Dessembrae from Eternal Corpse Council on the EU-Mazrigos realm was the first Death Knight in the game to hit level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King. The ding officially happened on November 15th.

Not too far behind at all was also the US first Death Knight to hit level 80 an Orc named Essay on [...]

It’s a little bit of an itemization issue for classes like Druids, Shaman, Paladins, and Death Knights where we don’t exactly have a ranged weapon to put in that slot. In BC, many items were added in game to fill in the blanks from quest rewards to badge loot, but so far there aren’t many [...]

Death Knight
Unholy tree dps being tuned down
Gargoyle does do nice burst damage, but that’s at the expense of Unholy Blight usually, which in turn hurts your Scourge Strikes. But we are messing with Unholy now to deflate its damage a little. (src)
Frigid Dreadplate
We rewrote the spell and the tooltip to be simpler and less confusing. [...]

Alright folks it’s the 1st of the month and we’re breaking into October with quite a few changes.
I’m by no means an expert at all these classes but I’m going to give my impressions and I hope you folks will give yours too.
Death Knights: They got some damage buffs for sure and some complete redesigns [...]

This is list of documented and undocumented class changes for the latest build of the Wrath beta, 8926. A lot of changes went through and for your convenience here are jump links to get to your specific class.
Classes: Death Knight - Druid- Hunter- Mage- Paladin- Priest- Rogue- Shaman- Warlock- Warrior
I’ll give you the short version [...]

Kenzi over at Death Knight Info discovered this nice little addition in the expansion Beta where if you’re a Death Knight and you enter a capital city, the common folk won’t really take a liking to your presence.
Aside form the role playing aspects of this change, it’s obviously really nice to add some more immersion [...]

As always my thanks go out to the greater Death Knight community (Jayde from World of Feedback and Kenzi from Deathknight-info) I have had these videos on my desktop all yesterday and now they can be streamed so I share with you very sweet things.
Jayde was spec’d frost and there are two parts to the [...]

I have to give major props to Kenzi from Death Knight Info (a GREAT website that I frequent every day and urge you to do as well) for this article. It’s a wonderful find and I hope you folks enjoy it as much as I did. I’ll be waiting on the 5th of Coming Soon!
Gamona.de [...]

This has pretty much taken a lot of time to compile but put together with my previous post on the new rotation mechanics and theory on Death Knights it should paint a really clear picture. To sum up a little, a lot of the Death Knight’s moves have been either consolidated or retooled completely, for [...]

New Frost disease called Frost Fever
DKs now have a disease called Frost Fever. Icy Touch is a delivery mechanism for Frost Fever, and the disease’s debuff is basically the old Icy Touch debuff. A lot of Frost abilities now key off of enemies infected with Frost Fever, similar to the way Blood Strike works. This [...]

When you see the new talent trees, there will be several significant tanking changes that I wanted to explain. Don’t worry — they’re all good.
1) Forceful Deflection is gone. Why? It is now a core ability all death knights get!
2) The top of each tree has a really desirable tanking talent. We figure it’s not [...]

Ghost gave us (Death Knights) some really good feedback from the developers. It’s a good read and any of my Death Knight brothers or sisters should read it closely. There’s much more coming right after this so stay tuned.
We’re almost ready to show the updated death knight talent tree. It was quite an overhaul but [...]

I guess that video of 5 Death Knights killing everything in Hellfire Citadel made the developers panic. I resign myself to the mentality that it’s not a game breaking issue to have Death Knights level quickly through outdated crap content.
I mean seriously how many of you are going to abandon your alts right away as [...]

Thanks go out to Zach Yonzon for doing the photoshop work and gathering the information over at WoW Insider. Back in Classic WoW we all had to visit a handful of different dungeons all over the world to get a chance at our Dungeon 1 set. We used to call it Tier 0 and it [...]

Just a minor post here showcasing some updates to the visual look of Death Knights. All of us (Death Knights) will have a very distinct blue glow eminating from our eyes and the character selection screen has changed to differentiate the Death Knight regardless of race a little more from the rest of the classes.

Also [...]

Kind of playing catchup here to Kenzi but for what it’s worth this is a good little series so far. Nobunaga has been chronicling his adventures on the WotLK Beta from the helm of his Death Knight. This series is an annotated walkthrough with good solid commentary (though a little too much creepy voices and [...]

