After the guard left, Yu Lin Bloodhawk stood alone in the room, utterly bewildered. Were Death Knight skills really this easy to learn? Or was there some other reason? Surely it couldn't be because I had a Death Knight alt! ...Uh... wait... why couldn't it be?
Yu Lin Bloodhawk remembered that he could master Hunter skills with hardly any effort, while learning other classes' spells and skills was exceptionally difficult. He had already suspected this might have something to do with his main character being a Hunter. Now, judging by how easily he had mastered Death Grip, he was certain it was connected to his Warcraft account. The account he had played before crossing over had only two characters: a Hunter and a Death Knight alt he had created on a whim.
Why had he made a Death Knight alt? Simply because a Death Knight could reach level sixty by completing a few quests and leaving the starting zone. Yu Lin Bloodhawk couldn't be bothered to spend too much time leveling an alt. Once it reached the level cap, he mostly used it to work on professions anyway. Besides, it came with an epic mount and a set of handsome gear.
"If that really is the reason..." Yu Lin Bloodhawk murmured, "does that mean I can become a Death Knight too? Or that I can learn all the Death Knight skills? But Death Knights use runes power. Without a rune weapon, they can't use the vast majority of their skills. Without skills, a Death Knight can only attack with physical strength, which basically makes them a stronger ordinary cavalryman. Looks like I'll still have to build a Runeforge and put death runes on my weapon first."
"But... but..." Yu Lin Bloodhawk hesitated again. If he remembered correctly, when his Blood