What do you guys think of people playing the dk class as a none dk character?
I stopped giving a toss what model people use a long time ago. I prefer to RP with whoever and make a judgement on how they do things, if judge them at all.
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Perfectly fine thing to do imho.
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It can properly work only with the Forsaken and/or necromancers of any kind. Ice-wielding spellblades would still suffer from the blue eyes and the undead looks, ergo not making them perfect for the task… but still better than the big nothing we have regarding the multiclasses of all kinds.
It works for most spellblades and battle-mages. If you can be creative, IMHO, it can work.
On the topic of the blue eyes IMHO for a lot of cases it’s just fine. Half of the races have glowing eyes regardless, and you can wave it away easily as a non-problem (I really, really have to squint my eyes to look at your 4 pixels there), or something readily explained for all races who have a variety of glowing eyes.
Besides, characters often have scars, missing fingers, various features you can’t portray with in-game tools.
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Night Elves can remove the DK eyes with Night Warrior ones.
And Mechagnomes can cover em with their optics.
But this.
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Nothing really.
I personally find the idea of using a DK to fill the battle-mage or such role kinda lazy and rather encourage more creative transmog combos with the limitations.
But ultimately, doesn’t really matter.
It is fine imo. You can come up with numerous explanations for glowing eyes in a high fantasy setting. Tbh with most trp profiles I dont even know which the ooc class is.
I think in general it’s a stigma of old that people have become more adjusted and just decided to let go of.
DK’s back in the day where like the easiest way to make a character and level through enough because they started at 58 and if people were playing as Non-DK’s IC it brought about some kind of elitism stigma from most mainstream opinion of people on the server that you “Didn’t put enough effort” or “Didn’t care enough” about the character.
Over the years this has just been completely forgotten especially when there was more of a resurgence in High Elf RP (Pre-Legion / Void Elves) so they could have the glowy blue eyes and what not to stand out.
In general if someone approaches me today as a “non-DK IC” I tend to think it’s because they’re at it for OOC reasons rather than IC and I will see how they go and what RP they look to bring to the table with the interaction.
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There are 10,000 things worth getting annoyed about that rank above this
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Ultimately I’m pretty sure this is it because we saw a similar thing several years later when Legion launched and there were plenty of “not a DH IC” characters that were also mostly used by folk wanting to get easy access to transmogs without needing to level up.
I gotta admit I’ve some slight nostalgia for hitting an expansion’s level threshhold to unlock it’s transmogs, it was this sense of “FINALLY, this character can look somewhat modern”, but I think the change to make everything unlock at 10 (excluding the current expac’s mogs) was pretty objectively a good one.
These days the only “not a DK ICs” I see are people who really want the glowing blue eyes for whatever reason, and I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw a DH that was anything other than a DH IC.
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I’ve seen a few DH that are either a warden because glaives, something more demonic or more rarely a dragon (cause that’s the model NPCs use with dragon eyes) but that’s about it.
It has become a lot less common.
“Why not level something else?” I’ve leveled enough characters, I’ll use what I have until I have the will to spam TW again. Doing it as a non healer does not spark much joy for me and I wouldn’t tell anyone to do it, it’s painful!
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Doing it as a healer doesn’t spark joy tbh. Either they rush through at a million miles an hour and you barely do anything or they’re a pack of lemmings desperately trying to die.
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I just let them go on, either they make it or they die.
Learn by doing.
Single heal the DPS however 
shrug
But I belive with this I shall not de-raill the threat further.
This is one of those things that started as a bother, but later on, have proven to actually be a non-issue, as the Death Knight character in question, can just be used as an avatar to build the story you want, without having to make a specific character just for the one thing. There are many more things to ponder about than, “Oh, OOCly, this character is a Death Knight… Dude gotta be one ICly too then, right?!”
First of all, in Roleplay, many of us wouldn’t know anyways until signs/told, and the ones who might have the ability to sense it, could just whisper the person and ask if they are one, last, TRP3 is a great tool to display what a person might be ICly.
It was a meme because players used it to level skip to 55, then you’d have some goofy footsoldier with these absurdly blue glowing eyes in a military guild/using a growth pot. Also 95% of them were players just starting RP for the first time and checking it out, but getting to level 100 took a while
I myself, was once… “Not a DK IC”
Yeah I think I’ve seen that, and by and large anyone who’d try to do that would probably now just roll a dracthyr instead unless they very specifically wanted a kaldorei or (presumably) quel’dorei visage for a femme character given you’re forced to be h*man if you roll a femme dracth.
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This matters…why?
I RP a druid, and I am a warrior.
Why can’t it be done on a DK class?
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Zero issues with it honestly. There are so many different character concepts and class archetypes that can’t be portrayed by usual means.
There can also be situations where a person is attached to their class OOC but doesn’t want to roleplay them as that class (Like a DK) for example. And there is no harm in it.
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Pfft! You’re supposed to use a rogue/monk so you can use druid set lookalikes!
You’re bad. Boo! BOOOO!