WotLK Beta Time

I had a chance to play some of the Wrath of the Lich King Beta today. And by some I mean 6 hours or more. Played the whole time as Death Knight. Some fun stuff, can't wait for it to come out.

The intro events for a Death Knight are some of the coolest things I've seen. They even did some weird trick, so that its all instanced, but it changes on key quests. You can only see people on the same key area you are. It all ends with a climatic battle at Light's Hope Chapel.

After finishing up there I played around with each of the builds while leveling. Started with Blood and ended at 61 as Frost. Blood is real straight forward, easy to learn. Also great for leveling solo, since there's virtually no down time. Also you could probably solo most group quests or elites as Blood. I'd liked it more if Death Rune Mastery wasn't broken. Unholy is different, I found it to be the most fun as well. Lots of spells using the same things is its big downfall. For example, both the Gargoyle and Unholy Blight use over half your Runic Power. Corpse explosion is fun, not that useful. Few more tweaks will make Unholy a lot more fun. Last is frost. While I was leveling, I kept reading in general chat about how overpowered Frost spec was...they were right. Its not as fluid as Blood or as fun as Unholy, but it kills quickly. Its not complicated, mostly just building up Runic Power to Frost Strike. It needs some tweaking yet to be in line with Blood and Unholy, at least from a Level 61 point of view.

Of course, I tried the barbershop. Twice. Its fun, but so far, all haircuts that are new are just from other races. The Death Knight waterwalk is cool looking, but can be annoying. Its an Aura buff, that buffs anyone and everyone, even when your not in their party.

I got more pictures and video, just need to figure out how get it to look better on blogger.