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.
Filed under: Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
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..?
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actually the information displayed here is a little outdated.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.
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?
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.