WOW Hero Class Clarification

Hey, so reading through the book and I don't know if its just my adhd brain struggling to retain information but I'm confused on the hero classes. 

So Death Knight for example, am I supposed to then make a level 3 Paladin of the Ebon Blade or do I just choose death knight as the class option? Cause in the actual book it says "To play a death knight, choose the Paladin class from the Player’s Handbook and the Oath of the Ebon Blade subclass, described below." My question is, if that's what I am supposed to do, then why have the death knight class be an option in the character builder? Just a little bit lost. 

I think it depends if you're playing in a campaign set in Azeroth or not 

Got it, I've only barely started looking at 2024 DND, and all the changes that has so just been a bit lost

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Hey, so reading through the book and I don't know if its just my adhd brain struggling to retain information but I'm confused on the hero classes. 

So Death Knight for example, am I supposed to then make a level 3 Paladin of the Ebon Blade or do I just choose death knight as the class option? Cause in the actual book it says "To play a death knight, choose the Paladin class from the Player’s Handbook and the Oath of the Ebon Blade subclass, described below." My question is, if that's what I am supposed to do, then why have the death knight class be an option in the character builder? Just a little bit lost. 

The disconnect is how they coded it in DnDB. Instead of treating everything as just normal class options, they made the options twice in the builder. If you choose a normal D&D class with the Blizzard check mark clicked they show up where they should be, although the species options for you to only use Blizzard langauges. 

Or you can use one of the Blizzard class links which force creation of a Blizzard class with added no multiclass as a hidden rule, you can bypass that by turning off Multiclass restictions. 

I think the most annoying part is finally getting good alternatives for species options in the WOW book and being locked to Blizzaed langagues, has no one thought that DMs like me want players to use these options along side all the other options for our games. 

Honestly they should have treated them just linke any other partnered book, and just made them options that could be picked for any campaign, and if they wanted a Blizzard only build, that is what premade characters are for. 

This is another one of those weird issues and disconnects between how DNDBeyond works and how pen-and-paper works.

If you're using DDB, click the Death Knight Class.

If you're using pen-and-paper, write Death Knight on your sheet and remember to write down the new features. Apart from that, though, you're basically just a Paladin.