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Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.

As things currently stand in Cataclysm, much of the death knight’s famous ability to take tons of punishment and get health back, even in DPS mode, has been removed with the removal of health stealing from the main DPS [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.

With the latest build having just hit the Cataclysm beta test servers, this seems like a pretty good time to take a quick inventory of the changes, maybe say a few things about the direction that the class is [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.
Our adventures in beta continue, as promised, with a new zone and a new spec. With Hyjal behind us, the next logical zone to head to is Deepholm, and such is where I headed, after a suitably epic breadcrumb [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.
With the Cataclysm beta well under way, the death knight class does still have some bugs and glitches to work out and maybe even a bit of balancing work needed. But for now, the beta is definitely where the [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.

With the latest beta build, death knights have seen yet another series of small adjustments to their talent trees, but the biggest news is the addition of a solution to those hanging frost runes in unholy’s rotation: Festering Strike. [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class.
While paladins got some of the biggest bombshells in last week’s big developer Twitter chat, there was still quite a bit of juicy information for death knights. Reading between the lines, it’s pretty obvious we’re getting some major tree [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, the weekly death knight column for the class undergoing some pretty cataclysmic changes to its setup and philosophy in the new expansion.
With the Cataclysm beta out of NDA, we’ve had a chance to take a look at some of the new death knight changes coming our way. I’m pretty sure (and [...]

For those of you who don’t know much about tanking, we’re going to talk quickly about a stat that won’t exist in Cataclysm. This lowly stat is called defense rating, and it’s something that tanks need quite a bit of. The nice thing is that it’s on just about everything that tanks wear, which means [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly look at the death knight class.
In addition to Death Grip, which we discussed last week, there’s another major death knight signature skill that requires a bit of a subtle hand to use correctly, and that has cause much angst and hatred on the part of non-death knights over improper [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for tips, news, guides and opinions on the death knight class.
So recently, as I’ve been working on trying to get the Loremaster title before Cataclysm hits, I’ve rediscovered the joy of queuing for the random dungeon as DPS. The 10- to 20-minute queue times offer a perfect little window [...]