Best Blood Death Knight Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

By Mandl Updated: 2022/11/28

Conduits

Potency conduits enhance your class' throughput potential

Endurance conduits focus on your defensive toolkit, by providing things like cooldown reduction or amplification to sustain/defensive cooldowns

Finesse conduits enhance niche parts of the spec's toolkit

Conduit OverviewBest Potency Conduits for Blood Death KnightsBlood-Specific Conduits

Conduit

Description

Raid verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Debilitating Malady

Provides a minor increase to your Blood Plague. You will be applying this passively, it will be doing negligibly more damage (< 1%)

Minor DPS/HPS gain

Withering Plague

Provides a minor increase to your Heart Strike. You will be triggering this passively, it will be doing very slightly more damage (< 1%)

Minor DPS gain

Adaptive Armor Fragment

Provides a small amount of additional strength almost passively. Very minor.

Minor DPS gain

Covenant-Specific Potency Conduits

Covenant

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Kyrian

Proliferation

Causes Shackle the Unworthy to deal extra damage, and extends its duration slightly.

Decent DPS gain

Necrolord

Brutal Grasp

Causes Brutal Grasp to deal extra damage to all targets it hits.

Decent DPS gain

Night Fae

Withering Ground

Provides a noticeable DPS increase to Death's Due.

Decent DPS gain

Venthyr

Impenetrable Gloom

Increases the damage provided by Swarming Mist, along with a flat 3% extra dodge

Decent DPS gain

Best Raiding and M+ Potency Conduits for Blood Death Knightsmust

Impenetrable Gloom if you are Venthyr

Withering Ground if you are Night Fae

Brutal Grasp if you are Necrolord

Proliferation if you are Kyrian

Withering Plague otherwise

Adaptive Armor Fragment if you need one last one.

avoidDebilitating MaladyBest Endurance Conduits for Blood Death Knights

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Blood Bond

Provides a 2% max HP heal to members of your party when you hit Rune Tap. Due to the fact that you typically Tap before the damage, and the fact that Tap is far from free, it only really gains value on prolonged damage periods (of which there are, actually, quite a few of). The nerf kinda ruined this even further.

Avoid

Hardened Bones

At high ranks, this turns Lichborne into a defensive cooldown. At low ranks, it's unnoticeable. You'll be expecting 9% DR with the Mythic Nathria rank of this Conduit, which, while very small, isn't bad as an additional defensive.

Great at high ranks

Insatiable Appetite

When you cause your Death Strike to min-heal, it typically means you don't need the healing in the first place. This is a trap Conduit with zero applications.

Avoid

Meat Shield

This is the only Endurance Conduit with an offensive benefit, and the first Endurance conduit you should slot. 3 more seconds on Dancing Rune Weapon, and some max HP scaling nicely with rank. Synergizes really well with out set bonus, as it means we effectively have 11% extra HP all the time, every time.

Amazing

Reinforced Shell

Situationally awesome if you can cover more spells (or people!) with Anti-Magic Zone. Useless otherwise.

Niche use cases

Condensed Anima Sphere

Weak, pad HPS. Not really worth it unless you want to avoid one of the bigger trap conduits.

Niche use cases

Best Endurance Conduits for Blood Death Knights for Raids

Meat Shield first and foremost, as it is both a DPS and survivability gain.

Hardened Bones is another defensive in your arsenal. Simple, effective, neat.

Finally, if you absolutely need a third, pick Reinforced Shell if you will use AMZ, or find a way to use AMZ if you don't currently use AMZ, then use Condensed Anima Sphere.

Best Endurance Conduits for Blood Death Knights for Mythic+

Meat Shield first and foremost, as it is both a DPS and survivability gain.

Hardened Bones is another defensive in your arsenal. Simple, effective, neat.

Finally, if you absolutely need a third, pick Condensed Anima Sphere. You will realistically never cap out Anti-Magic Zone in Mythic+ since there are only 5 players.