Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1 Best in Slot Gear - Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Por Mabrito Actualizado: 09/02/2023

Best in Slot Gear for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1

Stamina - Having a higher health pool increases the value of most of your healing toolkit, and 3 of your Defensive Cooldowns.

Armor - Blood Death Knights rely on high EHP value to live due to the lack of shields. Armor gives you flat DR, which is super valuable.

Strength - Gives AP which affects your Diseases and Strikes. It also gives Parry at a low rating.

Emblems of Valor for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Emblema de valorNaxxramasEl Sagrario ObsidianaEl Ojo de la EternidadLa Cámara de Archavon

Rank

Item

Price

Quijotes del vencedor perdido

75 Emblema de valor

Capa de malla de platino

25 Emblema de valor

Sello de fortaleza inexpugnable

25 Emblema de valor

Manto del vencedor perdido

60 Emblema de valor

Brazales de parapetos de Dalaran

60 Emblema de valor

Apisonadoras de suelo de Kyzoc

40 Emblema de valor

Body Armor for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Head for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Helm EnchantDisco de amplificación mentalArcanum del adepto protector

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Visera de vástagos de la Plaga valerosa

Turn in reward from Corona del vencedor perdido dropped by Kel'Thuzad

Naxxramas / Griselda Hunderland

Optional

Yelmo de protección vital

Drops from Gothik el Cosechador

Naxxramas

Optional

Gran yelmo corrupto de señor feudal

Drops from Cofre de los Cuatro Jinetes

Naxxramas

Shoulders for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Shoulder EnchantInscripción del gladiador superior

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Espaldares de vástagos de la Plaga valerosos

Turn in reward from Manto del vencedor perdido dropped by Loatheb and Gluth, or bought with 60 Emblema de valor.

Arcanista Adurin / Naxxramas / Griselda Hunderland

Optional

Espaldares de muerte no natural

Drops from Anub'Rekhan

Naxxramas

Optional

Hombreras de abominación

Drops from Remendejo

Naxxramas

Back for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Capa del sol ensombrecidoCapa de malla de platinoRecommended BiS Cloak EnchantBase de tejido flexibleEncantar capa: tejido de titánEncantar capa: agilidad sublimeEncantar capa: esquivarEncantar capa: Armadura poderosa

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Capa del sol ensombrecido

Zone Drop

Naxxramas

Optional

Capa de malla de platino

Costs 25 Emblema de valor

Arcanista Adurin

Optional

Capa a prueba de vendavales

Drops from Sartharion

El Sagrario Obsidiana 10-man

Chest for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Chest EnchantPergamino de Encantar pechera: súper saludEncantar pechera: defensa superior

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Coselete de vástagos de la Plaga valeroso

Turn in reward from Coraza del vencedor perdido dropped by Cofre de los Cuatro Jinetes and Gluth.

Naxxramas / Griselda Hunderland

Optional

Coraza de tormenta de dragón

Drops from Sartharion

El Sagrario Obsidiana 25-man

Optional

Coraza de rabia atormentada

Drops from Gluth and Heigan el Impuro

Naxxramas

Wrist for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Bracer EnchantEncantar brazales: aguante sublimePeleteríaForro de pelaje de aguante

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Brazales del caballero profano

Drops from Instructor Razuvious

Naxxramas

Optional

Brazales de parapetos de Dalaran

Costs 60 Emblema de valor

Arcanista Adurin

Optional

Brazales de esbirro

Zone drop

Naxxramas 10-man

Hands for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Glove EnchantCincha de armadura reticuladaRefuerzos de guantesEncantar guantes: agilidad sublimeEncantar guantes: periciaEncantar guantes: precisiónEncantar guantes: armero

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Manoplas de vástagos de la Plaga valerosas

Turn in reward for Guanteletes del vencedor perdido

Sartharion 25-man

Optional

Guanteletes de corazón calloso

Drops from Gran Viuda Faerlina

Naxxramas

Optional

Manoplas de vástagos de la Plaga de Héroes

Turn in reward from Guantes del vencedor perdido costing 60 Emblema de heroísmo or El Sagrario Obsidiana 10-man

/ Naxxramas / Griselda Hunderland

Waist for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1NaxxramasFaja de quitina ablativaRecommended BiS Belt EnchantCinturón de fragmentaciónIngeniería

