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Blood Death Knight

Tank specialisation · Tier S in PvP, 0.2% of the sample

PvE GuideRaid logs, Mythic+ players and PvE buildsPvP GuideRated ladder talents, gear stats and buildsACTIVE

Rated PvP data

A complete live guide built from rated Battle.net profiles: bracket-specific talents, PvP talents, gear, gems, enchantments, statistics and importable builds. PvE raid casts are never presented as PvP advice.

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Secondary stats

Secondary stat split across the 1 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.

  • Versatility45.7%1,041 avg
  • Mastery37.0%843 avg
  • Critical Strike9.0%205 avg
  • Haste8.3%189 avg

1

Synced RBG players

764

Average rating sampled

764

Highest rating sampled

PvP talents

The three dedicated PvP slots, measured from Battle.net profiles.

Live ladder data
Decomposing Aura

Decomposing Aura

100%

All enemies within 8 yards slowly decay, losing up to 3% of their max health every 2 sec. Max 5 stacks. Lasts 6 sec.

1 players

Last Dance

Last Dance

100%

Reduces the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon by 50% and its duration by 25%.

1 players

Spellwarden

Spellwarden

100%

Anti-Magic Shell is now usable on allies and its cooldown is reduced by 10 sec.

1 players

Combat toolkit

Common high-rated choices grouped by purpose. This is a PvP toolkit, not a fake raid rotation.

Pressure & burst

  • Anti-Magic Zone
    Anti-Magic Zone100%

    Places an Anti-Magic Zone for 6 sec, reducing the magic damage taken by party or raid members by 15%.

  • Blood-Soaked Ground
    Blood-Soaked Ground100%

    While you are within your Death and Decay, your physical damage taken is reduced by 8% and your chance to gain Vampiric Strike is increased by 5%.

Most played equipment

Top two choices per slot among the highest-rated hydrated profiles.

Back

Cloak of the Restless Tribes

100% equipped · 308 ilvl

Chest

Baleful Grave-Knight's Breastplate

100% equipped · 298 ilvl

Feet

Spellbreaker's March

100% equipped · 285 ilvl

Blood Death Knight enchantments

  • Enchanted: Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt100%
  • Enchanted: Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul100%
  • Enchanted: Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery100%

Talent tree choices & importable builds

Only 1 synced character play this specialisation so far, which is too few to report pick rates from.

A percentage drawn from a handful of players is noise wearing the costume of data, and a reader cannot tell the difference. This fills in as the background sync works through the ladder.

Learn the spec

This page measures what players do. For rotation, stat priority and matchup play, these are the references.

  • Skill-CappedpvpArena guides, matchup play and comp theory. Subscription, and the standard reference for PvP.
  • Murlok.iopvpTalent and gear data from the PvP ladder, broken down per bracket.

Other Death Knight specs

  • Frost
  • Unholy
Bloodied Blade
Bloodied Blade100%

Parrying an attack grants you a charge of Bloodied Blade, increasing your Strength by 0.5%, up to 4.0% for 15 sec. At 8 stacks, your next parry consumes all charges to unleash a Heart Strike at 300% effectiveness, and increases your Strength by 10% for 6 sec.

  • Bloodshot
    Bloodshot100%

    While Blood Shield is active, you deal 8% increased damage and damage taken is reduced by 4%.

  • Boiling Point
    Boiling Point100%

    Heart Strike has a chance to make your next Blood Boil empowered, dealing 50% increased damage and echoing after 3 sec.

  • Survival

    • Anti-Magic Barrier
      Anti-Magic Barrier100%

      Reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 sec and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40%.

    • Blood Boil
      Blood Boil100%

      Deals 7,615 Shadow damage and infects all enemies within 10 yds with Blood Plague. Blood Plague A shadowy disease that drains 15,298 health from the target over 24 sec.

    • Blood Draw
      Blood Draw100%

      When you fall below 30% health you drain 5,548 health from nearby enemies, the damage you take is reduced by 10% and your Death Strike cost is reduced by 10 for 8 sec. Can only occur every 2 min.

    • Bloody Fortitude
      Bloody Fortitude100%

      Icebound Fortitude reduces all damage you take by up to an additional 20% based on your missing health. Killing an enemy that yields experience or honor reduces the cooldown of Icebound Fortitude by 3 sec.

    • Death Strike
      Death Strike100%

      Focuses dark power into a strike that deals 19,045 Physical damage and heals you for 24.15% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 8.5% of maximum health.

    Control & mobility

    • Blinding Sleet
      Blinding Sleet100%

      Targets in a cone in front of you are blinded, causing them to wander disoriented for 5 sec. Damage may cancel the effect. When Blinding Sleet ends, enemies are slowed by 50% for 6 sec.

    • Coldthirst
      Coldthirst100%

      Successfully interrupting an enemy with Mind Freeze grants 10 Runic Power and reduces its cooldown by 3 sec.

    • Gorefiend's Grasp
      Gorefiend's Grasp100%

      Shadowy tendrils coil around all enemies within 15 yards of a hostile or friendly target, pulling them to the target's location and Silencing them for 3 sec.

    • Grip of the Dead
      Grip of the Dead100%

      Death and Decay reduces the movement speed of enemies within its area by 90%, decaying by 10% every sec.

    • Heart Strike
      Heart Strike100%

      Instantly strike the target and 1 other nearby enemy, causing 11,811 Physical damage, and reducing enemies' movement speed by 20% for 8 sec, plus 2 Runic Power per additional enemy struck.

    Hands

    Baleful Grave-Knight's Deathgrips

    100% equipped · 308 ilvl

    Head

    Pledgebearer's Mask

    100% equipped · 295 ilvl

    Legs

    Legplates of Charged Duality

    100% equipped · 292 ilvl

    Main Hand

    Geti'ikku, Cut of Death

    100% equipped · 308 ilvl

    Neck

    Thalassian Competitor's Amulet

    100% equipped · 292 ilvl

    Ring 1

    Thalassian Competitor's Signet

    100% equipped · 292 ilvl

    Ring 2

    Thalassian Competitor's Signet

    100% equipped · 292 ilvl

    Shirt

    Fashionable Undershirt

    100% equipped · 1 ilvl

    Shoulders

    Pauldrons of the Great Unifier

    100% equipped · 295 ilvl

    Trinket 1

    Merektha's Fang

    100% equipped · 311 ilvl

    Trinket 2

    Blazebinder's Hoof

    100% equipped · 311 ilvl

    Waist

    Sand-Scoured Greatbelt

    100% equipped · 298 ilvl

    Wrist

    Overseer's Vambraces

    100% equipped · 298 ilvl

    Enchanted: Rune of Sanguination
    100%

    Blood Death Knight gems & sockets

    • Enduring Heliotrope · +23 Primary Stat and +5% Damage Reduction when affected by Crowd Control100%
    • Flawless Masterful Lapis · +16 Versatility & +7 Mastery100%
    • Flawless Quick Amethyst · +16 Mastery & +7 Haste100%
    • Flawless Versatile Peridot · +16 Haste & +7 Versatility100%