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Welcome Death Knights!

For starters here are the Characteristics of a Death Knight. I will lay out the Pros and the Cons of being a Death Knight for PvP!

Pros

• Death Knight have Plate armor, so they will do great against melee (example: a rogue LOL)
• They have the ability to use both melee dps and magic damage as well so it makes them flexible
• They can self heal/use dots(damage over time spells)/CC (with chains of ice – slowing target)
• They also have a pet that stuns!
• They also have anti-magic abilities

Cons

• Death Knights cannot heal others in group
• They don’t have good buffs for casters
• They are very hard classes to play for pvp due to all the runes and their cooldowns plus all the buttons to press

How To Spec

There are a couple Specs. The best Arena standard spec will be posted under unholy. Unholy is the most commonly used one for it but there are others as well in Blood and Frost.

Frost

Working on finding a reliable frost spec. Check Unholy for the most commonly used spec out there.

Blood

Working on finding a reliable blood spec. Check Unholy for the most commonly used spec out there.

Unholy

0/17/54: This is probably the best PvP build there is for Arena! Endless winter provides you the ability to not use icy touch to get your disease off and slow the target by 95%. Also Unholy provides you the ability to dps with magic damage as well as giving you the anti-magic abilities to protect yourself from casters since they are your weak point. As well as having a pet, With an extra summoned pet gargoyle! It doesn’t really get better than unholy!

Gearing up!

The best way to gear up is to PvP in battlegrounds! If you turn in one mark of each battleground you receive roughly around 1300 Honor. Personally I do battlegrounds until I reach 30 marks for each battleground. The honor grind from that makes you enough honor for something like bracers. Also que for WG. Wintergrasp is a very crucial part because the marks for WG can get you trinkets you need for PvP.

List of Activities

Here is a list of things to do that will help you gear out your character.

Battlegrounds

Battleground farming is the typical way people start off getting gear. Not only because it gives you enormous amounts of experience going up against other WoW Classes but you gain constant honor to get you epic’s!

WinterGrasp

Ever Since WOTLK came out Wintergrasp has been added. It’s like a battleground that comes once every three hours. They have their own special uses of Marks.

Daily PVP quests

Like I said battlegrounds are very useful, Blizzard just makes it even better by adding daily battleground PVP quests. Going in and winning a certain battleground will complete your quest which you can not only turn in for gold but honor as well! =)

Vault of Archevon Raid

Very Very Very important to complete every week. Both 10 and 25 man! Usually the best groups you’ll find is on tuesdays when the raid resets because people want to get it done quick and get it over with. It is a very easy raid that drops very epic loot =). Be sure to do it you will not be disappointed. This raid drops both insane PVP and PVE epics so you don’t want to miss out.

As far as Specs and actual PVP guides go. I would encourage any viewer to send me their Spec and how they play so I can post it for them! Or leave a comment. More info will be coming soon. You can e-mail me your specs and guides or ideas to webmaster@hordelife.com

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