A few guides and shopping lists are floating around to prepare yourself for rerolling a Death Knight. With the introduction of a brand new class into WoW and the fact that all races start in the same area, the leveling process in the first few weeks is going to be chaotic. That’s where these guides come in.
Scattered around Azeroth and Outland are many repeatable reputation quests. Almost all of these quests offer experience the first time you turn them in and usually some bonus reputation as well. There are a dozen or so of these quests that are well worth doing after your Death Knight escapes the Scarlet Enclave. The major ones being the cloth turn-ins for every city faction and the turn-ins for Outland factions. I’m not going to go into much detail about the quests themselves, but the complete shopping list should give you an idea of what items to start investing in.
- 300x Wool Cloth
- 300x Silk Cloth
- 300x Mageweave Cloth
- 300x Runecloth
- 6x Blasted Boar Lung
- 6x Scorpok Pincer
- 11x Basilisk Brain
- 14x Vulture Gizzard
- 5x Snickerfang Jowl
- 1x Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment
- 1x Flawless Draenethyst Sphere (very rare unless you kill Teremus, you can probably skip this one)
- 30x Core of Elements
- 30x Crypt Fiend Parts
- 30x Bone Fragments
- 30x Savage Frond
- 30x Dark Iron Scraps
- 2x Thorium Bar
- 1x Golden Rod
- 8x Hi-Explosive Bomb
- 8x Unstable Trigger
- 10x Unidentified Plant Parts (or 360x to get you to Honored before you do Zangarmarsh quests, helping you to hit Revered for your head enchant before you leave Zangarmarsh)
- 6x Bog Lord Tendril
- 10x Mature Spore Sac
- 10x Glowcap
- 6x Fertile Spores
- 5x Sanguine Hibiscus
- 30x Arakkoa Feather
- 10x Oshu’gun Crystal Fragment
- 3x Pair of Ivory Tusks
- 10x Mark of Kil’Jaeden (for Aldor)
- 10x Mark of Sargeras (for Aldor)
- 1x Fel Armament (for Aldor)
- 10x Firewing Signet (for Scryer)
- 10x Sunfury Signet (for Scryer)
- 1x Arcane Tome (for Scryer)
The Death Knight starting area quests will get you past level 58. Afterwards, you’re forced to roam around Eastern Plaguelands for a while - with dozens, maybe hundreds, of other Death Knights, all competing to complete the same quests. The reputation turn-ins will give you a significant boost (a level or two initially, and a few bars every few levels during Outland leveling) and will allow you to push past the chaos into uninterrupted leveling.
“The Death Knight starting area quests get you to around level 57. ”
You’re about 2 months out of date…the starting area gets you to 58 easily now and has for months.
I’m loving all of the advance turn in stuff our death knights can do. Going to miss that in expansion, no more turn in based rep grinds (though probably the best for all our sanity’s).
If anyone is looking for quest details I have them posted as part of a Preparing For Your Death Knight series of posts I’ve done online. Feel free to check it out for the quest details.
http://www.gnomedk.com/2008/10/14/preparing-for-your-death-knight-quests/
Thanks guys, updated the post.
Good list, but how about a short description of the uses for each item? (i.e. turn in loc., quest npc, etc)
I see that Dedbitt’s guide on gnomedk.com has a guide for this same purpose but it includes details regarding what to do w/the items. Kinda hard to say whether you wanna plug a commenter’s guide that supersedes woweconomist’s or revise this one to match/outdo his though ;).
I decided against including an entire guide as this blog isn’t about playing a Death Knight but investing and making profits. This list is meant to save you money if you plan on rolling a DK or give you an idea of what quantity of what items players will be sucking out of the economy to push their DK to Northrend as quickly as possible.
Another point- most people leave Azeroth for Outland at 58, and I’ll bet that’s why Blizzard upped the exiting level for the DKs.
Is there a list like this on the web for going into Outlands (BC)?
Susurrus, the list includes Outland turn ins
After leaving the DK starting area… you should at or within sneezing distance of 58… which is just the level you need to be at to run through the Dark Portal and start questing in Hellfire Peninsula.
So why on Azzeroth anyone would stay… on Azzeroth, is beyond me. Insanity.
Also buying all that Wool, Silk, Mageweave and Runecloth is totally useless since DKs have 270 First Aid with Heavy Runecloth Bandage learned.
And as said before, after finishing the quests at the starting area will get you to lvl 58, I doubt anyone would stay on Azeroth.
Matt, the cloth isn’t for first aid. It’s for reputation turn ins for experience.
Oh, my bad than, sorry. Though I still think that after getting to 58 with the DK quests, almost every player will head straight to Outland, as they are 12 levels behind the non-rerollers and might even skip the cloth turn in quests alltogether.
I’m liking this guide a lot and I think some of us are missing the main point that this article was not written for the sole purpose of lvl’ing your DK. I like the fact that its geared towards approaching some aspects of gaining rep and exp. via knowing what to collect ahead of time. It beats mindless grinding and questing like the 90% of the servers do… Just my .02
DK glyphs are also a huge money maker atm! seems like a lot of scribes have taken a break from the AH to check out the new content and forgot that they could be making bank off of the DK rush.