How Good Are the Death Knight Hero Talent Tier Sets in The War Within Season 3?

Posted 2025/06/28 at 10:24 AM by Wowhead

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Deathbringer
Deathbringer Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight Deathbringer 11.2 Class Set 2pc - When you cast Reaper's Mark, you gain two charges of Exterminate (one with Reaper's Onslaught). The single target scythe (first scythe) on these are 50% more effective, while the AoE scythe (second scythe) is 25% more effective.
Death Knight Deathbringer 11.2 Class Set 4pc - Reaper's Mark stacks up to 15 additional times (from 40 to 55 stacks), and when it detonates, your critical strike chance is increased by 10% for 8 seconds.

Before addressing the tier set itself, it is worth noting that Deathbringer received substantial, negative changes in 11.2. Exterminate now has a 25% chance to trigger a lone Dancing Rune Weapon, without triggering any talent tied to it; this exists alongside any previous Dancing Rune Weapon. As long as you have one Dancing Rune Weapon up, you gain 35% parry. (Was: 30% chance to re-apply Reaper's Mark, re-trigger Reaper of Souls if talented, and re-acquire two Exterminate when the new mark explodes)

Implementation & Gameplay

This set has a relatively strict rotational change due to Exterminate still being limited to a maximum of 2 charges. This means that you have to spend the new Exterminate charges before Reaper's Mark detonates. This is not the easiest task, as each Exterminate can add up to 8 stacks in a single cast. Any procs left over when Reaper's Mark detonates - along with their empowerements - are lost.

The 2-piece bonus itself appears to be bugged on PTR, in that the new Exterminate charges are weaker than the post-Reaper's Mark charges. Cursory maths hints at a division by (1+1.5) on first scythe and division by (1+1.25) on second scythe instead of multiplying by 1.5 and 1.25 respectively. Once you assume that they behave as intended, Reaper's Onslaught is within margin of error of Dark Talons in terms of throughput - making both talents interchangeable and down to whether you prefer a 30 or 45 second Reaper's Mark.

As a result of the 11.2 Deathbringer changes, you are limited to exactly one interaction with your tier set every 45 seconds instead of being able to have a chance to chain it (if you get lucky, which is debatable considering that the proc chance on Exterminate has been proven to not be a flat 30% on live realms; there is very little reason to assume that the new 25% chance has been adjusted to behave as the tooltip implies). An additional unfortunate loss is the removal of Abomination Limb, which used to contribute 13 easy stacks to Reaper's Mark.

Strength & Content

Since the tier set is not directly comparable to 11.1 in any way, shape or form due to the changes affecting Deathbringer as a whole, it is easier to quantify the benefits:

Main target: Up to 207.61% bonus AP damage from Reaper's Mark exploding, 523.60% AP per direct buffed scythe, 232.71% per AoE buffed scythe
Other targets: Up to 20.76% bonus AP damage from Soul Rupture, 232.71% per AoE buffed scythe

The 10% critical strike chance buff once Reaper's Mark explodes has a chance to provide some additional value if you send the follow-up Exterminate within 8 seconds; you are incentivized to do so. That this crit bonus applies to the non-empowered exterminates feels like a massive oversight, and I would suggest moving this crit buff to when Reaper's Mark is applied instead.

To put this into perspective, at equal item level, the combined effect of the baseline Deathbringer rework and the new tier set work out to a net loss over Blood's performance in 11.1.7, and, also at equal item level, equipping both 2-piece setbonuses is more desirable than acquiring the 4-piece. In general play, it is even more of an affront that the Season 2 2-piece also has defensive power tied to it (granted, a meager amount - random Icebound Fortitude procs). The new 4-piece is barely worth equipping once you acquire Hero track pieces, truly showcasing how weak this 4-piece tier set is compared to the Season 2 2-piece bonus.

Feedback

The idea to be forced to spend two more Marrowrend very shortly after applying Reaper's Mark is a somewhat jarring rotational change, and its implementation is fraught with issues. At the very least, to make it palatable, I would suggest increasing the maximum number of stacks of Exterminate procs you can hold to 4 in order to allow two things:

To reduce the rotational burden of having to slam Exterminate charges as quickly as possible, particularly when Reaper's Mark can explode prematurely in execute and rob you of a large amount of your tier set's strength when it does
To allow people to hit all four Exterminate (if they want to) while Empowered Soul is active

Beyond this, the on-application damage gain from being able to hit two Exterminate without having to wait up to 12 seconds is a nice change, particularly for Mythic+. It will allow players to hit Reaper's Mark while gathering and to immediately proceed with a large amount of AoE damage by hitting the two Exterminate shortly after, and to potentially gain 6 seconds of Dancing Rune Weapon while doing so - allowing them to delay their actual Dancing Rune Weapon slightly.

