They didn't actually need to hit 70 - for some reason, in the first two expansions the idea was that as long as you were within two levels of the previous level cap, you were allowed to move on (I wonder if there are newer players who don't know that and hit 70 in Outland.) So Death Knights were not tossed directly into the new expansion's content (other than their own starting experience.) Death Knights would have to level up through Outland first, going through the previous expansion's content before they could link up with characters that were ready from the launch to head off to Northrend already. Notably - not Northrend, but rather Outland. Though there are many qualities that link WoW's sole existing Hero Class, the Death Knight, with the upcoming second one, the Demon Hunter, probably the most important in terms of gameplay is simply that they both begin at a level higher than one, starting with a class-specific quest and starting area rather than a racial one (though given the narrow racial choices for Demon Hunters, it's almost a racial starting zone.)ĭeath Knights begin at level 55, and at least as the XP gains were balanced in Wrath, you would finish the starting experience at level 58 - which meant you could travel to Outland immediately thereafter.

Do demon hunters start with professions