14 DAY TRIAL // World of Warcraft is one of the biggest games in the world, boasting a huge 11,5 million subscribers every month. It has received some massive expansions, in the form of The Burning Crusade and the more recent Wrath of the Lich King add-ons, but players have gotten used to the new things quite fast.
However, while Wrath of the Lich King brought a lot of interesting features to the title, it also brought the Death Knight class, which is currently one of the most powerful, or perhaps too powerful, classes in the game. Players have been militating for a decrease in the class' attacks, and now Blizzard aims to make these fans happy through the next patch, 3.2, which will hit in the next few weeks.
The patch has already been live on a public test realm, and some of the changes include a reduction in power for the Frost Strike ability, a doubling of the cooldown timer for the Icebound Fortitude option and the halving of the bonus stamina from Veteran of the Third War. Here's what WoW director Tom Chilton said about this patch.
“More than anything else we're just trying to make sure we balance Death Knights relative to everybody else. Of course we want Death Knights to feel like an awesome powerful class, just like any other class. People mention the fact that they're a hero class, but to us what that means is, well, they have their own special starting experience – they start at level 55, which is very heroic compared to other characters. But that doesn't mean that at the end [of the] game they're supposed to be more powerful. We've found there were areas of the game we felt like they were just too strong, so we're trying to balance them just like we would any other character class.”
Chilton continued by revealing that in “several weeks” the patch will be released onto all WoW servers. “It's been on the public test realms for a few weeks now. Generally we have our patches up there for a while longer than that. I'm sure there will be several weeks when I get back that we'll still be on the PTR. Whenever we feel like it's ready and solid and as free of bugs as we can possibly get it, then we'll release it.”
Are you excited about the new World of Warcraft patch 3.2 or do you think that these changes will still leave the Death Knight class overpowered? Leave us a comment about this subject.