It's Bolvar Fordragon, Paladin of the Silver Hand, Commander of the Alliance's combined military forces in Northrend, former Regent of Stormwind, and fallen hero of the Wrathgate. He was thought dead at the Wrathgate, but had in fact survived and been captured by the Scourge, and tortured, with the eventual intention of being made into a Death Knight, much like Saurfang the Younger. However, unlike Saurfang, Bolvar resisted until Arthas's defeat.
After Arthas Menethil, mortal host of the Lich King, was slain, Tirion Fordring took up the Helm of Domination, the crown of the Lich King, preparing to don it himself. As he did so, Bolvar intervened, calling from his seat upon the Frozen Throne, his body warped by the red dragonflight's fire. As a last act of service to Azeroth, Bolvar asked that Tirion place the Helm of Domination on his head. As the self-appointed "Jailer of the Damned," Bolvar seeks to keep the Scourge under control. As Bolvar encased himself and the Frozen Throne once again in ice, he warned Tirion that no one could know what happened. Tirion would have to tell the world that the Lich King was dead, yet as his voice changed, he added that Bolvar Fordragon had died with him.
In terms of classes, trying to cover all three roles between the two of you is a good target. When you guys are questing together by yourselves, having one person be DPS and the other healing helps keeps downtime to a minimum. And if you guys decide to use the Dungeon Finder, having one person able to heal and the other be able to tank ensures you'll never have to wait long in the queue.
Blizzard has homogenized the classes over the years so there is a tremendous amount of overlap between the classes and specs. As long as you guys cover the three class roles, feel free to choose whatever fancies you.
For reference the hybrid classes are:
- All three roles: Paladins, Druids
- DPS + Healing: Priests, Shamen
- DPS + Tanking: Warriors, Death Knights
If you're going to take my advice about role coverage, you'll want to avoid Mages, Hunters, Warlocks, and Rogues as they can only be one role: DPS.
Since you're talking 1-85 play, Death Knights are off the table as they start at level 55.
Putting it all together:
- Person 1: Paladin, Druid, or Warrior (to cover tanking)
- Person 2: Paladin, Druid, Priest, or Shaman (to cover healing)
In terms of professions, I'd avoid the heavy crafting professions that take a lot of time to level up and are usually taken for the Bind-on-pickup endgame recipes: Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Engineering, Leatherworking. Instead, focus on the professions that'll let you help each other out while leveling, like Enchanting and Alchemy, or the gathering professions, like Mining and Skinning, which will prove lucrative and won't require too much (if any) time soloing.
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There are a few options open to you.
1) Replay old content, daily quests etc and get your faction rep up, 100% complete all quests in all zones.
2) PvP to get your rank up, earn armour etc, you can also use your resources to create a new lvl 19,29,39 character to PvP.
3) Join a guild dedicated to lvl70 raiding and do the old dungeons and heroics.
4) Create new characters with new classes, play as the other faction
Honestly though WOTLK is out and finished now, Cataclysm is already way on its way I would just bite the bullet and get WOTLK its really cheap now ive seen it for like £4 in places. If you dont get WOTLK / Cataclysm soon by the time the next expansion is out you are going to get so far behind that when everyone is doing the next expansion you are still doing the old tired content.