Death Knight: Condemned to Tank?

January 6, 2008

Blizzard Community Manager “Tyren” has posted on the official boards a quick description of the role of the the upcoming “Death Knight” hero class:

“The death knight will be a tank/dps class. Currently there is an under-representation of tank classes, so the decision was made add a tank class to balance the class representation.

A great quote that the dev team mentions is that the Death Knight is “epic but equal,” meaning the experience is meant to be epic, but the death knight will be the equal of other classes. Otherwise there would be an over-representation of tanks and not enough healers and dps in the world.

I’m sure Kalgan or Tigole would explain that much more eloquently, but I hope that makes it clearer. “

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