War3:Source

Here are some ideas for a death knight class;
pick and choose which abilities would work well together and what one would be the ultimate...

Abilities:
Death Grip - pulls an enemy within [x-y] range to your location.
Blood Worms - spawn [x-y] blood worms that leech [z] health from a nearby enemy
Minion - call fourth an undead minion to defend you for [x-y] seconds
Corpse Explosion - any enemy killed by you will explode for [x-y] dmg
Icy Shackles - slow enemy movement to 10% for

• seconds (they slowly regain speed)

Plague - deal

• damage over [y] time to an enemy when shot

Death and Decay - enemies standing in the area of effect take

• damage per second, lasts [y] seconds.

Fortitude - freeze your blood to reduce incoming damage to

• % for [y] seconds

Blood Rune - instantly heals self by

• hp.

Blood Boil - all nearby enemies take

• damage

not sure if this would be a knife only race, could be a tanky knife race. with death grip and icy shackles it could work well,

would be interesting to see some feedback on this idea, needs more input though,

10 skills?

For Ownz...

And I think this sounds like a great race, but balancing I agree might be tricky.

races are not made by mix and mashing skills. most of those skills are warcrafty, but they arnt based on a real character

Death Coil
A coil of death that can damage an enemy living unit or heal a friendly undead unit.
-> Simple extra dmg.

Unholy Aura
Increases the movement speed and life regeneration rate of nearby friendly units.
-> Either simple extra speed or speed aura.

Death Pact
Kills a target friendly unit, giving a percentage of its hit points to the Death Knight.
-> Maybe sacrifice ammo for life or same but other way around. Or maybe get "no reload" for 50hp.

Animate Dead (Ultimate)
Raises 6 dead units in an area to fight for the Death Knight. Animated units are invulnerable.
-> I'd say raise 2 dead team mates for about 10  secs. Either invulnerable or not.

Original war3 skills of death knight.

people currenly hate being ressurected with restrictions

Then death knight race is not the best idea for a new race ;)
Resurrection is mainly the thing the war3 death knight is about.

I disagree with the last part Ownz, I understand it is nice to have some Warcraft 3 races but as long as the race has a theme I don't see what Warcraft has to do with it. For instance some of my old-time favourite races were TC's Superhero races, more recently the Headcrab. Both themed: both separate from Warcraft.

I agree resurrecting with restrictions is a bad idea.

I like the no reload idea at HP cost, perhaps both ideas where you can choose to sacrifice ammo for life OR life for ammo, (but at a cost so doing both loses you ammo and life say).

Andrew