Dragonflight Season 1 Blood Death Knight Guide

By Mandl Updated: 2024/07/23

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Mythic+ - No Blood Tap Build

Impact of Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Set for Blood Death Knight

Much like all expansions where tier sets were available from day 1, our very first tier set is somewhat boring and passive.

The two piece effect causes you to have a 20% chance to recover one rune when losing a Bone Shield charge. Tombstone, when used with 5 Bone Shield charges, is a guaranteed chance to refund one rune.
The four-piece effect grants you 10% haste, damage and healing after 10 Bone Shield have been consumed.

Both of these effects are somewhat in line with other tank tier sets, with the notable caveat that you need to get hit to benefit from them. As a result, the relative strength of the set differs radically between encounters (due to forced tank swaps or one specific Vault of the Incarnates boss not consuming Bone Shield due to not having an auto attack...), during periods of cooldowns (Dancing Rune Weapon reduces your chances to consume Bone Shield charges while it is up), and between content types (you are much more likely to consume Bone Shield charges on cooldown in Mythic+ than in raids).

Nevertheless, it is a pretty decent bonus. It just sucks that there are so many caveats to it and one specific case where it is literally worth near-zero value.

Blood Death Knight Tier Set Guide

Best Blood Death Knight Trinkets for Dragonflight Season 1

The first proper content wave in Dragonflight brings with it a number of trinkets - new and old - for us to play with. Rather than providing a direct "best trinkets" (we're tanks - we sometimes need to trade some value when it comes to trinkets!), we've listed a few you may be interested in instead.

Offensive Trinkets

Manic Grieftorch - a very potent, primarily single-target nuke. This has a channel time, and while it is very short (2s), it does mean we need to be slightly careful when using it. Every time somebody in your party or raid dies, this trinket's remaining cooldown is reduced by 90s. We're not saying killing your party members is a good way forward, but if they do happen to take the early exit, there's extra value to be had thanks to their sacrifice on what is already a very strong damage trinket.
Windscar Whetstone - players lucky enough to have gotten one during all the Legion Timewalking Mythic+ weeks in Shadowlands will remember this one. This is currently our best single target damage trinket as long as nobody dies (see #1 for the reason why). It is simple to use, deals a lot of damage, and op top of everything else, it is buffed by Bloodshot.

General Purpose trinkets

All-Totem of the Master - a very well-rounded general purpose trinket, this bad boy causes you to gain a 10s "stance" every 30s, switching every time you parry or dodge an attack. Refer to the trinket guide to learn more about the four stances and what makes this a very worthwhile general purpose, passive trinket.

Defensive Trinkets

Decoration of Flame is both gimmicky and relatively weak, but gets a mention due to not being a total write-off. The damage and the shield echo after 3 seconds, refreshing their value (instead of adding to them). This alone makes the tooltip deceptive and the use niche

Blood Death Knight Gear Guide

Best Blood Death Knight Consumables for Dragonflight Season 1

Dragonflight adds many different consumables that can be used by Blood Death Knights. Below we highlight the best ones to use in Season 1 Dungeons and Vault of the Incarnates.

Blood Death Knight Raid Consumables

Phial: Phial of Glacial Fury / Phial of Static Empowerment
Combat Potion: Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
Health Potion: Potion of Withering Vitality (You can Anti-Magic Shell the DoT)
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
Weapon Buff: Howling Rune

Blood Death Knight Mythic+ Consumables

Phial: Phial of Glacial Fury / Phial of the Eye in the Storm
Combat Potion: Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
Health Potion: Potion of Withering Vitality (You can Anti-Magic Shell the DoT)
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
Weapon Buff: Howling Rune

Blood Death Knight Consumables Guide

Comments

Comment by Dharkuul

AMZ should be taken instead of Grip of the Dead for M+.
Heartbreaker is overkill on the RP. Rune Tap + FB would be better, even if FB is trivial.

Dragonflight Season 1 Blood Death Knight Guide

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