WWI: Hands On - Death Knight

4th Jul 2008 04:41 PM GMT | Maticus | 2 comments
At the Worldwide Invitational last weekend we finally got to try out World of Warcraft's new class, and the game's first Hero class - the Death Knight. Unfortunately, we still weren't allowed to take pictures, but I dutifully jotted down everything for your convenience.

This is the first time anyone has been allowed to officially report on what playing a Death Knight is like, and although I didn't get very long to play, I did get some nice info, such as the talent trees.

Rebirth

The accounts we had on which to try out Lich King were already set up with premade characters. There was one Death Knight to choose from, so I selected it, a female Blood Elf wouldn't have been my personal choice but meh, she did the job. I logged in near Light's Hope Chapel, surrounded by a handful of NPCs. Confused about my starting location (we'd been led to believe we were starting in a new area east of here) I looked on the map. There was indeed a new area on the map, but I couldn't to it. However, looking to the sky I could see a huge necropolis floating over it.

I spoke to a nearby NPC with the yellow ! over it's head, and by handing in the subsequent quest with another nearby NPC, i received 46 talent points to spend as I wished, and a bag of 10 gold. I was also rewarded with a mini [item type="preload"]Ashbringer[/item] that didn't do much damage, it was just there for novelty value. All this certainly isn't what's going to happen when the game goes live, I'm sure Blizzard are holding back with the real Death Knight starting quests and storyline, but that's fine by me, I like surprises.

I looked through the Spellbook and noticed the following spell:



Interested about Ebon Hold, I clicked the spell. Like using a Hearthstone, I was zapped to another location. Strangely, I ended up with Tirion Fordring, at the top of the river on the border of Western and Eastern Plaguelands. There were many of us Death Knights there, so it appeared I wasn't the only one who had been curious about this Ebon Hold. I can only assume Ebon Hold is the name of the floating necropolis, the Death Knight's origin. Perhaps DKs have to return there to perform tasks such as change the runes on their weapons.


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