



In the near future, we’ll update this guide to include a section on how to level up your Artifact Weapon, and another that will focus on your optimal stats, and how to gear towards them. Realistically, the speed at which you will complete quests will simply depend on how efficiently you can find clusters of targets: if your quest requires you to kill enemies that can easily be clumped up, you might very well be more effective as Blood than with a different spec!Īfter our talent recommendations, we’ll outline a rotation that combines ease-of-use with the greatest possible uptime for your defensive buffs, while making sure to maximize the potential for self-healing at any moment it is needed.

For pure questing, check out our Unholy Death Knight guide instead.Īlternatively, if you really want to quest, you should endeavour to pull or tag as many enemies as possible - you are certain to survive - and then unleash the full brunt of your Area-of-Effect abilities upon them. To do this, we’ll start by recommending talents that will fit both the levelling process and the endgame, although we recommend that you level this spec in dungeons rather than open-world questing. However, we still believe that it is possible to be an excellent tank while playing this class and specialisation, and we’ll show you how. In this Blood Death Knight guide, we’ll show you how to optimize your character for both level progression and end-game content.ĭue to the increased focus on with handling damage after the fact, rather than mitigating it as it arrives, the Blood Death Knight tank is very challenging to play, and has had a declining reputation as a reliable tank over the past few patches. Accordingly, its playstyle is reliant on self-healing and avoidance instead of pure damage mitigation. Blood Death Knight is unique among tanks in that it is a plate-wearer that eschews shields for massive two-hand weapons.
