Patch 4.1 Death Knight Changes

These are
the patch 4.1 Changes to Death Knights even though I am a strict Blood tank. I'll list
everything but I will only break down the general class changes that I
understand & the mechanics of the Blood changes.

·        Dark Simulacrum now works on numerous additional spells in dungeon encounters.

       My perspective: DarkSimulacrum is on my action bar and I rarely use it. But in this change blizzard wants the spell to be a bit more recognized. This new update will make it more useful in dungeons.

  ·        Raise Ally has been redesigned to be a battle resurrection, analogous to Rebirth. It is instant cast, but costs 50 Runic Power to use, and has a 10-minute cooldown. It shares the same global battle resurrection cap with Rebirth and Soulstone

My perspective: It is good to see that a new battle resurrection is being released so it’s more likely in every raid & dungeon there is a class that can Battle Rez. At the moment Raise Ally is a useless spell no one really uses it anywhere so I’m glad to see blizzard changing it.

·        Talent Specializations

Blood

·        Blood Shield now only works while in Blood Presence

My perspective: On many occasions blood death knights are extremely annoying to kill and somewhat overpowered in pvp because of the death strike mastery of absorbing damage plus a self heal. This is small a nerf so pvp Death Knights are not that overpowered in battlegrounds and Arena.

·        Death Strike self-healing no longer generates threat.

My perspective:   A Blood Death Knight’s best friend is Death Strike because of its self heal, Damage & Blood Shield Bonus since the healing effect no longer generates threat it will make tanking as a Blood Death Knight just a tiny bit harder but it isn’t that controversial & I doubt it will be missed.

Frost

·        Blood of the North (passive) now permanently converts both Blood Runes into Death Runes. There is no longer any proc interaction with Blood Strike required to activate Death Runes

·        Frost Strike wow Deals 130% of weapon damage, up from 110%

·        Howling Blast damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area-of-effect splash now does 50% of the single-target damage, down from 60%. The net result of this change leaves the area-of-effect damage roughly the same as 4.0.6 numbers. In addition, Howling Blast now has a facing requirement

  Unholy

·        Desecration no longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.

Glyphs

·        Glyph of Raise Ally is now Glyph of Death Gate, and makes Death Gate cast 60% faster.

·       My perspective: Since Raise Ally is becoming a new Battle resurrectionit is good that blizzard removes the glyph and actually replaces it with a new one.

Link To Full Patch Notes

Shared Topic: My WoW Family

This week’s
Blog Azeroth's Shared Topic was Do your alts know each other? This Topic was given to us by Kamalia

I play 2 different realms with my Dk & Hunter mains both strict PvE and I enjoy to Roleplaying. For example when I am logging off for the night if I have time and I’m in acity or town I will go into the inn and jump on a bed and type the /sleep emote. In Wow when I Get bored I will role play for fun but on many occasions I believe that my characters are all one big family and they all have different roles and destinies to play in the World.

Shadowfôx (Hunter)
The First born and oldest of the family. He is a soldier on the front lines of every world crisis fighting for glory of the horde. He thinks and acts very similar to Garrosh Hellscream very headstrong. Ready to rush into the battle for Blood and Glory with his variety of pets by his side and his excellent accuracy with ranged weaponry.  He spends his time battling all enemies of the horde.

 

Sarrus (Death knight)

The Cousin of Shadow he is a very serious character he fights for the horde but his main allegiance is to the knights of the Ebon Blade and the Blood elves He does not care much for the Horde & its war with the Alliance. He is the responsible one of the family and strives to beat Shadow in all things. He now spends all his time fighting off all enemies that would dare threaten his people.

 

Ragnarak (warrior)
Shadows twin brother he is just like his twin but prefers to engage his Enemy’s in Melee range. Always looking up to Shadow as a mentor. He is the Smarter of the 2 and prefers tactical planning & utilizing all assets on the battlefield. Somewhat more of a mercenary than an actual Soldier. He is now stationed in the South of Kalimdor working for the goblins under Garrosh’s Order.

 

Digit (Rogue)
Sarrus’s Younger brother. He is Young, Cocky, Arrogant, Agile & Highly Skilled in the Battlegrounds his one love is his Job as a Assassin on the Battleground. Takes a Interest In Engineering and is a good friend with Calanor. At the Moment he spends most of his time observing the Orcs fighting styles in Orgrimmar but when the time arises he journeys to Warsong Gulch to battle for the Horde.

