Yeah, lvl 55 or so is the “you can make a death knight now” requirement. I think you can only have 1 per server.
You get a bunch of gimmes - you’ll get and replace a set of armor, jewelry, and weapon, you gain your talent points by doing quests (I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to advance without completing all of your quests), you get trinkets, and they give you a head start on skill points in your fighting/defense stuff, plus they start your First Aid at 270 or so. And I think your first talent respec is free.
Just in case, though - make it a point to do every quest. You’ll miss talent points if you don’t. And another hint - one quest makes it sound like you have to win 5 duels, but it doesn’t have to be against PCs. Take a look around the “newbie village” for certain average NPCs that turn your cursor into a talk balloon when moused over.
The quests are very appropriate for Death Knights, but you’ll start seeing some that really tug at the heart, and the couple of quests right before they let you out into the real world are just awesome.
Well, damn, now I’m paranoid that I somehow missed out on a quest. How many talent points am I supposed to have by the time I get to Stormwind?
My wife and I found a nifty little trick with that duel quest. You’re supposed to win five duels, right? Well, if you’re in a group, then if anyone in that group wins a duel, everyone in the group gets credit for it. All you have to do is duel each other five times- even if you lose, you get credit for winning. I found that amusing.
My husband and I figured out the latter when he won one. I told him that he was gonna have to do them since I never PvP and he at least has. Then I saw someone with a NPC and a light bulb went on.
As for the former question, you should have 49 at lvl 58. But we saw at least once (the aforementioned dueling quest) that we got no other quests until that was finished, and I assume there are similar throttle points later.
Is the deal that NPCs will be attacking me everywhere I go because I am “scourge”? I notice that I am friendly (reputation wise) with all of the major factions to start off but am not clear as to how all of this will pan out in game. Who has the straight dope on this?
It occurred to me-- this may be Blizzard’s way of curing people with nutunitis. Or at least curbing it. This will insure that my new favorite blood elf will certainly make it to at least 55.
Before the Battle of Light’s Hope Chapel, you are Scourge.
After the BoLHC, you do another big battle in Acherus, and then you get a letter which you deliver to the head of your respective race-based faction (Thrall for Horde or King Varian Wrynn for Alliance) which, when delivered, sets you to (mostly) Friendly.
From that point on, you are either Horde or Alliance, not Scourge.
I am so looking forward to playing my Death Knight. The story in the first 10-20 levels of a given character/race is usually so much more compelling than the later-game more generic stuff – and add to that getting to skip all the “learn what an inn is”/“learn how flight points work” etc. etc. quests, and that’s some good fun there.
I’m currently pondering whether I should make him a Horde DK so that he can hang out with my current guildies, or an Alliance character so I can go see the other half of the world without having to level one of my low-teens Alliance toons.
I had to fly down to Stonard and then run the the Dark Portal to check, but yeah, just the Azeroth FPs are given to DKs. You still have to run around Outlands to get them all there. Since DKs need to level up, tho, this prolly won’t be a big problem.
I went through the DK starting quests twice while I was playing Beta - once at the very beginning and again a few weeks later. It was interesting seeing how things evolved in the process of their responses to feedback and whatnot.
There was kindof a weird bug with the DK hearthstones at first. Every new DK has their hearthstone bound to Ebon Hold at the beginning, and the DK starting zone is technically in a separate instance from the “real world.” When you complete the DK quest chain, you get popped into the real world and can’t go back to the noob version… But at the beginning of beta, the hearthstones would actually send you back to the noob instance (if you hadn’t reset them after leaving, anyway). So people would hearth back to train, and then go back to EPL only to find Light’s Hope Chapel stuck in an infinite loop of the final quest event. It was pretty trippy.
