You've never needed a 70 to make a DK. You can make one once you're 55 on any character, and it's always been that way.
For self heals and pure speed id say a paladin you also get the crusader aura , hunters are good if your BM. Druids are good if you want to herb with it as someone said previously. Dk's are good as you don't need to level from scratch. So basically if its a char you want to play id just choose something that you find fun.
Yep I use HB:GB2 but I use paladins due to fact I can leave them in sholazar 70-80 and they can tank multiple lvl 77 mobs and live, then continue to gather saronite for XP. I also buy them crafted pvp gear and see them kill people that attack them on PVP servers, I used to have all DKs but overtime now I have all paladins
I'm leveling a pally atm, level 57, 27 hours played. Could have been better if I had remembered to turn train skills off and just trained every 10 levels or so. As it was, bot went to train everytime a new skill was available.
I voted Paladin when i first voted on this poll... but. After getting a shaman to 85 i have to say as far as botting goes Shaman is hands down the best, not because of lest downtime/tanking loads of mobs, but because the ShamWoW CC is THE best CC this site has to offer (And it's by a large margin too)
Correction - You need a level 55 to make a DK not 70. If you don't already have a level 85 character don't make a DK. Just don't. Correction - Leveling a DK is extremely easy. Not a joke. GB - Its not meant to heal itself, so its not required to know how. GB2 will heal itself if the CC is good. Paladin Healing - I don't have a paladin. Death Knight - Most people just call it a faceroll class. It has legitimate rotations that if you don't follow you won't have good dps. They are nice
I love my DK for farming since I have the speed boost from a guild perk, Unholy + Epidemic for a CC rocks for solo/grinding questing but not so much for PvP and Instances. Paladin and Druid would be other great ones for farming for speed boost and flight form respectively, at least gathering nodes since their CCs are kinda weak IMO. Shamans for... well pretty much anything else because ShamWoW is the best CC in the world. I let it heal while resto in PvP and elemental while grinding/questing and it was flat out amazing (WOW is seriously what you will say). If you're farming herbs and ore go with either a speed boost or flight form class (Pally, DK, Druid). DK or Pally if its going to be grinding mobs since they have huge survivability and rarely need to take breaks. Shaman for anything else you want to bot.
I say "Druid", because their dps cycle is frankly not complicated (I play) ... After must see, Mage? lol
I voted Shaman, Even tough i would love to vote Orc Hunter Singular isent fully working yet, but it is close and with the Orc Hunter quest profile, its epic