Will Undead Warriors become Death Knights?

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As I recall Death Knights were undead paladins.  Warrior are more akin to footmen and grunts.  Death Knights were a very weak melee class and strong casters (mage equivalents) so I just don't see the warrior going that route at all.
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Yes, I know that Death Knights are corrupted Paladins, i.e. Prince Arthas. On the other hand, I can't imagine what other Hero Class Undead Warriors could be, unless Blizzard would implement a new option/game feature that others here have mentioned already: The opportunity to change factions with a game character!

This would be indeed a great new game feature. A Human or maybe even a Dwarven Paladin should have, after a certain (high) level, the option to follow a long and difficult, special class quest like "Path of the Forsaken". Once he has solved the quest series, he'll become a member of the Forsaken under Banshee Queen Sylvanas. Like in WarCraft, that quest series could start with the killing of an important member (NPC) of the own faction.

A nice side effect of the "change factions" option would be that you mustn't play 2 characters (1 Alliance + 1 Horde) to travel (safely) throughout all areas of Azeroth. When you start out as Human or Dwarven Paladin, you can safely travel through all Alliance regions first, and when you get "bored" because you have seen and solved everything on the Alliance side, you simply follow that special class quest called "Path of the Forsaken" and become an Undead "Death Knight" which allows you to travel safely through all Horde locations and solve the Horde quests.

There's also some nice playground on the graphical side here. The Paladin's graphics could change over time the further he proceeds on the "Path of the Forsaken". He starts as a "fresh" looking Human (or Dwarf), then gets grey hair and pale skin until he'll eventually look like a rotten Undead. Just like Prince Arthas in the WarCraft series. Or, imagine a rotten Undead Dwarven "Death Knight" with foul flesh, grey hair and beard, pale skin and EVIL eyes! :D