I realize that theorycrafting this early in Alpha is largely useless, but that doesn't make it fun!

Death Knights share many similarities with Druid tanks in that they will be unable to use a shield at all; instead they will be mitigating damage entirely through parrying, dodging and massive amounts of armor. As such, the vital stats for DK tanks will be defense rating, parry rating, dodge and armor. It is likely that we will see a lot of gear with mostly defe…  More

Last night, Blizzard released a new version of its alpha client to the public. Along with the further expansion of Northrend and the inclusion of many more game models, the patch includes many updates to the Death Knight class. An external summary of these changes can be found here or here. Additionally, other classes have received changes (apparently Shield Slam is trainable now, wtf?) but I won't be discussing those here.

 The most important change (or at least the change that most people …  More

While I sit here ravenously awaiting the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica, casually absorbing the hammered melodies of Disturbed's latest leaked album, I have decided to take it upon myself to launch Gameriot's first and foremost Death Knight centric blog. 

Yes my devoted hoi polloi, I, Uber, will now endow upon your person quasi-daily updates on World of Warcraft's latest undead flavor of the month. Furthermore, since no one else has risen to the challenge, I would like to take this m…  More