This is, unfortunately, where the gains end. Since the set provides critical strike chance and not rating, Riposte does not allow it to contribute to Parry rating, and as a result, the entire set is only damage. While providing critical strike chance is nice in that it bypasses rating-based diminishing returns, it feels extremely awkward that this tier set provides no defensive value whatsoever. This is a distinct break from previous tier sets, and a pattern that is also found in roughly a third of all tank tier sets. This feels like these sets were collectively designed for DPS specs and then shoehorned back to their tanking spec equivalents, as they all suffer from the same issue - either fully direct damage buffs, or non-rating benefits to critical strike chance.

It is also worth noting that Reaper's Mark has had an irritating behavior since launch: while your target is in execute, once every 3 minutes, regardless of anything you might want to attempt, Reaper's Mark will detonate at however many stacks it is the moment it gains one stack. This means that, while in execute, the 15 stack "advantage" provided by this tier set simply does not work. This behavior has been irritating and generally adds nothing of value to Deathbringer, and it is surprising to see a tier set that gets hampered by it. While it has disappeared from the tooltip of Reaper's Mark, it still detonates early on PTR.

Otherwise, the tier set itself is functional - bland, but functional. The real issue is twofold:

If the goal is to interact with the tier set, why would you remove the option to interact with it more than once every 45 seconds? Why did Exterminate have to be changed to proc a single, insignificant, short-duration Dancing Rune Weapon?
If the goal of this tier set is to provide a balance of offense and defense, as the San'layn tier set is intended to do, why give crit chance and not crit rating?

On the whole, this tier set is a whole lot of insignificant amount of damage for a spec that has just taken an 8% indirect nerf from talent tree changes on an equal gear level. Fully equipping both set effects do not even manage to bring the spec back up to its 11.1.7 offensive potential in single target, let alone in AoE.

San'layn
San'layn Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight San'layn 11.2 Class Set 2pc - Infliction of Sorrow extends the duration of your diseases on your main target and Essence of the Blood Queen increases your mastery by 0.8% per stack.
Death Knight San'layn 11.2 Class Set 4pc - Blood Beast lasts 14 seconds, and Vampiric Strike increases the melee attack power of your Dancing Rune Weapon by 10% for 6 seconds. Multiple applications may overlap.

Implementation & Gameplay

This tier set bonus is impossible to thoroughly test on PTR as the majority of its effects are broken:

The mastery buff granted by Essence of the Blood Queen incorrectly provides 0.3% mastery per stack instead of 0.8% to Blood Shield's mastery gain (i.e. 0.4% actual rating equivalent) outside of Gift of the San'layn. The tooltip for Essence of the Blood Queen hints at a 0.8% mastery gain before multipliers instead
Blood Beast does not extend to 14 seconds. It instead spawns, collects damage for 10 seconds, then detonates 2 seconds later
Vampiric Strike increases the auto damage of Dancing Rune Weapon and not its attack power
Infliction's extension inconsistently extends Blood Plague by one second or three seconds. during Gift.

Infliction of SorrowDancing Rune WeaponDancing Rune WeaponDancing Rune WeaponDeath StrikeDancing Rune WeaponInfliction of SorrowStrength & ContentDancing Rune WeaponFeedback

Of all the effects to buff on San'layn, why pick the spell that is kneecapped in the same patch? This change almost feels like a slap in the face, in that a major part of Blood Beast's power was stripped away only to be trickle-fed back into a tier set.

This tier set has no cohesive direction and tells no story. The Deathbringer tier set, while basic, buffs every effect from Reaper's Mark. This tier set tries to do everything in a minor amount, leading to a discontinuous, jagged and imprecise vision for the user. Which part of the tier set is important? Which part is filler? What can they look forward to? Right now, the answer to all three questions is "Nothing much", and it is a real shame to end an expansion on such a set.

