Death Knight (Psionic), Death Knight (4e Class Variant)

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Members of the undead, these warriors continue to fight, renewed with unholy power.

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Class Traits

Role: Defender, Striker. A melee and ranged striker, this class balances power with defense and control, blending elements of all three class types.

Power Source: Divine and Psionic. Empowered by both divine and psionic power, their ability to stay renaimated hinges on their own psychic will to stay alive.

Key Abilities: Strength, Wisdom

Armor Proficiencies: Cloth, leather, hide, chainmail, scale, plate; light shield, heavy shield

Weapon Proficiencies: Simple melee, military melee, simple ranged

Implements: Ki focus, Holy Symbol

Bonus to Defense: +1 Fortitude, +1 Will

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + Constitution score

Hit Points per Level Gained: 5

Healing Surges per Day: 8 + Constitution modifier

Trained Skills: Religion.  From the class skills list below, choose 4 more trained skills at 1st level. Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Arcana (Int), Athletics (Str), Diplomacy (Cha), Endurance (Con), Heal (Wis), History (Int), Insight (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Religion (Int), Thievery (Dex)

Build Options: Blood Knight, Frost Knight, Scourge Knight

Class Features: Undead Body, Death's Embrace, Psionic Augmentation, Channel Divinity, Weapon Talents, Runic Presence, Runic Aura, Runic Challenge, Scourge

Class Overview

Name: Death Knight

Characteristics: The Death Knight is a divine and psionic-based class, following the traditional set-up of psionic clases. They use auras and stances to augment their powers, as well as power points. They are both a melee and ranged striker, using melee weapons and ranged magic attacks to damage their opponents. With a blend of controller, defender and striker like abilities, they serve as a jack-of-all trades, but can only exemplify elements of one of their roles at any given point in time.

Religion: Death Knight's are divinely inspired, so their religion is extremely important to them. Despite being divinely inspired however, many Death Knight's simply dedicated themselves to their Gods so as to gain the power in return, meaning that their commitment to them is quite often conditional. Death Knight's most often favor unaligned or evil Gods, however a blend of variously aligned gods is not uncommon. Many Good or Lawful Good Death Knights have forged a pact with bane, the God of War, in order to receive his dark blessing. Death Knight's who follow this route use their powers for good, rather than evil, but justify their actions as being a necessary evil. Death Knights are more pragmatic, seeing their pact with various Gods as a means to an end rather than being worshippers for ideological reasons, and will often shift alignment based on what powers they can receive.

Races: The Death Knight naturally favors races with high Strength and Wisdom. This includes the Goliath, Minotaur and Shifter. Any strength based race can benefit, and humans are particularly effective in the role. Dwarves, muls and humans are naturally inclined towards the role, as are Dragonborn due to their natural affinity as warriors.

Creating a Death Knight

Ability Scores

Strength should be your primary ability. As almost all of your powers and attack rolls utilize strength for the attack and damage roll, strength should be the primary ability, and 20 strength at character creation is recommended for power characters or strikers. However, wisdom is extremely important, as well. Virtually all of your secondary powers use wisdom, and many of your secondary damage roles use Wisdom. Wisdom is almost as important as strength, although some builds can get away with lower wisdom levels. 20/16 or 18/18 is recommended. 20/14 or 18/16 are plausible, albeit weaker builds.

Feats

Death Knights emphasize durability and power. Feats which boost your defenses, such as toughness or improved defenses, will naturally augment your high defenses. Damage feats, such as weapon proficiency or expertise feats, should not be neglected, especially if you are going a more striker oriented route. Feats built for the Death Knight should be considered, as should racial feats that are particularly powerful, such as Dwarven Weapon Training.

Equipment

As you are a heavy armor dependent class with secondary abilities that do not boost lightly armored defenses (such as dexterity or intelligence), you should start with the highest armor you can, or plate. Choosing heavy shields or two-handed weapons will be your biggest choice; if you want to do more damage, you should go with two-handed weapons, which also can receive additional benefits with certain powers. As all of your melee attacks can substitute your enhancement with your implement bonus instead, it is wise to choose a Ki Focus or Holy symbol. Otherwise, standard adventuring gear is suggested.

