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Lichborne: The death knight beta diaries, part 2: Dual wielding in Deepholm
Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class. Our adventures in beta continue, as promised, with a new zone and a new spec. With Hyjal behind us, the next logical zone to head to is Deepholm, and such is where I headed, after a suitably epic breadcrumb quest sequence. My spec was dual wield frost. Just to give you an idea of where I'm coming from with this testing, I should note that I have been equipping quest rewards if they're itemized for death knight usage, even if they're downgrades, in order to get an idea of how much survivability and damage potential your average casual death knight will have.
Lichborne: Frost DPS 101
Welcome to Lichborne, where we're taking a break from all the Cataclysm info and analysis to focus on the here and now in death knight issues. One of Patch 3.3.3's biggest focuses was adjusting frost DPS to be viable at the end game. The changes proved to be mostly successful, and as a result, dual-wield frost DPS is back on the map and may have an outside chance of not getting you laughed out of a raid. With that in mind, it's a perfect time to take a look at the spec. This guide will give you a rundown of the basic stuff you need to know to break into the ground floor of the spec. The goal is to make speccing, gemming, glyphing and doing damage as simple to understand and implement as possible, making it easier for you to break into the playstyle and start using it on your own character. In some cases, this means "cutting corners," and in other places it means making judgment calls on gemming and glyphing options that are still a bit more nebulous once you get to the really heady theorycrafting stuff. This article is meant to make being moderately success at frost an easier task. Without further ado, then, let's begin!
The Daily Quest: Of Judgemental Paladins, Dual Wielding Death Knights and hungry Hunter pets
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Today, we continue our unnatural fascination with lists. The Holy Paladin blog explains how Paladin Judgements will work in Patch 3.1 as well as giving advice on which Paladins should Judge in groups. One Rogue's Journey blog has a video up showing the AddOn Bartender4 which replaces your action bars and allows you to fully customize them. The Aspect of the Hare blog delves into the three buff foods that Hunters can feed their pets and the usefulness of each one. Euripedes at the Critical QQ blog crunches the numbers on Mage's shift to Spirit according to the latest 3.1 PTR Patch. The popular Skeleton Jack Death Knight blog has a new regular writer , Geist. She will be focusing on newbie DK topics. For her first entry, she explains the 3.0.9 DK Dual Wield leveling build. Submit a guide, post, podcast or resource for inclusion in TDQ, by using our tip line and we'll consider it for a future TDQ post.
