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i kinda meant a lvl 60 toon to start the quests to GET DK . . .

i would also like to start at much lower lvl then 50~

but lvl 1 wouldnt fit as your suppose to be a charactor who was reborn/taken to the dark side (a fallen hero of sorts), then reborn/taken back to the light (somehow released from your bondage/slavery/whatever) while keeping the gifts of the witch king. i cant immagine that charactor not having some amount of power. lvl 1 seems silly conseptually.

I agree. Lv75 drk here on FFXI. :D When I started this game the first thing I looked for as a weapon was a Scythe. It pissed me off that they had everyother weapon but it. =/

When I get my toon to 55 or w/e to unlock death knight it'll make me happy in my pants. :) Haha. No point for me posting here but eh... thought i'd make this my first post on the WoW forums.

i could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure your char will still have any gold, professions, rep, etc as before. its the same char, just different class now. unless i'm wrong about that part. armor i'm not sure about though. still don't see why you'd suddenly lose it. unless i'm wrong and you actually make a whole new char...

haha, ok. i guess i wasn't paying too much attention to those posts. i'm not planning to make a DK, so i only very loosely followed it. only thing i really try to follow about them is how they'll tank. i have 10 chars on my realm and no desire to level the lowbies i have on other realms, so i won't be able to make one anyway i guess... haha.

but, if its an entirely new char, i don't see blizz starting you off with more than a token amount of gold if any and i don't see them giving anyone any more than green gear at best... i'd be very surprised if they even give you greens.

if people have a char at 55 already though i don't see gold or gear being too much of a proble. if it is, just keep leveling your main till outlands.

haha, thats too funny. thanks for the laugh.

Because he attempted to answer my questions with information that I knew for a fact was a completely inaccurate and outdated assumption. Thus, I informed him that his answer was wrong... because it was. My questions still stand officially unanswered by Blizzard.


I think it's been shown enough that bringing real-life and even real-lore logic into this game simply does not hold water. Regardless of how cool my Death Knight is, if I am stuck at friendly and have to pay 20% more for everything in the major cities for the entire rest of the time I play that character without massive rep grinding, I guarantee you that I will not be !@#$ing with him. At all.


True. There really doesn't seem to be any good solution to this issue, but it remains an issue nonetheless in my mind. I guess Blizzard just assumes that anyone level 55 and up will be able to support a second character monetarily.


A spell-summonable mount hadn't occurred to me. And you're right, that would solve the problem handily. It could even be a reward from one of the supposed DK intro quests.


This part, at least, is easy. Just give the DK a full set of starting green or blue gear that is soulbound and vendors for zero copper. Problem solved.


That is what I was thinking. Have the DK intro quests result in reputation gains into honored or preferably revered status with the four major cities at least.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see. I wish they would put out a LITTLE more info every so often. Not just the same crap over and over and over again.

You could always wait to turn it on until after you've pulled.

If it effected in combat mobs and stupid animal that aggros a rat or anything like that will come straight to you.

Not to mention those mobs that attack another player... People would start getting mad if you just ran by something they were going to attack and completely stole their kill that way with just a stupid aura. Somehow I don't see that happening.

Though I would hope to be able to summon a controllable skeleton, that would be pretty sick.

True true. Though I would really rather have 1 controllable skeleton than 10 uncontrolable ones that aggro everything.. Treants anyone?

My guess, and I have seen some ideas similar to this before although not identical, is that your character's going to start off with a special set of armor in a remote area which will provide quests with which to "break free" from the Lich King's bindings.

Similar to lowbie quests in Silvermoon/Exodar, it will allow the character to replace his initial gear with some somewhat better gear and force the character to get some items of value through actual manhours. This would then equal out the fact that "Yes - you are getting much more valuable items than a level 1 would" but "Yes - you already have a character that is higher than 55, so you're still not maximizing your profits by any means."

The new Rune system of spellcasting will likely be "relearned" as you quest, as well as the purpose of the Runeblades (which I'm guessing are imbued or whatever with Runes -- like FFXII -- in order to help define the DK's role.)

All of this is absolute speculation, of course =P

Baron Rivendare in Stratholme(that ******* WILL drop me a mount some day ) uses Death Pact, which is the ability you were speaking of. And it makes total sense to me, as you're consuming the life force that is animating the undead unit, which you convert to life force within yourself. It's kind of a one for one trade.

Now, personally, I'm curious if Death Coil will heal the Death Knight.


I know, probably not, but it would be fun.