R.I.P DK Dual Wield

#0 - March 26, 2009, 6 a.m.

Blizzard strikes again.

First came 2handed shamans (dead)
Arms Warriors? (dead)
3.1 patch day release = Dual Wielding Death Knights (dead)

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around your though process. My dps will not suffer in 3.1 at all, it may even increase. My fun factor will certainly suffer since I enjoy dual wielding. If DW did not fit into your "vision" of death knights..then why the hell did you even allow us to get the skill. As of right now on the PTR there is not a single spec we can go without suffering a significant dps loss to 2 handers.

Bornakk

#28 - April 4, 2009, 1:49 a.m.

We want both dual wielding and 2-handers to be viable for Death Knights, balancing both of these inside each tree has been exceptionally challenging and caused an issue or two. If we have to make it so DKs have one type of fighting, it will be the 2-handers.

We are considering something like making the frost tree the dual-wield tree, so some frost specific abilities would hit with both weapons through that tree only, and then have unholy/blood as 2-hand focused. Nothing is set in stone though.