Implement Bonus

When you wear or hold your holy symbol, you can add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of powers that have the implement keyword. You can also add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of weapon attacks you make using a weapon with which you have proficiency.

You can also use a weapon with which you have proficiency as an implement. When wielding the weapon as an implement, the weapon's characteristics-proficiency bonus, damage die, and weapon properties like defensive or high crit-are irrelevant to your implement powers.

If you have both an implement and a magic weapon, you choose before you use an attack power whether to draw on the magic of the implement or the weapon. Your choice determines which enhancement bonus, critical hit effects, and magic item properties and powers you can apply to that power. You can't, for example, use the enhancement bonus of implement and the critical hit effect of your magic weapon with the same attack.

Death Knight Class Features

Death Knights use psionic at-will powers that are enhanced with power points, as well as utilities and dailies, forgoing the traditional encounter powers. Being able to use both melee and ranged attack powers, they are unique in that they excel in both types of attacks. Death Knights do not excel in any particular area, but do well in all areas except for healing. They as a result make a good general class, and with specialization can go a number of different ways.

Psionic Augmentation

Like all psionic classes, you gain two at-will powers at level 1, one more at-will at level 3, and can replace your at-wills with an at-will at your level, at every level you would ordinarily gain an encounter power instead, except for level 21, or at level 7, 13, 17, 23, and 27 You also gain 2 power points at the same level intervals.

Level 1: Choose Two - Gain 2

Level 3: Choose One - Gain 2 (4 Total)

Level 7: Replace One - Gain 2 (6 Total)

Level 13: Replace One - Gain 1 (7 Total)

Level 17: Replace One - Gain 2 (9 Total)

Level 21: - Gain 2 (11 Total)

Level 23: Replace One - Gain 2 (13 Total)

Level 27: Replace One - Gain 2 (15 Total)

Power Points: You start with 2 power points. You gain 2 additional power points at 3rd and 7th level, 1 additional power point at 13th level, and 2 additional power points at 17th, 21st, 23rd, and 27th level. If you gain power points from another source (such as your paragon path), add them to your power point total. You can use your power points to augment any augmentable power you have, regardless of how you gained the power.

You regain all your power points when you take a short or an extended rest.

Undead Body

The class is considered an undead creature for the purpose of effects that relate to the undead keyword. You are also considered a living creature. You do not need to eat, drink, breathe or sleep. You never have to make Endurance checks to resist the effects of starvation, thirst, or suffocation.

Weapon Talent

A Death Knight either wields a weapon two-handed, or wields two one-handed weapons, favoring offense over defense. Further, Death Knights wielding a weapon do not provoke an opportunity attack when making ranged or area attacks. At character creation, you choose either two-handed or two-weapon, and you gain the appropriate benefit.

Two-handed: While wielding a two-hand weapon, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and a +1 bonus Reflex.

Two Weapon: You gain Two-weapon Fighting and Two-weapon defense as a bonus feats, even if you don't meet the prerequisites. You may also use a one-handed weapon in your offhand as if it's an offhanded weapon.

Runic Presence

Your presence powers inherently effect your character's attacks and abilities, influencing them subtly in many ways. You gain access to three presences, the Frost presence, Blood presence, and Unholy presence. None of the presences can be activated at the same time, although they can be activated at the same time as other powers. The three Presences are related to Defense, Offense, and dealing additional effects, which roughly correlates to Striker, Defender, and Controller abilities. At the start of the encounter when you roll for initiative, you may enter one of these presences as a free action. Presences otherwise require a minor action to change.

Frost Presence: You enter the "Frost Presence". When you target an enemy with an attack, the target is marked until the end of your next turn. In addition, if you successfully hit the target, you gain temporary hitpoints equal to your wisdom modifier.

