Undead Paladin: your first 10 levels

Updated 2026-10-28 · ForeverDB

A gentle start for an Undead Paladin in WoW Forever: where your trainer stands in Deathknell, your spells up to level 10, your class quests, the racials that help and the best professions.

Written for the WoW Forever beta, for your first 10 levels. Where each person stands comes from what players recorded in WoW Forever wherever we have it. Anything else is marked: "Classic data" means the spot comes from the original game and may have moved in Forever.

Right now

Welcome! You're an Undead Paladin, and you start in Deathknell. Here are the three things you need first. Take your time: nothing here is in a rush.

1. You appear at 30.0, 71.7 in Deathknell.
2. Your first quest: talk to Undertaker Mordo (30.2, 71.7), next to where you appear.
3. Your Paladin trainer is Aramis Hammerhand at 31.1, 66.3, 170 yards north of where you appear (seen in Forever). Walk: 230 yards, 35 sec.
4. Your class quest: Shadow Priest Sarvis also has A Difficult Path for you. It sends you to your trainer, and it's free experience.

Tip: If you die, that's fine: everyone does. Click Release Spirit, run back to your body as a ghost, and carry on. Fight one enemy at a time and eat or drink between fights.

Playing a Paladin at first

You're a holy knight: you fight up close in heavy armor and can heal yourself and others. You use mana.

1. Turn on Seal of Righteousness before a fight. It adds Holy damage to your melee hits.
2. Keep Devotion Aura on. It gives you more armor.
3. Heal yourself with Holy Light when your health gets low.

Tip: From level 4, Judgement lets you unleash your seal on the enemy for extra damage.

Tip: You heal yourself, so you rest less than most classes. Drink water when your mana runs low.

Your spells up to level 10

You start with your level 1 spells. The rest you learn from your trainer, for a few coins, at levels 4, 6, 8, 10. A few come from class quests instead. From the WoW Forever game client:

Where your Paladin trainers are

Walks start from where you appear (the first trainer), the middle of the town (town trainers) or the first town (city trainers).

Class quests

Your racials as a Paladin

• Cannibalize: Eat from a fallen humanoid or undead enemy to get health and mana back. Less time spent eating food.
• Touch of the Grave: Your attacks and spells sometimes drain a little health from your target, a small heal while you fight.
• Will of the Forsaken: Breaks fear, charm and sleep. Very strong against other players who fear you.

Professions

For a Paladin, the best pair is Blacksmithing and Mining. Blacksmithing makes mail armor and weapons you can wear, and Mining digs up the ore for it. Spare ore sells well too.

Tip: Not sure yet? Pick two gathering professions (Herbalism, Mining or Skinning). They make money from the very first herb, vein or beast, and you can swap one for a crafting profession later. Dropping a profession loses its skill, so decide before you've raised it far.

More on this: the best professions for each class.

After level 10

At level 10 you get your first talent point. Our Paladin leveling guide takes you on from there, and the leveling guide shows where to go next. Your first dungeon comes a bit later: see your first dungeon.

Checked against WoW Forever beta build 1.60.1.70658.

Explore next

• Quest guides
• Paladin: Changes · Builds · Gear planner

Read next

• Deathknell: your first 10 levels
• Undead: a guide for new players
• Leveling a Paladin to 30
• Best professions for each class