Dancing Rune WeaponDeath StrikeFrost Death Knight Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses First Impressions

Deathbringer
Deathbringer Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight Deathbringer 11.2 Class Set 2pc - Casting Reaper's Mark grants 1 stack of Exterminate with 150% first scythe and 125% second scythe effectiveness.
Death Knight Deathbringer 11.2 Class Set 4pc - Reaper's Mark can stack up to 15 additional times and increases your critical strike chance by 10% after it explodes for 8 sec.

Implementation & Gameplay
This set is direct and to the point: do more damage with Reaper's Mark. The most significant gameplay impact is in the 2pc. With the 11.2 changes to Exterminate to grant Killing Machine, we will get a guaranteed Killing Machine at the start of Pillar of Frost. Grim Reaper pairs nicely here to remove any questions about wanting to get a Killing Machine before spending the Exterminate. We will open Pillar of Frost with Reaper's Mark and then immediately use Obliterate to consume both Exterminate and Killing Machine, followed up with another Killing Machine. This feels good for a few rounds, but quickly starts to feel scripted.

Meanwhile, the 4pc has no gameplay to write about. It simply makes Reaper's Mark better without any extra input from us. We hit the stack cap fast enough that there is no doubt we will get to spend the Exterminate procs during Pillar of Frost.

Strength & Content
Like the rest of Deathbringer, this tier is a jack of all trades. Exterminate deals good priority damage and respectable AoE damage. Having more of it will make us more effective in all situations, as it does not lean too strongly into either damage profile. The 4pc is particularly good for situations where we want to focus on a priority target with adds.

Feedback
It is difficult to identify any significant issues with such a straightforward tier bonus. It may be intentionally plain due to Frost also receiving a substantial overhaul to its talent tree, which will shake up the baseline enough that a tier set is no longer necessary to alter the playstyle. It would be nice if the set made us reconsider the choice nodes within Deathbringer that have been locked in all expansion. Reaper of Souls and Reaper's Onslaught already do not mesh with Frost's rotation and cooldown timings, and this set does not make either of those more enticing for Frost.

Rider of the Apocalypse
Rider of the Apocalypse Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight Rider of the Apocalypse 11.2 Class Set 2pc - Pillar of Frost now summons Trollbane for 10 sec. Trollbane's Icy Fury deals 10% increased damage and his Obliterate deals 35% increased damage.
Death Knight Rider of the Apocalypse 11.2 Class Set 4pc - Casting Obliterate or Frostscythe orders Trollbane to cast his Obliterate or Frostscythe alongside you at 100% effectiveness. Your Obliterate deals 20% increased damage to targets affected by Trollbane's Icy Fury.

Implementation & Gameplay
This set appears interactive at first glance, but it slots into our existing rotation without disruption. We cannot control what Trollbane targets, so there is no opportunity to focus him on a priority target to activate the 4pc debuff. Both Obliterate and Frostscythe are high-priority abilities in Frost's rotation, so there is little room for them to become more important and frequently used than they already are.

Strength & Content
This set leans strongly into single-target damage. Trollbane's personal Obliterate and Frostscythe do not do much damage, so they are barely worth considering in the throughput value of this set. The 2pc also only buffs his Obliterate and leaves Frostscythe behind, undermining even a slight AoE benefit from this set. It is possible to get multiple Trollbane's Icy Fury out at a time and pop them all with a Frostscythe, but this forgoes the extra 20% bonus damage from the 4pc.

Patch 11.2 also brings the removal of Cleaving Strikes cloning Obliterate, so the 4pc does not offer the AoE benefit it would have with the previous iteration of Cleaving Strikes.

Feedback
This set is sorely lacking AoE and consistent interactions. With the 11.2 Frost changes, Frostscythe is intended to replace Obliterate in AoE. However, this tier set does not support that goal. The 4pc needs to apply the bonus damage to debuffed targets to Frostscythe as well. Otherwise, the set forces us to choose between using our strong AoE button or leveraging our 4pc even a little bit.

Even if a newer version of the 4pc works with Frostscythe, this set is still too passive to be interesting. That may be the intention, given the scope of changes for Frost in 11.2, but it would still be nice if this set gave us something to think about in picking our talents for the spec or the Hero Talent tree.

