If you aren’t doing anything with your death knight (assuming you can make one) and say maybe you need a gathering alt, they make a great fit. Yes, druids are a bit better, but we’ll cover that at a later date.

Death knights offer a level 55-58 starting character that when specced unholy have a serious speed boost plus a free epic mount after completing a few quests (which are awesome). All told, a death knight is great for gathering things. Or tanking things. Or running lower level instances.

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Herbalism is one of three gathering style professions in the game. It’s very simple to level up and really amounts to just picking flowers. As with each of the gathering professions though, they all fuel another profession. Herbalism fuels both alchemy and inscription, so count on demand being at least moderately high.

Since herbalism is point and click, many people have it, this will bring prices down on the weekends and result in lots of competition trying to get higher level herbs. But don’t despair, if you have a character with either alchemy or inscription or you just need some extra cash and happen to have a couple mounts (or maybe you need a couple mounts), then herbalism is a great choice.

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