Warcraft Leveling Guides

Before starting this Death Knight leveling guide you should remember that the information was gained from WotLK Beta and could change before the official release of Wrath of the Lich King. If any changes to the mini guide are necessary they’ll be posted at the bottom or included in the main text with a different color of font.

In between Raiding I’ve still been buying, testing and writing my own warcraft leveling guide as well as watching to see if anyone is about to release a WotLK leveling guide or some such thing. So far the only person I have seen advertise a leveling guide for Northrend is Joana, or the persona behind the character anyway.

The page starts “Joana is hard at work making an in-depth guide for Blizzard’s new expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King,” I can only assume he was lucky enough to get a Beta invite. After his record breaking leveling and winning the leveling competition in 2006 I guess Blizzard couldn’t really ignore him.

For more information about the new horde leveling guide head over to Joana’s guide and in the address bar above type in /wotlk-guide.htm and you find out all the new stuff on offer. The only down side to this is it’s only a horde leveling guide. As yet I’ve not found anyone with an alliance leveling guide for WotLK yet, but I will keep looking.

Back to this Death Knight leveling guide. The first thing to note is that although you start at level 55 in Tyer’s Hand in the Eastern Plaguelands you won’t be doing any of the existing quests already there, so the warcraft levelling guide you will be no use for this. A load of new quests have been added to the Death Knight starting zone but there should be enough to see you for level 55 to 58 easily. At level 58 you can either stay in EPL or move into the Outlands and from what I’ve read so far about the Death Night there should be no problem in handling the mobs at level 58 there.

Death Knight Leveling Guide Level 55-56

The Ebon Hold & Death’s Breach

a.) As you start you should talk to The Lich King himself [1] and accept In Service of the Lich King. Turn this quest in to Instructor Razuvious [2] who will teach you the ways of the Runes you will be using. Accept The Emblazoned Runeblade and go find a Battle-worn Sword on a weapons rack close to you and use it on a nearby Runeforge.

b.) Turn this in and listen to his teachings about rune forging then accept Runeforging: Preparation For Battle. Go back to a Runeforge, then open your spellbook and use Runeforging to emblazon your Runed Soulblade. Your choice is either Rune of Razorice or Rune of Cinderglacier. Turn the quest in and accept The Endless Hunger were you are asked to free an Unworthy Initiate from soul prison and then kill the Unworthy Initiate.

c.) Turn this in and accept The Eye of Acherus which needs to be turned in at The Lich King. Accept Death Comes From On High and use the Eye of Acherus Control Mechanism to fly down to the villages below analyze four buildings. Use the Shroud ability to go unseen and then use Summon Ghouls to distract the guards before you scan with your siphon of Knowledge. Turn this in and accept The Might Of The Scourge. Enter the transporter down the stairs.

d.) Head in and turn the quest in to Highlord Darion Mograine [2]. Accept Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor. Also, go to Lord Thorval to the NW and complete The Power Of Blood, Frost and Unholy. Go back SE to turn in “Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor” and accept “The Scarlet Harvest“. Use a nearby Scourge Gryphon to fly to Death’s Breach.

e.) Go to Prince Valanar in Death’s Breach [1] and turn in quests and pick up new ones from the town, If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins, Grand Theft Palomino, Death’s Challenge and Tonight We Dine In Havenshire. Before you leave the town duel the Death Knight Initiates and win 5 and hand in “eath’s Challenge.

f.) Head to [3] on the map and kill 10 Scarlet Crusaders, 10 Citizens of Havenshire, and collect 15 Saronite Arrows lying around. Click the mailbox to complete Abandoned Mail then go to the area marked [4] steal a horse and ride it back to Death’s Breach [2]. Complete “Grand Theft Palomino” and accept Into the Realm of Shadows.

g.) Go to back to area [4] and kill a Dark Rider of Acherus then take the Deathcharger back to [1] and turn it in along with “Tonight We Dine In Havenshire”, and “If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins”. If you’ve killed enough stuff you should ba about level 56 by now. Pick up Gothik the Harvester and turn it in to get The Gift That Keeps On Giving.

h.) You should now be level 56 or very near, have your mount and be ready for some serious killing time. Ride to [5] and collect 5 Scarlet Ghoul minions from miners with the Gift of the Harvester. Back at Death’s Breach [1] turn in and accept An Attack Of Opportunity that leads to Massacre At Light’s Point.

i.) Head north once again to [5] and use the Scarlet Cannon to kill 100 Defenders. This is a great fun quest that may take a few attempts to get the 100. Don’t forget the Pulse ability if some Defenders get too close. Use the cannon to summon a gryphon that will take you back to town. Turn this in and accept Victory At Death’s Breach! which should be completed back at Archerus [2] and accept The Will Of The Lich King follow on. Don’t forget to train before you leave. Ride back down on a Scourge Gryphon.

j.) Turn in “The Will Of The Lich King” at [2] and accept The Crypt of Remembrance.

