gnomeDK – Your Pink Haired Guide to All Things Death Knight

Preparing For Your Death Knight is for those players planning to switch their mains to a death knight and are willing to go the extra mile before expansion to help speed up their death knight’s development after expansion launches. These steps are by no means required if you want to level a death knight, but they do help speed up the leveling process.

For the most part I plan to skip Azeroth and Outland reputation grinds, at least until after I’m level 80 and bored. The most relevant factions after expansion are in Northrend and we’ll deal with those when we get there. However there are two factions in Outland which can help boost your leveling: Cenarion Expedition and The Aldor. Read more… »

Preparing For Your Death Knight is for those players planning to switch their mains to a death knight and are willing to go the extra mile before expansion to help speed up their death knight’s development after expansion launches. These steps are by no means required if you want to level a death knight, but they do help speed up the leveling process.

Sure your death knight will have more quests than you can shake a ghoul at once you hit Outland, but why wait? There are quests which ask for items that aren’t actually quest items, which means you can gather them now and send them along to your death knight later for fast and easy XP. Read more… »

Preparing For Your Death Knight is for those players planning to switch their mains to a death knight and are willing to go the extra mile before expansion to help speed up their death knight’s development after expansion launches. These steps are by no means required if you want to level a death knight, but they do help speed up the leveling process.

Death Knight Set vs Outland Quest Rewards

The death knight armor set you’ll get at the end of Ebon Hold, the start area, is great. Item level wise the gear is as good as 20-man raid epics from vanilla WoW, but with stats designed for Outland leveling. It is also one of the best looking sets I’ve seen in game. Given its stats and looks it would be a shame to trade it in within hours of play time for an infamous Outland clown suit.

So don’t. Read more… »