Blood Death Knight Tank Talents & Build Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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Detailed Blood Death Knight TalentsBlood Death Knight Talent BreakdownTier 1 (Level 15) Talent Choice

In most situations, you will want to use in a lot of situations - essentially, whenever you can guarantee more than two targets on average. Its increased Runic Power generation effect allows you to use more often, leading to a meaningful increase in self-healing and damage.

In low target count scenarios (typically, up to 3 target average), and primarily for DPS purposes, may edge ahead, as it is one of the spells with the highest AP modifier in your toolkit. It also converts all its damage into self-healing, which is not a bad thing to have, but not the main purpose of the spell.

Finally, works out to a net RP loss over . Before acquiring , and without , this works out to a net loss in virtually every metric. With all these equipped, however, this works out to be the fastest way to generate 25 seconds of cooldown reduction on and, by extension, the best talent in the row.

Tier 2 (Level 25) Talent Choice

should be taken for any and all situation. Its simple design encourages you to do something you already do: never cap charges. The reward is an 8% increase on the damage and healing of your next per target hit, up to a maximum of 40%. Simple, effective, and extremely potent.

At very low haste levels and in situations with low incoming damage, or as Night Fae, thanks to the changes Shadowlands brought on, may pull ahead slightly. However, it is just that: a niche. Simulationcraft may allow you to discern if you are in this situation; do not worry too much about it, however.

, meanwhile, was already weak in Battle for Azeroth; its only use case was islands (since it was a burst of uncapped damage). Shadowlands neutered it by capping it to 8 targets, reducing its AP coefficient, and then stealth-nerfing it by 29% through aura changes. As a result, this talent is a total loss.

Tier 3 (Level 30) Talent Choice

Thanks to being baseline, we now have an extremely appealing choice between and on this row. This is the first of three choices you will make on our talent tree.

causes you to be healed by a trivial, AP-based amount and gain 10 Runic Power when you consume a proc. Simple, effective, and since may occur up to 4 times a minute, this gives us an easy maximum theoretical value for this: 40RP/minute.

As the healing amount is AP-based and very low, you can safely ignore it.

Meanwhile, is the more control-oriented talent in the row. As a spell, it allows you to re-gain a rune. Whenever you lose a charge of , the cooldown of is reduced by 2 seconds. Since you cannot lose more than one charge every 2.5s, we can also easily put a value on this cooldown reduction: 48 seconds of additional CDR every minute as a theoretical maximum.

Since the spell is a minute-long CD, and every minute, you gain 48 seconds extra, you're looking at an extra rune every ~32s. The reason it is not numerically annihilated by is because, when picking , optimally you are looking at a bonus 15RP per rune generated by this over the 10RP generated by . This puts the theoretical maximum at a very close value, in addition to having gained damage, and potential burst through having full control of runes.

Evidently, this talent is very min-maxy, and will -- at best -- net you slightly less RP even in ideal circumstances.

As a Night Fae, or when you have our 2-piece bonus , this becomes a source of extra resources to spend on instead of having to game procs. In both of these cases, you should be playing this talent.

The most passive, and least impactful choice in the row is an ultra-niche talent typically used only on the cutting edge of progression. If all else fails and you cannot avoid a specific one-shot mechanic (that we do not currently have, as there isn't one in Nathria), may be usable as a last-ditch option. Avoid, unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents Choice

should be considered your default choice, though all talents on this row are situationally valuable. It provides a simple, no-nonsense 13% "hidden" buffer to your HP bar, by reducing damage taken while below 30%. It features partial hits (so if you get hit while at 70% by 70%, you'll actually only take 40% + 0.7 * 30%), and it includes overkill damage - hence the 13%.

In some encounters, may allow for better cooldown alignment, or the increased size may allow you to negate the application of a debuff.

Finally, thanks to its cost removal, now allows you to spend a GCD every 6 seconds to regain 3% of your max HP (or somebody else's!) per melee swing per target afflicted. At best, due to its cooldown, you'll keep it up on 2.5 targets, and spend that many GCDs per 15s period to do so. It gains value on fast swing targets, something that is... actually quite rare in Shadowlands.

Tier 5 (Level 40) Talent Choice

The value of talents on this row is almost entirely encounter-specific. should be used for encounters that require an AoE snare, and as a default in Mythic+. Its value is twofold: it is one of the strongest burst snares in the game on a very low cooldown. This allows you to set the terms of your own kiting in M+, and provide a snare wherever needed in raids.

