Quests and Rewards

Blizzard have confirmed that the only thing players will need to be able to create a Death Knight is a level 55+ character on their account. That level 55+ character will remain intact, it will not be destroyed or consumed in the making of the Death Knight.

It was previously thought that the Death Knight class would become available through a series of quests completed at top level, but that has been changed. Now a lot more people will have access to the Death Knight.

As soon as the Death Knight has been created, it will be taken into a series of quests in a new area on the eastern most edge of the Eastern Plaguelands, between Lights Hope Chapel and Quel'Danis (this new areas affect on the Noxious glade has not been disclosed). The new quest series will teach the player how to handle the class, and these quests will also provide a lot of information about the Death Knight's background, how it escaped Arthas' grasp and gained its own free will. Once this zone is completed the new Death Knight is intended to move onto the existing EPL zone, however new themed quests will be added to the zone to ease the introduction of the Death Knight into the existing Level grind. These beginning quests also reward the player with upgraded, Death Knight specific gear for their character.

Although the Death Knight starts the game with a regular land mount, Blizzard have said that players will very quickly be offered a quest chain to upgrade that to an epic speed mount.