Death Knight - my new fotm

fotm - Flavor Of The Month

I have now 4 (four!) Death Knights. A female undead, a male troll, a male human and a male undead. Of course spread over two accounts and three servers.

I am crazy, you know. But I wanted to try out different specs and now that you can have a Death Knight wherever you want (only limited to one DK per server per account) - and the starting zone is very cool - I now seem to be in DK heaven.

My male troll DK was to be Blood but the person I want to play him with (a priest) nagged me about my aggro reduce that I finally gave in and skilled completely Frost, which should hold aggro way better. :)

I wonder, though which one will make it to 80. Unholy, Frost or Blood? In the end, however, it will have nothing to do with the spec, rather which race I prefer the most - Undead, Troll or Human?
I think Troll. But we'll see. I do want to play the Troll together with the priest, so it depends on if he wants to level his priest rather than which DK I will continue playing.

The Unholy spec is great, and fun - but Blood has worms and much healing. I think I prefer Blood for leveling alone (which will be the Human), Frost for group-play and Unholy for when I want to do both. Unholy seems to be the one tree as of now which let's you have nice AoE and is not very gear-dependent.
The ghoul is fun, the gargoyle is great. So, my unholy undead girl will maybe be my main test object for the coming weeks. I wonder if I will ever be brave enough to actually tank with a DK.

So stay tuned for more Death Knight goodness, talent specs and all.

Wrath update

Yes, I have bought Wrath. (for both accounts...)

Yes, I made a Death Knight. (actually made two, one on Todeskrallen, one on Dun Morogh) I have to say the instanced starting zone of the Death Knight is something everyone who is interested in the story of the game should play. You begin at 55 and with the last quest(s) you should ding 58. Nicely done, Blizz!

Yes, I went back to my old PvE server. But just for the time being, a friend transferred to Todeskrallen, and I hope we can quest a bit now and then on the PvP Server.

No, I have not hit 80 yet. (highest char as of now is 73, my Feral Druid Moonseed on Dun Morogh)

Yes, I am not regretting buying it. Wrath is fun, even though I do not have much time (or muse) to play at the moment. I think it is well done, even though the first hardcore players complain about the easy quests. Short reality check: Wrath is not as hard as was Hellfire Peninsula for blue-geared people - but is still easy when you are wearing T6 - Wrath is doable in greens, thank God!

More updates coming soonish...

Wrath of the Lich King

I have been reading up simply on the lore of the upcoming expansion and I'm not sure I want to miss that for the world.

Dalaran, Death Knights - the possibility of roleplaying should be pretty sweet. better than "hey, I'm a gay Bloodelf hanging around in Moonglade and making all the cows happy until I can afford a new set of handcuffs and a mount..."

Okay, that was the worst storyline that I'll ever thought of - but seriously. Most of the start of the Burning Crusade I spent on my little Belf Paladin because Outland servers were down again...

But this time, a Death Knight might be cool. It's a totally new class, we're all going to be noobs... and I really want to know how they work. I've read a lot about it, but I still have no clue.

So maybe it is worth having a go at it.
It depends on how my mood is on Thursday, I guess.
To buy or not to buy...

The big Patch

Well, 3.0.2 has hit us with full force.
I was mostly in capitals yesterday, standing around and trying to configure my UI. Not everything worked and I needed to find substitutes for several important addons.
As always it was necessary, but no fun.

First impression: the Barber Shop rocks and trying to get the next Achievement is the new thing to do in this game.
Have not looked at the new profession Inscription (Inschriftenkunde, in German) yet, but when my UI is under control - I definately will.

What else is there to do? Oh yes: learn to play all my characters again. They changed a lot of the mechanics of the game. And equipment, too. Tanks need to redo their gear, a lot of defense rating which was on it, has been replaced by strength. So nobody has the needed 490 defense rating to be crit immune. Go go Blizzard...

The whole Paladin-judging-mechanics changed as well. I'll try it out with my little Paladin on Todeskrallen, my chars on Dun Morogh (all except Moonseed) are retired. So I won't even log onto them to give them new talents. They stay as they are and I'll treat them more like things kept hidden in a closet.

On the finishing line...

Wrath of the Lich King will come out on November 13th. That has made me think what I will do with the time leading up to it, and beyond.
Mondsucht said that he is afraid about my WoW future, and he may be right in light of playing on Dun Morogh. Last week I was sure enough that Dun Morogh had me back, at least partly, but seeing that there is little that I can accomplish alone - I have no intention on staying.

I waited over two hours on Sunday for someone who did not show up. I have waited enough, I have asked people enough only to be told that they don't want random groups, that they didn't know it was serious that I wanted to do the bloody quest. I've had enough of going nowhere.

I went to Zul'Aman yesterday, we killed Janalai, the shield dropped and there was no question that it was mine. Even though there was a paladin present who should have rolled on it too. He'll deny that probably, but anyway. I felt good, I didn't mute my microphone which I have not done in months. It felt good, even though I was tired. And after that we went to BRD to do the "Save Brewfest!" eventboss - something I've been trying to get a group for with my druid on Dun Morogh for hours on Sunday.

Just like that.

And even though I'm not over the chars I leave behind (I may transfer one or two later) I may as well be over the people on Dun Morogh. Even if they are nice, or in one case seemed to be nice... there's an end to everything.

... count down to WOTLK commencing...