I could probably write a 10 page essay on why DK’s suck at PVP, but fortunately Euripedes has done just that.

It would be nice if Blizzard actually read that. I don’t arena myself, but a little bit of tooling about in Battlegrounds over the past couple weeks as an experiment in DK PVP viability has more than illustrated about a zillion different faults with this class. About the only viable spec seems to be 0/19/52 Shadowfrost, and all it seems to be able to do is root people and do a little bit of pathetic ranged damage, with the occasional 5 second silence to annoy a healer. Everything else sucks, survivability sucks, damage sucks, utility sucks.  Playing a DK in PVP feels like being a mosquito. You’re a mild annoyance, and your sole reason for existence is to buzz around and try and distract people from the real threats (ie warriors, rogues, and just about every other class in the game)

Anyone would agree that a plate class that has to play as a ranged class because it’s ranged abilities hit harder than it’s melee abilities, is completely fucking stupidly rubbish. It’s not even that our ranged hits for a lot. Just that they hit harder than our 41+ point ranged talented main strikes. Spend 10, 15 seconds lining up death runes to queue 3 SS’s and blow a 4 minute ERP and hit for 800, 1K, the occasional 2K crit? In a world full of people running around with 1k+ resilience and 30K+ health? Are you fucking kidding me?

It’s gotten so bad that spending 1 lousy talent point for Scourge Strike is seen as a waste. And, frankly, version 3.3.3 Scourge Strike isn’t going to fix that at all, and might in fact make it worse.

This class needs to be completely overhauled for PVP. It’s an outright abortion as it stands. No ifs, ands or buts, and instead of defending the undefendable, Blizzard needs to make some hard calls.

Until then, I’m boycotting PVP with this class entirely. Solid PVE DPS, mediocre/bad but workable tanking, but utter downright total garbage at PVP. It was a an interesting but ultimately unrewarding and in fact downright disappointing experience. There’s nothing ‘deathy‘ about the Death Knight, at least not in PVP. At this rate, they may as well change the class name to LoLKnight.

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