Death Knight Proffessions?Follow

So you've just made your brand spanking new 55 DeathKnight. First thing you're going to want to be doing is picking up First Aid.

But wait, do we, as a level 55, now start with level 1 first aid? Same with other professions? This could be a pain for DKs, as the mobs you're killing won't be dropping Linen cloth (so you go on a rampage in Goldshire and **** all the level 4's off) or you go to the AH (and find that you can't afford to buy enough cloth to get it up to a high enough level.

Alternativly, do we start off with whatever the 55 level of first aid is? (225 I think) But would we then have the same 225 skill on every other proffession? Can we now jump off and mine Thorium? What about other proffessions, such as Alchemy? OR Fishing? I know I'd make a DK simply so my Druid doesn't have to raise his fishing (at 100ish)

Personally, I think we'd start with the 225 skill, but with no (or severly limited) recepies, and after you learn 2 primary ones, if you relearn any, you start from level 1.

What do you guys think?

Seriously your complaining about first aid? Hell your 55 I'm pretty sure you could run Dead Mines or Wailing Caverns a few times to have plenty of linen and wool cloth. Leveling skills is easy, it's not till the higher lvl items that require the rare/insane amounts it gets hard to farm... STOP BEING LAZY.

Deathknights will probably start out without First Aid, Fishing, and Cooking. Secondary skills (and primary) are non-essential, just handy.

I would so make my DK engi/BS to save so much trouble. But that would be cheap and so, you will probably have 0 in the "real" professions.

Only problem with that is that the DK class appears to be more melee focused, with support spells (freezing?), ghouls, and a Deathcoil. I doubt that they will be sending shadowbolts or something from afar.

Blizz has stated there will be multiple ways to enhance your spells, and I would highly, highly doubt that it means only actual spells, but that it would also be able to be used to enhance Rogue, Warrior, Feral Druid, and Death Knight abilities as well. If it didn't work on non-spells that would be a HUGE mistake on Blizzard's part. Every profession in the game has at least something to offer each class (tailoring has threads, leatherworking has armor kits/drums, etc..).

I agree though, you'll see a lot of Death Knight Inscribers like you did Draenei and Blood Elf Jewelcrafters. 1) people want to try out new content quickly. Combining the new class with the new profession is a logical way to do this. 2) if the skills start at a higher level then 1 with a Death Knight then this will allow you to do higher level Inscriptions faster then starting at 1 with one of your existing characters. 3) most people have probably put a lot of time/effort/money into their current professions and may not want to unlearn one just to see what Inscription is all about.

I know there's no way I am dropping my 375 Armorsmithing, Jewelcrafting, Dragonscale Leatherworking, or Alchemy to pick it up, and most likely not each respective character's gathering skill (also maxed), but I do have a 61 Druid coming up with 2 gathering skills. I may drop one of those for Inscription if I decide my Death Knight will get some good use out of smithing or whatever.

I could see them starting with 225 skill in all the professions (Primary and secondary). Then, you just pick the 2 primary skill you want, and they will start at 225 also.

Since they are starting you at lvl 55, it would make sense to give you equivalent skill and gear. Otherwise, how will you kill all those pesky mobs in the Plaguelands?

On that note - why don't they start them at lvl 58, so they can start in Outland?

I've heard the thought that you could make a large payment on your DK in the starting zone to get a proffesion of high level. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-500g? I think that would be reasonable.

I don't think anyone has said anything about starting with maxed professions, just professions high enough to be on par with the level the DK starts at.

You are right, it wouldn't be fair to start out with 375 of anything, but I don't think 150, or even 225 is all that unreasonable. People want to learn the class and level it, not spend time/money powerleveling professions that are way to low to benefit the DK who has them.

I also think that this should be a one time thing: you get 1 or 2 professions that start out at a higher skill, but if you ever unlearn them, you must start at 1 like everyone else.

No it wont - you can't get a death knight till you've leveled a toon to 80 and finished a quest, right? Well unless inscription has the same requirement to learn, that means that I can just AH and pharm it up to at least somewhere in the 300s before most people can ding 71, much less 80.

If DKs dont start with trade skills at some kind of minimum level then I'm predicting that the tradeskill leveling materials market is going to explode - expect any ore less then mythril to be going for 20+ gold a stack, probably ditto most enchanting mats while level 1-50 greens will disappear as they're all DE'd.

Additionally, expect all level 55ish gear to double or triple in price as everyone wants to twink thier new toys out.

Hey, there's a good question to go with the tradeskills - what kind of gear does a newby 55 DK start with?

The reality is though that if DKs do start with tradeskills that are higher level, expect a lot of them to be enchanters/miners as peeps take the two most difficult/expensive gathering skills and get free kickstarts on them.

As of now, you only need one character at 55+ in order to unlock the Death Knight class.

both Bliz, and screens of starting gear show DK's starting off with a mix of blues and greens. No epics.

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