Jan 9

Wrath of the Lich King gave us not only the ability to level to 80 and see all the new content along the way, but also to gain the ability to play a brand new class: the death knight. Assuming you have a level 55 character, you will be able to create a death knight on that server right away.

Death knights, being a new class, have been given quite a bit of attention recently. There is a lot of information about them on the Internet. However, because death knights were designed from the ground up, a lot of that information has changed, both between beta to live, and in patches and hotfixes since then. A lot of misconceptions about abilities and strategies still exist. This series will help to sort everything out, and give you the information you need to play your death knight, or group successfully with a death knight.

State of the Death Knight and Upcoming Changes

As mentioned, death knights are a new class. While every class in the game has been changed significantly in Wrath of the Lich King, only the death knight is brand new. Even as we speak, PTR 3.0.8 testers are experimenting changes to death knights, in both DPS and tanking aspects: changes to Rune Strike, adding sigils, easier-to-reach defense cap, additional AoE and tanking tools for blood… the list goes on and on. Over time, the information in this particular guide will be somewhat dated, but remember to check out the rest of the blog for updates and changes.

So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight?

This series will be broken up into 7 parts. We’ll start off with the very basics of the death knight, and move to more advanced topics from there. I will admit that this series will be PvE biased; I am not good at PvP, so even if I liked it you would not want to get your advice here!

These articles will be released over the next few days. If you can’t access a specific article, check the date and time it should be published! All times are in Pacific Standard Time.

1. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Basics – January 9th, 9:00 AM
   
2. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Gear – January 9th, 2:00 PM
   
3. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: DPS – January 10th, 9:00 AM
   
4. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Tanking – January 10th, 2:00 PM
   
5. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Blood Tree – January 11th, 9:00 AM
   
6. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Frost Tree – January 11th, 1:00 PM
   
7. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Unholy Tree – January 11th, 5:00 PM
   

Related posts:

1. Coming Soon: So You Wanna Play a Death Knight
2. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Frost Tree
3. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Basics
4. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Blood Tree
5. So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Unholy Tree