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Faja de quitina ablativa

Drops from Maexxna

Naxxramas

Optional

Guardarrenes de hierro llamativo

Costs 40 Emblema de heroísmo

Arcanista Ivrenne

Optional

Faja alineada antigua

Drops from Anub'arak

Azjol-Nerub

Legs for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Leg Armor:Armadura para pierna de pellejo de escarcha

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Quijotes de soberanía

Contained in Obsequio de Alexstrasza

El Ojo de la Eternidad 25-man

Optional

Musleras de vástagos de la Plaga valerosas

Turn in reward from Quijotes del vencedor perdido dropped by Thaddius and Gluth, or bought with 75 Emblema de valor.

Arcanista Adurin / Naxxramas / Griselda Hunderland

Optional

Musleras de linaje de dragón

Drops from Sartharion

El Sagrario Obsidiana 25-man

Feet for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Escarpes de RobustezRecommended BiS Feet EnchantEncantar botas: vitalidad colmillarrEncantar botas: entereza superiorPropulsiones de nitro

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Escarpes de Robustez

Drops from Thaddius

Naxxramas

Optional

Apisonadoras de suelo de Kyzoc

Costs 60 Emblema de valor

Arcanista Adurin

Optional

Botas impermeables a la peste

Drops from Noth el Pesteador

Naxxramas 10-man

Jewelry for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Neck for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Babera militar encadenada

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Ambición sin límites

Drops from Kel'Thuzad

Naxxramas

Best

Herencia

Zone Drop

Naxxramas

Optional

Babera militar encadenada

Costs 40 Emblema de heroísmo

Arcanista Ivrenne

Rings for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Ring EnchantEncantar anillo: aguante

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Sello de fortaleza inexpugnable

Costs 25

Arcanista Adurin

Best

Portero

Drops from Safirón

Naxxramas

Best

Sortija desgastada por las arenas

Zone Drop

Naxxramas

Optional

Sortija de Desvío

Drops from Anub'Rekhan

Naxxramas 10-man

Optional

Sello del acuerdo

Drops from Sartharion

El Sagrario Obsidiana 10-man

Optional

Anillo de guardia de tierra de titanio

Crafted BoE

Made by Joyería

Trinkets for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Figurilla: cangrejo monarca

Crafted BoP

Joyería

Best

Figurilla: liebre de rubí

Crafted BoP

Joyería

Best

Esencia de delicadez

Drop from Hadronox

Azjol-Nerub

Optional

Medalla al valor de la Primera Guerra

Costs 40 Emblema de heroísmo

Optional

Sello del Panteón

Drop from Loken

Cámaras de Relámpagos

Optional

Propulsor sónico

Crafted BoE (Requires Engineering)

Made by Ingeniería

2-Handers and Dual-Wield Weapons for Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1Recommended BiS Weapon EnchantsRuna de la gárgola piel de piedraRuna de devastación de espadas

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Crujehuesos de Gladiador mortal / Decapitadora de Gladiador mortal / Espada magna de Gladiador mortal

Requires 4500 Puntos de arena and a Personal Rating of 1930.

Best

Zone Drop

Optional

Drops from Kel'Thuzad

Naxxramas

Recommended BiS Weapon EnchantsRuna del caparazón nerubianoRuna de ruptura de espadas

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Rielúltimo

Drops from Kel'Thuzad

Naxxramas

Best

Cuchilla de Gladiador mortal / Moledora de Gladiador mortal / Cercenadora de Gladiador mortal

Requires 3150 Puntos de arena and a Personal Rating of 1930.

Nargle Trallacable

Best

Promesa rota

Drops from Cofre de los Cuatro Jinetes

Naxxramas

Optional

Asesino del Difunto

Drops from Gothik el Cosechador

Naxxramas 10-man

Sigilo del caballero resueltoEmblema de heroísmoSigilo de la conciencia congeladaMoneda de VenturaSigilo del caballero resueltoSigilo de la conciencia congeladaToque helado

