gnomeDK – Your Pink Haired Guide to All Things Death Knight

WoW Insider reported on a really neat death knight bug. Their video shows it all, but to sum up if a death knight duels someone in Ratchet or Booty Bay and then death grips their opponent while on a moving boat, but the opponent is on the dock, then the opponent will go flying off across the continent.

I’m sure the first reaction of most death knights is: zomg must try! However DeathKnight.info has the same story, but with warnings from Blizzard GMs to not attempt to do the bug.

As is typical for tech support communications to end users the GMs don’t say why we shouldn’t do the trick. It appears characters are getting stuck (bad for the player) and GMs have to get them out (annoying for the GMs). I wouldn’t think the bug does anything negative to the servers, but I’m no expert. I can see there being a negative side affect if every death knight starts doing this, however. Still, flying through mountains is neat to see.

So I wonder, knowing how the bug works and that GMs are asking people not to do it again, how many people would want to still try it at least once?

Here’s some additional stat weight links for Wowhead. The stat weight values are the same, but these links lead to item browsing rather than comparing items you specify. Just click on the armor slots you are interested in and you can easily see the top slot items in game right now.

You’ll note there are also weapon links here. For whatever reason this method allows for weapon DPS to be scored. It it worth noting that in many cases you should be more concerned with a weapon’s base damage than its DPS or stats, but a quick guide to look at doesn’t hurt.

Among the many features of Wowhead is their gear compare feature. It is a nice way to compare the stats between two or more pieces of gear and is a principle way I go over my gear wish list. A less used aspect of the compare page is the stat weight score.

Stat weighting allows you to assign a fixed numeric score to a piece of gear, based on its stats. Each stat is giving a fixed amount of points, usually ranging from 1 to 100 on Wowhead but any fixed range works, and Wowhead then calculates a final score based on how much each stat is worth and how many of that stat the item has. For example strength is usually worth 100 (being our best DPS stat) so 10 strength on an item gives the item a score of 1,000. If the item also has 5 crit rating, which is worth 47 in the stat weight presets I’ll go over, then the item is worth 1,235 (1,000 from the strength, 235 from the crit). Read more… »

One thing that can be overlooked from all of the patch 3.0.8 changes we went through is a lot of our glyphs can tuned, too. For the most part the negative effects of a glyph were removed, but a few changed almost entirely. I don’t want to go over the changes themselves (breaking news sites and blogs are good for that) but rather do a favor for both death knights and inscribers out there. What death knight glyphs are actually useful? Read more… »