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Death Knight FAQ - updated 1/5/09
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elephantear1
I have a question... i have 2 70's on 2 diff servers so can i make 2 dk's on 2 diff servers?
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visas
Now I have a few questions... what 2 professions iyo suit the Death Knight the best? and I see what the deathrune is used for and how it works but when is it created? Is it when every spell times out or only certain spells? or something totally different Thanks for your time again
Death runes are gained either through the use of blood tap - which converts one blood rune into one death rune - or through talents such as blood of the north, death rune mastery, and reaping.
With blood of the north, whenever you use blood strike or pestilence, the blood rune becomes a death rune when it refreshes (10 seconds after you use the ability). Once you use the death rune, it becomes a blood rune again.
Reaping works the same way, but with blood strike and blood boil.
For death rune mastery, whenever you use obliterate or death strike, both the unholy and the frost rune used by the ability become death runes 10 seconds after you use the ability (i.e. when they refresh).
Death runes are a wild card, they count as all 3 rune types. A death rune can be used in place of any normal rune for abilities. Example, if you have no unholy or frost runes active (they're all on cooldown), but your two blood runes are now death runes, you can use those two death runes as the 1 frost + 1 unholy cost for an ability like scourge strike or obliterate or death strike.
Death runes last around 30-60 seconds (never really timed it, but they do go away after a while) or until used.
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GenXCub
Love'ly FAQ there.
But there is one thing i'm still missing about the Deathknight class. We all know they use thier Runesword in the start but later on, are we replaceing it with some other wepons? Or are our wepons changing stats depending on what lvl we are in?
Wouldent really wanna give away the awesome look but i guess thats what i have to do if i really need:(
Yeah, you're just using whatever weapons you find. It just happens to be a nifty looking starting sword/axe (I like the axe's look better, but the sword's stats)
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Acabar
Currently, no quest line is required to create a death knight. Once you have bought and installed Wrath of the Lich King, all you need is one character
on your -entire account-
that is level 55 or higher. Once you have a character of that level, the Death knight class will be 'unlocked', and you will be able to create new characters using that class.
Incorrect, unfortunately. I'm only able to create a DK on the server I have the level 55.
Twas disappointed :(
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GenXCub
Currently, no quest line is required to create a death knight. Once you have bought and installed Wrath of the Lich King, all you need is one character
on your -entire account-
that is level 55 or higher. Once you have a character of that level, the Death knight class will be 'unlocked', and you will be able to create new characters using that class.
Incorrect, unfortunately. I'm only able to create a DK on the server I have the level 55.
Twas disappointed :(
Yeah, that was clarified on October 6th by Nethaera on the official forums. She mentioned that you will be able to make DK's on other servers, just not at this time.
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Acabar
Currently, no quest line is required to create a death knight. Once you have bought and installed Wrath of the Lich King, all you need is one character
on your -entire account-
that is level 55 or higher. Once you have a character of that level, the Death knight class will be 'unlocked', and you will be able to create new characters using that class.
Incorrect, unfortunately. I'm only able to create a DK on the server I have the level 55.
Twas disappointed :(
Yeah, that was clarified on October 6th by Nethaera on the official forums. She mentioned that you will be able to make DK's on other servers, just not at this time.
Oh really? Meaning, eventually you won't need a level 55 on the realm? That'd be awesome.
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Leksin
Just a quick, simple question -- When using a Death Rune, does it automatically turn back into the rune prior to becoming a Death Rune or does it still need to go through the 10 second rune refresh?
I'd check for myself, but I'm unfortunately unable to log on at the time.
If this has been asked already, my apologies. I read through the FAQ and a few pages and I didn't see anything, so I figured I would ask.
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Tankhoof
I would like to know if a can rune a weapon and also enchant it. (sorry if this was mentioned previously.)
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Kiayateo
I would like to know if a can rune a weapon and also enchant it. (sorry if this was mentioned previously.)
No. The runes you put on your weapon take the place of enchants.
thats not true, you can create dk only to your realm ATM!
Yes you can only have a DK on the realms where you have a lvl 55 char or higher. Probably because of how many people are rolling them atm. But it can be any realm you have a lvl 55 char.
But there is one thing i'm still missing about the Deathknight class. We all know they use thier Runesword in the start but later on, are we replaceing it with some other wepons? Or are our wepons changing stats depending on what lvl we are in?
You get new weapons and gear as you level up like normal and just go back to Acherus to put a rune on it. Your actual runes never change, that is you always have 2 Blood, Unholy and Frost runes.
Wouldent really wanna give away the awesome look but i guess thats what i have to do if i really need:(
Well, I plan on keeping mine in the bank. Useless or not, the weapons still look awesome.
Hopefully that answered a few questions.
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Nycteris
I was under the impression that once you had a lvl 55 or higher character on your account, you could create a death knight on an realm.
I installed my WoTLK today and apparently I was wrong. You need to have a lvl 55 or higher character on the server you are creating the death knight. Otherwise you are not allowed.
I had a 3 lvl 70s on my server. Since the queues were long and I was curious about the class, I went ot another server where I had lower level toons, but could not create the death knight and got a warning message.
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