Deathbringer vs. Rider of the Apocalypse
Overall, I prefer the Deathbringer set. It works nicely with both AoE and ST, and provides a nice feeling by adding a guaranteed Killing Machine. Rider of the Apocalypse is largely uninteractive and adds friction between two spells that are supposed to be interchangeable depending on whether you are doing a single-target or AoE encounter.

Themeing tier around Hero Talents is a tough challenge, and on top of that, Frost has an extensive rework hitting at the same time. Simple sets that do not exert pressure on the spec tree to cater to them make sense at this time. Still, I hoped that Hero Talent themed tier sets would bring something more interesting or interactive. It feels like needing to provide two sets for a spec interferes with the opportunity to make something that would have players considering how they can best play around their new tier effect.

Unholy Death Knight Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses First Impressions

Rider of the Apocalypse
Rider of the Apocalypse Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight Rider of the Apocalypse 11.2 Class Set 2pc - Apocalypse now summons Whitemane for 10 seconds. Whitemane’s Undeath deals 10% increased damage and infects 1 additional target when it spreads, and her Death Coil deals 35% increased damage.
Death Knight Rider of the Apocalypse 11.2 Class Set 4pc - Casting Apocalypse or Epidemic orders Whitemane to cast her Death Coil or Epidemic alongside you at 125% effectiveness. Your Death Coil deals 40% increased damage to targets affected by Whitemane’s Undeath.

Implementation & Gameplay
While I'd love to say this tier set introduced some interesting gameplay for Riders where it's sorely been lacking, it sadly did not. It's yet another entirely passive tier set that just makes you do more damage by doing what you're already doing.

When it comes to the 4 set bonus, having her cast her Death Coil, or Epidemic with us, is an interesting concept, and while her own death coil doesn't do a ton of damage on its own, this will more than double her death coil casts, with some extra damage to boot. I generally like this portion of the effect. Boosting our Death Coil damage, on the other hand, is uninspired and, as usual, makes this a death coil-based tier set.

Strength & Content
The power of this set bonus is a bit of a conundrum. Whitemane is the weakest of the 4 Riders by a long shot, providing roughly half the value that Trollbane would provide as the best Rider of the bunch. A set bonus focused on her Undeath is always going to be lacking due to this; she's just not a Rider we want to see summoned randomly at the moment. Summoning her with Apocalypse is a nice gesture, as it means we are more likely to summon Riders that we actually want, so this does contribute significantly to the strength of the tier set, but Undeath inflicting 1 more target, and her Death Coil doing a bit more damage are just drops in the ocean for our overall damage, making the 2 set bonus incredibly lacking.

The only redeeming quality of the 4 set bonus in terms of power for Single Target ends up being the Death Coil damage bonus. Apocalypse summoning Whitemane with the 2 set bonus drastically increases the uptime of Undeath, which then increases our own Death Coil damage drastically. Conversely, in AoE, Whitemane's own Epidemic deals an incredible amount of damage, often times more than our own!

With all that said, this tier set bonus is likely to provide similar power gains in both AoE and Single Target, though the source of that damage in single target is Coil, not really Whitemane herself.

Feedback
While I like this tier set quite a bit more than San'layn's set bonus for Unholy, due to feeling like it's working towards a cohesive goal focused on Whitemane, it feels like the design team who worked on this massively overestimated the power Whitemane provides to us. With Undeath's 1-second target-specific internal cooldown on spreads, this set bonus is massively held back. Even if it is spreading to an additional target, that 1s internal cooldown is going to absolutely butt heads with it and lead to barely more spreads than we currently see.

If this internal cooldown were to be removed, though, it causes a massive snowball where everything is near instantly getting Undeath in AoE scenarios even without the tier set bonus. I'm not sure what feedback to give other than, there's no good solution here, but I like the concept of allowing her to also cast Epidemic at least.

Add to this the fact that many bugs still exist with Undeath that were reported in Alpha, causing Undeath to not scale with many of the effects you'd expect it to (most prominently Unholy Assault, and Brittle), as well as a bug with the 2 set bonus not increasing the damage of Undeath (the tier set is attempting to modify undeaths direct damage component, which is 0, rather than its periodic component), and we have a complete recipe for a Death Coil tier set in disguise.

If there's any specific feedback I could give for this set bonus, it would be to nix the Death Coil damage bonus and instead focus everything into Whitemane, make her what she should have been from the beginning.

