Hellscreams version of Orgrimmar on the background. A confused Death Knight on a ePeen-mount in the foreground.
Cataclysm Beta
After spending to much time in all the WoW betas to date, i kind of promised myself not to participate in the Cataclysm beta. I wanted, for once, to enjoy the finished product and explore the new zones for the first time on launch day.
But then it came. The invitation. My editor had once again hooked my up through Blizzard EU PR and wanted me to write an article about the new starting zones for the magazine. Since i am pathetically weak and short of cash i simply could not resist. It´s a dirty job, but someone got to do it. :P
On the bright side, i will get the opportunity to try out the new class changes to help me pick a main character for Cataclysm. Thats right, i am not sure if will continue playing my Death Knight. It´s been a blast, but the changes so far are not making me super excited. The new abilities look a bit underwhelming, the changes to our resource mechanic seems goofy and the loss of flexibility (aka being able to tank with all three talent trees) is a bit disappointing. For now that is. Everything is changing rapidly in the beta.
But i know for sure that i want to continue to be a damage soaking meat shield and only considering to switch to another tanking class. So maybe its time to play my vanilla-old warrior or my neglected paladin-alt for Cataclysm.
With this said, i will focus on testing and use this space to share my impressions on the trees for protection Warriors/Paladins and blood Death Knights.
It’s A Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s a air swimming protection paladin. There are currently a bug in the beta that don’t break the swimming technology when you exit the water. So your character will continue to swim through the air. Amazing!
There will be blood
I was preparing a summery of my first impressions on the new blood tanking tree, based on a few runs in the two new 5-man instances (underwater Throne of Tides and rusty Blackrock Caverns) in the Cataclysm beta. But then, like thunder from a clear sky, Blizzard announced that they will totally revamp the trees with a heck load of changes and reduce the amount of talent points to 31. Holy smoke. Thats huge stuff. So, i decided to wait with my impression until the next big beta update that will be deployed in a few weeks.
Huge Death Knight update; Bone Shield spin vertically now instead of horizontal. 
July 09, 2010, 7:00pm | Leave a comment: Comments
