Death Knights were built to be what Blizzard referred to at the time as a Heroic Class. They hit that ball out of the park. The DK straight out of the starting area all the way to level cap was and has been a true hero. When they were first released, it wasn’t strange to see groups of four dks and one healer. The Death Knights were destroying the pve and pvp scenes like no other.

Anytime a class is extremely over powered from the other classes, lots of people will start to complain about it on the forum, and that’s exactly what happened to Dks. Lots of their abilities have been reduced. But one thing remains evident, they are still a heroic class. Even players who have no idea how to play the class are doing insane amounts of dps. The Death Knight doesn’t stop there. Their plate armor makes them a sufficient tank class as well. I’ve personally tanked with every class in the game, most all the way to level cap. Death Knight tanking is one of the most difficult, do mostly to the shortage of tanking abilities.

Take into consideration the amount of gaming experience you’re missing out on by not being a level capped player, and you’ll soon realize one very important thing. You need to level and level fast. The game is a lot of fun leveling, but it’s once you reach the end game material that it really gets interesting.

For years leveling guides have been available for World of Warcraft. Though only within the last year or so have some really good guides been available. Guides like Zygor’s, Dugi’ Ultimate Wow Leveling Guide, and more recently Hayden Hawke’s Leveling Secrets. But what makes a leveling guide a great leveling guide?

Firstly, make sure you’re using a guide that is know for it’s time accomplishments and uses a solid leveling strategy. I wouldn’t recommend any of the guides that rely strictly on questing. While it is a good source of experience, it’s just not always the fastest way available. There are much easier ways to level faster.

If you haven’t heard of Joana’s guide, then you certainly should think about it. If you play Horde characters, and you want a level a new character is soon as possible, then Joana’s guide provides an absolutely invaluable resource. It is by far the best known and most respected guides out there for this purpose.

By far the most attractive fact about Joana’s guide is that it is constantly updated. Warcraft is a constantly evolving game and with each major content patch comes a lot of changes. Many guides do not get updated frequently enough and this is especially true of the official guides.

Nonetheless, you can speed up the process dramatically by using a decent levelling guide. These days the levelling guides also integrate the all important add-on into the game. This saves you a great deal of time, since you don’t need to constantly minimize the game.