Breaking the Chains.......

The first hero class in the World of Warcraft, the Death Knight! What is a Death Knight? Champion of the Dark? If you have started a DK and moved through the starting quest, you may have a good grasp on this already. If you have not made a DK and want to, I might suggest you stop reading now, to avoid ruining the story line. One fear I had with the DK is that this class would be an extension of the Lich King and as far as role playing goes be a destructive presence in the land of Azeroth.

I primarily play the horde side and have to be honest, there seems to me to be just as much if not more of justice and honor within the Horde as there is in the Alliance. I believe that one of WOW's better features is that the Alliance and Horde are opposed, but there really is no clear alignment of one side being the all evil empire. If you look close at the story lines of the Orc and Tauren you will find a lot of honor based tradition that in my opinion rivals the honor of some Alliance Races. In fact, the Tauren might have gone to the Alliance, if not betrayed by the humans. And speaking again from my vantage point, the players on the horde side seem to be more mature and honor based.

The DK starting area was done superbly. It follows a story line from being a minion to the dark, to breaking the chains of the Lich King, and delving back into the factions of Azeroth. The last quest simply makes you go beg forgiveness and acceptance back into your faction side. Very well done!

I have taken my DK Injon towards the discipline of frost. I enjoy tanking and this seems to be the proper path. I had heard from persons in the beta that the frost DK would make a great off-tank but was never intended as a main. I found out after my first dungeon, this is hardly the case. I have tanked on palys and warriors and found the DK to be as good if not better. I tank very well as a DK and enjoy doing it. What I love even as a frost DK, I have been able to dps dungeons as well. Certainly not as well as other dps classes or the blood/unholy spec'd DK's, but enough to hold a dps spot. Amazing design indeed.

I believe with the latest patches and expansion, Blizzard is really trying to make classes more versatile. This is good but also may be a problem. If everyone can tank and dps, the mastering of these arts is going to be less. I have heard plenty that Blizzard wants to make their playability easier for the average once in awhile player. I have mixed emotions about this. I enjoy the class specialization and and the team position matrix of WOW, so I hope they are very careful with this transition to the middle. We all hate waiting for a tank or healer for a group, but lets not get away from position separation of the classes; I fear this would change the game in a way I would not care for.

I was lucky enough to have time to venture into some BG's this past weekend
with Injon. I have never played better in a BG in my life, even with a
rogue. At one point, I took a 69 lvl NE DK (Injon Lvl 64) two times consecutively.
The frost must be my thing. Due to this success I can see myself running more BG's, I have always loved pvp, but find it hard to justify during the time I play because your not really leveling.

Well I hope you all are enjoying the expansion, and hope to hear your comments soon. Blood and Honor! my friends and good day.........

Dolance