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Patch 5.4 – Blood Death Knight Tanking
I was surprised at how often I’ve done Blood Death Knight tanking in the past while running quests, or soloing content for that matter. I never had the gear for it, and still managed to survive quite well. Things took longer to die, but so did I. This is what is known as a Good Thing. Outliving things you’re trying to stab to death is always a better result than the other way around.
Preach discusses the Blood DK for patch 5.4, and you’d do well to listen to him. So listen! Also, watch!
Patch 5.4 – Unholy Death Knight DPS
As Preach himself states, the Unholy Death Knight is one of the most unchanged specs in the game. It’s consistant, it’s great, and it works. I personally don’t play Unholy, but I think I might give it a try.
It feels like I probably should have posted this on Friday the 13th. Bit more of a haunted, zombie-like feel to the class. But enough of my words. Here’s words from Preach, and those words are gospel. Enjoy!
Patch 5.4 – Frost Death Knight DPS
Ah, the joy of getting up to speed when one has been away for so long. It’s like waking from a coma and picking up an old newspaper, boggling at stuff that people today would simply yawn at. Not quite the case when one talks about Death Knights though. Honestly, I think Blizzard got this class very right. They seldom make big changes to the Death Knight, a minor tweak here and there at best.
Still, I’m relearning everything so I might as well start from scratch. And who better to learn from that Preach over at Preach Gaming. The man plays all classes, and plays them well. More importantly, he instructs very well too. So I was very happy to see that he’d posted a recent (Nov 2013?!) update on the Death Knights. It’s Patch 5.4, probaby the last major patch update until 6.0 drops.
Speaking of dropping, here’s the Preacher Man dropping knowledge on Frost Death Knights.
Your Mom Is A Blood Death Knight
I hope you bought her flowers.
Some things are just a given. For example, in the animal kingdom, most of us know that it would be twelve shades of stupid to get between a mother and its spawn. Sure that little bear cub wandering around the camp ground looks cute, but if Mama catches you anywhere near that cub you won’t have to “play” dead.
The only way out of the tent is through the bear’s butt after it eats you and poops you out.
Human mothers are less, uh, savage, but still very protective of their children. They protect their kids from strangers, the evils on television, and even their father after Junior decided it would be a great idea to scribble all over the walls in permanent marker. I think we’ve all been there – we do something stupid and Mom is there to protect us, make us feel safe, tell us it’s going to be okay and to just ignore your Father’s shouting and Oh Bill stop it you’re over reacting we were going to repaper the walls anyway he didn’t know any better he’s been eating the paste again.
Uh, we’ve all been there… right? Right?
*tap tap* Is this thing on?
Bringing this around to World of Warcraft and Death Knights, your Mom protected you. Kept you safe. Just like a tank in World of Warcraft. Your Mom tanked your Dad, and all the other things in the World. Tanked them just like a Blood Death Knight.
You might be thinking that this was a bit of a stretch, some pandering for the Mother’s Day holiday. To that I say shut up and go thank your Mother for bringing you into the World in the first place. And if you’re reading this and you’re a Mom… ‘sup.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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