subject: Death Knight Person verses EnvironmentStrategies [print this page] Since Wrath of the Lich King was launched in 2008 and the Death Knight first joined the pantheon of WoW classes, there has been a lot of talk about how this class performs in player vs environment or PvE. The continuous buffing and nerfing of the class mechanics have made it difficult for anyone to figure out just what spec, what role, and what actions are best for a good Death Knight. So, a good Death Knight PvE guide is particularly helpful in helping get through the content.
PvE Guides for a Death Knight Should Have...
The first question any good Death Knight needs to ask themselves is what type of role they want to play in raiding. There are so many options out there within just this one class that it can be confusing at times deciding how to play it. A good Death Knight PvE Guide will show you how to perform all of the possible roles in a raid - including tanking, support and DPS. With that kind of knowledge in hand, it will be much easier to master the class when it comes time to play in a real raiding situation.
The Content of a Good Death Knight PvE Guide
What exactly will or should you learn from a quality Death Knight PvE guide? To start with, it should reveal exactly what you're getting into. The first thing it should include is a full rundown of what a Death Knight should anticipate in combat. The class is essentially a hybrid class mixing heavily between casting and melee combat. So, players with expectations of either melee or casting mechanics should rethink their strategy.
Rather, they're going to need to work on building a strategy that focuses intently on disease rotations and maintaining their DPS or their threat level depending on what position they play. As a Death Knight tank, you must now put out a great deal of threat, accomplished with your diseases, you must also be quite adapt at healing yourself with talents like Lichborne. Without the ability to draw health from those diseases and your damage output (done in the Frost and Unholy specs), you will by no means be able to stay alive because of your lack of a shield and high defense.
As a result, a good Death Knight PvE Guide needs to show you exactly how the mechanics of both DPS and tanking operate and then show you how to spec and integrate those necessary tasks into a well built, effective raiding machine.
