by Byron Mudry on Sep 30, 2007
More Wrath of the Lich King Info
1up recently got an interview with Blizzard to discuss some key features of the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Some of the discussion focused on the new Deathknight class.
So instead, you unlock the ability to create a Death Knight by finishing a quest chain -- comparable in difficulty to the Warlock's epic mount quest -- with any of your existing level 80 characters, at which point you can make an entirely new, wholly separate Hero Class character starting somewhere close to level 60 (the exact number hasn't been decided). "Some ideas that are still under consideration are that you'd start in Stratholme and have to break your way out of there," says Chilton. "Maybe you've come to your senses and said, 'Wait, I don't want to serve the Lich King.'"
For full details check out the article here.