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Immunios, first off what you posted did not state that all Death Knights were fallen paladins only most of them were which means there are others that will not be fallen paladins.

Now secondly here are the races I belive will and will not be able to be death knights and my reasons.

Alliance

Humans- I think this one is a bit obvious humans are pretty much one of the most corrupptable races and they already comprize most of the litch kings death knights.

Gnomes- I think blizz will give gnomes the ability to be death knights because besides the humans of the alliance races they are pretty much the only ones who have a more evil alignment, also it would be awsome to see a gnome wielding a runesword 4x his size >.>.

Night Elves- I don't think that night elves will be able to be death knights for the reason of they have a strong will and a prominate good alignment throughout their race, plus their interaction with the scourge was a brief one which ended with the destruction of almost all scourge forces at the battle of mount Hyjal.

Draenei- Another obvious one the Draenei have barely encoutered the scourge as they are aliens from another planet that just recently arrived on Azeroth, they also worship a race of beings of pure light which protect them and their race also has a prominate good alignment.


Dwarves- I'm a bit iffy on this one their race has a Prominate good alignment but they seem more corruptable than the night elves do and they have had much more encounters with the scourge though none involeing a particularly large amount of dwarves the only dwarves that I know encoutered the scourge are Mauradin's Expedition and the few dwarves that were fighting with the human armys being as the scourge never came close to the dwarves homeland where it would be more likely they would find suitable dwarves to be death knights so i'm not too sure as whether or not there will be Dwarf Death Kinghts in Wrath.


Horde.

Orcs- Obviously their are corrupt orcs as their example of being the largest race in the shadow councle and there were Orc Death Kinghts durring the second war so it stands to reason that some of them might be lured back to that source of power by the litch king.((though I think from the Lore that I heard the Second war DK's were actually more akin to Dark Shaman mixed with Necros))

Undead- This is yet another obvious one the Forsaken are all ex-members of the scourge who broke free of the litch kings will so obviously some Death Knights will ally themselves here after becomeing free.

Blood Elves- All and all the high elves were a good aligned race but were very succeptable to corruption(ie. Kael'thas following Illadin and then Kil'jaden and the highbornes previous attepmt to bring sargeras into the world thousands of years ago) and the fact that most of their race was wiped out during Arthas' attack on the sunwell and with them also being a magicly inclined race I'm sure their were quite a few of them that the litch king wanted as death knights.


Tauren- Their strong good Alignment and strong will lead me to belive that they will not be Death Knights in Wrath.

Trolls- I'm not too sure about these but I doubt they would have any darkspear death knights given they have a very brief encouter with the scourge during the battles leading up to the battle of mount hyjal.(I also doubt that blizz would let 4 horde races be Death Knights where as there are 2 alliance races that pretty much DO NOT fit into a likely cause for them becomeing death knights.)



Now Thirdly, As to the question about why there are free willed death knights now I think it might have something to do with the new plague that the forsaken are releaseing in northerend at the release of Wrath I'm guessing it has propertys that can break the litch kings control on some of his minions giveing them their free will back.


So all in all I think Likely there will be 2 maybe 3 Alliance Death Knight races and 3 horde death knight races.

You have misinterpreted the web page. Death Knight ex-paladins who serve the Lich king are mobs, not player characters.

There's like 16 threads in here, I don't think you have to worry about necroposting =P

I've met RPers who RP fallen High Elves. In fact, a decent percentage of Forsaken are supposed to be fallen High Elves (obviously Sylvanas included) because there were High Elf mages and some other troops with the humans at the kingdom of Lordaeron.

You know when you walk into scholomance and you see gnome necromancers? why not a gnome deathknight? =D

I like how you leave out 'Mainly' in your quote.

Warriors don't have heals and they do just fine on their own. Same with Rogues and Mages, and Hunters and Locks (though they have pets, so it's a bit different :P).

Please, don't make 3 posts in a row. Just edit your first post from now on.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: Friends and Family Alpha

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*bunch of crap not pertaining to Death Knights.*

The Death Knight Hero class is now available for play. Death Knights will now start with 0 talent points at level 55. Players will need to talk with Alexander, Master of Death at Light’s Hope Chapel to complete a quest before receiving the appropriate level talent points. Creating a new Death Knight will start you at level 55 in Eastern Plaguelands. No starting quests are implemented though Death Knight abilities will be available for testing.


You start in Ebon Hold which is connected to Tyrs Hand. You will not be anywhere near Naxx, because Naxx is being moved during an event in an upcoming patch to Northrend.


Death Knights are for all races. Blizzard has always stated they adapt lore based on game and player wants/needs. Get over it.

Edited, Jun 16th 2008 12:15pm by SillyGnomeMage

It would make sense for Blizzard to make Death Knight available for all classes since you can't start a Death Knight from level 1.

This has bothered me a lot too...

So far its all races but in my opinion it should be Human, Dreanei (hey, they're pallys and they fight the scourge -all lore bases prerequisites there), and Dwarfs. And Orcs (Old DKs, remember?), Undead (Duh), and BE (like Draenei).

No room for NE, Gnomes, Tauren or Trolls in lore.