With the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, well into beta testing and due out before the end of the year, we’ve been poring over the details - the spectacular Death Knight starting zone especially - for some weeks now. We’ve also been pondering the implications of the absurdly generous new friend recruitment drive , as well as the Achievement system , and how it relates to Blizzard’s new company-wide Blizzard Accounts . You end in the same place as any other character class, for balance, but we wanted to make sure that the start felt very different, not only with level 55 - but because of the level, we can assume more about the player, we know they know something about the game, so we can do more with them than we’d be comfortable doing to a level 1 player that’s never seen WOW before. There’s also the lore aspect - we wanted all Death Knights to start as servants of the Lich King. read more
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