Years ago Blizzard released an expansion to the then much younger MMO known as World of Warcraft. With it came the introduction of a new class for your player character: the Death Knight. They were named a ‘Hero Class’ and could start the game at Level 55. The only barrier was that in order to have a Death Knight you needed to already have a character that was over that level before you could create one.

Fast forward to the WoW of today, many expansions and updates later and Blizzard now see that barrier as unnecessary. So they plan to remove it entirely.

“With availability of the level 90 character boost, we feel the requirement to have a character level 55 or higher to unlock the Death Knight as a playable class is no longer relevant.” said community manager Nethaera. “The plan right now is to remove the limitation sometime next week, at which point players will be able to start a new Death Knight (which still begins at level 55) without first having to reach level 55 on another character.”

Although it’ll be of most benefit to new players, they will still need to wait a little while. Nethaera notes that in order to remove the barrier to creation, they will need to make some client-side changes so Blizzard will plan to include its removal within a scheduled content patch.

The next patch will be the introduction of the Blackrock Foundry raid during the early parts of next year, or barring that possibly Patch 2.1 at the latest.