Blood Death Knight Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Blood Death Knight Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: When you Death Strike, gain a stack of Blood Debt, increasing Strength by 0.5%, up to 5.0%. When Blood Debt reaches 10 stacks, your next Marrowrend consumes it granting 10% Strength for 10 seconds.
• (4) Set Bonus: When consuming Blood Debt, your next Marrowrend generates 3 additional Boneshield and deals Shadow damage to your target and nearby enemies.

Tier Set Discussion:

The main goals of the Season 2 Tier Set are to have as much damage in the 10% strength window as possible and to not “Waste” the buff, by holding it for too long.

For Deathbringer - The optimization will come from spending Exterminate and popping your Reaper's Mark inside of the Strength window.

For San’layn - The goal is to line up Blood Debt with our Dancing Rune Weapon, using the Strength buff to further amplify our Death Strike.

The lists below contain the Best in Slot gear for Midnight Season 2.

With the recent changes to catalyst charges, you are incentivized to spend charges on the higher item level pieces early into the season, as they are harder to replace.

As always, prioritise Item Level when gearing and don't overvalue Cantrip Effects.

• Raiding
• Mythic+

The general recommendation for trinkets is to take one trinket that pairs well with our main cooldown Dancing Rune Weapon, and a strong passive trinket.

S Tier Trinkets

Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek - Particularly good for San’layn, this trinket can be macro’d with your Dancing Rune Weapon to further buff your cooldown window.

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - This trinket is very strong in combination with the Cantrip Raid Weapons. Without these, I would use a passive trinket from A Tier.

A Tier Trinkets

Seed Of The Devouring Wild - A good farmable alternative to Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek.

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - This trinket provides random secondary stats, it’s not very good for consistency but you gain a lot of extra stats with decent uptime.

Sapling Of The Dawnroot - Simply put, this trinket is easy to farm and does large amounts of damage with no extra effort entwined.

Idol Of The War Loa - A very good passive and defensive alternative which will likely be seen in Mythic+ instead of Gebbo's Bottomless Bag.

I have only ranked S to A-Tier trinkets here, as the B Tier trinkets and below underperform compared to their farmable alternatives.

When judging embellishments, you should always sim your character accordingly.

If you lack a Myth-Track weapon, and you have 4 Spark Of Tides, craft:

• Blood Knight's Warblade with Hunter's Ritual Stone

Otherwise, Craft:

Single Target

1. Spellbreaker's Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining
2. Masterwork Sin'dorei Band with Polished Ammolite
3. Spellbreaker's Bracers with Adorned Fang

AoE

1. Spellbreaker's Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining
2. Spellbreaker's Girdle with Arcanoweave Lining

Keep in mind that you can only wear 2 Embellished crafted items at once.

Arcanoweave Lining has been recommended for AoE, as it provides more group value than Polished Ammolite.

Polished Ammolite and Adorned Fang were both untestable on PTR, avoid crafting these until more data exists.

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the second week of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Blood Death Knight:

• Rune 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Rune 2: Rune Of Self-Mending
• Rune 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Rune 4: Rune Of Critical Power
• Rune 5: Rune Of Overload (Mythic+) Rune Of Residual Energy (Raid)

For more information on this, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.