Nevertheless, they have been a very valuable contribution to the lineup of a party, guild, or raid group. With the new Dual Spec feature of the game, World of Warcraft has become a game of infinite variables. Majority of the Death Knight Hybrids go with Frost and Blood spec, with Frost adding up additional armor and Blood for some major DPS. However, builds alone cannot determine the total strength of your Death Knight.

A death knight’s gear is a crucial contribution to his strength and skills. Without it, he’s nothing but a second rate warrior wanting to dish damage like a Rogue or take hits like a Paladin. Northrend has a lot of quests specifically for Death Knights which give out their quest gears; gears which are only acquired through quest rewards.

Death knight quest gears in Northrend allow the Death Knight to have added stat bonuses that will prolong their survival as a tank or make them more brutal as a damager, or maybe both at the same time thanks to the Dual Spec feature.

These quest gears are essential when it comes to the early levels of the Death Knight around 55-70. By then, you’ll start looking for new gears. You won’t find anything or rarely anything inside the Auction House and you certainly won’t be seeing anyone shouting it out on the chat. Northrend has a major population of blacksmiths. I had a friend craft for me the Cobalt set, made entirely out of cobalt bars and all equipped at Level 70. This kind of gear is perfect for tanking during Instance runs, since they give out decent stamina bonuses.

From here on, you can pretty much do any quest to get decent gear for your death knight once you’re in Northrend. Just be sure to do the quests that you can do in a short amount of time with the best reward possible.