Rank

Item

Sockets

Source

Location

Best

Sigilo del caballero resuelto

Costs 15 Emblema de heroísmo

Best

Sigilo de la conciencia congelada

Costs 30 Moneda de Ventura

Optional

Sigilo de Conciencia

Costs 25 Emblema de valor

Arcanista Adurin

Optional

Sigilo de sueños embrujados

Costs 15 Emblema de heroísmo

Comentarios

Comentario de Rignorock

Got to love how guides always tell you to stack nothing but X gem, which in this instance is the stam gem. Admittedly, its quite easy to swap one gem out for the red socket bonus. But if you stam gem stack like this guide says, you'll have an inactive meta. Stam stacking like this may give you an insane health pool, but it doesn't do what socketing was intended to do in adding stats for the missing ratings that you need to be effective. Make sure you think about the socket bonus as a whole when it comes to what you might gem and remember you need one red socket gem in order to enable your meta.

Comentario de Ziqz

This gearing is wrong. The creater of this guide did not even account for Hit raiting cap. It's currently sitting at 150 hit raiting, and you need 263 to be capped.
But also, the creater did not know that taunts can miss if not spell hit capped. The spell hit cap is 17% and with Dark Command Glyph it's at 9% spell hit required to never miss a taunt.
With this gear the spell hit is at 5.72%.

Conclusion: You can and will miss Taunts, IT, Plague Strike, Pestilence, Blood Strike, Death Strike on raid bosses. All core abilities of a BDK.

Comentario de Henceforth

Edit: if you are reading this now, after several bad ratings on this guide the guide owner actually updated the build removing that dual buff build for a Blood tank.
Therefore, I was right, in spite of all the downvotes here from the blight club cringe brigade.
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Hi. I'm a Death Knight player from day 1 in WoTLK expansion. Played through the very first patch where it was chaos and you could tank anything with any spec in the first tier to having to go Blood or Frost (depending on the fight) in Ulduar.

Upon reviewing the recommended build, it goes back to the early conversations shared in the Blight Club discord, where people insisted that it would fall to the Blood DK to actually carry 2 buffs to the raid that other 2 classes already can do. No discussion about Abomination's Might, it is core to Blood DKs, but Improved Icy Talons, really?

You will have a frost DK in your 25 man raid, which will bring IIT.
If you don't have a frost DK in your 25 man raid, you will have an Enhancement Shaman.
To an Enhancement Shaman it costs 2 talents to pick what it costs 5 vital talents for a Main Tank Blood DK to pick up. The DPS loss for a enhancement shaman to pick up Improved Windfury is negligible compared to lose 5% avoidance AFTER diminish returns for a MAIN TANK
Giving up 5% dodge AFTER diminish returns (this dodge CANNOT be diminished) to pick up Improved Icy Talons can only be justified in a 10 man very scuffed raid. Or if you are offtank and your raid would rather have you go this scuffed build rather than go frost dps.

Going back to 2009 we didn't need that much to be successful in 10 man raids, either doing Tier 7 achievements or Tier 8 Hard Modes. Going beyond that, they were even easier with gear.

So, in another words, the suggested talent build here can only exist in a world where you have the worst possible raid comp EVER, or you're raiding with the WORST raid leader ever that will make you LOSE actual useful talent points that really help ensure the raid success to appease an enhancement shaman that is stubborn to not pick up 2 talents for improved windfury.

So this build is already bad for Tier 7, especially with Dual Wield and the really low hit rating. Being the BiS for the current tier means it is the to-go for next tier start.

If anything, from Tier 8 progress through hard modes, the build should be the very same we used at the end of the expansion: 43/23/5 with the highest possible avoidance obtained through talents with Frigid Breastplate + Anticipation, while retaining the most valuable cooldown Vampiric Blood and our valuable Will of the Necropolis.

Comentario de Iiana

The bis gear bad for frost dual wield. You want 2 slow weapons because your attacks scale off weapon damage and you get a massive 40% haste from icy talons and improved icy talons. So taking 2x last laugh is massively worse than taking 2x broken promise from 4 horsemen. Also the sigil makes no sense, because of the glyph of pestilence you ideally wont be using icy touch at all after the opener. So something like the sigil of awareness of heigan that increases base damage of obliterate and death strike is far far more useful

Comentario de monkiy

Pretty disingenuous to remove critical comments pointing out how wrong this guide is. I'm happy to post the points again so that others are not misled by this nonsense.

