Postby Fydax » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:08 am
There is very little official info out about the Deathknight. It will be unlocked for your account by doing some sort of quest that will require a character around level 50-60. The Deathknight will start at the same level, with appropriate blue quality gear for that level. The Deathknight is modeled on the warcraft 3 hero, and is designed to fill a tanking role with melee dps being a secondary option. They will not use shields, relying mainly on 2h blades (axes and swords), even for tanking.
They will also use a unique resource system (as opposed to mana/rage/energy) of runes etched onto their blade. These Frost, Blood, and Unholy runes will recharge over time to allow the use of related special abilites.
Currently all races will be able to be a Deathknight.
Everything is of course subject to change. Some of this info is from BlizCon 07, the rest has been released (and changed) since then.