r/wow • u/UnSleepingMoss • 1d ago

Humor / Meme I...-what?

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Rolled a Death Knight, and while I was running around questing I happened to glance at the chat box.

Um, pray tell - what tf...

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u/Brakiros 1d ago

Welcome to the DK starting experience back when they were a hero class 

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u/MindAvailable4876 19h ago

the og death knight starting zone is one of the best questlines in game to this day

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u/Vrazel106 18h ago

I love it. I wish the dh starting area was more in depth. Had you pick a demon and perform the ritual lioe in the illidan book

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u/MindAvailable4876 16h ago

while we’re at it, to add to the whole ‘hero class’ fantasy i think you should have to sacrifice a character to be able to create a dk/dh

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u/Vrazel106 16h ago

If i remember correctly that was the original plan for death knights origibally but it was scrapped

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u/Vrazel106 16h ago

If i remember correctly that was the original plan for death knights originally but it was scrapped

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u/JackalSwann 1d ago

Still are, hero class is the term for classes after vanilla

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u/Ponery 1d ago

Monk isnt a hero class though

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u/macix101 23h ago

More like for classes that start at not 1 (allied races not included)

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u/zaxxya 21h ago

This.

Hero class is a class with a class-based starting zone (as opposed to a race based starting zone) that starts at a higher level than other classes.

In the past, they used to require you to have a character above a certain level before you were able to create them (for instance, when DKs were added to the game in WotLK, you had to have a character at level 55+ on your account to unlock the ability to create a DK).

Another common misconception was that hero classes were supposed to be stronger than non-hero classes. That would have been a terrible design philosophy, and it was never the case. However, DKs (the first hero class) were significantly overtuned at launch and on top of that, their set of starting gear (when leaving their starting zone at level 58) was way stronger than the gear the typical non-DK at level 58 would wear, which made them ridiculously OP. Hence why some people thought that “hero class” meant “intentionally OP by design”.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 11h ago

I never knew what "Hero Class" meant and have been confused by it since they announced DKs. I have literally been that "I'm not sure what hero class means and at this point I'm too afraid to ask" since 2008.

Thank you for clearing up an 18 year old question for me.

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u/MajesticWay5391 18h ago

Demon Hunter is the only other hero class iirc, hero classes make it apparent that you start out more powerful. Monk started at lvl 1 just like the rest of them.

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u/Sazapahiel 1d ago

Look if I saw one of Arthas' undead killing machines coming towards me I'd probably be more the Scarlet Peasant than the Citizen of Havenshire here too.

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u/freaky_willow 1d ago

Did he stutter?? Oh, he did.

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u/Famous_influencer 1d ago

Hey look... I'd be scared enough to probably shit myself too if I was just some farmer or baker being chased down by a fully armored undead monster wielding an evil magic sword with a zombie army behind them.

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u/Ok-Strain2948 1d ago

Psh, that’s just an average Tuesday on Azeroth these days.

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u/Krewshie 1d ago

he shiddid

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u/Darkhallows27 1d ago

I mean yeah that’s how it be

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u/Custard_Locksmith 16h ago

"Ugh, I miss when WoW was grimdark and mature"

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u/wabbitt37 18h ago

The obligatory poop quest. Every expansion has one.

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u/DaveLesh 17h ago

The one in Grizzly Hills is certainly a poot...uh I mean hoot.

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u/Cseho88 17h ago

But we usually rummage through ogre poop.

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u/HunterNika 7h ago

I am convinced that there is a guy with poop fetish at blizzard since vanilla. Almost every expansion has a quest or something to do with shit.

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u/Zhoom45 14h ago

"Men shit themselves when they die. They didn't teach you that at Fancy Lad School?"

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u/UnSleepingMoss 13h ago

"I was aware of the many ways one could...alleviate their burdens. But...not out of fear. That...that one was new."

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u/imacatpersonforreal 9h ago

Blizzard really likes poop. There are various poop quests throughout the game, at least one per expansion. The best one tho is the one from wotlk where you have to dig through your own poop in an outhouse lmao. Poop is funny.

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u/HunterNika 7h ago

I peasant running into a Death Knight is like you running into a Slasher villain. Give the guy a break!

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u/Bullet1289 6h ago

The magic of death knight starter on launch was something else. It was so in depth and really set the tone for the upped level of connected stories across Northrend.