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Comment by 172532

What does a death rune do anyways, and is this the only way to obtain one?

Comment by 184156

is this an everlasting buff or is it an activated CD, because on the tooltip it reads "3 min cooldown" but nobody has said anything about this

and i was wondering if i had a spec like this if i use a Death Strike or Obliterate with Death Runes instead of FU than would they reactivate as Death Runes again or return to their original Rune values?

Comment by 1909

This is particularly useful for adding in two additional Heart Strikes to your Blood DPS rotation, or allowing more versatility for use of other abilities.

Comment by NSX08

This talent totally owns. Seriosly. My first blood specc were without this, then i changed to unholy and later I changed back to blood with this talent. Its huge diffrent.

1. Heart Strike Heart Strike Rune Strike Deathstrike, mob1 dead.
2. Heart Strike Heart Strike Heart Strike Heartstrike.

Yes, you get 4 or 5 blood runes cause of the deathrunes. Spam Heart Strike is so FTW.

Comment by 151655

if you build a DK with both Death mastery and Blood of the North from frost .. it would then be possible to have 6 death runes? with the idea of spaming obliterate and blood strike.

Comment by 34578

How long do the Death Runes stick around for?

Sometimes I've seen them stay after combat for 20-30 seconds and other times they are converted back right after.

Comment by 144730

As of 3.2, death runes created by this attack are now consumed in a more efficient order. If you have no regular runes available, the death runes will be consumed in order of what the rune was before it was converted. For an example, I'll abbreviate the rune types (B)lood, (F)rost, (U)nholy, and (D)eath.

A normal rune bar:
-- BBFFUU

If you convert your F and U runes to Death runes, when the runes refresh your bar will look like this:
-- BBDDDD

Now, if you hit Icy Touch it will use one of the first two runes, if you hit Plague Strike it will use one of the last two runes. Here is what you'd have after using those abilities:
-- BBfDuD
Note, the lowercase letters are runes that aren't available yet.

These changes make it much more difficult to burn both Unholy runes before your Frost runes, leading to a weird staggered rotation when they refresh.

Another glitch with them happens when you manage to get both of one type of rune as Death, and the other as its normal type. If you use both of those Death runes to cast Death Strike, instead of them both refreshing as Death one will fresh as normally, one will refresh as death, and one of the 'other' type of rune will refresh as death as well. Another example, where you somehow manage to set up both Frost runes as Death and your unholy runes are on cooldown:
-- BBDDuu
Firing off a Death Strike will result in this:
-- BBdfdu

This is why Death Runes don't always behave as you'd expect them to.

Comment by Redwood

The ability says there is a 3 min CD. Is it a mistake, does one need to activate the ability or is it a 3 min CD on the effect of the ability?

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Death Rune Mastery

Death Rune Mastery

Talent

3 min cooldown

Whenever you hit with Death Strike or Obliterate there is a 100% chance that the Frost and Unholy Runes will become Death Runes when they activate. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost or Unholy Rune.

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n/a

School

Shadow

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n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 1 every 30 seconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

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Passive spell
Aura is hidden
Cast time is hidden
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Death Rune Mastery

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