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Class Spotlights All Spring and Summer of 2010 WoW Vault will be spotlighting each of the classes in World of Warcraft. Check out what we have planned for your class!
WoWVault is doing a spotlight on the classes of World of Warcraft every two weeks! For the next two weeks you will see Death Knight-themed discussions, contests, games, artwork, videos and more! Check out the Class Spotlights page to check out everything we have going on for our final class spotlight!
Pretty much every single class in the Cataclysm expansion is getting a make over. If you missed my exclusive coverage of the Rogue talent trees in the beta, be sure to check it out. Even if you aren't a Rogue, there is some good information there on how the new talent trees will function.
For Mages looking for more information on their upcoming changes, head on over to the official forums where Kalgan dropped a whole lot of knowledge for you caster pew pew types.
Today we take a break from the usual fly overs and go dungeon sprinting through the new 5-man dungeon located deep under the ocean floor. Here is the Throne of the Tides in full 1080p HD.
If you are having problems viewing this video, or would like to see the other dozen or so HD videos from the upcoming expansion, be sure to subscribe to the Sprawl's Scrawl youTube page!
Be sure to return every day this month for another exclusive video from the beta Cataclysm servers.
As viewers of the recent Cataclysm beta videos might have noticed, Blizzard has been making small upgrades to the game engine. What you may not know is that Blizzard actually polls your system to get a good feeling of how gamers upgrade their hardware. Therefore, it is probably a safe bet that if your computer can't handle the new improvements, you are behind the times buddy!
The more recent beta Cataclysm builds have added Experimental DirectX 11 support. This can be enabled by adding `SET gxApi "d3d11"` to your config.wtf. If you don't have beta access though, you are in luck. The guys over at PC Games Hardware have some side-by-side shots of the expansion for your viewing.
As the team of industrious goblins and gnomes puts the finishing touches on Issue 3 of the World of Warcraft Official Magazine, the clock is ticking on the availability of Issue 2, with its double-gatefold Deathwing vs. Alexstrasza cover. If you subscribe before July 31, you'll receive Issue 2 as part of your subscription, but after that, all new subscriptions will begin with Issue 3. Head over to the magazine's website to view some sample articles or to subscribe.
This magazine is very high quality, and I recommend you pick up a subscription, however, I did subscribe a month ago, and still haven't received issue #2... your mileage may vary.
In today's video, we fly over the mildly altered Hinterlands. There have been some changes, but many of them are hard to fathom from the air, even in full 1080p HD.
If you are having problems viewing this video, or would like to see the other dozen or so HD videos from the upcoming expansion, be sure to subscribe to the Sprawl's Scrawl youTube page!
Be sure to return every day this month for another exclusive video from the beta Cataclysm servers.
Death Knights have quite a few 'pets' at their command. There's the gargoyle with his leet DPS and ability to block anyone's camera view. There's the blood worms with their healing abilities. There's the ghoul that can be a perma-pet if ur doin it rite. And who doesn't like Army of the Dead? Well maybe your enemies don't but that's not the point! It's time for our new poll question! Which of the Death Knight's pets is the best? Vote now in our new poll!
Don't forget to check out all the other Death Knight stuff we have going on at WoW Vault!
Everyone needs a chance to brag about how sweet their character is! And everyone needs a little help or advice now and then too. Here's your opportunity! Post an armory link to your Death Knight character! If you just want to show off, tell us about your favorite feats with your dk. If you're looking for advice, now's the time to ask the experienced dk's out there. Share with us what you really enjoy about playing your Death Knight! Tell us what you're most looking forward to for your dk in Cataclysm!
To make up for the atrocities at Southshore, the Alliance have made a bold strike in the Southern Barrens. Perhaps by the next expansion, they will have taken the Crossroads once and for all! The Barrens has been torn in two. Behold the Southern Barrens in full 1080p HD.
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Be sure to return every day this month for another exclusive video from the beta Cataclysm servers.
Darion Mograine
"The Knights of the Ebon Blade will not falter."
Darion Mograine was stillborn but his father, Alexandros, dipped him in a freezing cold stream of water and he awoke. His mother died from complications from his birth. In Darion�s younger years he insisted on fighting with his father in the plagued city of Stratholme. He took a serious wound that nearly killed him. While he was unconscious, his brother, Renault, betrayed his father and Alexandros the Ashbringer was slain. In the act of killing his father with his own sword, Renault corrupted the Ashbringer and trapped his father�s soul with it. Unable to use the blade, Renault left it with the body of his father. His treachery went unknown to anyone.
Upon learning of his father�s death, Darion began to question the Light and was confronted by a troll priest named Zabra Hexx. Zabra tells Darion that his father�s spirit has not passed on and that he can feel the connection to Alexandros through the Light. Darion asks him where his father can be found and Zabra tells him that he had seen a vision of a fortress floating above a burning city then vanishes mysteriously.
The seemingly ancient battle between Tarren Mill and Southshore rages on in this expansion. Take a look at the war's progress in this full 1080p HD video of Hillsbrad Foothills on the beta Cataclysm servers.