Looks like all my Death Knight brothers n’ sisters out there have a little more to rejoice over. I love feedback actually working. Thus the good side of a Beta. The bad side would be dragons walking in the sky and players falling through the world.
Improved Icy Touch now increase the damage of your Icy [...]

This post here is for all the classes I missed last night before I had to sack out. The official talent calculator has been updated with the upcoming changes to the Wrath of the Lich King beta. I went ahead and updated last night’s posts about Warriors, Warlocks, and Hunters with the new talent information. [...]

Kenzi managed to score this from some really great contributors on his forums. This is the first video I’ve seen or heard of where the Death Knight in question is dual wielding. It looks like a lot of fun but sadly by remaining in Unholy Presence over Blood, you attack faster and have a near [...]

Jayde says it best, I seem to get the “Dear in the headlights” look 90% of the time I run into an alliance. Which is how I imagine a lot of players are going to react when they run into a Death Knight in live. Here is a video of some pretty straightforward steamrolling.
There isn’t [...]

It was originally desired, that Death Knights would be able to interchange the runes they use allowing them to further customize themselves. Out of the 6 slots for runes, they could change it to have 3 blood and 3 unholy or something like that. I believe it’s a good thing that Blizzard has decided to [...]

Now obviously not every dungeon in the Burning Crusade will be this smooth but I am damn impressed. This is a video courtesy of Kenzi over at DK Info, that shows just how it is that 5 Death Knights go into The Blood Furnace in Hellfire Peninsula and completely destroy the instance.
Now people will watch [...]

Currently Death Knights can self enchant their weapons with Runeforging, which works almost exactly as regular enchanting only without the materials and such.
Runeforge enchants do not stack with other weapon enchants. But in most cases the runeforge enchants are better, and they are certainly a lot cheaper. If you find yourself in a situation where [...]

Jade’s got two more videos up showcasing now the Frost and some more Blood Death Knight gameplay. Sorry it’s taken me so long to post these here but it’s been a bit time consuming working on some site upgrades that will hopefully go live this week (tomorrow if not tonight) and pretty much doing this [...]

Straight from WOR and the WOWDB updates.
Starting Items
Acherus Knight’s Cover
Acherus Knight’s Gauntlets
Acherus Knight’s Girdle
Acherus Knight’s Greaves
Acherus Knight’s Hood
Acherus Knight’s Pauldrons
Acherus Knight’s Shroud
Acherus Knight’s Tunic
Acherus Knight’s Wristguard
Choker of Damnation
Corrupted Band
Plague Band
Quest Rewards
Bladed Ebon Amulet
Blood-soaked Saronite Plated Spaulders
Bloodbane’s Gauntlets of Command
Greathelm of the Scourge Champion
Greaves of the Slaughter
Ornate Saronite Legplates
Plated Saronite Bracers
Saronite War Plate
Shroud of the [...]

Once more with feeling, Leiah/Jadefury from World of Feedback (awesome site) has another DK video for us showcasing his obvious expertise at leveling a Death Knight. This is gold right here folks.
Leveling in outland by AOE grinding with Corpse explosion + Death and Decay. This method shows just how powerful the vendetta and butchery talents [...]

This is intense. This is a video of the final quest in the chain of the Death Knight starting area. The short version, you are one of the vanguards in a massive scourge army that will destroy Light’s Hope Chapel! I eat this stuff up man woot!

Lask Dk quest chain from Masteve on Vimeo.
Update: For [...]

Leiah over at World of Feedback was in the WotLK Alpha and was kind enough to show off some really impressive Death Knight gameplay. We’ve all dreamed and theorycrafted about how the class will work. Right now all my dreams and hopes are validated with this footage. Blizzard’s shock & awe tactics have pretty much [...]

After you do everything need be in the long quest chain involving Ebon Hold and the first few levels of the Death Knight, your gear will look like this. Thanks Kenzi for the image.

Earlier today I posted a video showcasing the introduction flyover that you would normally get when you create a character for the first time. This video is from the same author only the video is longer and available in HD. I must say even though the Death Knight created is a gnome, hands down this [...]