Death Knight’s Unholy Presence at Level 70

Renei — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:32 +0000

Once you it Northrend, let’s say at level 68, leveling goes into overdrive. This is because the Experience requirements to level are those of the Burning Crusade, which have recently been nerfed, while the Experience rewards, both for killing mobs as well as turning in Quests, are beefed up on steroids in Northrend.

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At about 1,800 experience per mob, and 20,000 experience per quest – there are variations of course – burning through levels 68 and 69 all the way to 70 take no time at all.

That being said, my Death Knight reached level 70 last night upon turning in one of the Farshire quests in Borean Tundra. I just had time to brag to my Guild mates that I’d won the race – again – then it was off to bed.

This morning, I teleported to the Ebon Hold to purchase my new skills. There was an update to Death Strike as well as to Plague Strike. The Plague Strike upgrade is especially welcome, since I use it several times a fight. Death Strike, well not so much, since its use is limited by the fact that it is a little Rune-hungry, despite the fact that it heals you for a percentage of the damage dealt.

The most welcome addition to the Death Knight’s stable of skill comes in the form of a new ‘Presence’, Unholy Presence. Here is what the tooltip says:

“Infuses the Death Knight with Unholy Fury, increasing attack speed by 15%, movement speed by 15%, and reducing the global cooldown on all abilities by 0.5 sec.”

I have not had the chance to try it yet, as today is the traditional Tuesday morning break – because of scheduled maintenance on the servers, but I’m very curious to see what its effect will be.

I don’t really care about the 15% increase in movement speed, as I assume this will mostly be useful for PvP, in which I partake but very little. The 15% increase in attack speed should, however, translate itself in a nice bonus to DPS and perhaps attack power – I’ll have to see.

The reduction of the global cooldown will also certainly have beneficial effects on damage dealt, although I’m curious if it will also affect the regeneration speed of the runes.

Overall, I think that the new Unholy Presence will be a beneficial addition to the Death Knight’s palette of skills, talents and abilities. I’ll just have to test it and see whether it works better for me than Blood Presence!

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