Blood/Death Knight

So I was thinking, maybe I could try something Death Knight-ish with being tanky and whatnot, summoning some minions on the side.

The build is below, constructive feedback and criticism is welcome!

I am interested in this also, as I was thinking of a very similar build to start the game with. Unfortunately I am too green to rate your build, but can't wait to see what others have to say. :)

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your build looks good too. My build I linked is just a skeleton (pun not intended) so we can see the general skill progression I thought of, it's pretty much up to changes on the fly.

Unfortunately I saw DB for the first time after I posted the thread XD, but since then i'm thinking about it. I'm not really sure to whether Raise spectre and DB have the same caps on the minions. would be awesome if not.

I started my death knight out with a 1h mace and a shield, but I'm probably gonna look for a queen's decree as a weapon. as for skills im currently using ice nova, and it works out pretty well with tanking damage, will go for armor/ES in terms of defence and trying to get as many resists as possible with some added cold damage along the way. I chose cold damage for the crowd control.

about the minions, my thought process was extreme crowd control and tankability with a lot of minions and cold dmg.

Hopefully people give more feedback! :D

I decided to go Staff/Summons with (hopefully) enough defense to sustain me at high levels.
My hope is that since both Staff and summoning has both offensive and defensive capability that they will mesh together, and so far it's been damn fun.

I'm only level 15 so take this with a grain of salt, but thus far my main tactic is to take on entire stacks with Ice Nova + Sweep while my minions distract the ranged mobs until I can deal with them. Hoping to get a totem here shortly so I can link it to my Summon skellies skill, which should cause even more chaos.

My build For the end of Normal:

And at endgame (120 pt build with lots of open paths for extra defense or offense as I deem necessary)


Seeing as this is my first build it will no doubt be a dismal failure in one way or another but I'm hoping it will give me enough of a base to build on in dabbling with summons, melee, and casting to let me make a more specialized build a bit later.

I honestly really like the way things are turning out though, and the only questions I have are general build related, like how much defense/HP will I need in endgame, or whether to go crit with staff or Resolute Technique.

What I see, is that you made an emphasis on your staff use. Doesn't sound bad though as I've looked at your build.

My routine is exactly like yours I guess :D. Get zombies rolling, charge into the middle of a mob pack and Ice Nova while tanking good amounts of damage.

Only while you concentrate on your staff damage I aim to be a bit more like a caster who tanks as many aggro as possible.

about your general question of defense... I'm fairly new to this game too, but what I heard is that you better take as much survivability from the tree as you can... so basically that's what I'm doing with my build :D

p.s.: another piece of information, you probably know, but you can use spell totem at lvl 31-ish.

Been thinking on how do this. Get Minion Instability and Skeleton totem and boom as I go along.
Playing Hard core so for me means ill die soon but this should be fun!