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Blood Death Knight in Shadowlands - Tank Strengths, Best Covenants, Soulbinds and Legendaries

criado 20/11/2020 em 04:09 por Mandl

Introduction, and a Disclaimerstate of blood DK articleDarkmechNnoggiemostlyCheck out all our Shadowlands Launch Opinion articles by our Class Writers and members of the community! Click on any of the colored specs below to see what articles we've released so far.
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What Has Changed for Blood Death Knights?specificallySpec changes

was made baseline, and took its place as a talent. This is a huge change, as it opened up the talent row and enabled a choice between as a relatively passive RP generation talent, and as a high-risk, high-potential alternative.

Blood Death Knight Levelling Perks

At level 52, (Rank 3) increases the damage of by 20%

At level 54, you gain an active ability: . We'll come back to it later, but the short and sweet of it is: it is a DPS cooldown, or a defensive cooldown used at a very steep offensive cost.

At level 56, you gain (Rank 2), increasing the healing received during by 5%, and increasing its duration by 2 seconds.

Finally, at level 58, you re-acquire . This is why all the guides still mentioned staying above 5 - we knew it would come back.

Blood Death Knight Covenants, Soulbinds and ConduitsCovenant Abilities
Kyrian

's spread behavior was reworked and baked into the spell itself instead of the conduit - each rune-spending attack now has a 50% chance to spread the debuff at current duration to a nearby target without it. It still works primarily as large single-target hasted (!) DoT with very little mechanical or rotational interaction other than a slight incentive to attempt to spread it early if there are targets nearby. The spread happens within 8 yards of you, not your target.
, the associated potency conduit, increases the duration of the DoT by 3 seconds, and massively increases its damage. Simple, effective, a must-have if you can find a potency slot on your soulbind.
provides a potion that can be used to clear bleeds, diseases, curses and magic debuffs, and has been moved to be its own cooldown as opposed to sharing the space with potions. Due to its potential as a full cleanse, it is easily the most impactful signature ability if you can find something impactful to cleanse. A lot of raid bleeds were whitelisted to ignore this, but there are still a few... and there is the entire space of mechanics present in Mythic+.

The steward also provides vendor, talent swaps and a bunch of other things, but those are mostly convenience now that most of the game-breaking bugs with it in PvP have been ironed out.

Venthyr

has had no fundamental change; it still provides 9 ticks of damage (one on use, eight extra, one every second). Each tick, you get 3 RP per target hit, up to 5. The effect itself is not target-capped when it comes to damage, and the effect is not hasted. It is still a decent source of damage that scales linearly with target count, a decent source of RP even on single-target (although it feels much better to press in AoE), and overall, a strong, versatile covenant ability. Oh, and you also get 10% dodge during it.
has seen a slight change: instead of increasing damage and dodge per conduit rank, it now only increases damage, and grants a flat 3% extra dodge.
ranges from excellent to nearly-worthless. In Mythic+, you will abuse it to skip packs, teleport through mobs, teleport behind mobs, teleport behind what you think are line-of-sight obstacles, and generally, have a bunch of fun. In raids, its utility is... slightly less useful. In turn, you get the same pathing issues as what warriors, vengeance demon hunters and a few other classes have to contend with: the legendary No Path Available message.
A couple of soulbind traits change this ability to provide a 15% shield, AoE disorient on arrival, root/snare removal on use, and a bunch of other extra gimmicks. Overall, the drawback of it is the 1.5s cast, but honestly, it will see some use even with that.

Necrolord

has received a number of mechanical changes. It still deals AoE damage around you, and it still attempts to grip anything further than 8 yards from you. However, it can now only grip the same target once every 4 seconds, and the first grip performed per cast of the spell grants 3 instantly, and another 6 during the cast. It still has a way too long cooldown to capitalize on soulbinds or use it every pull, it still deals a decent amount of damage per use, but the bone shield charge is extremely clunky and annoying.
Furthermore, the way you gain the following 6 charges (that they added four days to launch, and without warning, BY THE WAY) will lead to waste. Due to it having the same cooldown as and lasting 4s less than , you will very likely want to go all-out on damage during . But you don't gain the charges to trigger until 7s in. But by that point, you'll very likely have capped RP already. So you end up having to either cast Marrowrend early in order to get , thus wasting charges to gain damage, or you delay and lose damage for 3 bones.
And to "pay" for this, we lost 26% AP on a spell that already matched , thus making it strictly worse.
Four days to release, by the way.
, the associated covenant conduit, does exactly what we expect of borrowed power related to death knights: it simply dials the number a bit higher. No rotational or mechanical impact, just... flat damage.
is a 4-second channel that generates an absorb shield equal to 20% of your max health, ticking during the channel. If you’re next to a corpse, the absorb shield can scale up to 50% of your max health. Each tick snapshots your maximum health. You cannot dodge or parry during the channel. As such, you'll likely rarely, if ever, use it in combat, and this massively reduces its usefulness (along with its ultra super long cast time).

