Dragonflight Blood Death Knight Tanking Guide

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Blood Death Knight Overview

Our playstyle as Blood Death Knights, one of the game's six tank specializations, is reactive and optimization-driven. It entails generating as much Runic Power as you can through spells and abilities, and healing damage taken with  Death Strike. In addition to self-sustain cooldowns like  Vampiric Blood and  Dancing Rune Weapon, immunities to specific mechanics with  Anti-Magic Shell, a combat resurrection for allies, and even a pet ghoul acting as a source of DPS thanks to  Raise Dead, our toolkit's breadth provides a number of solutions for various circumstances!

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Blood Death Knight Talent Builds

For a more raid oriented talent build, you can use the following talent loadout.

You can import the Raid talent build with the following loadout code: BoPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACJhQSicgISERiIhgkkEJAAAAAAJSSOQQSTISAAARSSSCAAAA

For a more Mythic+ oriented talent build, you can use the following talent loadout.

You can import the Mythic+ talent build with the following loadout code: BoPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACJJCJJi0iEBJiECSSSkAAAAAAkIJOARSTiIBAAISSSCAAAA

 

Best Stats for Blood Death Knights

Strength is your primary stat, found on plate gear. Strength increases your armor and attack power, in addition to providing a neat amount of Parry. It is the most prevalent stat on most gear pieces, and is part of the primary budget.

For secondary stats, Blood Death Knights have the following at their disposal:

  • Strength>>Mastery>=Critical Strike>=Haste>=Versatility
  • Critical Strike: Critical Strike is very strong offensively, in addition to being a near-1:1 conversion to parry. Its relative strength to the rest of the stats will depend on factors including the number of enemies hitting you, how much of their abilities can be parried, and the average amount of damage each parry-able hit does. Overall, while it is not a great stat, it is not worth avoiding either, and picks up value in M+.
  • Haste: Haste provides a 1.1% increase in rune generation per percent of haste thanks to  Bone Shield, and improves your reaction time - the value of your self-healing is strongly dependent on the timing of your  Death Strike.
  • Mastery:  Mastery: Blood Shield provides a tremendous amount of value against physical damage and scales in absolute value with the amount of damage you are taking.... as long as you do not die from the hit! The addition of  Iron Heart and  Gloom Ward has pushed this stat to an even higher value than in Shadowlands.
  • Versatility: Versatility provides both a reduction in damage taken and an increase in self-healing, in addition to providing a small damage increase. It is the most globally-applicable stat, but also the most expensive in terms of item budget.

 

Best Blood Death Knight Consumables

Best Blood Death Knight Enchants in Dragonflight

Below is a list of the recommended enchants to use on your Blood Death Knight gear in Dragonflight.

Slot Best Enchant Cheaper Version
Weapon  Rune of the Fallen Crusader
Cloak  Homebound Speed  Graceful Avoidance
Chest  Waking Stats  Sustained Strength
Bracers  Devotion of Speed  Devotion of Avoidance
Legs  Fierce Armor Kit  Frosted Armor Kit
Boots  Watcher's Loam  Plainsrunner's Breeze
Ring  Devotion of Haste  Devotion of Mastery

 

Blood Death Knight Phials in Dragonflight

Overall the best phial for Blood Death Knights is  Phial of Glacial Fury. You can potentially justify  Phial of Static Empowerment in rare heavy AoE situations where you do not have to move, or  Phial of the Eye in the Storm in low keys, but in the absolute majority of situations,  Phial of Glacial Fury will simply outperform both.

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Blood Death Knight Combat Potions in Dragonflight

There are a couple different potions that have different useful scenarios for Blood Death Knights:

Blood Death Knight Weapon Buff in Dragonflight

For their weapons, Blood Death Knights have two choices:

  •  Howling Rune is a sensible default, increasing your haste by a flat amount for two hours
  • Alternatively, as a raw offensive alternative,  Primal Weightstone (maces) or  Primal Whetstone (other weapons) will increase your attack power by a flat amount. Use simulations to figure out whether this is worth it, based on target count

Consumables are a vital part of high-level content in WoW, like Mythic+ Dungeons and Raids, providing additional ways for players to improve and customize their stats outside of gear.

In this guide, we will explain what are the best Blood Death knight gems, Blood Death knight flasks, Blood Death knight potions, and Blood Death knight enchants in Dragonflight Season 1, as well as cheaper alternatives.

While below you will find the best Blood Death knight enchants and consumables, make sure to check our Dragonflight Profession Guide for all profession details, updated for Dragonflight Season 1.