Blood Presence: You enter the "Blood Presence". When you successfully hit an enemy with an attack, you can add your wisdom modifier as extra damage to the damage roll. This increases to double your wisdom modifier damage by level 11.

Unholy Presence: You enter the "Unholy Presence". When you successfully hit a target with an attack, you may choose for it to either take a -1 penalty to it's attack roll or defense until the end of your next turn. In addition, if an ally target the same creature with an attack, they can regain hitpoints or gain temporary hitpoints equal to your wisdom modifier. You may dismiss the presence as a free action.

Runic Aura

You gain access to three Auras, the Frost Aura, Blood Aura, and Unholy Aura. All of these Auras have a range of 2, and none of these auras can be activated at the same time, although they can be activated at the same time as other auras. The Auras are related to Defense, Offense, and healing, which roughly correlates to Striker, Defender, and Leader abilities.

Frost Aura: You gain the "Frost Aura". When enemies are within the Aura, they take a -1 penalty to attack rolls.

Blood Aura: You gain the "Blood Aura". When enemies are within the Aura, they take a -1 penalty to all defenses.

Unholy Aura: You gain the "Unholy Aura". When allies are within the Aura, they gain regeneration 1. You also gain regeneration 1. This increases to regeneration 2 at level 11, and regeneration 3 at level 21.

Runic Challenge

You gain a bonus to opportunity attacks equal to your Wisdom modifier. An enemy struck by your opportunity attack stops moving, if a move provoked the attack. If it still has actions remaining, it can use them to resume moving.

Scourge

Instead of modifying an attack with your power points, you can expend a power point to cause an ongoing "Scourge" effect. The effect you inflict upon your opponent depends on the choice of ongoing scourge effects you choose, such as Blood Plague, Frost Fever, Crimson Scourge, Ebon Plague, White Plague, and The Scourge. In addition, certain powers allow you to inflict an ongoing scourge effect, particularly daily powers. Multiple scourge effects can be going on at the same time, however only one of the same type at the same time. While the plagues of these types are ongoing, they have the following effects. These plagues and others are ongoing effects, the same as blinded or deafened conditions, and unless otherwise state a saving throw is required for the effect to end.

Blood Plague: Ongoing psychic damage equal to your wisdom modifier and -1 penalty to all defenses. (Save Ends both)

Frost Fever: Ongoing psychic damage equal to your wisdom modifier and -1 penalty to all attack rolls (Save Ends both)

Crimson Scourge: -1 penalty to all defenses and attack rolls (Save Ends both)

Ebon Plague: Doubles the modifiers or effectiveness of all other scourges (Save Ends)

White plague: You can choose for the creature to be either slowed, blinded, weakened, or dazed. While ebon plague is active, you can choose to apply two of these effects. (Save Ends)

The Scourge: While active, the creature takes a -3 penalty to all saving throws (save ends). In addition, if the creature dies while the scourge is active, a ghoul minion is summoned in it's square. (Save Ends)

Heroic Death Knights

Death Knights gain access to Auras, Stances, and At-will attacks.

Level 1: At-Will Auras

Benefit: You gain all of the following powers at level 1. You may only have 1 of the following auras active at a time, but can have more than one aura active from other powers. At the beginning of an encounter, you may activate one of these aura powers as a free action, or any time you roll an initiative check.

Frost Aura	Death Knight Utility 1
You exude the power of Frost, slowing down your opponents ability to react.
At-Will  Divine
Minor Action	Personal
Target: Self
Effect: You activate your Frost aura with a range of 2, that lasts until you end it as a free action or until you fall unconscious. While in the aura, any enemy takes a -1 penalty to attack rolls.

Blood Aura	Death Knight Utility 1
You wield the unholy powers of blood, capable of weakening any enemy within your grasp.
At-Will  Divine
Minor Action	Personal
Target: Self
Effect: You activate your Blood Aura with a range of 2, that lasts until you end it as a free action or until you fall unconscious. While in the aura, any enemy takes a -1 penalty to all defenses.