Deathspartan (Paladin)

Sarrus’s other younger Brother. He is a fast learner and masters the Holy Light of a paladin at an Astonishing Speed from the teachings of the Blood Knights. He has discovered a Great combination of Retribution armour with Holy Magic for fighting in the Battlegrounds. His role Model is his Older Brother Sarrus. At the Present time he works with the Blood Knight Order in learning more about
Holy Energies.

Calanor (Druid)

Shadow’s cousin The peaceful and tranquil one of the Whole Family, he aids his allies in Combat by his Heals he avoids Conflict & Warfare as much as he possibly can. He spends most of his time keeping balance to the Nature of Mulgore.

Razzarion (Warlock)

Shadow's other Younger Brother, he is a Loner and is heavily involved in Demonic and Shadow Magic he says he fights for the horde But his Motivations are questionable. He Avoids major cities and interacts with the exiled Warlocks of Orgrimmar discussing Shadow Magic.

Grecô (Shaman)

Shadow’s cousin he is the Banker of the Whole Family, deals with all the Income & sales great with numbers he prefers to Work in Orgrimmar then tend to his Shamanistic Calling. At the present time he works in The Auction House Creating more income where he can for the Family.

In Each one of my charactars lies ambitions and goals that i planned for each one of them but not all of the charactars goals were accomplished but one day i will go back to them.

New Class Theory: The Demon Hunter

We are 2
days away from the 5 month mark when Cataclysm was launched and I began to
think about what main thing each expansion has given to us. Burning Crusade
Gave us the Draenei and the Blood Elves, Wrath of the Lich King gave us the
Death Knight and Cataclysm gave us the Worgen & Goblins. Therefore it is
pretty obvious that the next expansion is due to be a Class. I’ve been
considering for a while what they could bring into wow as a new class then I then
had an idea of one that could actually fit into the current lore which can be
balanced with the other classes “The Demon Hunter”.

The Demon
hunter could be a rogue like class that uses arcane & demonic magic. The
demon hunter can channel the chaos energy within them into their melee weapon
to increase its power. In time the demon hunter becomes more proficient in
channeling demonic energy into their weapons, as demon hunters are adept and highly
skilled at this technique. Demon hunters have shown the ability to cover their
bodies in a shell of flame. At the pinnacle of evolution, Demon hunters can
unleash the demon in them and turn themselves (temporarily) into something
more.

The first ever Demon Hunter was Illidan Stormrage his
brother did not appreciate his sacrifice to use demonic magic and imprisoned him
underground for 10,000 years. Because of Illidan’s plan to acquire the demon
soul for the legion Sargeras, lord of the Burning Legion, gave Illidan a “Gift”
Sargeras burned away Illidan's eyes with magic fire until only scorched sockets
remained. Illidan's resulting sight was a maddening display of violent colors.
His altered vision allowed him to easily recognize both demons and mortals with
magic powers. In addition, Sargeras covered Illidan's body with black tattoos that
increased his arcane power.

Later, a group of
night elves, inspired by Illidan's example, made a pact to turn the Burning Legion's
powers against it, fighting destruction with destruction. Obviously they could
not gain their powers in the same way Illidan did and they discovered other
means. Since the millennia, other night elves and a few creatures of other races
have made the same pact.

So will we see the Demon Hunter class appear in an
upcoming expansion and if we do who will teach us the way of the Demon Hunter?

Death Knights Dont Blog. Another WoW Blog

What a time for writers block to strike... the very start of my very first post on a new blog!
I guess its because I haven't really defined yet what I want this blog to be about.   There are a great many blogs about World of Warcraft already. Finding an area not already done to death could prove a challenge.

I've been playing World of Warcraft online for over 5 years now and one thing I've noticed in that time is that my play style is similair and different  to most others.  I have an alt/twink pvp addiction, but that's not unique.  I spend inordinate amounts of time chatting with my guildmates, often never leaving the town or city.  That's also not unique.  Lots of my time is spent exploring the lore and the places in the game but again that's not unique. I do Raids with my guild when I can but still thats very common. As a hunter I enjoy to hunt rare spawn creatures to have as pets  thats also not very unique.  I've been playing my highest level character for somewhat over 82 days elapsed /played time.

The world in WoW is huge and there is so much to see.  Even if I stay focussed and work fairly hard on any one character, the quests in a particular zone do not completely explore the terrain.  To find stuff you need to be poking around the edges, looking in every nook and cranny.

Some of the things I want to talk about:

WoW News
Hunter Pets
Exploration
Warcraft Lore
Raiding
Newbie advice
Guilds
Fun things to do
Hunters
Deathknights
Class's Overall
Questing
PvP
Tips and Tricks in anything
Basically anything involving wow that comes to mind