I have been doing some major studying on the new Hero Class of the Death Knight. According to worldofwarcraft.com you will be able to create a Death Knight once you have a level 55+ character. No, you do NOT lose your character, it just simply allows you to create a new character that can be a deathknight which will start out as level 60+. Deathknight's are rumored to have a Undead Skeletal Horse, Paladin Armored type Horse mount. The Death Knight's will be able to send down undead minion's which will automatically be set at aggressive (unchangeable) and will attack anything in sight at random. This class is not overpowered, it just introduces a new type of fighting style for experienced players. DK's are meant to be for DPS and Tanking, able to wear all kinds of armor, except shields oddly, and are rumored to only be able to use blade weapons such as Swords, 2H Swords, Axes, and 2H Axes. Not sure about daggers. When you level someone to level 55+ you will not just be able to make a DK, you will have to do a challenging quest and serve the Lich King. The DK will be able to apply certain runes to there blade weapons, three so far being Blood, Frost, and Unholy runes. This does not make your damage be Bloody, Frost, or Unholy though. I do not yet know if you need the expansion of Burning Crusade installed in order to install The Wrath of the Lich King, but I would imagine so. Blizzard is planning on all 10 races being able to be a DK, yet some people believe that Gnomes, Draenei, and Tauren will not be able to. You can create multiple DK's all at high levels.

All of this is subject to change within releasal of The Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack for World of Warcraft. I am expecting the expansion to come out in the end of 2008. I will have more information soon! I Hope my information cleared some stuff up. Thank you for your time. I apologize that this is not all in groups or in order.

Zenu

We dont need to wait for the end in 2009  its in 2008 it will come

I was tinking, if dk has so many tank helping buffs, maibe he can buff a pala or warrior whit em, that way easier tanking(and fewer wipes).Ofc, unless those bufss are like priest's armor buff etc.
Pally or warr whit 18k armor+like 5-8 k from dk buffs +def pots(like 550 armor for 2 hours and another pot that gives 2.5 k armor for 2 min) would make a total of even 28k or even more if ur a druid:).

Maibe im just nooby, so plz harsh whit mi coment.

Been a while since I posted this. And No, they cannot use daggers. They must use a certain sword that they start out with. You will still be Alliance or Horde or w/e you were, you will NOT be attacked by your faction. I will retype the updated information in the upcoming future for all of you who want updated info.

nice info. and yes, im sure many people like me cant wait till wotlk

Dude... when u are 55+ with ONE charactar u will be able to create a Death knight. The quest you are whining about you have to do with your Death Knight. Do you think Blizzard lies??

- Update - : The quest you need to do is killing a 62 elite Death Knight. So cannot solo at 55.

I posted Death Knight Information - Updated. Please read before you post.

oh.. :P

lol

Maybe a group quest?

Death Knight
FD_Deathcrush- + 10, 15, 22, 44, 65, 100 weapon dmg for 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 21 sec.
1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 6 Runecost
Instant
PD_Felcrush- The Death Knight channels powerful demonic energies for 4.85 sec to reduce the target's hit
and critical chance by 4%, 10%, 15%, 20% for 11 sec.
7, 8, 9, 10 Runecost
1 min Cooldown
AD_Bloodcrush- The Death Knight pays with 15% of his hp having 45% chance to stun the target for
2, 4, 6 ,8 ,10 sec. Awards 1 Rune.
0 Runecost
Instant
FD_Ghostcrush- The DK pays with 17%, 18%, 19%, 20% of his life to get 50% ms for 4, 5, 6, 7 sec becoming immune to magic effects.
Awards 2 Rune.
0 Runecost
8 sec cooldown

Rune Sistem
Azure Dream- The Death Knights gets +1 Rune every 5 sec.
Plague Dream- +1 Rune on runeblade critical strike.
Dark Dream- +1 Rune with 50% chance of another point spent using a Crush.
Frozen Dream- +1 Rune with every block, resist, dodge or parry.
(every Dream has 50 sec cooldown- One Active at a time)

AD, PD, FD_Final Blow- If  the target has under 10% chance reduces all damage taken by the Death Knight by 95%
and makes him immune to Snare effects. Lasts 9 sec. Can be activated when the target has over 10% hp.
5 Runecost
45 min Cooldown
AD _Blackshield- + 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% , 12% , 14%, 16% armor and ms for 1h.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 Runecost
Instant

hey man thnk's for the info my m8 will be pis lol he sed that dethnight tack's over  pala and that they only came out for allaynce because horde pwon ally thaNK'S AM ACHALY just gona tell hin this looooool bye aND THANK'S

Umm i actually didnt get a word you said..mind retyping it in proper english to make lives of people easier? ^^

ty for the info...

but i have a 2 questions.

how many runes are useble when fighting? I mean some abilities cost 10-14 runes, so how many runes are left to use before CD on runes are ready again?

And maybe noob questions, but what does ms mean?