What makes a death knight ‘heroic’? To me, it’s just another, albeit interesting, class. The word ‘heroic’ is a little misleading. We run instances on heroic, and that typically means it’s much harder, but the rewards are much greater. As far as I can see, it’s not harder, or more rewarding to have a death knight, other than the fact you unlock that class. As pointed out in the WOW Insider article, paladins are technically a heroic class themselves, but they’ve been in the game from the start. Maybe Blizzard should come up with a new term?
‘Unlockable,’ ‘advanced,’ or something similar would fit what this new class is. Because every class must be carefully balanced, it’s not like death knights will totally pwn everyone else in battle. (Let’s hope not, anyways.) Yeah, they’re ‘heroic’ because they are based off of heroes, but outside of that, the term is a little misleading. But hey, you won’t catch me complaining at the opportunity to create yet another alt! 
I love playing mages! My first character, long since forgotten on a server far-far away, was an undead mage. Something about wielding powerful magic against foes has always intrigued me. Kibibi, my 70 mage, has been literally a blast. She’s now to the point where I can solo just about any non-instance content in the game. With all of the announcements over this past weekend on other classes though, is the mage getting left-out? Read the rest of this entry »
The issue has come up time and time again: Will World of Warcraft ever make its way onto the consoles? Again and again, the answer has been: NO, “Lack of hard drive space, and difficulty in certifying patches. Basically Just that… another problem is that they want a piece of the subscriptions (laughs).” This came from Rob Pardo, Executive VP of Design at Blizzard Entertainment. Is it really that complicated though? Read the rest of this entry »
Interesting rumor on WOW Insider this morning: Will death knights be arriving early in Azeroth? Indeed, DeathKnight.info has stated that it’s a possible announcement this weekend. Supposedly, if you pre-order the expansion, you’d get to play the new class earlier. There’s a few things that support this rumor:
- You only need an existing level 55 toon to create a death knight.
- It would be a good way for people to try out the class. (And possibly to prevent thousands of death knights from being created the day the expansion starts.)
- Slightly newer content for those with no life a lot of time on their hands.
- Today’s teaser image does look like the Lich King’s eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, maybe it’s just me, but I’m terribly spoiled on emotes. In The Matrix Online, there were oodles of emotes. (And not just text on a screen. That’s almost cheating!) When I made my way to WoW, I was a bit disappointed in the variety of physical emotes. You would think for such a large roleplaying game, you’d be able to, you know, have a bit more emotes available. New dances are coming in Wrath, but something wonderful has been leaked from the alpha: New emotes! Read the rest of this entry »
