@GC: DK defense...(Please Respond)

#0 - Dec. 4, 2008, 8:37 p.m.

I know it's been brought up before...but I was just looking for a little feedback. I understand it's not that big of an issue to get and keep 540 defense, but with missing an extra ~120 from warriors, is there any talk of creating a sigil or a runeforge to kind of bring us a little more up to speed?

I mean breaking socket bonuses in your t7 to keep the defense cap isn't exactly fun.

I realize you didn't want it to be super easy, and you wanted us to put some thought into it, but I think it goes a little bit past that. Sure, it's do-able, sure it's being done, but it would certainly be nice to be able to gem / enchant for other stuff.

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Not that this is the *main* concern for DK's, but you've already mentioned most of the other issues (being too squishy when CD's are up, etc).

Ghostcrawler

#57 - Dec. 4, 2008, 7:43 p.m.

Q u o t e:
is there any talk of creating a sigil or a runeforge...

Yes. We are probably going to do both. As with everything though, there will be a trade off. If you enchant for defense, you'll be giving up whatever else you could possibly get from the enchant.

The way we designed death knights, they are going to struggle a little more for defense than warriors and paladins. Our goal is not to make gathering defense a non-issue for them. (By contrast it was a goal to make defense a non-issue for druids.) We just think it's a bit too hard at the moment, which is why the sigil and runeforge changes are attractive.