gnomeDK – Your Pink Haired Guide to All Things Death Knight

I was looking over PvP achievements this weekend. I went back into battlegrounds to complete G.N.E.R.D. Rage, part of the Hallow’s End holiday. That’s when I noticed something disturbing for those first PvP death knights.

The basic PvP achievements can be completed with just a few battleground games, except for one. That Takes Class requires a killing blow on each class, including death knights. Right now every PvPers’ achievement looks like the one picture above and will remain so until after expansion. The first death knight spotted in a battleground is going to be oh so popular!

What really makes this bad is that you need to get a killing blow, not just an honorable kill, to complete the achievement. So instead of half of the opposing Warsong Gulch team being satisfied with your first death they are going to keep gunning for you until you’ve died at least 10 times, probably more (I’m sure it’ll be fun killing off the new “hero” class for a while). Now imagine if you’re the only death knight on your team in Alterac Valley.

So however boring doing instances and heroics to build up raid gear might get, maybe we shouldn’t all rush to Lake Wintergrasp until the class profiling has settled down some.