DW tanking is a bad idea, and even worse as Blood due to a lack of synergy. There is zero reason to list it for a supposedly BiS list.
Only 4.57% Hit is really bad.
Sigil of the Frozen Conscience is extremely bad, and the given reason of "freeing up rune slots," doesn't make any sense.
While the PvP weapons and the trash drop for the 2H slot are good, the guide somehow managed not to list a single 2H Str weapon from actual boss drops in Naxx 10/25, but did list an Agility 2H, which is just baffling. The Jawbone and Armageddon from Naxx 25, and Demise and Death's Bite from Naxx 10, should not be discounted as viable options. And certainly as better options than an Agility weapon.

The talents are a whole mess of their own, but the highlights are:

0/3 Virulence is bad.
There's very little benefit to running 3/3 Death Rune Mastery as a tank outside of trash, and even that isn't necessary.
Spell Deflection is also less beneficial than it might seem, and generally best not taken. Too RNG to be reliable, not a big enough pay off.
The points in Improved Icy Touch, and Icy Talons are completely wasted in a raid environment.
Going that deep into the Frost tree just to seemingly get to an additional 3% chance for the boss to miss is not worth it.

Comentario de Joefatawesome

Kyzoc's Ground Stompers cost shown 20 more than it is on classic wotlk.

Comentario de Clefairy

Overall, the pieces of gear listed are not wrong. They're all good ideas for tanking on a DK, but the power ranking is scuffed in terms of which one is BiS over the others. For the most part, if you get one of the items in any slot category, you're fine.

Moving onto the talents, DRM is highly optional, even as a solo Blood tank on trash, which itself is unlikely in phase 1 given that the content can be handled by Frost tank specs. Virulence is also very undervalued in this guide. Hit and expertise are slightly undervalued in this guide. The mechanics that DKs have to deal with, specifically around landing diseases, landing pestilence, landing Death Strike, etc all has a major impact on maintaining a rotation. Often overlooked is that missing Blood rune skills means your blood runes aren't spent. This means that Blade Barrier isn't activated. Combine this with the way that DKs stagger their Blood runes around Blade Barrier uptime, and poor hit/expertise values can bork your Blade Barrier uptime. So in specifically the shoulder and pants slots, the expertise shoulders > tier and the tier pants > maly pants. The slight mitigation gain from shedding hit and expertise is not worth it.

Finally, you're using the wrong terminology for def cap. Crit cap has nothing to do with defense rating. Crit cap is a term from vanilla referring to melee who have more crit than they can use. This was a result of having no stats to reduce boss dodge/parry to a significant degree combined with world buffs giving these classes a ton of crit. Based on the hit table, many melee classes would have more crit chance that they could use, and so they would reoptimize their gear around their crit cap. The proper term for crit immunity is def cap. Def cap, like hit cap, refers to the soft cap on the stat.

Comentario de Syous

Putting Solid Sky Sapphire on Helm of Vital Protection is stupid when you can put a green gem such as Enduring Forest Emerald and get the exact same stamina, plus the defense

Comentario de Clefairy

There's clearly a case of sycophants from the author's discord. It's unfortunate because I would assume that this author is doing their best, but they are ever so slightly off here and there, or applying an extremely myopic view of the class. While some of the comment criticisms in here are outlandish, other "ratio'd" comments present valid criticisms worthy of discussion and even of author attention. This guide seems to be a standout for the sheer amount of hidden comments via downvotes, not just from WotLK content guides, but on this site as a whole. Either WoWhead's moderation team needs to clean this up, or the author themselves needs to address their zealots.

Comentario de HecksAU

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Comentario de PregnantOrc

I'd add Repelling Charge from 10 man Thaddius to the optional list for trinkets. It's pretty much the Seal of the Pantheon but with more Defense and a Health use in place or Armor use.

As I don't have either JC or Engineering I've paired my Essence of Gossamer with a Commendation of Kael'thas from Magister's Terrace for some plain old 57 Stamina and 152 dodge if dipping bellow 35% health. I don't know if it holds up mathematically but just based on how it's worked so far I think it holds up to the honestly low quality non profession tank trinkets that are available so far and might also be a candidate for non crafted optionals as the Stamina works against all types of damage unlike Dodge etc.

Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1 Best in Slot Gear - Wrath of the Lich King Classic

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