Spooncraft

Consider this a slight preview since I was planning on doing a daily special on each of the classes and everything we know so far of them in the expansion. But considering how hectic things are getting right now (launching a new site with real work and at the same time working on the improvements and moving of this site) that might be slightly postponed.

Kenzi has put together a few screenshots of some tooltips for existing Death Knight spells and abilities since there’s been a lot of speculation and arguing over the mechanics of the Death Knight class. On top of that Bornakk has posted in the official WotLK forums in regards to more arguments over the tanking role and viability of Death Knights.

It seems that there’s a lot of discussion going on but very little facts available to people so they can actually make a strong argument.

I can think of several encounters off the top of my head where one sort of tank will excel over another one. For example there may be a number of “gimmick” encounters that favor warriors but at the same time I have seen other tanks excel (and sometimes quite a bit) over warriors in other fights. Along with that I have attended raids where the warrior fits the “gimmick” roll and the other tanks really take over and rip things up.

That said, the Deathknight will be able to tank things, we have talked about them having abilities that help them tank casters, but that doesn’t automatically mean they are limited to 5 person dungeons or caster-specific encounters. It may be awhile for some players to learn how to play a whole new class and level them up, but the option will likely be available to players/raid groups to have Deathknights tank a large number of encounters. (src)