Death knights are OP

[Pandora]

http://kotaku.com/ten-death-knights-defeat-world-of-warcrafts-current-end-1703557311 

 

so a group of death knights only (no healers) were able to kill the current content end boss at the second level of difficulty. 

 

kind of insane.

 

 

[minibois]

Link is not broken, delete the space at the end

 

nvm, link is broken @thorbrantly101

[Guest]

Damn son... That's impressive

[SurvivorNVL]

I don't want to be -that- guy, but.. this isn't really tech news.  

[FroggyTaco]

http://kotaku.com/search?q=death+knights

[Admiral Naismith]

I was first like,

wat

Then I was like,

WoW isn't it?

And then I was,

 

 

I really need to start playing WoW again...

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

What the heck is this about?

[Valentyn]

What the heck is this about?

 

Essentially 10 people all playing the same Class; Death Knights in WoW managed to take down the current final boss in the game on the second highest difficulty. 

 

You usually need a full group( 10-30 people ) of tanks, healers, and damage dealers to cope with all the mechanics, and even try to defeat him. Many guilds have not even gotten that far.

Here 10 of the most elite Death Knight players all went as Tanks ( role that does little damage, but takes one hell of a beating ), and took down the boss.

 

The players in question though, were completely decked out in the best armour and weapons currently available from a much higher difficulty though, and they've been known in the past to do similar amazing feats of strength.

[Cedimedi]

I was first like,

wat

Then I was like,

WoW isn't it?

And then I was,

 

 

I really need to start playing WoW again...

 

WoW went from 10 million subscribers to 7.1 million in Q1 2015. Means alot, no content at all. It will get even worse soon

[harrynowl]

Blood DKs Their ability to self heal is very powerful. So they probably just tank swapped and healed up when they took a beating.

[techswede]

I would expect this with paladins or monks. But death knights? Damn

[BobbyG2]

Haven't played much since cata. If DKs still play the way they did than, than I'd believe it. DKs are a very active class. I'd say they're the most skill oriented class of all of them, and can range from "horrible" to "completely OP"

I remember off tanking in all Heroic Dungeon gear in that Firelands raid and frequently having to pick up the MT Pally in all raid gears slack because he couldn't hold aggro and kept dying. (back then Pallys were more of a "face roll' class. Hard to mess it up)

I didn't die once.

[lightningterror]

I'm kinda bored of wow myself , been a few months since i played on mop , anyway i didn't expect this but then again I'm not surprised considering blood dks in pvp were impossible to kill let alone pve.

[Warcony]

Man I haven't played wow in ages. I still remember how op they were back when they were first introduced.

[Blackler]

As much as I love WoW and even though this is pretty cool and It makes me want to go back, does this count as "Tech News"?

 

Shouldn't this be in the "PC Games" Category?

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Weren't they always OP to begin with ? 

[Valentyn]

Weren't they always OP to begin with ? 

 

Haven't been for years. At the moment when it comes to raiding, they're average at best. At Mythic level raiding you'd be hardpressed to see any that are not a tank at all.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Ah ok, I didn't play much after ... ermm ... what was that expansion that came after TBC again?

 

In my days they were horribly OP.

[BobbyG2]

Ah ok, I didn't play much after ... ermm ... what was that expansion that came after TBC again?

In my days they were horribly OP.

Wrath of the Lich King*

Yeah, I miss Frost tanking. Mitigation over HoT is more my style.

[Pandora]

Haven't been for years. At the moment when it comes to raiding, they're average at best. At Mythic level raiding you'd be hardpressed to see any that are not a tank at all.

death knights are pretty average right now but the with the amout of healing cheese that an unholy dk can do its amazing

[Valentyn]

death knights are pretty average right now but the with the amout of healing cheese that an unholy dk can do its amazing

I raid as unholy and there's very little healing we can do bar a lovely Death Pact or a Death Strike proc.

Blood has more healing by far, but as a main tank spec it's expected.

[Pandora]

I raid as unholy and there's very little healing we can do bar a lovely Death Pact or a Death Strike proc.

Blood has more healing by far, but as a main tank spec it's expected.

litchborne + 2 death coil = full health as unholy.

 

deathknights as a whole have alot of things that can save them ie switching stances, amz, ams, purgatory, death strike, conversion, death pact, death syphon.

and if a dk is fighting multiple targets with plague leach these abilities can be used pretty frequently.

[Valentyn]

litchborne + 2 death coil = full health as unholy.

 

deathknights as a whole have alot of things that can save them ie switching stances, amz, ams, purgatory, death strike, conversion, death pact, death syphon.

and if a dk is fighting multiple targets with plague leach these abilities can be used pretty frequently.

 

Lichborne only gives +10% leech. Considering Death Coil deals a base damage of 24656, two of them will not heal a 300K plus Death Knight. Two Death Coils even when glyphed barely heals, and only shrouds and ally in a shield that absorbs 6226 damage. Considering people have well over 300k HP, that's miniscule.

 

Conversion is useless now, it takes 20 runic power to only heal for 2% per second, Death Syphon is terrible for PvE, and near useless for PvP unless you're a Blood Deathknight that can handle the sheer burst damage in arena and has Vampiric Blood that can boost all healing effects.

Death Pact is good for once use before it absorbs all other heals equal to 25% of max health for 15 seconds.

 

Also the rest are damage mitigation, which all classes but warriors excel it, it's also not healing. Purgatory is also not healing in the slightest, and it takes almost a healers main cooldown to save you in a raid. In PvP if it pops, you're dead either way as we don't have massive burst self heals but ole Death Pact.

 

 

Also any unholy DK that's using Plague Leech in raiding is doing it very wrong and will be doing up to 15K DPS lower than a normal Unholy one due to the Necroblight playstyle and rotation. 

[Pandora]

Lichborne only gives +10% leech. Considering Death Coil deals a base damage of 24656, two of them will not heal a 300K plus Death Knight. Two Death Coils even when glyphed barely heals, and only shrouds and ally in a shield that absorbs 6226 damage. Considering people have well over 300k HP, that's miniscule.

 

Conversion is useless now, it takes 20 runic power to only heal for 2% per second, Death Syphon is terrible for PvE, and near useless for PvP unless you're a Blood Deathknight that can handle the sheer burst damage in arena and has Vampiric Blood that can boost all healing effects.

Death Pact is good for once use before it absorbs all other heals equal to 25% of max health for 15 seconds.

 

Also the rest are damage mitigation, which all classes but warriors excel it, it's also not healing. Purgatory is also not healing in the slightest, and it takes almost a healers main cooldown to save you in a raid. In PvP if it pops, you're dead either way as we don't have massive burst self heals but ole Death Pact.

 

 

Also any unholy DK that's using Plague Leech in raiding is doing it very wrong and will be doing up to 15K DPS lower than a normal Unholy one due to the Necroblight playstyle and rotation. 

i dont play a dk anymore (since mop). im going off what i heard from some of my friends and what i hav read about dk pvp survivability. im a holy priest so your all little colored squares to me.

[Valentyn]

i dont play a dk anymore (since mop). im going off what i heard from some of my friends and what i hav read about dk pvp survivability. im a holy priest so your all little colored squares to me.

 

Since Warlords of Draenor everything has been drastically changed for DKs.