Infraction for pdpi: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 07/04/08, 2:38 PM

Post: [Death Knight] WotLK Discussion - Talents and abilities.
User: pdpi
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Excessive quote-splitting is unnecessary.

Original Post:

250 AP is big, but it's not game-altering in the way that Demonic Sacrifice or Relentless Strikes are. It also doesn't scale very well.

No, it's not relentless strikes. Few talents are

. But those 10 points in bladed armor and forceful deflection give you mitigation and threat scaling off each other, which is something that's pretty nice.

In comparison to a Protection Warrior a Frost Death Knight doesn't really fall short there.

Touché. Too used to my protadin, I guess.

It wouldn't get close to the 15% extra damage of Blood Presence of course, but it's still some extra threat.

I guess that's what the 25% extra threat is there for

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Currently plate wearers get approximately 1000 armor per tier when not counting a shield (...)

More importantly, you have an ever so slightly gimped Battle Shout (250 AP for 10k armour at 70, versus 305 AP baseline at 69 for BS), always on, stacking with other buffs. Under present itemization circumstances, tanking gear would be somewhat short on strength, so it's a Good Thing that you get some of your primary threat stat from the defensive side of things. Don't forget green armour on rings and stuff!

And while this fits with DKs in general, it doesn't fit so well in the Frost tree in specific. Blood, obviously, would be the more fitting place.

Agreed. Unfortunately, if you go about making blood themed around DW, it'd rapidly start becoming another combat or fury tree, killing variety a bit. It's a bit tricky, I guess.