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Vampiric Blood

Vampiric Blood

Instant	1 min cooldown

Requires Death Knight (Blood)
Requires level 76

Increases maximum health by 15% and increases healing recieved by 15% for 10 sec.

Buff

Vampiric Blood

Healing received increased by 15%.
Maximum health increased by 15.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Healing Taken - % (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 15%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Increase Max Health - Flat
Value: 15

Flags

Generates no threat

Guides

Blood Death Knight Guide

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Comments

Comment by Venator

This includes healing from other players which makes it very handy for tanking.

It also effects all the DK heals including First Aid

Its especially nice to pop before using Rune tap or Death Strike

Comment by Ancarma

Increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects by 50% for 20 sec.

Works with ANY healing effect, including Healing Potions, (Improved) Blood Aura, Seals of Light, etc. Makes a nice combo when almost dead: Vamp Blood, Rune Tap, Healing Pot. I've seen it heal for 80%

Edit: i'm using the following macro's now, because Vampiric Blood isn't on the 'regular' global cooldown:
#showtooltip Death Strike
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Icebound Fortitude
/cast Death Strike

I personally put Icebound Fortitude in there too, because it's a nice thing to have up when ready - I would forget if i had to click it all the time.

Also works with Rune Tap, but it does need 2 Blood Runes.

#showtooltip Rune Tap
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Rune Tap

This way you can also make macro's to activate Hysteria on yourself everytime you cast Heart Strike. Very nice!

Comment by butcher098

Vampiric Blood + Lifeblood + Gift of the Naaru + Rune Tap and finished with Death Strike = you getting back up to almost full hp no matter how low you are. If you are glyph'd with Glyph of Vampiric Blood and Glyph of Death Strike its even more heals which i find insane, and this is all just self healing, theres plenty more you could benefit from your party if they were healing you as well. =)

Comment by Drenvion

Blood is an offensive talentree, their defense becoming their offense, which would be great for tanking if it wasn't for poor itemization.

This would work like a special kind of mitigation cooldown, like Bone Shield or Unbreakable Armor(given the 1min cooldown) by increasing your healthgeneration from your spells and abilities.

Blizzard did try to make every tree viable for tanking however they scewed up Blood because of the gear, you need both high armor, parry, dodge and defense as well as attackpower, critical damage, probably haste and a pretty good weapon to be able to tank good as the other specs.

Blood needs way more defense to offense-converting talents than only Bladed Armor...

This is some speculations Ive done, I would very much like to be proved wrong, not because I like Blood which I don't, but because I would like it for people who likes Blood over the other trees to be able to tank just as well, because tanking as Death Knight is very fun.

Comment by addohm

Bit of a nerf, but in tune with Blizzard's ongoing push to move DKs away from being cooldown tanks

If that were true, it would have came with some sort of buff to avoidance, armor, or HP.

The real reason blizzard is doing this is because you have certain people who are able to find ways to solo things like Doomwalker, all of Karazhan, etc.

It is a nerf.

Comment by Vulcanis

In PvP/Arena play, this talent will be very nice in Patch 3.1 - this ability combined with the Improved Blood Presence talent will essentially negate Mortal Strike effects (+35% healing from Vampiric Blood + 10% healing from Imp. Blood Presence).

That's assuming they stack additively anyways.

Comment by WowZoogy

I just confirmed, this improves the healing effects of bandages.

Heavy frostweave bandages = 725-726 a tick
HF bandages + VB = 978-979 a tick

Not sure why this has a -1 rating, just trying to share information that wasn't already presented. : /

Comment by Groundlord

Draenei DKs have probably the biggest benefit from this IMO. They have their class skills, other people healing them, AND Gift of the Naaru.

Comment by undyingvisage

"Temporarily grants the Death Knight 15% of maximum health and increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects by 25% for 10 sec. After the effect expires, the health is lost." the health you gained through healing while this spell is in effect, is not lost after the effect expires.

tested by flying in the air, dropping down and loosing 50% health then using vampiric blood and then a rune tap. after vampiric blood was done. no health was lost.

Comment by chaoscurtis

Hum, you might understand this better ... You gain a 15% boost to your max health along with your current health.
So lets say your max health is 127k and your current health is 57k when you use this ...
Your max health will be boosted up to about 146k while your current health is boosted up to about 66k.

Comment by Angxia

Best used when you are able to get 2 death strikes in a row or lichborne self heal along with rune tap.

Comment by tobindax

This was one of the main reasons DKs were considered "squashy sponges of damage reception". It felt like you were still getting lots of damage, you were just having lots of health for it. This was of course back in Ulduar, I don't know about now, the dynamic might have changed.

Comment by ghostiron

In case anyone wonders, this does stack with symbiosis.

Comment by jtunis

The decision of whether or not to use Glyph of Vampiric Blood boils down to: If your healer(s) can heal you for more than 150% of your maximum health within the duration of the buff, then the glyph is an upgrade.

y = 1.5x, with y being the total healing received (measured over 10 seconds, the duration) and x being 15% of maximum health. Or, put otherwise, if your maximum health is less than 66.66% of the healing received over the duration, then the glyph is an upgrade.

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