Details on the Death Knight Class
Here are some of the details I have scrounged up from across the net dealing with the Death Knight class and how it will work.
The Death Knight will be a plate wearing DPS/Tank hybrid. Once you have hit level 80 with your main character, you will have the option of undertaking an epic quest to ‘unlock’ your Death Knight character. Supposedly any race can be a Death Knight and you will start out as a higher level character, probably in your 60 – 70. The Death Knight is considered to be an alternate, advanced class to be used in end game play only.
The mechanic for Death Knights is totally new. They do not use Rage, or Mana, or Energy. A Death Knight will have a Rune Sword which will have 6 ‘etched’ runes. These runes can be either Frost, Blood or Unholy. Different abilities require different mixes of runes and when you use abilities, those runes will be used. Runes will refresh over time akin to cooldown timers. Runes can also be swapped while out of combat.
It appears some types of abilities will be pet style, such as the ability to summon multiple zombies to fight for you.
The Death Knight sounds very exciting for sure
September 21st, 2007 at 10:18 am
yeh the new death knight system wwill be amazing, i head tht frost is melee dps, blood is for tanking and unholy/shadown will be for ranged casting dps
October 27th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
however, though it was mentioned in the above article, i have seen no indication that you need to have a lvl 80 character. Everything said at Blizzcon and on other sites just says “High Level”. That could mean that if you are level 70 at the time of WotLK then you will be able to begin the questline. (Hoping so anyway)
March 19th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
would it be for mail plate wearers only or is it like all classes like mages and stuff because that would be unfair to other ppl
September 5th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I have heard it is for all classes, and its lv 55 i was told. and please dont quote me on this for it is just something i heard slight of ear