San'layn
San'layn Season 3 Tier Set Bonuses

Death Knight San'layn 11.2 Class Set 2pc - Infliction of Sorrow extends the duration of your disease by an additional 3 seconds on your main target, and Essence of the Blood Queen additionally increases your Mastery by 0.8% per stack
Death Knight San'layn 11.2 Class Set 4pc - The Blood is Life lasts for an additional 4 seconds, and Vampiric Strike increases the melee attack power of your ghoul by 5% for 6 seconds. Multiple applications may overlap.

Implementation & Gameplay
When it comes to the San'layn Tier set bonuses for Unholy, it is entirely passive in its effects. Buffing Infliction of Sorrow, Essence of the Blood Queen, and The Blood is Life, while making Vampiric Strike buff our main ghoul as well. All in all, it ultimately does not impact gameplay in any significant way; you simply do more damage while doing what you would already be doing. The minor Mastery buff alongside Essence just enforces the requirement to maintain uptime on Essence, making high-downtime fights like Rik Reverb, or wipes in mythic+ more punishing for San'layn-based builds than before.

Strength & Content
When it comes to the tier set bonuses' power, it leaves a lot to be desired. The ramping damage increase provided by the 2-set interaction with Infliction of Sorrow does lead to Infliction's consume hitting quite hard, but being a once-per-45-second thing, leaves a lot to be desired. This effect is currently bugged on PTR, only providing 1 second of extra Virulent Plague duration once you surpass the 27s base duration of the DoT, which is heavily limiting it in testing currently.

The Blood Beast portion of the effect seems great at a glance, but the significant nerfs this ability received on PTR make this effect lackluster at best. 4 extra seconds will amount to an unnoticeable increase in Blood Beast's damage. While the Ghoul empowerment aspect is cool in concept, the Ghoul also does beans for damage, making it nothing more than a tiny benefit. This effect also appears to be bugged, and provides Auto Attack damage only, while not buffing anything else the ghoul does.

Overall, this ends up making this tier set significantly better in single target, while in AoE and Mythic+ scenarios, the tier-set bonus may as well not exist due to providing so little power. I would not be shocked to see San'layn players utilize the Season 2 tier set for the entirety of Season 3 in Mythic+ with the current power levels this aims to provide.

Feedback
In my opinion, the San'layn tier set needs a lot of work; it feels like 5 different ideas thrown at a wall to see what sticks, rather than anything cohesive. The 2 set bonus in particular will provide insanely low value in any mythic+ scenario due to pulls often not lasting long enough for the disease extension of Infliction of Sorrow to ever even matter, let alone be consumed. This essentially makes the 2-set just a tiny mastery buff.

When it comes to the 4-piece bonus, it's perfectly fine in concept, but feels like it was made before the blood beast nerfs we are seeing on PTR, making this portion of the set so weak that we may as well not even have a 4-set bonus.

I like the concept of Hero-Talent-based tier sets in theory, but the execution here is lacking in so many ways. While specialization tier sets have always felt cohesive, as if the 2pc and 4pc work together to create something bigger, this tier set does not accomplish that in the slightest, so if this is the best they have, I'd rather Hero Talent tier sets just not be a thing.

Rider of the Apocalypse vs. San'layn
Comparing the tier sets here is a bit difficult. While I like the concept of Rider's tier set significantly more than San'layn's tier set, the Rider tier set has some very apparent flaws that are going to make its power level significantly worse than what it could be. The San'layn tier set is totally fine mechanically, and mostly lacking any sort of cohesive flow or vision to it, but at least it can be tuned; the same can't be said for the Riders set without a redesign of the 2-piece.

