After having tried out the two key novelties of the game, Northrend and Death Knights, I think it’s safe to say that the game is still a huge addicting grind. Supposedly end game this time around will be more casual friendly but we’ll have to wait and see, until then the journey to level 80 is enjoyable except for one thing:

Death Knight’s start at level 55 with no professions except for First Aid (270/300)!!

Seriously Blizzard, what gives? I suppose the reasoning is that it would be too easy for players to create profession factories on every server they already have a level 55 character on. Fair enough, but it still sucks and it leaves me to believe that most Death Knights will probably not bother leveling a profession until they reach level 80. That is if they even get to 80 which I doubt and “hope” most don’t or we’re going to have some serious class inflation issues. Read the rest of this entry »