Blizzards reasoning behind DK's preclass reqs

#0 - Aug. 7, 2007, 4:41 p.m.

Anyone found out why blizzard made it so that every class CAN DO THE QUEST TO OBTAIN a DK or is that likely to change in the future? I can understand every race but every class being able to spawn one just seems silly - I can understand paladins of course because they supposedly came from being paladins and forsaking their souls to become DK's. I can also understand warriors as they'd have the martial training to do it just slap on some magic abilities and there ya go. Couldn't get any other classes because it'd take training to use plate/swing a weapon effectively/ etc. etc. etc. so say clothies getting to be them just doesn't seem very likely to me.

Anyways - has anyone figured it out yet? And yes i'm quasi elitest towards wanting it to be restricted some what. I just don't wanna see the DK turn into what the jedi was for SWG though there will be more, i dunno i can just see a lot of people trying to make a switch all at once.

Nethaera

#15 - Aug. 7, 2007, 4:58 p.m.

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Anyone found out why blizzard made it so that every class CAN DO THE QUEST TO OBTAIN a DK or is that likely to change in the future? I can understand every race but every class being able to spawn one just seems silly - I can understand paladins of course because they supposedly came from being paladins and forsaking their souls to become DK's. I can also understand warriors as they'd have the martial training to do it just slap on some magic abilities and there ya go. Couldn't get any other classes because it'd take training to use plate/swing a weapon effectively/ etc. etc. etc. so say clothies getting to be them just doesn't seem very likely to me.

Anyways - has anyone figured it out yet? And yes i'm quasi elitest towards wanting it to be restricted some what. I just don't wanna see the DK turn into what the jedi was for SWG though there will be more, i dunno i can just see a lot of people trying to make a switch all at once.

Every class as an availability is the current thinking, but is not necessarily the final thinking on this. We shall see what happens.

Also, you will not be transforming one class into it, you will be able to unlock the class for play. We felt that it was important for players to not feel as if they had to give up a long term character for the chance to play the new heroic class. There is a perception that what you will be doing is choosing a specialty class that would be an extension of your current class, but that's not how we're doing it. We felt that if we did that for all of the classes, we'd be adding far too many classes at once and making continuing efforts toward class balance very difficult.

Nethaera

#21 - Aug. 7, 2007, 5:11 p.m.

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Thank you for replying to my post. I've never had a blue reply to anything of mine before....ever.

That outta the way, I understood how the DK slot or whatever you wanna call it comes about.

The reason why I was asking was, for example, look at a few posts up someone said they didn't want to have to play a class THEY DIDNT LIKE, see, i LOVE my paladin I hate the fact all he's really good at excelling at without having a crap ton of great gear is healing and tanking.. sorta. You get different views from that from different people and honestly i've not really delved into the gear for getitng good at doing it.

I digress tho.

Like I said I just wanted to understand the reasoning for EVERY class to do that quest to get your DK slot. It just doesn't seem very logical though to make it for every class to do it to me.

Also not making the DK an extension/counter-extension of a paladin is cool but by their very nature a DK is the anti-everything to a paladin so it still just seems fitting to limit it down to say what the basics of the DK class could be.

Grrr as much as i'd hate to say it say warlock since they're already down that mystical path to begin with, a warrior since they've got the martial prowess for it and then a paladin for obvious reasons.

Ah well time will tell then I guess?

The main thing is, people want to play something new. They feel that the Death Knight is their only choice. Never mind that they don't have to play a Death Knight at all if they don't wish to. There will be a need for their priests, paladins, warriors etc still. There will be new spells and abilities, new items, a new profession and more. There are more things that will be there to do than do the quest to become a Death Knight and then level one to 80. No one is forcing anyone to play one, but we'd like to make the choice to play one readily available and intriguing for those that would love to play one.