Starting zone questionFollow

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I was wondering how the Death Knight starting zone worked. I know that things change based on the players actions, but is it an instance zone or is it the same as all the other leveling zones in the game?

Well in that case how does it work with some of the things that change as you go along? Sorry if this is a stupid question I just am not really getting this. If anyone who has the beta is willing to type up a more in depth look at the zone, or knows where I could find one, I'd really appreciate it!

i would just call them normal maps but as you go through the quests it changes the map to another one in the same zone just so it looks like its following the story but i wouldnt call it a instanced zone

It IS more or less an instanced zone. The only other players you see will all be part of your faction. As far as I know, it's impossible to get back into the initial area once you've finished with it. Think of it as Old Hillsbrad; yeah, you can travel through out it and avoid a great deal of the content and go exploring to your hearts content, but there are boundries that you cannot exit. As you complete quests, the landscape changes a great deal; it is pretty awesome.

After the final quest, you're sent into the REAL Eastern Plaguelands, where for the first time you'll see Death Knights of the opposing faction. You wind up in "Ebon Hold".

Ebon Hold is also a sanctuary zone; no combat is permitted outside of it, and there's two ways into it: A spell called "Death Gate" which only DK's have, and it works one way, and a flight path (which only Death Knights will be able to get). Only way out is to hearth or fly out.

.....Well, to put a minor spoiler up, this is partially true...

A starter quest requires you to win five duels. If, by PvPing, you are implying this, then you're correct. (However, you can also duel special NPCs to fulfill this quest)


However, I think you're just some dumb schmuck that's trying to get some natural male enhancement for your e-peen, but like all those products, much to Smiling Bob's dismay, you are failing miserably.

ok sorry they were dueling but i still think a instanced zone is somewhere you need a party to go that is your level

The starting zone is an instanced zone. whenever you finish a "major" quest the environment will change a bit. Some of the NPCs have moved, a few buildings have been burned etc.
This zone is only for the newly created Death Knights of the same faction.

When you finish your last quest you will be out of the insranced zone, and into the "real" world.
Ebon Hold will be what Moonglade is to Druids. This is where you go to train and re-forge your weapon.
Death Knights get a portal to go here, and are the only ones who have the flighpath here to aswell.