A bug that has gone unfixed since Legion makes it possible to keep the 90% permanently on a target if you know what you are doing, but since we need to remain respectable, we won't tell you how, at least not in this section ;-)

The reduced cooldown on allows you to sometimes align the use of with certain encounter mechanics. We'll mention them when they show up - there hasn't been one for an expansion and a half now. As such, you may consider this niche.

Finally, having gives Blood DKs a second mobility cooldown, this should be taken in any single-target encounter, and in any multi-target encounter where the added mobility provides value but where a reduced does not.

Tier 6 (Level 45) Talent Choice

should be taken for almost situation. Auto-attacks deal significantly larger amounts of damage with the patch, making it a meaningful increase to DPS, and they provide a decent amount of self-healing (based on your max HP) when they burst. At 5 procs per minute, you may expect up to 37.5% of your maximum health back in healing every minute assuming they pop at 50%. If they pop lower (since they pop after the hit that causes them to pop), you can even get more out of them!

They function as a nice, neat emergency healing battery for when you drop, and a good source of damage until then.

can, in certain circumstances based on DTPS, be a better defensive pick. However, this assumes optimal RP generation, enough damage intake to justify the talent, and a reason to drop a noticeable amount of DPS for defensive throughput. As a result, it will be a niche pick at best, but it does have its merits. Of note, it also increases the minimum healing amount to 10.5%, an effect not mentioned in the tooltip.

should be avoided at all costs. It provides almost nothing in terms of healing (essentially, two bloodworms, or 17s of encounter time). It also adds a very dangerous debuff if your healers are not tracking healing absorbs, as they'll often see the 50% HP jump, but not the 30% healing absorb. It is... very dangerous, very low-power, and a choice to essentially be avoided at all costs.

Tier 7 (Level 50) Talent Choice

should be considered your default choice, though all talents on this row are situationally valuable. The cooldown reduction from will allow for better cooldown plans in many situations and should be taken at any time this is the case.

is extremely valuable early on while progressing on a boss, giving you the additional opportunities to learn the mechanics without wiping your entire raid or group.

Finally, even though 's healing has been capped to 5 targets, it is still the potent AoE self-healing and damage juggernaught we knew and loved in Battle for Azeroth, for low keys at least. Its high resource cost (91 RP for full healing ticks, 100 RP for full damage ticks) causes you to pool for an extended period of time to unleash it. Once you have our new 2-piece bonus , this becomes the fastest way to spend the insane amount of Runic Power you will get in as few GCDs as possible, thus netting you even more uptime!

War Mode for Blood Death KnightWar Mode

: 15% max HP loss on anything nearby. Simple, effective.

: This is good for burning large pulls (which is what you should be doing as a Blood DK in open world content), and has the added advantage of dealing significant damage to players if they are chained to NPCs.

: An additional 15% extra damage on targets. Do note that by tab targeting efficiently, you can maintain this on up to 5 nearby targets simultaneously.

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Commentaire de TruthNZ

Marque de sang has had its duration reduced by 40%, its value healed reduced 33%, and was given a 6-second cooldown; as a result, there is no practical scenario where it would be a better use of Runic Power than Death Strike.

Disagree. Can be used when off-tanking to assist whoever is primary tank.
If you're in the weird case where you don't need more healing or damage, but they do.

Commentaire de Darthflamel

In war mode, having two charges (if you chose the talent) of death grip is soooooo freaking op imo

Commentaire de daenerys37

For warmode talents, if you want to make sure that the enemy player never gets away from you, Unholy Command for two charges of death grip plus Walking Dead to prevent them from going faster than normal movement is amazing. If you find people constantly getting away from you, consider picking up this combo.

Commentaire de auronbabe

In general i find using Voracious over Blood Worms do more for me in the long run, the extra leech is just too good in big AoE fights when running mythics.. You can also controll it better than the Blood Worms.. And when it comes to Blood Drinker, i stear way clear of it due to it's inactivity period, HeartBreaker serves me more than well enough and it helps with being a reactive tank instead of the 3sec downtime.

Commentaire de Stereonakis

I really want to play a Necrolord Blood DK, but if it turns out to be weak I will definitly not. Lets See what Blizz will do about it.

Commentaire de Argorokrum

A bug that has gone unfixed since Legion makes it possible to keep the 90% permanently on a target if you know what you are doing, but we're here to be kosher, so we won't tell you how, at least not in this section ;-)

pls I need to know

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