by Hotstreak - 9 years ago     show comments

Blizzard is in the process of removing the level restriction required to make a Death Knight (which is level 55). After this fix is live, players will no longer need a level 55 character on their account in order to make a Death Knight. It’s not surprising to see this change in the wake of the level 90 boost that you get from buying WoD. Now new or returning players can boost a Death Knight up if they don’t already have a level 55 character (but lets be honest here..there are not very many people who play WoW that don’t already have a level 55 character at this point). You can check out the official post down below.

With availability of the level 90 character boost, we feel the requirement to have a character level 55 or higher to unlock the Death Knight as a playable class is no longer relevant. The plan right now is to remove the limitation sometime next week, at which point players will be able to start a new Death Knight (which still begins at level 55) without first having to reach level 55 on another character.

Update: Upon looking into making this change, we discovered that a few client-side adjustments would need to go through in order for it to work. Therefore, our new plan is to remove the level 55 requirement for Death Knight creation in an upcoming content patch.