Comment by maliceIm gonna say it I don't care if its redundant. Do not take abomination limb from us. A large part of your player base does not engage with raid. I havnt touched it this entire expansion item level 666...yep lovely level for death knight. Your punishing a large part of your player base it was never a raid buff. Its the most death knight thing ever put in the game. Please don't take it from us.Comment by KolplerFerri#GripIsNOTaRaidBuffComment by BarandRemoving the rng aspect of Deathbringer was a good change, It was too toxic because Reaper's Mark and the Scythes do quite a lot of damage and a lot more damage was heavily relying on rng which when it comes to Frost dk It already has enough rng aspects so they should just buff them by a bit as compensation.
The actual and big AoE value of the Rider tier set for Frost comes from Trollbane's Icy Fury itself, You get Trollbane from Pillar, Frostwyrm's Fury and the base random proc to summon a Rider, So you have a lot of uptime on his chain of ice so you are going to gain a lot of AoE damage value from that, having Obliterate do more damage on targets that are affected by his debuff likely is to increase his power on single target because Trollbane's Icy Fury is not as crazy on single target as it is on AoE.
As for the Unholy Rider tier set they should just fix the Undeath scaling for Unholy so it can perform better, As the Author said making Undeath spread more and stack faster can be dangerous and for the 4p they should just nerf it by 20% but make Epidemic do 20% more damage to targets that are affected by Undeath aswell.
As for San'layn just rework the 4p or just don't bother, The hero talent design wise is not as good as Deathbringer and Rider and S2's tier set was a major factor(and the toxic rng blood beasts) that made it work; This hero talent just needs a rework.Comment by BarandIm gonna say it I don't care if its redundant. Do not take abomination limb from us. A large part of your player base does not engage with raid. I havnt touched it this entire expansion item level 666...yep lovely level for death knight. Your punishing a large part of your player base it was never a raid buff. Its the most death knight thing ever put in the game. Please don't take it from us.Comment by AsherrTheRedwhat really strikes me as odd, is they took the time to make different rider sets for udk and fdk, but left all the bdk sets the exact same as the dps counter parts, even to the defensive detriment of bdk. Truely bliz did not consider bdk at all wen they made these sets.Comment by AsherrTheRedGripIsNOTaRaidBuffComment by KurlsUnholy DK needs to fire their class writer. The guy is always up in arms and never gives positive feedback.Comment by TanknspankCall your state representatives and tell them the injustice to death nights happening on the daily.Comment by ZunaDespite huge changes coming to the class next patch, some very questionable, I am still excited about playing DK again because we seem to have the best class writers out there. It really does make a difference when you know there are dedicated devs and passionate/articulate top players advocating on your behalf.Comment by Tanknspank#injustucetodeathnights #deathknightslivesmatter. # nolivesmattertilldeathknightmatterComment by KurlsDespite huge changes coming to the class next patch, some very questionable, I am still excited about playing DK again because we seem to have the best class writers out there. It really does make a difference when you know there are dedicated devs and passionate/articulate top players advocating on your behalf.Comment by BarandCall your state representatives and tell them the injustice to death nights happening on the daily.Comment by AveignisIncredibly common San'layn sweep. Big WComment by TanknspankDear blizzard, I am a ilvl 696( yeah, cool guy number for a death knight, I know) . Don’t take bomb lion from me because as a world quester I will not be able to good. Like how am I suppose to pull mobs to me ?. Also can you fill my mail box with mythic raiding gear? It was my birthday 2 weeks ago. Also, I called my state representatives per the death knight discord and told them of the injustice of death nights where you are pretty much stepping on our necks and making us not breathe even though I can’t already breathe because I haven’t moved from computer chair since 2006. Mom if you see this, I need more Mountain Dew and some more toilet paper.Comment by maliceMost of you missed my point. I don't raid. I delve. Slappy hands is really nice to have around. They seem to keep balancing the game around raid or mythic + Instead of wholesale removal why not leave it as a choice node? So I loose some dps to keep utility. Originally wasn't that what those talent trees where for?Comment by kpurckeep grips the same, no one cares if theyre immune, just give dk a 3% crit or haste raid buff (like shamans got) and call it a day. It doesnt have to be complicated.Comment by pndpunkI’ve been playing a Death Knight for years and I feel insulted by this set. After all this time the class deserves better than this. This is a complete disregard for everything that makes Death Knights iconic. The whole theme, it feels like they’ve completely missed the mark. The class has such a rich backstory and this set just doesn’t do it justice. It’s disappointing to see such a lack of effort.Comment by itruliaDespite huge changes coming to the class next patch, some very questionable, I am still excited about playing DK again because we seem to have the best class writers out there. It really does make a difference when you know there are dedicated devs and passionate/articulate top players advocating on your behalf.Comment by ArkthugalRider's set bonus being passive is an upside.Comment by CobatFeels very bad to be a blood dk at the moment, but there's still time for things to turn around. Here's hoping.