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There are some questions come and new game mechanics that can seem daunting with the introduction of a completely new class to the game-Death Knight. This aims to enlighten the players who may be interested in creating a Death Knight of their own as to how they play while providing insight to other players as to the limitations of the class at the same time.

When you are playing a Death Knight, the runic system is the first thing you should get to grips with it, which consists of two separate components such as runes and runic power.

Death Knight Runes consist of three elements such as Blood, Frost and Unholy. By default, every Death Knight has two of each rune type and this rune format can not be changes. For the most part, the Death Knight abilities, runes of a specific type must be expended to successfully be used. Once expended, runes go onto a cool-down period where they can no longer be used though this cool-down period can vary.

Any runes utilized will be placed on a short 1.5 second cool-down if the attack missed. If it landed successfully, a 10 second cool-down ensues. However, there is an exception to this rule in that if a rune is consumed within two seconds of its cool-down expiring. It will only be places on an 8.5 second cool-down period.

To use up all of your runes before the first runes have refreshed is the trick to utilizing the runic system successfully. This leads to Death Knight combat rotations being far more complex than the one button spamming of many other classes.

However, the big weakness of this system is that it lacks its flexibility. While other classes can rely on having ability ready as long as it is not on cool-down. A Death Knight must have the foresight to conserve his runes for special situations and must trade off the use of offensive abilities for the privilege. For example, the Death Knight ability-Strangulate is a five second duration silence that requires the use of a blood rune.

A Death Knight must have great foresight and rune management to utilize Strangulate to maximum effect since silences are used reactively to counter an opponent's moves.

With the exception of the runes, Death Knight generates runic power as they consume runes. The runic power bar fills at a rate of 10 per single rune ability used and 15 per multi-rune ability used. Then this is further increased by several talents.

Runic power is what gives the Death Knight a little flexibility. It is used in a similar manner to a rage bar in order to power a large amount of abilities that are more situational in nature such as burst damage finishing moves or reactive defense tools. It can take a while to generate sufficient runic power to activate vital defensive tools, making the Death Knight vulnerable to hard hitting ambushes, which is the big weakness of this.

Making full use of your runes, planning for utility moves and trying to avoid wasting your runic power by capping it, the Death Knight runic system requires lots of thought to get the most of them and allow more players' skill to show through in their performance.