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Conversion

Conversion
0 Runic Power, plus 20 per second
Instant
Requires Death Knight
Requires level 75

Converts Runic Power to health, restoring 2% of maximum health per 1 sec. Lasts until cancelled or Runic Power is exhausted.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

0 Runic Power, plus 20 per second

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 5 every 1 second

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy (3)
Value: -100
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Dummy (12)
Value: -100
Server-side script

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Dummy (32)
Value: -100
Server-side script

Guides

Blood Death Knight Guide

Death Knight DPS Guide
(Frost/Unholy)

Unholy Death Knight
PvP Guide (Gearing
up, Pressure and Utility)

Warlords of Draenor Death
Knight Changes

Comments

Comment by Leviatharan

As they put Vampiric Blood back into the Blood specialization, Conversion is the new Tier 4 Death Knight healing spell.
Costs 10 runic power to cast, and consumes 10 more every second to heal you for 3% of your max HP.

Combining it with Anti-Magic Shell when under fire introduces the possibility of a VERY potent healing spell...
...Or it would if additional RP-sources like Scent of Blood and Frost Presence actually functioned while it was active. For the time being, the current model greatly diminishes its value, as the opportunity cost of it outweighs any advantages: It reduces the DK's ability to activate Tier 75 talents, increases the ramp-up to Dark Transformation, reduces the number of Frost Strikes a DW Frost DK can chain into Killing Machine, and so forth.

Compare to our free burst healing CD Death Pact, or our longest-ranged and one of our best AP-scaling spells, Death Siphon.

Edit: In 5.2, the cost has been cut in half to try and double the uptime... though the RP-reduction is what's really cutting down its value.

Comment by Otore

Conversion has no cooldown, and no set duration.

As long as you can supply it with runic power, the buff will remain.

"Only base Runic Power generation from spending runes may occur while Conversion is active.", means that it stops runic power generation from frost presence and SoB. However, runic power generation from ams continues.

Casting it intiates a global cooldown, and it cannot be cast druing a global cooldown.

The button functions as a toggle by default (like a rogue's blade flurry), and pressing it again while active cancels the effect.

Comment by Ironplague

This is one more CD that DK tanks will use, besides Vampiric Blood and Icebound Fortitude. It is the same ability the druid tanks have had for a long time (Frenzied Regeneration), but without the HP buff.

Comment by Kurnhard

While actually playing, this spell offered a new dimension to the ways we can use runic power.

Previously our only runic power dump would have been through Rune Strike, but now we are given the option of healing ourselves with our runic power instead of simply using it for damage/threat.

While tanking, it felt wonderful having the choice of threat or healing when I needed it and I am sure that many other DK tanks will also come to love conversion.

It's a single ability, but it adds even more depth to our already interesting tanking system.

Comment by Dorleron

Something no one seems to have mentioned yet, but this can potentially restore 30-60% health if used properly. Another thing that I love about this, is that Lichborne is in the tier prior to this one, and if they don't alter it, or the way Death Coil works, Death Knights will potentially have two runic power dump self heal cooldowns that could be rotated quite easily.

Comment by LatroVir

Apparently allows you to solo the new Temple of the Jade Serpent instance.

Comment by Demonboy2012

Is runic power generation from the blood elf's arcane torrent also disabled or does it still generate runic power with conversion enabled?

Comment by mark211175

How on earth can you die with this wicked healingspell on, As a level 86 Blood DK its a walk in a park, when i step in to a group of 10 level 88 monsters. Non elite though, but still it amazes me everytime again, how easy i survive those impossible fights, where other classes got nightmares from it. I would rather have this spell on, then the Death Siphon spell just my opinion.

Comment by urakantu

this talent has no cooldown and can be used as long as one has runic power however it costs quite much rune (10 per sec) considersing we use runic power for rune strike for tier 5 talent procs (like Runic Empowerment ). however 5.2 patch notes say:

Conversion now costs 5 Runic Power plus 5 per second thereafter (was 10 Runic Power plus 10 per second).

seems we will see more DKs with this talent after 5.2

Comment by Splondir

Currently bugged. Spamming a /cast !Conversion macro (notice the !) will repeatedly trigger the heal with each press.

This will allow you heal up much faster, though the runic power will be consumed just as quickly.

Comment by Bogdanov89

As a low level DK tank (lvl60+) this is an amazing spell for spending Runic Power - since both Death Coil and Rune Strike are not all that useful without level 75 talents.

IMO your best bet is to use Conversion for tanking all the way up to lvl75 (tier 5 talents) - and then decide how you want to spend your Runic Power from there on.

Comment by rodalpho

Conversion costs 30 Runic Power/second for Blood, 15 Runic Power/second for Frost, and 20 Runic Power/second for Unholy.

Edit: Frost cost increased from 10RP to 15RP in a 6.0.3 hotfix on Jan 5 2015.

Comment by TrutusBalnazzar

Absolute garbage now (at least for Blood). Costs 30 RP per second and heals for 2% per second.
That's 1.95k out of my 97k health per second for 3 seconds before it turns itself off.

Tested this with Vampiric Blood up. 2.4k out of my 111k per second for 3 seconds. Looks like I'll be switching back to Death Pact again ._.

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