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Post by
blah17
I plan on making an Alliance (Where most of my other characters are atm) Death Knight when Wotlk comes out, so I'm curious what would be the best race.
Human
Perception, good for PvP
Diplomacy, Rep bonus good for gaining rep... duh (How important / difficult will Rep be in Wotlk?)
Sword and Mace spec, Handy if your using a sword or a mace (seems likely) how much does this help?
Night elf
Shadowmeld, Situationaly handy in PvP when you want to surprise someone, more useful imo for ranged classes imo (I like it with my hunter, though dont know if it would help DK as much)
Quickness, 1% Dodge chance, handy in PvP or Tanking
Nature resistance, +10, Does this really make a differance?
Wisp Spirit, pretty cool but not very 'practical' in
most
situations
Dwarf
Stoneform, Immunity to poisons and 10% + Armor for 8 sec, handy against rogues and hunters if they have any good PvP stings besides viper
Frost resistance, See - Nature resistance, though I assume frost will be more useful for PvE.
Gnome
Escape artist, Dispels any movement impairing effect, Handy in PvP against classes who can't spam
Arcane resistance, See - Nature resistance.
Engineering specialist, Handy if I become an Engineer I suppose.
Draenei
Gift of the Naaru, HoT, Could be useful especially in PvP
Heroic Presence, 1% hit chance aura, Handy in PvE
Shadow Resistance, See - Nature resistance, though might, along with Frost, be more useful in PvE
Anything that I left out is because it has no relevance to my decision (Gemcutting - Im not gonna be a JC, got left out)
Obviously one of the most important factors here is which I care more about, PvP or PvE? Unfortunatly i'm not quite certain myself, I will probably attempt to do both, though im sure after awhile I'll settle into one or the other (I'm leaning towards PvP)
Personal preferance will play a slight factor (I might avoid NE since my main is one already) but for the most part that will be negligible unless two races are close.
So, Which do you guys think will be most useful? Remember I will probably both PvE and PvP, but leaning towards more PvP.
Post by
visas
Once again, racials have a minimal impact on every class, you're better off going with a race that you like, appearance and animation wise.
I'm going human. The human racials are particularly helpful while leveling, and may be decent for endgame pve/pvp, but I'm rolling human mainly because I like the appearance and combat animations the human female model uses.
http://i34.tinypic.com/ok23q8.jpg
=P
Post by
blah17
Yeah... I just don't want to regret it when I realise at 80 that i'm missing out on some good ability. You're right though, most of those abilities really don't make much differance.
Post by
visas
if you're really concerned about it, roll human - itll give you the most well rounded racials of all the alliance options. Expertise = great in both pvp and pve (especially for tanking). Perception = good arena ability. Diplomacy is one of the best all around racials since so much of this game is focused on reputation grinding.
Post by
blah17
Yeah, I've been playing human alts lately and found them pretty cool, I think it will be a tossup between Human or Draenei
Post by
Minamei
I was going to say, it would come down to Human or Draenei for me. I'm going human for the expertise and diplomacy, also for the fact that in the (original) lore, Death Knights are humans. I'm a lore freak, so human it is. Also, one of my guildies who is going to be rerolling with me is probably going Draenei so I want to give my guild some variety. :P
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visas
I was going to say, it would come down to Human or Draenei for me. I'm going human for the expertise and diplomacy, also for the fact that in the (original) lore, Death Knights are humans. I'm a lore freak, so human it is. Also, one of my guildies who is going to be rerolling with me is probably going Draenei so I want to give my guild some variety. :P
technically the original death knights were orcs =P
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visas
Draenei however, will give not only something good for myself, but also for others: Heroic Presence, maximizing dps output a bit more since DK's are support oriented in about every tree.
Besides that, we'll get that HoT. Combined with
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=55233
to make it even more powerful.
edit: Wonder how that will look like since 'spellpower' (thus healing) is based on the DK's Attack Power.
Heroic presence's +1% hit is nice, but the expertise racial for humans gives around 2% reduced chance to have your attacks parried/dodged =P
As for the HoT - The only reason death knight spells benefit from attack power and not spell power is because the individual spells are designed that way. You'll get zero scaling on gift of the naaru since you wont have any actual spell power on your gear.
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blah17
Yeah, I guess for me it will come down to what i'm in the mood for when I get it. I'm leaning towards human though, My bro's warrior is a human male, so we'll be a pretty cool team.
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Hm, I might go Gnome, I was kinda hoping to be a somewhat serious character though (No offense gnomes)
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