Housing Blueprints
Introduction
This guide was written by Reholy, and has been updated for Patch 12.1.
You can often find Reholy helping other Blood DK’s learn or master the spec over on the DK Class Discord, or his own.
Whenever he isn’t there, he’s probably pushing High M+ or Raiding on stream.
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Blood Death Knight Overview
Blood Death Knight has one of the most reactive tanking playstyles, generating RP on the move while full-healing ourselves from within an inch of death by using
Death Strike. We have many tools and cooldowns that further compliment our rotational gameplay, leading to intuitive decisions throughout all content.
Strengths
- Excellent Self-Sustain
- Strong Raid and Mythic+ Utility
- Hero Talents with a direct impact on gameplay and class strengths
- Access to cheat death:
Purgatory - Can immune most magical debuffs: Anti-Magic Shell
- Many niche forms of immunity: Lichborne (Sleep, Charm, Fear) Death's Advance (Knockback) Icebound Fortitude (Stuns)
Weaknesses
- Limited Mobility options:
Death's Advance
Wraith Walk - Our Apex Talent: Dance Of Midnight can be unreliable in difficult content.
- The skill ceiling rises sharply in Mythic+, making it more difficult for players to become consistent.
- Immediate effects of poor gameplay can result in a quick death.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Blood Death Knight
Blood Death Knight in Patch 12.1 receives a vast amount of tuning changes, some serving as good defensive buffs and others shifting the damage profile of San’layn.
Some talent changes give us more options specifically in Mythic+.
The most relevant changes are listed below:
- Perseverance Of The Ebon Blade now provides 4% Damage Reduction.
- Bloodshot now provides 4% Damage Reduction.
- (San’layn) Blood-Soaked Ground now provides 8% reduction, instead of 5.
We also receive some direct gameplay changes as a result of our Season 2 Tier Set, more information on that can be found in the Gearing section of the guide.
Patch 12.0.7 Changes for Blood Death Knight
While Blood Death Knight receives no direct changes in 12.0.7, there are a couple of additions that need addressing.
- With Rotmire comes the addition of new, higher item level Sporefused Gear.
- The Omnium Folio serves as a gradual power increase, lasting throughout Midnight.
More information on the Omnium Folio can be found in the Gearing section of the guide.
Midnight Launch
In Midnight, each class and spec received new Apex Talents.
Blood Death Knight receives Dance Of Midnight, which is designed to enhance our core ability Heart Strike and to make Dancing Rune Weapon stronger and more frequent at the cost of the spec-tree points we acquire through leveling to 90.
Alongside this, Blood Death Knight specifically receives a plethora of changes directly to our talents and both talent trees, seeing a complete reshuffle of positions and new pathways being made to allow for more freedom.