I was working towards becoming a deathlord, but the amount of experience needed was insane! My heavy armor was at an 8 and I needed over 3 million XP to get to 9...who knows how much I would've needed to get up to 10. So I opted for Wizard as my final class. I took the XPs I had accumulated to raise my heavy armor and used it instead to boost my Arcane level from 14 to 19.
BTW if you have a female character you should join the sisterhood and become a warwitch. They'd kick a deathlord's butt up and down the entire length of the Battlefield of the Dead.
