Tank specialisation · Tier S in Mythic+, 0.9% of the sample
The order abilities first landed across 4 top-parsing pulls, with the median time into the fight. The percentage is how many of those parses used the ability at all — a step at 100% is the opener, one at 60% is a choice some players make.
Death's Caress+0.2s75%
Death and Decay+1.1s75%
Raise Dead+1.6s100%
Dancing Rune Weapon+2.2s100%
Blood Boil+3.1s75%
Dark Command+3.6s50%
Vampiric Strike+4.2s100%
Infliction of Sorrow+4.2s100%What was pressed next, counted over every observed pair. This is the closest a log gets to a priority list — but it describes behaviour, not a rule: a player casting Execute because it lit up looks the same here as one following a plan.
Death Strike49 castsVampiric Strike38%Blood Boil19%
Heart Strike19%Vampiric Strike40 castsInfliction of Sorrow100%Infliction of Sorrow39 castsVampiric Strike32%Death Strike32%Heart Strike8%Heart Strike35 castsDeath Strike43%Heart Strike29%Blood Boil20%Blood Boil26 castsHeart Strike28%Death Strike28%Vampiric Strike16%Death and Decay12 castsHeart Strike42%Death Strike17%Blood Boil17%Casts per minute across 20 top-parsing kills in The Venomous Abyss. Per minute rather than totals, so a long fight does not read as a heavily used ability.
5 fights where almost all damage went to the boss
Death Strike17.4per minHeart Strike15.2per minBlood Boil9.4per minVampiric Strike9.3per minDeath and Decay2.6per min
Marrowrend0.5per min10 fights with substantial add damage
Death Strike17.2per minHeart Strike15.0per minBlood Boil9.9per minVampiric StrikeFights are sorted by how much damage landed on boss units rather than by a hand-kept list of which encounter is the AoE one, so the split stays right after a retune. Fights in between are left out of both columns.
Updated 31/08/2026. These are observed casts, not a recommended priority — the order reflects how often an ability came up, which is not the same as when to press it.
Secondary stat split across the 52 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.
Talent choices across 52 synced characters playing this specialisation. These are observed picks, not recommendations — they say what the ladder is doing, not what you should do.
Taken by between 15% and 90% of players. This is where the real decisions are.
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Loadouts from the highest-rated synced players of this specialisation. Paste straight into the game.
silvermoon · EU3,766
area-52 · US3,759
laughing-skull · EU3,685
zuljin · US3,650
silvermoon · EU3,616
Death and Decay4.1per min
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4 players · Hero
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