Role-playing a Death KnightFollow

It really depends on what kind of ordeal Blizzard make the death knight go through in order for them to playable character.

While I don't think you should typecast 'people' by the class they are, I can't see a Death Knight being cheerful or easy going. Think about a Vietnam Veteran crossed with a Goth/Emo... He has actually stared death in the face, gone to the deepest and lowest level of depravity, all but sold his soul to the Lich King... and barely made it back.

Thousand yard stare is mandatory.

Not quite the type of character I'd want to roleplay, but there you have it.

Edited, May 8th 2008 3:10pm by Tyrandor

OK, so what do the professional RPers do?

Possibly, they might warn the amateurs to not try it at home, since it could be damaging to your toon. "Y'know, you could lose an eye doing that!"

I tend to think people play the class that best suits the personality they would like to have. Not to say that every MMO player is some kind of confused loner, but I don't know many people who'd like to roll a character like themselves. Games are about fantasy, and if you class matters to you on a personal level then it ought to fulfil that fantasy.

Personally I didnt give a toss when I rolled my character, I just thought 'Warlock' sounded cooler than 'Mage'.

If my class reflected my personality I would possess and innate desire to control and dominate, an unhealthy obsession with fire, and a deep hatred and mistrust of all that lives...

Oh, wait... 0.o

~sin

EDIT: Something else occurs to me. How would you roleplay something as evil as a Death Knight anyway?

DK: "Hello. You appear to have soft, warm, fragile skin."
Dude: "Hey look buddy I was jus-"
DK: "ARE YOU ALIVE??"
Dude: "Er.... yea I gue-"
DK: "I HATE YOU"

Edited, May 14th 2008 11:09pm by Sinstralis

I can't get past the words "role-playing" yet.

*giggle*

And they said I was immature in high school....well LOOK AT ME NOW! HAH! I SHOWED THEM!

You've quite a sense of humor.

My own personal outlook on the class (and how I plan to RP it myself) is a character who saw a solution to some problem by siding with the Lich King, but has come to hate himself. For example, he believed that the Alliance was weak in its dealings with the Orcs, and each other. In the Scourge, he saw a unified, strong force with no internal conflict (not until the Forsaken, anyway). As time progressed, what he had thought a way to bring humanity together under a single banner became clear as the evil force it was. He finally cast off his alliegence to the Lich King and now tries to redeem himself for his sins.

Random Person: "Are you here to save us from the monsters?"
DK: "No, dear child. I'm one of the monsters, here to atone."

....Quor...buddy...you really need to go back to Group ;)

On that note, while playing a truly unrepentant murdering, torturing psychopath is certainly less complicated than the guilt-wracked Emoknights Templar that will certainly descend upon the game soon, it doesnt allow much room for actual 'Roleplaying' beyond what we already do in-game.

Think about it, every single character in WoW behaves like a merciless, amoral butchering killer happy to slaughter a few more for a few scraps of silver. Go murder that entire clan of Desolace Centaur, living, sentient beings that are neutral to you, to curry favour with their blood enemies? Why sure! Is it far? What's that Hemet? Too much rare wildlife in Garand, roaming majestically about their ancient lands, peaceful and serene? We'll soon fix that! I'm Fire spec, want 'em roasted or barbecued?

Seriously, if you stop to think about what we actually DO all day we're all of us, to a man woman and child, really quite nasty fuckers already...

i had the group liquidated!

In my opinion I always viewed death knights as warlocks with swords and a greater obsession with death. Both in my mind are simply cruel, both are ussually evil, both don't care about life itself, though a death knight probably cares less. Now as for the differences, let's look. Deathknights have no souls. They have been ripped from them and put into their swords, but i guess a death knight not from the scourge would have his soul back... so technically I'd a see a death knight being cruel, but not sadistic, just not caring about others. A back story really does vary, but the fact remains if someone becomes a death knight they need to have lost their souls once or possibly still don't have it.. o.o *writes that down as a possible RP idea*, one may consider the idea that a death knight regained his soul and was horrified at what he had done in service to the lich king! I mean think about what happened to arthas... the only true reason he was able to handle doing what he did was he had lost his concience, his soul. I.E. "I have destroyed everything i ever loved... yet I feel no sadness... no remorse... no pity!" If he had regained his soul before he became one with the lich king... dear god think about how much mental trauma he'd go through? He'd probably commit suicide becuase of what he'd done. So basically my take is, you'd rolepaly a death knight in one of three ways or in mix of the the three; emo:Totally incapable and almost on the brink of suicide because of what he's done; Goth: in acceptance of all the crimes he's committed and thus serves for his bretheren once more, but the scars of having his soul ripped fro mhim are evident, thus he is uncaring of almsot everything;Goth-Punk: This is the type Arthas himself was, not sadistic but seems like it as he cares nothing about others and only wishes to accomplish his own goals and support the goals of those greater than him, and yet unlike arthas with the soul returned that alliegence is in flux. A total uncaring cruel bad ***.