I’m aware of the whole dichotomy of Paladin vs Death Knight/Oathbreaker kinds of play. It just seems sort of off in the WoW setting considering that the lore states that no matter how horrible of an act one commits, as long as they believe it is the right thing to do, the Light won’t abandon them.
I think it’s an interesting idea to kind of shoehorn in Death Knights that are fallen Paladins. However, I think it dilutes the class and makes it so either they have to spend a lot of development time on making Death Knights work with the Paladin toolkit or making it so niche that it’s not even really a thing and just kind of an aesthetic change.
It would be pretty cool to see corrupted Seals though and how that could function as the disease mechanic.
I think the link between the two lies in the multiple generations of Death Knights in WC lore, and how they’re all different types of undead creatures. Gorefiend, Arthas, and Mograine are all different types of Death Knights, and draw their power from different sources. WoTLK playable DKs are all third gen, but it seems like this Antipaladin spec would be a second generation Death Knight, not a third gen.
Second Gen DKs are still using a lot of the same metaphysical mechanics that Paladins use, but draw their power from Darkness, instead of the Light. What I want to know, is how the player is gonna be siphoning power from the Lich King, without turning full blown evil af. I really hope the unlock for Path of Arthas comes with some fluffy quests.
lol, at least in the first few days maybe it’ll be easy for Alliance players to keep might/wisdom 5min buffs up at all time being inside a sea of paladins. I won’t be able to experience it though going Horde this time though.
One of the QoL things I’d also ask for in SoD is for the mana cost for priest/mage/druid buffs to be reduced by at least 50% like from the minor glyphs in wrath (not saying to add glyphs, just use as an example). Also, let the paladin non reagent buffs and shaman totems last a little longer. Druid omen/thorn buffs to last 30mins too.
Classic Ret players buff themselves with Might and start swinging.
There is no TEAM in RET.
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Myself I would rather have a “path of the void” rune that turns flash heal/holy light into casted void damage spells that return a portion of the damage back to the paladin as healing. While also turning the damage of paladin’s abilities into shadow damage, along with the seal of crusader improving shadow damage while judged on a target. We give up our targeted heals for more range options.
There been some datamined stuff which
Spoiler
suggests that Paladins could become pseudo DK’s.
One single rune called “Path of Arthas” doesn’t exactly spell out “Death Knight” when it reduces healing by 50% and increases all damage caused by 5% which may or may not even be implemented. As we were discussing, it looks like that may be a potential thing that they are considering or have plans for.
I think it diminishes the amount of work going into making Retribution. Making the vengeance driven crusader into the angry dead guy. Plus, it means that Alliance get Death Knights and Horde get nothing similar? Unless they make Shaman have WC2 Death Knight aesthetics?
When I saw the Path of Arthas rune I thought it could be a DK form like metamorphosis that change your spells and functionalities something like this
Crusader Strikes → Scourge Strike
Divine Storm → Shadow Cleave/Howling blast
Exorcism → Death Coil
HoJ → Chains of Ice
Freedom → Death Grip
Seal of Command → Unholy Presence
Divine Shield → AMS
BoP → IBF
Sanctity Aura - Unholy Aura
Vengeance → Hatred
Repentance → Strangulate
Holy Light → Shadow Mending
It would be pretty funny if they put in fake runes in a video just to toy with players. I’d applaud that.
Wc2 death knight shaman…
That sounds kind of dope
Well that was short-lived.
In before “Aggrend is just trying to throw us off the scent!”
Time will tell. There’s been multiple factors leading towards the hint of an Antipaladin spec, and Aggrend has played games while talking about specs before. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn’t.
They’re not going to give just one faction death knights, sorry.
Give horde the blademaster, way cooler, DKs are old and played out already.
Inb4 theres runes that any class can use
Where is this footage coming from?
Maybe another season. Maybe we’ll get more than just dwarf shaman if it includes wildhammer dwarf and the other races allied with the factions like undead high elf, the different dwarf clans, human kingdoms, orc clans, troll tribes, tauren tribes, and regular high elf for alliance. That would be kind of cool. They don’t all need their own racials. Maybe one just for flavor, but it’d be cool to be to choose to be a frostwolf orc.
@mini the video is from the official wow youtube channel. platinum wow made the video, but the footage probably came from them