Night Fae

has been almost entirely redesign as a more maintenance-heavy version of itself. It still replaces ; however, the buff/debuff pair is now applied by hitting enemies with while both you and your target are in , thus limiting the DR debuff present on them to a theoretical maximum number of targets (largely due to being target-capped at 5 targets), and greatly increasing the maintenance overhead of this ability. You will now want to use just before fades, in order to guarantee as long a runway as possible until the next proc, and you will sometimes need to hardcast without a proc if the RNG gods are not on your side.
Fulfilling the fantasy of "this just does more damage", simply increases the damage of .
is, in all intents and purposes, a travel form with a 15yd blink attached. It locks you out of your abilities during it and cancels the moment you try to cast anything else, so unless you plan to kite for a while, you're going to find this button unattractive. A lot of the good PR related to it stems from a bug persisting during most of beta, where you were able to keep on casting during it.

Soulbinds and ConduitsConduits

Potency conduits generally amplify your throughput in some way

Endurance conduits are aimed at your defensive abilities

Finally, Finesse conduits modify your general utility spells

wantRank 7Potency conduits

, , , : these potency conduits are tuned properly (as they are shared with DPS specs) and provide what you expect of them: a noticeable amount of extra damage.
: At rank 7 (Mythic Nathria), this provides a 1.8% increase (stacking 3 times) to , which itself is a 8% AP spell. Even calling it a small increase is marketing spiel, and it makes look appealing, which I didn't think would be possible until now.
: At rank 7 (Mythic Nathria), provides a 24% increase to .

veryEndurance conduits

: Since when do you tap after the damage happens? With its initial tuning, it could look situationally appealing, but Blizzard decided to nuke it from orbit. It is now wholly irrelevant.
: At high ranks, this turns into a minor defensive. In my opinion, the effects should have been swapped - should've provided flat DR (10% or so) with the conduit providing the leech. It's still a nice endurance conduit, and does what it says it should do.
: Whoever designed this, I have no words. When was the last time you needed a purely defensive, healing-oriented increase for when you... min-heal with ? Boggles the mind.
: What is a potency conduit doing disguised as an endurance conduit? Seriously, 3s of is nice, and the extra HP is also neat, particularly since it lasts for a short while after fades. It is a good conduit, but it is one of those cases where you clearly see that this forced separation of purpose doesn't really make sense.
: Situationally awesome if you can make use of the extra duration/radius for , useless if you cannot. Likely to be used a lot in raids more than in Mythic+.

Finesse conduits

: At rank 7 (Mythic Nathria), this provides 30s of cooldown reduction on . What is an endurance conduit doing in the finesse aisle, again?
: Could see some use if needed. The problem is that Finesse slots are very limited in number, and the next conduit kind of takes precedence...
: At rank 7 (Mythic Nathria), this provides 16 RP per successful interrupt. This should be baseline. It is oppressive in choice, and a guaranteed pick the moment interrupts are concerned; it is too good offensively and defensively and completely eclipses the competition.
: With this, you waste a Finesse slot to save yourself from hitting after . Completely useless until rank levels not found for another two tiers, where the slow will actually be big enough to consider.

wildlyChoosing a Covenantyounot Necrolordveryno costentire treeThis assumes you can interrupt your target!reallyBlood Death Knight Legendaries

Since the last article, the additional and applied by have been nerfed in damage by 75%, then to 62.5% to account for their presence on the spec aura and its subsequent zeroing. Even with this, it is still very competitive on damage, even single-target, while providing a decent amount of extra Runic Power, making it a very appealing general-purpose legendary.
is still unchanged, providing RP refund when your heals you for a minimum of 10% of your maximum health. This will largely be a defensive-purpose legendary, used when the value of a is high enough to care about the frequency of them. is still our highest damage ability outside of covenants, and as such, it'll also provide a small amount of offensive throughput as well, assuming you can get the refund. Speaking of, , due to an effect not mentioned in the tooltip, guarantees this refund.
As a surprise third entry, was buffed to increase damage by 35%, making it a fun little legendary to use in tandem with for big, big death strikes. If only Mueh'zala wasn't part of a dungeon...

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Comentado por Willards29Truer words were never spoken about the same sandwich. So many cool things they could have added back to Blood.

