Woa woa woa Deathknights the new AoE tanks?

[moduspwnens]

by the Buster Sword do you mean Cataclysm's Edge

No, I mean the Buster Sword.

[thegreatheed]

I see no cause for concern here.

1. That aoe spell the DK was using was on a cooldown, ie its not spammable.
2. We are inheriting extra spell damage 2 ways. First seal of the crusader coefficient is being rolled into spells. Second stam-> sd conversion.
3. We are gaining 1 new aoe spell, in hammer of the righteous, and holy wrath is being changed (the tooltip now indicates it deals damage, without the to demon/undead disclaimer, and additionally stuns demon/undead)

Plus our mitigation will be higher than a DK on anything but a caster boss.


We will remain the kings of aoe, and move up the ladder in MTing bosses.

[Sharlos]

and holy wrath is being changed (the tooltip now indicates it deals damage, without the to demon/undead disclaimer, and additionally stuns demon/undead)

Wait wait wait. We now have an instant AoE?? One that doesn't break CC for 8 seconds? Awesome, like seriously epic. And wasn't its cooldown reduced to a minute/30 seconds? Hmm, HW needs to be included in Guarded by the Light.

Now why couldn't they have given me this in BC? It shall be enormous fun in WotLK.

[Worldie]

If 3.0 comes before WotLK, even 1 week before, we'll have some real fun with the new talents at 80. I think i'll grab all my spelldamage gear and go steam roll alterac valley.

[Spectrum]

90% of the AE farming videos you find online are against very specific mobs for which it's viable. Try using corpse explosion when tanking three tough elites.

We are the one with real AE threat abilities. Reactive threat + Avenger's Shield + Consecrate is something other tanks will be hard-pressed to replicate

[uke]

by the Buster Sword do you mean Cataclysm's Edge

No, I mean the Buster Sword.

Do explain, good sir.

[Caelia]

I dont think paladins will be replaced as the AoE champions.

Not since if you look at the new holy wrath tooltip like someone said:

Holy Wrath

and also we get a nice little new shield

Sacred Shield

and not to mention the new cleave and shield slam

Hammer of the Righteous
Shield of Righteousness

As it currently stands in my eyes, we will remain the Aoe champions. Not only that will be improved as we can now frontload 1044-1226 holy damage minimum (add +sd) to all enemies in 10 yards. Also we can now cleave out 3 enemies infront of us and shield slam them.

With all that being said out MT abilites seem to have gone through the roof. Being now able to Pop Wings, Avengers Shield (.5 second cast now woot!), then Judge Righteousness or your faction of choose Seal of Blood. Consecrate, Raise holy shield (Crushing mechanics now gone + 8 second cd / 10 second length = more charges), When target is in 10 yards smash Holy Wrath and then Shield Slam / Hammer of the Rigtheous. If the target is undead then Exorcism. All this with wings will give you threat up the ying yang imo.

And im not doing a very good job at convincing myself to not reroll a belf for wrath...

[Sabindeus]

by the Buster Sword do you mean Cataclysm's Edge

No, I mean the Buster Sword.

clearly you are delusional. Only one man is allowed to have the Buster Sword, and his name is Zack.

[Sabindeus]

re: thread topic

[Fridmarr]

and holy wrath is being changed (the tooltip now indicates it deals damage, without the to demon/undead disclaimer, and additionally stuns demon/undead)

Wait wait wait. We now have an instant AoE?? One that doesn't break CC for 8 seconds? Awesome, like seriously epic. And wasn't its cooldown reduced to a minute/30 seconds? Hmm, HW needs to be included in Guarded by the Light.

Now why couldn't they have given me this in BC? It shall be enormous fun in WotLK.

I tested this last night. Holy Wrath had no effect at all on non undead creatures.

[Splug]

"The deathknight version of retaliation?" As in a 30-minute cooldown that gets used once a month because you fatfingered the button next to it?

-Splug

[Worldie]

The tooltip on Holy wrath says again Undeads and Demons and i can confirm as well it doesnt' affect non-undead/demons.

Amen to that, was too cool if it affected everything.