Lethal Shots

At least that is what I felt like last night. I figured the initial crowd in the Ebon Hold had cleared out, so I decided to go ahead and make my Death Knight last night. I parked Santyn at an inn so he could build up some rested XP and headed off to character selection screen.

First off I had to decide which alt to delete. Tough decision, I know. So, I said goodbye to a little level 10 Gnome Rogue that I hardly ever played and went on to make my Death Knight. I pondered what race to make him for a few minutes, then settled on a Dwarf. Grayish skin and white hair because, well, he is a Death Knight.

And a name. Always the hardest part. I chose Santan, a spelling variation of Santyn. This is a naming convention I have adopted to make it easier for my guild mates to know it is me. Not very creative, but hey, it works.

Anyway, logged in and started questing. Did a little talking, a little running around, the usual. And then my first chance to fight something, a failed Initiate. And I died.

Stop laughing…..

This is where I became a button mashing noob. I had no idea how to play the class. Still not real sure to tell the truth. So I spent my whole time last night simply mashing whatever skills were ready and hoping I somewhat resembled a Harbinger of Death. And what made it worse was that there was no one to give advice either. a few of my guildies have made a Death Knight, but none felt confident enough yet to give advice on how to play one.

So button mashing it was.

Whatever. It worked.

I really am impressed with the class so far. Survivability was great. I only died a few times, due to pulling more adds than I could handle, though that could also be blamed on my complete lack of knowledge on how to play the class. Damage seemed pretty good, though with no damage meter running, I am basing that strictly off of “feel”. What really surprised me though was the complete lack of downtime. I hardly ever had to stop. It was almost as good as playing a Hunter.

Almost.

Tonight I plan on doing a little research so that I can allocate my talent points decently well and start to figure out a spell rotation. Then back to leveling Santyn.

On a side note, one of my guidlies misspelled my Death Knight’s name in guild chat last night. He wrote it as Satan. I thought it was a deliciously and fittingly evil coincidence.