Suffer well.Comentado por Barblyu“Suggestions to improve these were provided and, largely, ignored, so I guess we're stuck for another expansion of cookie cutter builds.”
“blues. Don't get me wrong, we're still competitive and we'll still be up there, but it just feels like the same sandwich for the third time in a row”
Don’t worry man, at least we aren’t as forgotten as Windwalker monks. (dOnT wOrRy iT iS sTiLl bEtA yOu CaNt CrItIcIzE tHeM yEt)Comentado por NamesInValGreat read! Glad to see Kyrian BDK is a viable choice.
I think I missed the final verdict on it, but are there any of the new runeforges we should use over Fallen Crusader ?Comentado por kenosisIsn't it better to go Emeni, for the ability to cast the shield while moving?
They might call me a troll but I still want to go to necrolord
I don't have the beta by the wayComentado por MandlIsn't it better to go Emeni, for the ability to cast the shield while moving?
They might call me a troll but I still want to go to necrolord
I don't have the beta by the wayso muchComentado por CaptainKodaGreat read :)

Same sandwich for the third time but hey, I won't lie, I love it. Could be way better but I'll take that. Thanks for the article mister Mandl.

I'll go venthyr, the Swarming Mist is so fun to press ;DComentado por Nancomerian521Venthyrs Swarming Mist section needs to be updated because it is stating that damage is uncapped, but as of spell changes happened on 19/11 it clearly states that it Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.Comentado por MandlVenthyrs Swarming Mist section needs to be updated because it is stating that damage is uncapped, but as of spell changes happened on 19/11 it clearly states that it Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.Comentado por Loghventhyr seems the way to go for multi purpose content. but its true that we lack a fun abilities that can be a bit busted. last bit of fun was remove with bonestorm.
adding "new abilities" to survive like rune tap and sacrificial pact are very welcome since we take huge punch in the face and were very lacking during part of legion and bfa.

hope they buff our dmg a bit. its truly heartbreaking to play bdk when you have other tank dealing double your dmg.Comentado por abris1995In light of the changes to Let Go of the Past, it is worth noting that Pelagos was not good "just" for the vers.

You wrote it during a previous build probably, it no longer gives vers.Comentado por Mandlposting a guide with outdated info nice

It is borderline impossible to spread the Kyrian DoT to more than 5 targets for a period long enough that the damage or DR delta makes a difference

Necrolord is hardcapped at 5 targets

Night fae deals no damage on its own, but most of your abilities except blood boil are hardcapped to 5 targets or less

Venthyr is softcapped to 5, hardcapped to 20

Comentado por BattlePanda"Some elements of borrowed power helped a bit on that front (particularly the insane AP multipliers on certain covenant abilities, the most noticeable being Swarming Mist for AoE burst, particularly since it is not target-capped), but that is largely band-aids over a core issue."

Well @#$% i guess.Comentado por RawliciousOverall, I am a bit saddened and disappointed that a large subset of the flagship features of Shadowlands have left Blood Death Knights hanging. We have had very few impactful class changes, and we still have a bunch of talents we will, reliably, never pick. Our legendaries are underwhelming, our soulbinds are weak and unimpactful, and our covenants largely reduce to "You have a button that does damage" with very little interaction aside from Death's Due, which has been turned into a maintenance buff.Comentado por Nancomerian521Venthyrs Swarming Mist section needs to be updated because it is stating that damage is uncapped, but as of spell changes happened on 19/11 it clearly states that it Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.Comentado por Herakleios"and one of our biggest vulnerability is still very much alive"

Necrolord limb was changed just recently.
Isnt the instant 3 charges and 3 every 6 seconds very nice?
Cast limb before pull and already have boneshield upComentado por MandlNecrolord limb was changed just recently.
Isnt the instant 3 charges and 3 every 6 seconds very nice?
Cast limb before pull and already have boneshield upreal easyComentado por HerakleiosIt was changed just now. The version in this guide is outdated.
One post earlier in wowhead.. spell changes.

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You can now get bone shield up before you pull. And get 3 stacks every 6 seconds.
In the guide that was the biggest weakness. Sounds like good now for me.
Maybe a shorter CD.. but 2 min is still good for every other pullComentado por OldburyRemovedComentado por CoreldannThis article is far too needlessly passive-aggressive towards Blizzard. Sort this out WoWhead c'mon, it reads like Little Timmy is upset that he got an Xbox Series X for his birthday instead of a PS5.Comentado por NolytwoBest read I've had in months.

The honest and mocking nature of this article makes it very informative and amusing read at the same time.

11/10 - would read again.

Cheers, Noly

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