WotLK Death Knight - Ebon Hold

Death Knight Leveling Spec (Blood)

Blood Spec Link

Two of the must-have abilities in this spec are Butchery and Vendetta. They return a huge amount of runic power and health every time you kill a mob that grants experience. It would be wise to include at least those two abilities in any Death Knight Leveling build.

Mark of Blood is also available early on, which should all but remove your need to ever need to eat or bandage while leveling. This provides a huge advantage to other classes and even other Death Knight specs. While not available until much later in the tree, Bloodworms and Vampiric Blood help improve your leveling time significantly. If you find you aren’t ever losing enough health to need Rune Tap, you can drop it for higher damage abilities in either the Blood or Unholy trees.

Blood (65 points)
    2/2 Butchery
    3/3 Subversion
    5/5 Blade Barrier
    5/5 Bladed Armor
    3/3 Scent of Blood
    2/2 Two-Handed Weapon Specialization
    1/1 Rune Tap
    5/5 Dark Conviction
    3/3 Death Rune Mastery
    3/3 Improved Rune Tap
    3/3 Vendetta
    3/3 Bloody Strikes
    3/3 Veteran of the Third War
    1/1 Mark of Blood
    3/3 Bloody Vengeance
    3/3 Bloodworms
    2/2 Blood Aura
    5/5 Sudden Doom
    1/1 Vampiric Blood
    3/3 Might of Mograine
    5/5 Blood Gorged
    1/1 Dancing Rune Weapon

Frost (0 points)
    None

Unholy (6 points)
    2/2 Vicious Strikes
    3/3 Morbidity
    1/2 Epidemic

Death Knight Leveling Spec (Unholy)

Unholy Spec Link

Again, this spec relies on Vendetta and Butchery for the health and runic power restoration while leveling. Instead of being as oriented toward melee damage, however, the Unholy spec focuses on Ghouls, magical damage, and Area-of-Effect abilities (primarily Corpse Explosion).

Good variation of this build are possible by going deeper into the Blood tree, possibly including Rune Tap and Bladed Armor, depending on your play style and downtime between pulls. Alternatively, dropping Two-Handed Weapon Specialization and Dark Conviction would allow you to get some of the more powerful talents deep in the Unholy tree.

Blood (19 points)
    2/2 Butchery
    3/3 Subversion
    5/5 Blade Barrier
    3/3 Scent of Blood
    3/3 Death Rune Mastery
    3/3 Vendetta

Frost (0 points)
    None

Unholy (45 points)
    2/2 Vicious Strikes
    3/3 Morbidity
    2/2 Epidemic
    3/3 Ravenous Dead
    3/3 Outbreak
    5/5 Necrosis
    1/1 Corpse Explosion
    3/3 Blood-Caked Blade
    1/1 Shadow of Death
    1/1 Summon Gargoyle
    5/5 Impurity
    3/3 Reaping
    1/1 Master of Ghouls
    5/5 Desecration
    3/3 Crypt Fever
    3/3 Ebon Plaguebringer
    1/1 Scourge Strike

Conclusion

Choosing a spec is largely comes down to personal preference and play-style. However, some abilities such as Butchery and Vendetta are going to greatly improve the speed you can level no matter which tree and abilities you prefer. Even if you are not a fan of the melee oriented Blood tree, if you plan on leveling solo, you should consider it a very strong option if you plan on leveling as quickly and easily as possible.

Note: Some of the listed leveling addons provide overlapping or incomptible functionality. Make sure to pay attention to which you install so you don’t have unnecessary addons.

Carbonite Quest

Carbonite Quest HUD Interface

Carbonite Quest Map Interface

Carbonite Quest provides a complete quest database for leveling in WotLK. It gives you an improved quest list, a directional arrow showing you the fastest route to your next objective, and an extremely powerful world map that makes questing much easier. You can record favorites to keep track of locations, targets, and general notes.

Clicking on an objective on the quest display interface immediately gives you coordinates, distance, and direction to your next quest location or turn-in. You won’t need to constantly tab out of the game to your browser to look up quest information anymore, it is all built-in to Carbonite Quest. With this addon you’ll be leveling in WotLK faster than ever before.

LightHeaded

Lightheaded Addon

LightHeaded is a simple addon that displays the comment text from WowHead along-side your quest log. No more tabbing in and out of WotLK to read through the Wowhead comments. Now it is all conveniently in game! LightHeaded works directly with TomTom to provide coordinate direction tracking.

QuestHelper

QuestHelper is very similar to Carbonite Quest. It automatically sorts your quests based on waypoints related to the quest, and displays the order to do them to minimize travel time. On your world map you will see green waypoints noting which quest objective to complete next, and yellow waypoints showing other objectives on your list. If you have TomTom installed, QuestTracker will automatically use it to display your next waypoint direction and distance.

TomTom

TomTom is a very simple addon that allows you to add waypoint to your world map, in Northrend, or any other continent. It also gives you an arrow showing you the distance and direction

GetToThePoint

GetToThePoint can automatically turn in quests, accept quest, and skip gossip text, when possible. It removes a few of the tedious steps necessary in questing in WotLK, letting helping your leveling go just a little faster.

DoubleWide

DoubleWide is a very basic addons that double the width of the WotLK quest log. It makes reading quest text and viewing all of the quests in your log much easier.

AutoMaton

Automaton offers all of the functionality of the other automation addons, and much more. The main options that are going to help you with leveling are: automatically repairing when you are at a vendor who can, selling of grey items, and skipping of gossip text. Automaton does much, much more however, so if you aren’t interested in all of its functions, you might prefer one of the more specialized addons.

Auto Ding

Auto Ding will help you annoy your friends and guildmates by automatically announcing each time you level! You know you’re going to do it anyway, save yourself the typing.

AutoProfitX

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Herbs Required for 1 – 450 Inscription Leveling

Note: The numbers below are the combined total of herbs for each pigment type. You can Mill any combination of the herbs in each pigment group to reach the total.
Click an herb for a detailed map showing locations where to collect it.

• 110 Bloodthistle, Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Earthroot, Mageroyal (Creates Alabaster Pigment)
• 80 Briarthorn, Swiftthistle, Bruiseweed, Stranglekelp (Creates Dusky Pigment)
• 200 Wild Steelbloom, Grave Moss, Kingsblood, Liferoot (Creates Golden Pigment)
• 160 Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar’s Whiskers, Wintersbite (Creates Emerald Pigment)
• 160 Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas’ Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood (Creates Violet Pigment)
• 250 Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom, Icecap (Creates Silvery Pigment)
• 260 Any Outland Herbs (Creates Nether Pigment)
• 450 Any Northrend Herbs (Creates Azure Pigment)

Inscription Pigment Types

• Emerald Pigment – Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar’s Whiskers, Wintersbite
• Violet Pigment – Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas’ Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood
• Silvery Pigment – Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom, Icecap
• Nether Pigment – All Outland herbs
• Azure Pigment – All Northrend Herbs

Inscription Leveling Guide

Note: There are many different Scrolls and Glyphs in the same skill ranges, with the same materials required as those listed below. If a certain scroll or glyph is more valuable to you, feel free to craft it instead.

Additional WotLK Inscription Resources

WoWWiki: Inscription Recipes
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