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World First Level 80 Death Knight Speaks Out

So Dessembrae (Giskler) is the first Death Knight to go public with his feat of hitting 80 first. Is it possible that someone else did it first? Absolutely, but there is no denying the greatness of his accomplishment. Until we see other wise, I’m gonna dub Dessembrae (Giskler) as our world first! (Makes sense to me that if someone else was gunning for the feat, and I’m sure there was plenty, we would have already heard from them.)

I took the time to get some words from Dessembrae (Giskler) on how this came to be:

DKinfo: So, how much sleep have you got the past couple days?

Dessembrae: I have slept 7 hours since Wednesday.

DKinfo: Where you in beta? Was being the world first DK a goal or something that just happened?

Dessembrae: I was in the beta and I leveled a DK to 80 there. Being first to 80 wasn’t really a goal, I wanted to get the leveling out of the way fast and I just seemed to be on a roll.

DKinfo: What was your route to 80? Did you Quest, grind, instance? You can just give a brief summary.

Dessembrae: I had a lot of stuff farmed before the expansion launched (quest items that aren’t bop etc) so after the starter zone I went around and handed in quests in Blasted Lands, Lights Hope and cloth donations in every city.

I entered Outland at 60 and ran through Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar and half of Nagrand and went to Borean Tundra when I got to 68. In Northrend I did Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills, Zul’Drak, Sholazar Basin, Dragonblight and Storm Peaks last.

I did every single quest I came across in every zone and ended with Storm Peaks at 91/100. I did only one instance run in The Nexus.

DKinfo: Did you have help along the way? Was it a special powerleveling session?

Dessembrae: I had help with some of the more difficult group quests like Ring of Blood and Amphitheatre of Anguish. I had planned a powerleveling session for months in order to get the leveling done with so it wouldn’t conflict with my studies.

DKinfo: Will your new DK be your main or do you plan to go back to another character now?

Dessembrae: The DK will be my main, I have no plans of going back to my old characters as I love the DK class.

DKinfo: What are your goals now? Professions, Achievements, End Game?

Dessembrae: First of all I’ll be maxing out my professions and then start doing raids with my guild. The long term plan is to go back and do all the old content for achievements.

DKinfo: Most importantly how long have you been visiting DK.info?

Dessembrae: I’ve been visiting the site for several months (just reading until now).

DKinfo: Anything You would like to add? Give thanks? Say hi?

Dessembrae: I’d like to give thanks to everyone who helped me out when I needed it during the leveling craze, you know who you are.

So there you have it, our first level 80 Death Knight. Dessembrae is on a EU server, so of course it would only be fair to be on the look out for the first US level 80…