As my previous post said, I reached level 71 with my Hunter on the first night, but since then my play time has been more limited, due to real life activities.
I did manage to play for a little while, and rolled myself a DeathKnight (SmythKnight) to see what all the fuss is about.
I was very impressed, especially with the opening quests and the abilities. Coinceidentally, I managed to share most of the opening quests with Vindikator (a long-time Munqui, who had rolled a DeathKnight after transferring his main toon to another realm).
It did feel a little awkward at first, given that when you start at level 1 you slowly gain more and more spells, usually giving you time to master one before moving on to the next.
With a DeathKnight, at level 55, you don't really get that luxury, you get a handful of spells to start with, and within 2 levels, you've got a full actionbar, and more spells to spare. But I eventually got my head around it.
What helped, was realising that something wasn't right with my display.
I was struggling to work out why some runes were on cooldown sometimes, and not others. Turns out that Xperl (one of my Ui addons) was preventing me seeing the default blizzard rune bars. I couldn't manage to re-enable them either, but after a very small download, problem solved. And the system makes perfect sense.
So much so, that my level 58 UnHoly-DeathKnight managed to get up to 500DPS (albeit on multi mobs). Mastering the whole 'disease' thing was a breakthrough.
And the correct use of 'Pestilence' means that the potential for DPS with this spec is awesome.
Initially I'd said that the DeathKnight wasn't too overpowered, but if those abilities scale in the same way that other classes do, that's going to make for an immense amount of spell damage by the time the character hits level 70, let alone 80! (And the melee damage on top of that).
I'll probably shelve SmythKnight for now, and go back to levelling my Hunter (Smythy). Returning to the Fjords to finish off the last few quests before moving on to DragonBlight.
I need to catch up with Bolle (another Munqui), who has managed to reach the lofty heights of level 78 already.
I'm assuming he's currently playing while sat on a comode, and with a months supply of military ration packs next to his PC, because he can't have moved far from that screen for a while. :P
"Gz Bolle"
On a side note: I also maxed my Skinning skill and didn't get an achievement for it (although you do just for learning the next level from the trainer). But on the plus side the, new, added crit rating from mastering the profession will come in handy.
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