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About the Authors

This guide has been written by Panthea, who raids in Catalyst (Tarren Mill-EU) and Mandl (Mandl#0001 on Discord). They are both tank multiclassers and Useful Minions for the Acherus Death Knight community, where they answer questions regarding death knights and discuss class and encounter strategies.

Best Blood Death Knight Enchants in Dragonflight

Below is a list of the recommended enchants to use on your Blood Death Knight gear in Dragonflight.

Best Blood Death Knight Consumables in Dragonflight

There are many consumables that players can use in combat in Dragonflight. Here are the best phials, potions, and weapon buffs that Blood Death Knights can use in PvE content.

Blood Death Knight Phials in Dragonflight

Overall the best phial for Blood Death Knights is  Phial of Glacial Fury. You can potentially justify  Phial of Static Empowerment in rare heavy AoE situations where you do not have to move, or  Phial of the Eye in the Storm in low keys, but in the absolute majority of situations,  Phial of Glacial Fury will simply outperform both.

Blood Death Knight Combat Potions in Dragonflight

There are a couple different potions that have different useful scenarios for Blood Death Knights:

Best Blood Death Knight Health Potions in Dragonflight

The best healing potion for Blood Death Knights is  Refreshing Healing Potion. In an emergency, make sure to carry a couple  Potion of Withering Vitality, but be mindful of its drawbacks. For progression, it is very useful to have  Delicate Suspension of Spores and  Residual Neural Channeling Agent to be able to help your group even while dead. As a tank, you should not be dying too much, but in case you do...

Blood Death Knight Weapon Buff in Dragonflight

For their weapons, Blood Death Knights have two choices:

  •  Howling Rune is a sensible default, increasing your haste by a flat amount for two hours
  • Alternatively, as a raw offensive alternative,  Primal Weightstone (maces) or  Primal Whetstone (other weapons) will increase your attack power by a flat amount. Use simulations to figure out whether this is worth it, based on target count

Best Blood Death Knight Food in Dragonflight

Best Blood Death Knight Gems in Dragonflight

You'll want to use  Quick Ysemerald or  Keen Ysemerald in your gem slots, with the exception of one, where you should slot in a  Fierce Illimited Diamond.

 

Pros and Cons

 Strengths Weaknesses
  • Limited mobility:  Death's Advance baseline, with a potential talent choice in  Wraith Walk to gain a second charge
  • We are tuned around taking higher amounts of damage upfront and healing it back. This leaves us open to being bursted down without being able to, well, heal it up. You can't heal when you're dead.
  • In Dragonflight, the design of the spec severely punishes mistakes, but the punishment has no immediate feedback.

 

Blood Death Knight Rotation Priority

Blood Death Knight Opener

This opener aims to maximize the following:

Blood Death Knight Single Target Rotation and Priority

Outside of  Dancing Rune Weapon

  1. Do not let  Bone Shield drop! Use  Marrowrend to keep stacks up.
  2. Cast  Death and Decay as long as you are not currently in your own  Death and Decay
  3. Maintain yourself at 5+  Bone Shield charges. It is okay to let yourself drop slightly below in the 10 seconds prior to  Dancing Rune Weapon coming back off cooldown.
  4. Use  Dancing Rune Weapon on cooldown
  5. Use  Tombstone if the following conditions are true:
    1. You will gain more than 20 seconds of cooldown reduction from  Tombstone on  Dancing Rune Weapon
    2. You will consume 5  Bone Shield
    3. You are currently standing in your  Death and Decay
  6. Spend Runic Power on  Death Strike. Use it when you reach 75 Runic Power, or to keep  Icy Talons from fading.
  7. Cast  Blood Boil to keep its charges rolling
  8. Use  Heart Strike as a filler to consume Runes. You should aim to have three recharging at all times

During  Dancing Rune Weapon

  1. Cast  Marrowrend in one of the last three GCDs of  Dancing Rune Weapon. This primes the next 30 seconds of your rotation by bringing you back to 10  Bone Shield charges.
  2. Cast  Death and Decay as long as you are not currently in your own  Death and Decay
  3. Maintain yourself at 1+  Bone Shield charge.
  4. Use  Tombstone if the following conditions are true:
    1. You will gain more than 20 seconds of cooldown reduction from  Tombstone on  Dancing Rune Weapon
    2. You will consume 5  Bone Shield
    3. You are currently standing in your  Death and Decay
  5. Spend Runic Power on  Death Strike. Use it when you reach 75 Runic Power, or to keep  Icy Talons from fading.
  6. Cast  Blood Boil to keep its charges rolling
  7. Use  Heart Strike as a filler to consume Runes. You should aim to have three recharging at all times

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