2009/04/18

DW Explanation

So another Bluepost for DW... great that they are telling us now that they wanted to stop DW completely before redoing it.
Dual-Wield spec nerf
"This is one of those categories, like the Conflag nerf, that we feel like you have options. We needed to kill the DW spec where you pretty much ignore weapons and just try and proc big spells. That was not the DW DK style we wanted. We felt like we had a choice between OP DW DKs and no DW DKs and thought the second was a more acceptable risk.

As we have explained, one of our ideas long term is to give Frost a couple of DW talents. It might not take much more than "Your Frost Striks and Oblits now hit with two weapons." Having 3 tanking and PvP trees is challenging enough. Expanding that matrix by also having DW Blood PvP and DW Unholy tanking gets to the insane level. But having DW Frost PvP, DW Frost PvE and DW Frost tanking (only) may be more manageable. We are not at all sure if this is the approach we will use, but it's an idea.

DKs were overpowered in a few ways. Fixing that was more important thank keeping DW at equal dps to 2H. That does not mean we have given up on DW for DKs in the same way that we no longer support 2H for Enhancement shamans.

We would not turn Frost into a DW tree. We would just make sure all DW DKs were Frost. And again, this is just an idea. We may reject it for some reason. As I have said many times, we want DKs to be a class that uses 2H or DW. We do not want DW to dominate, as it typically does in classes that have that option."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi guys,
im on the ptr, for a couple of test about our lost DW.
Can't try in Ulduard, and i'm just using worst weapon... but with this template (http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jZG0ebV0cZf0hhxcdxcq0skhh:Lsb),
i've reach 2650 on recount fighting Boss dummy with Blood Presence active.
My MW is Titansteel Bonecrusher, OW Guttripper...

Edurol said...

Thing is, on the dummy I can pull nearly 4k... ^^

Anonymous said...

Whit 0/10/61?
Great, but i haven't a very great gear, and my 2h is only the Jabowne.
10/61 rot is?

PS-IT-SS-BS-BS
RP Dump
SS-SS-SS

Right?

Edurol said...

No I am doing Blood... Unholy is just my second spec, don't know why this is shining up here. Just check my real armory :)