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All winners for the Warrior Contests have been selected and notified. Be sure to check your email and private messages! Thanks for playing! Don't forget we have plenty more contests to participate in! If you didn't win this time, maybe you will next time! Check out the Death Knight Contests going on now!
Originally, Blizzard designed Death Knights to be able to tank no matter what tree you specced into. This was done in the hopes of increasing the number of tanks available. But it seems to have backfired in an unexpected way. Having to balance three trees to be able to tank or DPS made for a nightmare of constant tweaks with every patch which further led to many imbalances and complications. Many players abandoned their DK's in favor of less complicated and more stable classes.
For Cataclysm, Blizzard intends to scrap the three tanking trees idea and just go with Blood as the tank tree. Do you agree with this change? Do you think it will help stabilize the class? Will you miss tanking as Frost or Unholy? Do you think it will help encourage more players to pick up their Death Knights and try tanking again? Do you think it will just make Death Knights glorified warriors now?
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From March through July, WoW Vault will be running a series of spotlights to celebrate each of World of Warcraft's classes! Every two weeks we'll be spotlighting a different class and during that time we'll be doing class themed things around the WoW Vault! Warriors charged off stage to allow room for our final spotlight, Death Knight!
Death Knights were once the heroes of Azeroth. Claimed in death by the Lich King, they returned to their old comrades to assist in the destruction of the evil one who made them. Wielding runeblades and runic spells they conquer their enemies by sowing death and decay where they walk.
Check out everything we have coming up to celebrate Death Knights everywhere!
Evolution of the Death Knight Class and other Articles
Death Knight Machinima Highlights
Learn to Be A 1337 Death Knight
And more...
And that's not all! We have contests for death knights and non-dks alike! Not just one contest. Not just two contests. But three contests! Each of our contests has awesome prizes courtesy of J!NX and PrintWarcraft!
Death Knight Short Story Contest Win a $20 Gift Certificate from J!NX! This contest will run from July 26th (Today!) until midnight on August 7th! Submit a short story that is between 250-1000 words long. The theme must be about Death Knights. The winning story will be selected by WoWVault Staff judges. Please visit our Short Story Contest Page for official rules and restrictions!
Death Knight Caption Contest Win a $20 gift certificate from PrintWarcraft! This contest will run from July 26th (Today!) until midnight on August 7th! Submit your clever, witty, or funny caption to the image located on the Caption Contest Page! The winning caption will be selected by WoWVault Staff judges. Additionally, a Grand Prize winner will be selected from all the winning entries at the end of the Class Spotlights in August. Please visit our Caption Contest Page for official rules and restrictions!
Death Knight Sweepstakes Last but not least, win a Path of Cenarius TCG Loot code in our Death Knight Sweepstakes! This contest is for anyone and everyone who doesn't want to do anything more than submit their name for a random drawing! Easy! This contest will run from July 26th (Today!) until midnight on August 7th! Please visit the Sweepstakes Page for instructions to enter and for official rules and restrictions!
Good Luck Contestants and Happy Decaying! (Get it? Decay...Dee Kay...DK?)
Let's kick Monday morning off with a full 1080p HD video fly-over of Gilneas from the beta Cataclysm servers! Don't confuse this with the new palette swap of Arathi Basin, this is the actual game map as it appears to players that venture south of Sliverpine Forest.
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As of the latest Cataclysm build, Reforging has been activated, somewhat. The NPCs have been added, but they are currently non-functional except to explain this small tidbit of Reforging.
Basically you can trade 40% of a secondary attribute, like dodge, critical strike, et cetera, for another secondary attribute by paying a price in gold equal to the value of the item at an NPC in town.
As far as the paladin changes go, we have made no secret that we haven't happy with the paladin gameplay on live, of all three trees, and the class was headed for a pretty radical redesign. There can be very few sacred cows as part of that process or we're not going to have the design space we need to fix the problems.
The current Cataclysm rotation is far from static and was in fact so frenetic that we had to scale back on some of the random procs and Holy Power generation or paladins were never going to have the bandwidth to do things like position the boss. It was far away the most complex tank rotation, and that's not what we were going for.
We're trying a lot of new ideas and it's going to take some iteration before we're happy with them. The current snapshot you are getting in beta is just a snapshot -- it's whatever the data happened to look like at the time when we made a build.
Does it sound like they are just throwing around ideas for the Paladin who will be haphazardly tossed together at the last minute? Well you aren't the only one that feels that way on the official forums.
WoWVault is doing a spotlight on the classes of World of Warcraft every two weeks! For the next two weeks you will see Death Knight-themed discussions, contests, games, artwork, videos and more! Check out the 
All winners for the Warrior Contests have been selected and notified. Be sure to check your email and private messages! Thanks for playing! Don't forget we have plenty more contests to participate in! If you didn't win this time, maybe you will next time! Check out the 
From March through July, WoW Vault will be running a series of spotlights to celebrate each of World of Warcraft's classes! Every two weeks we'll be spotlighting a different class and during that time we'll be doing class themed things around the WoW Vault! Warriors charged off stage to allow room for our final spotlight, Death Knight!
