Last night I finally made it to the 1800cr bracket of solo shuffle. After several rage inducing moments where I hovered my mouse over the leave arena button, I backed out as I knew that that would just set me back farther. Perseverance and determination to get 1800 in the first week was my one and only goal. I intentionally skipped raid. I blew off friends in other games. I sacrificed time from work by rushing and half efforting my job just to get home so I can que.
Last night finally it happened and I felt extremely relieved…. But that’s when I sat there looking at my death knight and turning off my UI and looking into the horizon and really thought about it.
Why did I feel relieved? I shouldn’t have to feel this way unless I am going for gladiator where I know have to face off against regional champions. People who are beyond my skill level and understanding. Reaching this goal should have come naturally but it felt like a chore. A job.
Looking at Death knights right now, as I am sure those who main them whether you are UH or Frost can tell there is a plethora of problems. Most abilities across both specs are weak in pvp combat. UH has a terrible situation where we have to use a build that’s not enjoyable or fun. And when you swap out of that build, your damage feels like swinging pool noodles and build a bear workshop. Our survivability is still terrible despite us gaining a new talent which we can’t even swap to other wise we lose damage and utility. We have talents that should just be considered automatic base line abilities and a lot of the talents we have to take to get to a decent talent is a dead talent.
However there are some things I did learn and that was expanding my knowledge on other classes. Knowing what they do and how they do it. This is by no means my first rodeo in the arena. But I am certainly no expert on a multitude of classes and specs and I still continue today to learn.
But to wrap things up, this season so far in its early stages is rather underwhelming as far class balances go. Ranging from SL S1 pre nerf convoke stylized boomkins to still having to deal with at least 45 seconds worth of cc every other minute.
Keep your head up fellow UH Death Knights. Perhaps Blizzard will learn the error of their ways and actually help us.