What we know about Death Knights

by Eliah Hecht Apr 11th 2008 at 7:00PM

Winter is coming: reports have it that WoW's next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is in alpha. Wrath will feature a raise in the level cap from 70 to 80, access to the continent of Northrend with ten zones, the new profession of Inscription and, perhaps most exciting of all, WoW's first new class: the Death Knight.

This early on, details are still scarce, and Blizzard has been reluctant to release any information about Wrath since Blizzcon 2007. More information will probably leak as the alpha progresses. However, I've put everything we have been able to find out about Death Knights in the gallery below, so come on in to learn what we know.

Gallery: What we know about Death Knights

Tags: death-knight, deathknight, dk, gallery-guide, wotlk, wrath, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Filed under: Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

Subscribe to these comments

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dah Apr 11th 2008 7:05PM

So we know that we don't know much about them...that is until we know more about them at a later date....got it.

Retron Apr 11th 2008 7:31PM

Yeah but it's a known unknown, not an unknown unknown.

Christian Apr 11th 2008 7:36PM

They put the information as descriptions to the pictures in the galery.

alrdye Apr 11th 2008 7:27PM

Heh. Isn't this like the 2nd or 3rd blog basically saying the same thing already?

Subjectv Apr 11th 2008 7:50PM

You'll find that they do that a lot here - and get paid for it too!

Alchemistmerlin Apr 11th 2008 9:55PM

It is. However, if you pop by the official forums, you'll find the same questions coming up over and over and over again about the DKs, so it helps to sum up all the info we have every now and then to inform the newer readers.

Alchemistmerlin Apr 11th 2008 8:33PM

The note about people threatening to quit over Gnome Death Knights: I will be SO happy to see those people leave. Hopefully they decide to distribute their gold to the populace before they go.

I'm rolling a Gnome Death Knight most certainly.

catherinezetajonesishot Apr 11th 2008 8:45PM

I agree with you 100%, good riddance to the DKG haters. Gnomes, although kinda creepy at times, are people too!

PJ Apr 11th 2008 8:51PM

Damn those guys are slow.

mcdead Apr 12th 2008 12:52AM

I can believe I wasted 17.88 KB loading up this page.

Slayblaze Apr 12th 2008 1:19AM

You can?

Can you really..?

Bylak Apr 12th 2008 3:03PM

Last I heard, Blizz had done away with the quest and the Death Knight was going to be available to anyone who had a level 70ish character. Did they go back to their original plan?

Taka Apr 12th 2008 3:42PM

actually the information displayed here is a little outdated. It was stated at (Leipzig maybe? or possibly on the forums I can't remember which) but you won't actually be doing the quest on your main at 55+ you will be doing it when you create the deathknight itself. For a huge stockpile of information visit http://deathknight.info/ we've stockpiled more or less every interesting scrap of WoW news and WotLK news.

tanek Apr 13th 2008 6:15AM

Darn it. With that opening line, now you just made me think about a Song of Ice and Fire MMO. Want. ;)

jake Apr 14th 2008 12:16PM

/smack's head

Thanks for propagating false information further wowinsider! I look forward to hundreds of official forum posts repeating this ad nauseum.

Eliah Hecht Apr 14th 2008 12:11PM

Sorry, I did my best to verify what I could and state clearly that everything else was rumor. Did I miss something?

jake Apr 14th 2008 12:24PM

There is not a quest to unlock the Death Knight:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778018790&pageNo=1&sid=1#8
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3466290055&pageNo=1&sid=1#4
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5640645896&pageNo=1&sid=1#3

Eliah Hecht Apr 14th 2008 12:25PM

Ah, thank you. I had initially read that Neth post as meaning "we lowered the quest level to 55", but I see that you probably have the correct interpretation. Gallery edited accordingly, although it may take a little bit for the changes to show up on the site.

jake Apr 14th 2008 12:36PM

Due to your courteous response and quick correction, I'm going on record stating that I was a total jerk earlier, and could have handled my post more constructively.

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.