Unholy Aura	Death Knight Utility 1
You possess powers that many would consider unnatural, able to bring creatures back from the dead.
At-Will  Divine
Minor Action	Personal
Target: Self
Effect: You activate your Unholy Aura with a range of 2, that lasts until you end it as a free action or until you fall unconscious. When allies are within the Aura, they gain regeneration 1. You also gain regeneration 1 when this aura is active. This increases to regeneration 2 at level 11, and regeneration 3 at level 21.

Level 1: At-Will Presence

Benefit: You gain all of the following powers at level 1. You gain access to three presences, the Frost presence, Blood presence, and Unholy presence. None of these presences may be active at the same time. The three presences are related to Defense, Offense, and dealing additional effects, which roughly correlates to Striker, Defender, and Controller abilities. At the beginning of an encounter, you may activate a presence as a free action, or any time you roll an initiative check.

Frost Presence	Death Knight Utility
You exude the presence of frost, imparting the feeling of your icy chill to your surroundings.
At-Will  Psionic
Minor Action	'
Target: Self
Effect: You enter the "Frost Presence". When you target an enemy with an attack, the target is marked until the end of your next turn. In addition, if you successfully hit the target, you gain temporary hitpoints equal to your wisdom modifier. You may dismiss the presence as a free action.

Blood Presence	Death Knight Utility
You exude the presence of blood, conveying your undying wrath and demand for blood.
At-Will  Psionic
Minor Action	'
Target: Self
Effect: You enter the "Blood Presence". When you successfully hit an enemy with an attack, you can add your wisdom modifier as extra damage to the damage roll. This increases to double your wisdom modifier damage by level 11. You may dismiss the presence as a free action.

Unholy Presence	Death Knight Utility
You exude the presence of death, imparting it's decaying effect on the creature's around you.
At-Will  Psionic
Minor Action	'
Target: Self
Effect: You enter the "Unholy Presence". When you successfully hit a target with an attack, you may choose for it to either take a -1 penalty to it's attack roll or defense until the end of your next turn. In addition, if an ally target the same creature with an attack, they can regain hitpoints or gain temporary hitpoints equal to your wisdom modifier. You may dismiss the presence as a free action.

Level 1: At-Will Powers

Benefit: You gain two of the following powers at level 1, and three at level 3. At level 7, 13, 17, 23, and 27 you can change your at-will.

Death Strike	Death Knight Attack 1
Some attacks are designed to weaken or hamper the enemy in some way. Others are designed to kill and maim as efficiently as possible.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage. In addition, an enemy adjacent to you or the target, other than the target of the attack, takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Miss: Half Strength modifier damage. If you’re wielding a two-handed weapon, you deal damage equal to your Strength modifier. Augment 1: The damage increases from 1[W] to 2[W]. Augment 2: Each enemy adjacent to the target takes damage equal to your wisdom modifier.

Frost Strike	Death Knight Attack 1
You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons
Target: One or two Creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] Augment 1: You deal extra damage to one target equal to your strength modifier damage. Augment 2: You can use the attack as an opportunity attack, and in addition the target is slowed. If the target of the attack shifts or makes an attack that doesn't include you, you can make an additional opportunity attack as an immediate interrupt.

Blood Strike	Death Knight Attack 1
You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	Close Burst 1
Target: Each enemy in burst.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] necrotic damage Augment 1: You deal extra damage to each target equal to your strength modifier damage. Augment 2: The size of the burst increases to Close Burst 2.

Death Coil	Death Knight Attack 1
You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	10
Target: One creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. Will
Hit: 1d8 + Strength modifier necrotic damage. In addition, the target is slowed until the end of your next turn. Augment 1: The target is additionally dazed until the end of your next turn. Augment 2:The target is additionally blinded until the end of your next turn.

Howling Blast	Death Knight Attack 1
You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	Close Blast 3
Target: Each enemy in blast.
Attack: Strength + 2 Vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d8 + Strength modifier cold damage. Augment 1: The attack changes to an Area Burst 2 attack with a range of 10. Augment 2: The attack increases to a Close Blast 4 and on an a successful hit the target each target is slowed until the end of your next turn.

