DK at 50-70?Follow

NO!


I learned my class by PvPing and instancing, solo-ing is easier than your mother.

Even then you'll probably have atleast 5 instances to run before you start heroics and the higher end content. That should help with the learning curve too.

Levelling a Death Knight from level 1 wouldnt make any sense whatsoever. I agree with their idea of a 'Hero Class', Death Knights are supposed to be powerful already due to their former connection with the Lich King. The quest idea is nice, I really want to play an evil-themed quest area and earn Death Knight gear; you can bet the final quest gives you a badass Runeblade... which of course you will replace with the ugly Rage Reaver the minute you enter Outland :(

Taking a little ************ lore-fetishist aside here, the other classes, in general, are classe that could at least theoretically arise from the general population. Hunters, Warriors, Rogues etc are basically mercenaries and everyone has to start somewhere. Priests and Druids are equally obvious, they would perform a function in society even if they only had Rank 1 Renew.

Death Knights though... I don't really see how you could have a Level 1 Death Knight. What was he doing before he decided to go find his fortune in Outland? Trimming the hedges with his 4DPS white-quality Rune Blade?

I personally am looking forward to the RP-server Death Knight character descriptions... every emo-RP fanatic is gonna roll one, Death Knights all have a tragic and shrouded past by definition.

~sin

And they are all going to have 1 eye which they manage to portray the profound sadness in them. :)

wwdragon

I will assume that whatever Runes you have inscribed will be there until you decide to change them. This means if you kill a mob and immediately get into battle with another you will still have the Runes from the previous encounter. You just can't change them in combat, much like you can't drink while in combat.

Speculation of course, but from what all I have read, this seems like how they will work.

I agree with the headstart, but I wish it were a bit lower, 45 or 50 would be nice.

Actually i think that the Death Knight class starting on 50 is much better than 1 because just imagine having to level all the way from 1-80! As said before in this thread there will probably be some starting quests where you can learn your class and get gear for it. Maybe Blizzard designed it so that you'll be in your own area until or 60, or 58 and then continue into outland. If so, i think that 10 levels of specific learning quests tells me more than doing some random quests all the way up to 60. And with the time u saved from being 50 from the start u can learn even more. So to summarise, i totally agree with Blizzard starting the DK on 50 instead of 1.

QFT.

Aside from that, the DK is supposed to be a 'hero class'. If it started at level 1 to me it would feel like just a normal class with the only requirment is that you've already done the 1-70 part on another character.