Segment 34: Add-ons for Death Knights

NOTE: I have not had the opportunity to test these add-ons with 4.0.1 and would appreciate comments from those who have tested them.

In this segment we’ll look at add-ons meant strictly for Death Knights. As you might imagine, most of them are for management of runes and diseases. Since those all perform pretty much the same function, my advice is to try them – one at…

Attention, Death Knights! This is your opportunity to suggest add-ons for the Emporium to look over next week that are specific to your class. I’m looking at you, Modem… And every other DK reading this blog!

Please use the Contact Us page to send me your list of “must-have” add-ons…

This week we’re going to look at a mod that does for Death Knights what Mage Fever does for Mages; that is, help you to optimize your spell rotation while in combat.

According to the author’s description, Loracks DK Optimizer will help you to optimize health regen, DPS, and threat. I know from my own use of it that my DPS has at least doubled, and my health at the end of each melee…

When you are finally sent to Browman Mill after working so hard to get out of the DK starting area, you will find you have about 5 minutes to kill before the battle starts. Use that time to ride around and explore; you can get 815 experience points for each area you discover. You will also discover you simply aren’t allowed to stray far from Light’s Hope Chapel.

When Lead Developer Ghostcrawler was fielding questions from Death Knights concerning the viability of dual wielding, he made an interesting statement:Part of our goal with the death knight was not to have a tanking or PvP tree, and we feel we’ve bee…

Leveling an alt is boring.  It’s a slow process of repetition.  Repetition through killing hundreds, even thousands of mobs, and through repeating the same quests you’ve done before with your main character.  Unfortunately it’s a necessary evil.  The end-game is where the game begins for many, and the only way to get there is by [...]