Yeah, DK's sound great, but I'll be honest. I have DKs at 80, and they are lackluster in any setting with a good healers and a DPS who can absorb DMG.

One thing about rated BGs, they will not be the complete steamroll that BGs are now, with people in blues on one side and you in purples on the other. Groups with zero communication and zero organization. Rated means rated. players with zero skill are worth zero points.

I also assume that while tougher, BGs will not be the hell that arenas have become with extremely organized and specialized teams out there, but still some level of competition above and beyond what we see in regular BG land.

This taken into account, I just think that a burst team like paladins will outshine any DK team (barring significant advances in DK dmg) in BGs. HPs are going up, waaay up and that means healing will be easier for the most part, and in some cases just more predictable. Good healers will be pulled in to do their job, unlike in BGs now.

"/2 RATED BGs group LFM 7k GS 2200 arena exp req, PST for trials"

expect to see this, and expect to see them in the games with and against you, this is the future.

In this future, you can not expect that a team which works well in current BGs to be as viable, and the only good indicator is what is viable in arenas today, which nobody has yet proved DK's to be.

Of course I could be just expecting the worst, and BGs will continue on being a bit of a steamroll, but if they do we have nothing to worry about. 5 mage teams gogo!

=)