Death Knight Leveling Guide 56-57

Crypt of Remembrance & Scarlet Tavern

a.) Head south to Noth the Plaguebringer [6] and accept The Plaguebringer’s Request then head to Prince Keleseth [7] and turn in “The Crypt of Remembrance” and collect Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide and Lambs To The Slaughter from Baron Rivendare.

b.) It’s a killin’ time! Head south and east killing any Scarlet Crusade Soldiers and Citizens of New Avalon you see on the way to complete Lambs To The Slaughter and collect the crusader skulls they drop. Although only 10 is need for the quest make sure you find 20 more for later. At [8] take the Iron Chains near the Forge then go west to get the Empty Cauldron downstairs at the Inn [9].

c.) At [10] kill Mayor Quimby and steal the New Avalon Registry from the Town Hall then ride back to Crypt of Remembrance [7] and turn in all the completed quests and accept the new one How to Win Friends And Influence Enemies. Go back to Noth the Plaguebringer [6] and turn in and accept the follow on quest Noth’s Special Brew which is completed by using the nearby Plage Cauldron. Turn in the extra crusader skulls to get 5 more Noth’s Special Brew.

d.)  Ride back to New Avalon [9] and on the check your bags for an Ornately Jeweled Box. Open it and equip the 2 Keleseth’s Persuader and start killing Scarlets in the area until one of them talks. This is turned in back at Prince Keleseth [7] and who gives you Behind Scarlet Lines.

e.) Head south now to the Scarlet Tavern [11] and turn in your quest to Orbaz Bloodbane and accept the follow ons The Path Of The Righteous and Brothers In Death. West of the tavern you will find the Scarlet Hold [12] were you will steal the New Avalon Patrol Schedule which is on the second floor of the building. Down in the basement you should talk to Koltira Deathweaver and accept Bloody Breakout and get prepered to kill. After some waves the High Inquisitor Valroth arrives how you need to kill and take his head.

f.) Back to the Scarlet Tavern [11] to turn in these two quests and collect “A Cry For Vengence!” before heading to the Chapel of the Crimson Flame [12] to complete the quest at Knight Commander Plaguefist and accept A Special Surprise. This is completed at the nearby prison house and the follow on you get should be A Sort Of Homecoming. Again head back to the Scarlet Tavern [11] to turn in the quest and accept Ambush At The Overlook.

g) You should be level 57 by now or very close to it at least. The following bunch of quests is a bit of a run around but there is no easy way of doing it so off we go. Head west to the Scarlet Overlook [13] and use the Makeshift Cover in you’ll find in your bags to get the Scarlet Courier to appear. Kill him, loot him and turn it in back the Scarlet Tavern [11] then accept “A Meeting With Fate“.

h.) Head to the King’s Harbor in the south east [14] while disguised to complete the quest. Accept the quest The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges and return once again to the Scarlet Tavern [11] to finish this quest and accept Scarlet Armies Approach…

Death Knight Leveling Guide 57-58

a.) Recall back to The Ebon Hold with your Scourgestone and go to the transporter to turn in the quest to Highlord Darion Mograine. Accept the follow on The Scarlet Apocalypse and don’t forget to train before you fly to Death’s Breach. At the Lich King’s new location turn in then accept An End To All Things… then blow your Horn of the Frostblood to summon a Frostblood Vanquisher.

b.) Time for the best quest that Blizzard have ever developed Fly south to New Avalon [9] and use Frozen Deathbolt to kill 150 Solders and 10 Scarlet Ballistas, if you get low on health fly low to the ground and use Devour Humanoid near a Soldier to regain health. When complete fly back to The Lich King and accept The Lich King’s Command. Head NW through the cave system and then ride to Highlord Darion Mograine at [15] to turn in the quest and accept The Light of Dawn. If he is not there, you will have to wait until the he respawns.

c.) Go to Light’s Hope Chapel LH and help the Scourge defeat the Argent Dawn then talk to Mograine to complete the quest. This is an epic quest and the dialogue between these two takes some time but if you’ve been following the story you should be interested in it. At the end you will be ported to the Open World version of Acherus where you can now continie the game as a new Death Knight.

Death Knight Levels 58+

You should be level 58 easy by now but if for any reason your not you can do a bit of grinding to get you there. Head to the Death Knight class trainer and get your last leason before the Outland. Go to the nearest Runeforge and affix a rune to your new weapon. Talk to the flightmaster to fly to Swamp of Sorrows and enter the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. WooHoo! a Death Knight in Outland Congratulations!!!

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