Introduction
This guide was written by Reholy, and has been updated for the Midnight Prepatch 12.0. You can often find Reholy helping other Blood DK’s learn or master the spec over on the DK Class Discord, or his own.
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Blood Death Knight Overview
Strengths:
- A toolkit that can handle both physical and magic damage profiles well.
- Excellent self-sustain.
- Raid and M+ utility via Death Grip, Gorefiend's Grasp, and Anti-Magic Zone.
- Hero talents that have a direct impact on gameplay and class strength.
- Knockback immunity: Death's Advance.
- Cheat Death talent: Purgatory.
Weaknesses:
- Limited Mobility options, via Death's Advance and Wraith Walk.
- Survival is tied to taking damage and healing it back.
- Immediate results of poor gameplay result in death.
- Standing inside your Death And Decay is still a vital component to leveraging as much out of the Blood DK kit for damage and healing.
What has changed
Midnight Pre-Patch Blood Death Knight Changes
There are a plethora of changes to Blood Death Knight in 12.0, we’ll be receiving direct changes to talent functionality with the complete rework of Consumption leading the charge. In addition to this, several long-standing talents will be removed and replaced by an entirely new selection of talents along with a redesigned specialization talent page to go with it. We will also be gaining a new column in both of our Hero Talent trees, and our Mind Freeze will silence for 5 seconds instead of 3, in preparation for Midnight.
Reworked Consumption: Consumption has been redesigned as an Empower ability. It now consumes 25/50/75% of your Blood Plague. Whilst empowering it, your damage taken will be reduced by 5/10/15%, which will remain for an additional 8/4/2 seconds after finishing the empower.
New Talents:
New San’layn Hero Talents:
Infliction Of Sorrow was also changed, it no longer has the ability to completely consume Blood Plague.
New Deathbringer Hero Talents:
Talent Changes: New pathways have been made within the talent tree, and talent options have been moved around, allowing for more freedom and easier access to certain spells.
For the full list of changes, check out the official patch notes.