Level 3: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Plague Strike, Chains of Ice, Heart Strike, Blood Boil, Mind Freeze

Plague Strike	Death Knight Attack 3
Some attacks are designed to weaken or hamper the enemy in some way. Others are designed to kill and maim as efficiently as possible.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage. In addition, the target is slowed until the end of your next turn. Augment 1: You can make the same attack twice. Augment 2: The target is blinded.

Chains of Ice	Death Knight Attack 3
The attack
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	10
Target: One creature.
Attack: Strength + 1 Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] cold damage
Special: Any melee weapon can be treated as a heavy thrown weapon with a range of 5/10 for this attack. Augment 1: The target is also immobilized. Augment 2: The target is knocked prone.

Heart Strike	Death Knight Attack 3
You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	Close Burst 1
Target: Each enemy in burst.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] necrotic damage
Miss: Augment 1: You deal extra damage to each target equal to your strength modifier damage. Augment 2: The size of the burst increases to Close Burst 2.

Blood Boil	Death Knight Attack 3
'You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows. '
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	10
Target: One creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. Will
Hit: 1D8 + Strength modifier necrotic damage. In addition, the target is slowed until the end of your next turn. Augment 1: The target is additionally dazed until the end of your next turn. Augment 2:The target is additionally blinded until the end of your next turn.

Mind Freeze	Death Knight Attack 3
'You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows. '
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	Close Blast 3
Target: Each enemy in blast.
Attack: Strength + 2 Vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1D8 + Strength modifier cold damage. Augment 1: The attack changes to an Area Burst 2 attack with a range of 10. Augment 2: The attack increases to a Close Blast 4 and on an a successful hit the target each target is slowed until the end of your next turn.

Level 7: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Scourge Strike, Cold hand of Death, Rune Tap, Death Grip, Horn of Winter

Scourge Strike	Death Knight Attack 7
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At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage. In addition, the target, or an enemy adjacent to you or the target takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Miss: Half Strength modifier damage. If you’re wielding a two-handed weapon, you deal damage equal to your Strength modifier. Augment 1: The damage increases from 1[W] to 2[W]. Augment 2: You can cause an ongoing scourge effect.

Cold hand of Death	Death Knight Attack 7
'The icy, cold hand of death washes over your enemies.'
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons
Target: One or two Creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage, and an enemy adjacent to you other than the target takes 1 [W] damage (off-hand weapon). Augment 1: You deal extra damage to each target equal to your strength modifier damage. Augment 2: The target of each attack is marked and slowed, and takes a -2 penalty to attacks that target you until the end of your next turn.

Level 13: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Cripple, Unholy Strike, Reaping Strike, Piercing Strike, Pestilence

Cripple	Death Knight Attack 13
'You cripple the target, not only his body, but his will to fight.'
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage. In addition, the target as well as a creature adjacent to the target, is slowed (save ends).
Miss: Augment 1: Each target slowed by the attack is also blinded. (save ends). Augment 2: Each target slowed by the attack is also immobilized (save ends).

Freeze Strike	Death Knight Attack 13
You attack the target in rapid succession with a flurry of freezing blows, both freezing and harming the enemy with martial prowess.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	Melee
Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons
Target: One or two creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] cold damage Augment 1: You deal extra damage to both attacks equal to your strength modifier damage. Augment 2: You can use the attack as an opportunity attack or a melee basic attack, and in addition the target is slowed. If the target of the attack shifts or makes an attack that doesn't include you, you can make an additional opportunity attack as an immediate interrupt.

Unholy Strike	Death Knight Attack 13
'Your attack is imbued with dark, unholy power, imparting itself within the target.'
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One or two Creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] necrotic damage
Special: Any melee weapon can be treated as a heavy thrown weapon with a range of 5/10 for this attack. Augment 1: The target is also immobilized. Augment 2: The target is knocked prone.

