Blood Death Knight Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set Bonuses:

• 2 Set: Damage done increased by 6%
• 4 Set: Damage done increased by 10%

Going into the Midnight pre-patch, our Tier Set bonuses will be removed, with some effects being seen on talent pages or just getting completely removed, and instead replaced with damage amplifiers that don’t directly affect gameplay.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Blood Death Knight, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

Disclaimer: the tables below have been generated around damage output as this will serve the majority of the player base who read these guides. Sims can be a little funky prior to release and see large swings in results, these tables will be updated once the patch is live.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Dungeon Trinkets

S Tier

• Tome of Lights Devotion: The goal with this trinket is to have a high uptime of ‘Inner Radiance’, which increases your Critical Strike and gives you a chance to deal additional Holy Damage.
• Cursed Stone Idol: You should always aim to use Cursed Stone Idol before Dancing Rune Weapon as it has a cast time and they share the same cooldown.

A Tier

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood: Simply put, this is a primary stat-stick that ramps over the course of a fight, useful on longer encounters as a strong alternative to Tome of Lights Devotion or Astral Antenna.
• So’leahs Secret Technique: A simple stat stick which provides bonus stats to whoever you use it on.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker: Static strength with a high chance to proc a large crit buff that blanket buffs your entire cooldown window without fail, disregarding the cooldown window this still has a very good uptime across an entire dungeon or boss fight.

B Tier

• Signet Of The Priory
• Incorporeal Warpclaw

C tier

• Void Pactstone
• Ticking Sack Of Terror
• Ringing Ritual Mud

Raid Trinkets

S Tier

• Brand Of Ceaseless Ire: The damage on this trinket scales with encounter length, similar to that of the Ara’Kara Sacbrood, making it a must-pick in Mythic+ and long raid fights.
• Unyielding Netherprism: This is a strong alternative to Cursed Stone Idol, and is better than it in cases where you can hold the trinket stacks for either a large pull or damage amp during a boss encounter. Use alongside Dancing Rune Weapon

A Tier

• Astral Antenna: This trinket will occasionally spawn orbs of arcane energy around you, that fly towards you. If you get orbs spawning before you are about to enter cooldowns, you are incentivized to avoid them until you enter cooldowns, as the buff stacks multiple times.
• Eradicating Arcanocore: Arcanocore is a competitive, strictly offensive trinket. It is a good source of funnelled damage when more targets are present and even better damage when there is only one target.
• Soulbinder's Embrace: This is the best general-use defensive trinket out there right now, providing on-demand damage reduction and a sizable absorb shield upon use.

B Tier

• All-Devouring Nucleus
• Araz's Ritual Forge
• Perfidious Projector
• Screams Of A Forgotten Sky

Delve Trinkets

Most relevant trinkets will come from either Raids or Dungeons, and are easily farmable at this point, but below are two notable Delve trinkets.

B Tier - Soulbreaker's Sigil

C Tier - Void-Touched Fragment

The recommended crafting order and items are as follows:

1. Craft Everforged Vambraces with Elemental Focusing Lens (Raid) or Dawnthread Lining (M+)
2. Craft Everforged Greatbelt with Elemental Focusing Lens (Raid) or Dawnthread Lining (M+)

It is always best to sim yourself when crafting a new item, these recommendations are based on the BIS profile and you may not have access to everything.

Due to crafting items having a slightly lower max item level you generally want to aim your crafted pieces at slots like bracers, belt or ring, I’ve recommended belt and bracers as long-term options since you can socket them.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Puzzling Cartel chips provide an easy way to obtain BiS trinket options, providing that you meet the criteria. You can earn up to 9 Chips per character, so up to 3 items can be purchased from the vendors in Dornogal. They do also have some unlock requirements, such as killing a boss on Mythic difficulty to be able to purchase Mythic loot for that boss.

Recommended Purchases:

• Tome Of Light's Devotion
• Unyielding Netherprism
• Eradicating Arcanocore

Reshii Wraps

The cloak slot will still be filled by Reshii Wraps, This cloak is obtainable via a quest chain, in which chapter 3 of the Ghosts of Karesh storyline will reward you with Reshii Wraps. It will get Item Level capped like all of your other gear, so upgrading it will no longer be necessary.

You can also add a secondary stat of your choosing to the Wrap via the Fiber Socket - as always Sim yourself as you can remove the Fibers at any point to slot another in.

But the result will most likely be:

• San’layn: Haste (Pure Chronomantic Fiber)
• Deathbringer: Critical Strike (Pure Precise Fiber)