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The biggest news at this year's BlizzCon was the announcement of World of Warcraft's next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, which will introduce the game's first hero class, the death knight. What made you choose this particular class?
One of the things we knew very early on during development of Wrath of the Lich King was that we wanted to add an entirely new class to the existing ones. We actually considered several other class candidates before we decided on the death knight, but we felt that this was the perfect fit for the theme of Wrath of the Lich King for a lot of reasons.
Since the expansion is set in Northrend and you'll be fighting the Lich King, it makes sense to add a class that is directly connected to the coming conflict. The death knights you will be able to play are no longer allied with the Lich King; instead, they have joined forces with the Horde or the Alliance to fight against Arthas.
So by playing a death knight, you're engaged in the story of Wrath of the Lich King right from the start, which buy wow gold for the expansion from a lore point of view. And since we're designing this class to be able to fill a tanking role in groups, death knights will also be a viable and interesting choice for them, since the tank is one of those absolutely vital group roles.
One of our main goals for the death knights is to make them mesh well with the game both in terms of the expansion's lore context and also in terms of being a valuable addition to the current class lineup, and so far we're really happy with how the class is coming along.
Death Knight Class InformationThe fearsome death knight, World of Warcraft’s first Hero class, is not your average adventurer seeking to prove his or her worth on Azeroth’s fields of battle. No longer servants of the Lich King, they begin their new calling as experienced, formidable adversaries, heavily armed and armored and possessing an arsenal of deadly and forbidden magic learned in the Lich King’s thrall. Here is an introduction, subject to change, of some of the death knight’s core gameplay mechanics and abilities:
Unlocking and Creating the Death KnightSimply having a character of at least level 55 on the realm where you'd like to play unlocks the ablility to create a new level-55 death knight of any race on that realm (if on a PvP realm, the death knight must be the same faction as your existing character). Upon entering the world, your neophyte death knight will undertake a series of quests designed to teach you your new abilities. You will be able to create one death knight on each realm that is already home to at least one level 55+ character of yours.
One of the things we knew very early on during development of Wrath of the Lich King was that we wanted to add an entirely new class to the existing ones. We actually considered several other class candidates before we decided on the death knight, but we felt that this was the perfect fit for the theme of Wrath of the Lich King for a lot of reasons.
Since the expansion is set in Northrend and you'll be fighting the Lich King, it makes sense to add a class that is directly connected to the coming conflict. The death knights you will be able to play are no longer allied with the Lich King; instead, they have joined forces with the Horde or the Alliance to fight against Arthas.
So by playing a death knight, you're engaged in the story of Wrath of the Lich King right from the start, which buy wow gold for the expansion from a lore point of view. And since we're designing this class to be able to fill a tanking role in groups, death knights will also be a viable and interesting choice for them, since the tank is one of those absolutely vital group roles.
One of our main goals for the death knights is to make them mesh well with the game both in terms of the expansion's lore context and also in terms of being a valuable addition to the current class lineup, and so far we're really happy with how the class is coming along.
Death Knight Class InformationThe fearsome death knight, World of Warcraft’s first Hero class, is not your average adventurer seeking to prove his or her worth on Azeroth’s fields of battle. No longer servants of the Lich King, they begin their new calling as experienced, formidable adversaries, heavily armed and armored and possessing an arsenal of deadly and forbidden magic learned in the Lich King’s thrall. Here is an introduction, subject to change, of some of the death knight’s core gameplay mechanics and abilities:
Unlocking and Creating the Death KnightSimply having a character of at least level 55 on the realm where you'd like to play unlocks the ablility to create a new level-55 death knight of any race on that realm (if on a PvP realm, the death knight must be the same faction as your existing character). Upon entering the world, your neophyte death knight will undertake a series of quests designed to teach you your new abilities. You will be able to create one death knight on each realm that is already home to at least one level 55+ character of yours.
