A fire-based spec for Death Knights would be interesting.
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People been floating that idea around for awhile
Some think if Bolivar made dks they would have a fire theme or frost fire
I support this idea purely on the basis that it would make DH mains absolutely lose their minds.
More seriously though, I think it could be neat thematically but IDK much about Bolvar other than that he looks kinda firey. Does he even actually have fire powers at all? What does Bolvar even do?
Gameplay-wise I’m not really sure what it could offer without stepping on the toes of other specs. My initial thought would be to give it the dot-based playstyle that some people want out of unholy, but that would run the risk of just becoming a fire mage with a sword while also turning unholy into just a demonology warlock with a sword.
Bolvar has powers like Arthas, he is only burnt like that because of the “healing flames” the dragons used to heal him after Wrath Gate. I was thinking more of something like Ghost Rider. Maybe summon a flaming horse and have a flaming flail or something.
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why though?
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It also doesnt make any sense what so ever. Fire and the undead dont mix.
He did make Death Knights. There is 0 reason that they would have fire in the slightest.
No. And despite people thinking he died, there is absolutely no evidence that he ever did. Those flames are the flames of life, the Red Dragonflight did that to him along with his connection to the light being pretty strong. The best explanation is that the blight was eating at him, the light was slowing that process down because everyone else was just melting around him, and while he was slowly dying the red dragonflights flames burned the blight away and the flames infused into his body. The LK found him, started torturing him trying to break him (if he was raised by the Lich King there would be no need for any of that since he would be under the LK control) and Bolvar resisted.
A big ol bunch of nothing. Literally. He did do some DK abilities in ZM but that could just be the lingering effects of wearing the helm of domination.
Bolvar shouldnt have any of the LK powers anymore. All of that was sucked out of him when the helm was forced off of his head (not how that works but bad writing is bad writing) so he should just be an ever burning paladin that just align with the Ebon Blade because he was the Lich King and has that knowledge.
When it comes down to it, fire and undead dont mix, or at least they dont mix well, and we arent hellcallers, we are a type of armored necromancer.
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I dunno about that. There was a quest chain in wrath where they where trying to figure out how to raise things into undeath with fire powers.
There is also those fel fire skeletons in legion also. So it’s not that far fetched.
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But they dont. Fire is extremely harmful to the undead.
And yet we saw the fel fire skeletins in legion.
And isn’t mr. bonestorm dude in blue fire floating around?
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Fire in Warcraft doesn’t seem to notably extra harmful to undead. A lot of Light based abilities though take on firey forms, which being holy power does hurt the undead a lot more then a simple fireball would.
Bolvar’s firey look comes from being infused with red dragon magic cleansing breath at Wrathgate when Alexstrasza destroyed the Blight plague. That’s what kept him alive, or brought him back to life depending on how you take the dragons conversation in draconic afterward.
He’s never exhibited any fire related powers at all, though we did get that weapon cosmetic set that had a fire themed blade in addition to our normal spec ones.
We’re the fel fire skeletons the scourge? Not to mention fel fire is different than fire.
Also for those that say fire doesn’t seem to hurt undead more, that’s what Lichbane was for and it did double damage to undead. Fire is most certainly hurt more from fire.
Lichbane is a rune we can enchant as DEATH KNIGHTS yeah?
They where from legion, whom gave birth to the scourge.
Yes, its a runeforge that no longer exists and we werent actually using fire. Whenever undead use holy it hurts them, the same thing would happen with fire and undead unless Blizzard wants to retcon stuff again.
If we could enchant a weapon to use fire magic, then it is possible for death knights to use fire magic no?
No, Death Knights dont use fire magic. And fel is different than fire.
Yet they enchant their weapons with fire magic.
And i know what fel is thank you. Doesn’t change the fact that legion birthed the scourge.
Engraving runes isnt fire magic and it was a garbage runeforge that doesnt exist anymore. We dont use fire magic.
Then why bring up the fel skeletons like it has something to do with fire? The legion created the scourge, but so what? They are 2 different things.
Because they are undead? And on fire? And still functional?
Looks like your missing the hypocrisy.
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Can’t seem to find where wow undead are universally weak to fire. Found where some are, and others require to be burned to keep from reanimating, but the only universal “fire” weakness I’ve found is Holy Fire
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