Level 17: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Necrotic Strike, Strangulate, Death and Decay, Empower Weapon, Dark Succor

Necrotic Strike	Death Knight Attack 17
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At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Necrotic
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier necrotic damage. In addition, the target, and an enemy adjacent to you or the target takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Miss: Augment 1: The damage increases from 1[W] to 3[W]. Augment 2:

Strangulate	Death Knight Attack 17
'You attack the target in rapid succession, trying to overwhelm the enemy in a flurry of blows. '
At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons
Target: One or two Creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] and the target is pushed 1 square. Augment 1: The damage increases to 2[W] for each attack. Augment 2: You can use the attack as an opportunity attack, and in addition the target is slowed. If the target of the attack shifts or makes an attack that doesn't include you, you can make an additional opportunity attack as an immediate interrupt.

Level 23: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Blight, Festering Strike, Diabolic Grasp, Hellfire Wrath, Inferno

Blight	Death Knight Attack 23
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At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier necrotic damage. In addition, the target and each target adjacent to you is slowed (save ends).
Miss: Augment 1: The damage increases from 2[W] to 4[W]. Augment 2: Each target that is slowed is also blinded (save ends).

Ice Strike	Death Knight Attack 23
You attack the target in rapid succession with a flurry of blows, tainting them by freezing the target.
At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	Melee
Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons
Target: One or two creatures.
Attack: Strength vs. AC, Two Attacks Vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] cold damage Augment 1: You deal extra damage to both attacks equal to your strength modifier damage and the target is immobilized. Augment 2: You can use the attack as an opportunity attack, and in addition the target is slowed. If the target of the attack shifts or makes an attack that doesn't include you, you can make an additional opportunity attack as an immediate interrupt.

Level 27: At-Will Powers

List of powers: Obliteration, Dual Strike, Enfeebling Strike, Unholy Challenge

Obliteration	Death Knight Attack 27
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At-Will  Psionic, Divine
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage. In addition, each target adjacent to you or the target takes extra damage equal to your wisdom modifier.
Miss: Half Strength modifier damage. If you’re wielding a two-handed weapon, you deal damage equal to your Strength modifier. Augment 1: The damage increases from 2[W] to 5[W]. Augment 2: Each target damaged by the attack is also slowed.

Blizzard	Death Knight Attack 27
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At-Will  Psionic, Divine, Cold
Standard Action	Close blast 5
Target: All enemies in burst.
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] cold damage.
Miss: Strength modifier cold damage Augment 1: The damage increases from 2[W] to 4[W]. Augment 2: Each target damaged by the attack is also slowed.

Utility Powers

You gain access to all of the Death Knight Utility powers, including any of the following listed powers below.

Daily Attack Powers

You gain access to all of the Death Knight Daily Attack powers, including the following listed powers below.

Level 11: Paragon Path

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Unholy Divinity (Level 11): When you spend an action point, you can on your next attack also cause an additional ongoing plague effect.
Hellfire's Wrath (Level 11): You gain a +1 bonus to all attack rolls.
Growing Scourge (Level 16): Targets of ongoing effects inflicted by you also suffer a -4 penalty to all saving throws.

Death Knell	Death Knight Attack 11
'With every attack, you not only weaken your enemies, but continue to spread the plague.'
Encounter  Divine, Psychic
Standard Action	Melee, 5/10
Target: One Creature
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Strength. In addition, you inflict one ongoing plague effect on the target.
Special: You can treat any melee weapon used for the attack as if it is a heavy thrown weapon with a range of 5/10.

The Scourge	Death Knight Utility 12
'All life is inevitably brought to an end, by the way of the scourge'
Encounter  Divine, Psychic
Minor Action	Ranged 10
Target: One Creature
Effect: The creature is subject to one of your ongoing plague effects.

Obliteration	Death Knight Attack 20
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Daily  Divine, Psychic
Standard Action	Melee
Target: One Creature
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 5[W] + Strength. The targets takes 5 ongoing damage in addition to one of your ongoing plague effects.

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