

Wow, looks like DKT is back up and running. Apologies to those of you who were trying to view the site and had problems this week; I host this site myself and unfortunately I had some issues with one of my hardware firewall appliance boxes that does my firewalling stuff. I’m really trying to make it sarcastically obvious that I know nothing about IT. If you’re reading this, I must have figured it out. We have some news today about 3.1.2. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

The State of Raiding

May 12 2009 10:07AM

I’ve been thinking a lot about raiding lately and wanted to share some of my thoughts about the state of raiding in WoW. I’ve been a guild leader or officer for pretty much all of Wow 1.0 – 3.1. I’ve never been the hardest of the hardcore; but I’ve managed to find a good balance between hardcore and casual. I consider myself as neither. Leading a guild has changed drastically between each expansion. In Wow 1. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Are you BiS?

May 11 2009 12:16PM

Best in Slot is a coined term that represents the best possible item for that slot for your particular class and spec at the present time. A lot of people seem to throw this term around. You’ve probably heard this in relation to Betrayer of Humanity. This weapon was the “Best in Slot” two-hander for most melee classes in Wow 3.0. I wanted to go a little into detail on how we determine what a Best in Slot item is. The first concept to understand is Stat Weight. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Fresh Progress in Ulduar

May 6 2009 4:58PM

I’m still really unhappy with what happened to my guild last week. We ended up having to bench our Ulduar 10 raid for this week due to lack of healers … which is sad, but its my Dad’s birthday this weekend as well as Mother’s Day. My son’s getting to the age where he can actually understand what Mother’s Day means, so it’s going to be a bigger deal this year. Oh, you wanted to know about Ulduar? We’ve made it up to Hodir in the 10-man. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Guild Drama Comes Knocking

May 2 2009 12:23PM

I’ve had a really stressful week. I have to get this off my chest. The drama llama llama reeled its ugly head in my guild yet again. I’m a guild master, and we’ve been raiding, in one form or another since WoW Vanilla. To put this inter perspective, here’s a brief history of my guild. We started The Core on day one of the release of the original wow. The guild leader was originally my best friend IRL Yuriken. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Xeeon vs. Ulduar

Apr 27 2009 10:13AM

Hey guys, it’s been a busy week. We finally got to spend some decent time in Ulduar 10 with our A-Team. We pulled about 5 hours on Friday and 3 hours on Sunday. First night, we managed to kill Flame, Razorscale, Ignus, Deconstructor, and Kologarn. Then on Sunday, we killed Assembly of Iron, Auriaya, and worked on Hodir. I was able to spend the entire raid in dps-mode. Overall, Ulduar is a beautiful instance. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

New DK Glyphs

Apr 16 2009 11:27PM

I’ve always been a little disappointed with the Death Knight Glyph choices. Other classes seem to have much cooler glyphs; Paladins and Druids as examples. None of our glyphs seem to vastly improve our core abilities. With 3.1, new glyphs have been added for us, and I’ve got to say, I’m feeling a little bit better. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

3.1 Spec Compendium

Apr 14 2009 3:20PM

3.1 Has finally been released to the live realms. I don’t have time to make a spec post on all the available builds that I haven’t already hit. So here’s a little 3.1 Spec Compendium to get everyone started off. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

PvE Blood - Leveling (56/0/15)

Apr 13 2009 7:15PM

Here is an updated Blood leveling build. I honestly think that either Blood or Unholy is good for leveling purposes. A blood leveling spec focuses on health regen and damage, while an unholy leveling spec focuses more on diseases and control via your undead minion. There really isn't a good rotation for leveling, becasue you don't start out with all your abilities. So I'd just use a priority system. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

Best Wishes to Departing Community Members

Apr 4 2009 8:38PM

It appears that the "community" has taken a lot of hits lately with longtime, influential wow bloggers leaving for greener pastures. As always, I'm pretty sorry to hear about that. I have a lot in common with some of these people. I'm a middle-aged guy, have a job, have a wife and kids. DKT is alive and well. I havn't been posting as much as usual because I havn't been playing as much as usual. I've been building up wifie faction for the release of Ulduar. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

What; Did They Really Just Say That?

Apr 4 2009 8:06PM

So check this out guys, here's the latest info from the Blizzard forums. Bornakk delivered this latest gem in a post entitled R.I.P D Dual Wield: We want both dual wielding and 2-handers to be viable for Death Knights, balancing both of these inside each tree has been exceptionally challenging and caused an issue or two. If we have to make it so DKs have one type of fighting, it will be the 2-handers. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.

PTR Build 9733 Changes

Mar 28 2009 8:39PM

A new build was tossed on the PTR, build 9733. It meant big changes. Unfortunately, it means big changes for the Unholy tree. The two biggest effects are that Death Strike was hit with the nerf bat, which will affect blood specs that relied on it, and Master of Ghouls a.k.a. Perma-Ghoul has been shifted from a 15-point talent to a 25-point talent. -- Visit http://www.deathknighttactics.com today for the full story.