The Blood DK is the king of Cataclysm, but there are a lot of intricacies you need to master in order to truly excel. In original Cataclysm, the philosophy was quite different from today, so this video is my attempt at bringing the most up to date information possible to the masses.
Weakauras:
Vengeance Tracker – https://wago.io/Eokm-nWcB
Death Strike Heal Prediction – https://wago.io/0ANNgeP4k
DK UI – https://wago.io/k0POQaXvV
Trinket Tracker – https://wago.io/qDs1R6W0t
Nameplate Target – https://wago.io/3fwGOXrxw
Blood Shield Tracker – https://wago.io/IXGzbok8H
Plater Profile – https://wago.io/wDEwkB6dE
Talent Builds:
Progression: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/talent-calc/death-knight/03323200132222311321-2-003
Dungeon/AOE: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/talent-calc/death-knight/03321200112222311321-1-023003
Parse: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/talent-calc/death-knight/23323003100222311321-3-013
Macros:
Combat Ress Mousover
#showtooltip Raise Ally
/cast [target=mouseover,help][target=target]Raise Ally
Death Grip Mousover
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead] Death Grip; [@target,harm,nodead] Death Drip
Raise Dead & Death Pact Sequence
#showtooltip Death Pact
/cast [target=pet, exists, nodead] Death Pact; Raise Dead
Dancing Rune Weapon Macro
#showtooltip Dancing Rune Weapon
/Use 10
/Use Blood Fury(Racial)
/Use Dancing Rune Weapon
00:00 Intro
00:47 Stat Priority
03:40 Talents
08:12 Glyphs
09:43 Rotation
13:11 Professions
15:27 Race
16:38 Weakauras
17:51 Nameplates
18:40 Macros
19:21 Consumables
19:40 Gems
19:53 Weapon Enchant
20:15 External Cooldowns
20:40 Outro
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Thank you for the great guide, I really like your UI can you share it? and what addon?
Hi dude, good content, may I ask you how to track external cds please ?
thanks a lot for the Vid. Do you have a spreadsheet of sorts for spending Valor? I'm seeing a lot of different takes.
What the actual fuck i literally do not know where to stuff all these buttons – its really fun that outbreak is a thing but still have to have the actual singular ones for certain situations so i need to find two new spots for outbreak and festering strike im running out of fingers and space this has never been a problem for me with 24 kb's and 8 extra keybindings and i play all 10 classes..
Love it. Brings exactly the missing details of information i was looking for ❤️
How big is the gap between LW and BS? Seems like, especially once we get epic gems, the 80/100 extra mastery from two extra gems would be pretty significant
edit: great video btw, the work behind it is clearly apparent and much appreciated!!
Спасибо, это видео было невероятно полезным! Удачи с прогрессом в рейдах.
Thoughts on double pvp set? for the first raiding week? (365ers)
Do you have a elvui profile that is shown at 11min 18 sec?
This was far and away an incredible guide. Although lengthier than your other vids, it's well made, doesn't bog down and is an enjoyable watch. I'm looking forward to my first raid as a blood dk tank. I'll keep this open. Appreciate it
Excellent info thanks
Why is blood not a dps spec if its max damage well above the dps on the meters?
2/3 Scent of Blood and instead having 3/3 runic power mastery is the play for prog build.
What zone song is this? Sounds like game of thrones lol @Riyaniwow
impossible to find guild as bdk. noone needs it.
you're fucking awesome. the biggest reason is you give actual REASONS for the choices made, not just "because i said so" which usually means they just read wowhead or some other guide and don't actually understand why they do things.
edit to add: will you do frost and unholy guides, or just this one?
I feel like bloodworms is a wasted talent. For the AOE spec wouldn’t 3/3 toughness be better than 2 points in bloodworms?
Does troll berserking really snapshots with dancing rune? i dont think it does
Can you throw your current gear in sixtyupgrades just kinda of a reference we the blood dks can check out when needed plz
I don't think I've seen a single non DK tank 😂
mister i dont think the dk ui string of code works
insane value, doing the lords work
the death pact macro does not work for me. Otherwise, toptier guide
i prefer using heart strike over deathstrike in aoe situations fore more dmg. surviving is no problem mostly
best blood dk guide out there
As far as I have seen and tried myself in heroic raids/dungeons, the VB glyph does actually increase Death Strike healing, it just does not increase the Blood Shield with your increased Death Strike healing.
Super useful video thank you so much for your time and effort!
Great video, thank you for the WAs, very useful
You can make the whole video shorter, press death strike that's all
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Hey Mate, Great&usefull Guide! Thanks 🙂
One question i asked myself: why the Opener doesnt start with Outbreak before taunt? Ur both starting-heartstrikes will do significant more dmg? Outbreak is useable on Range and taunt is offGCD. So u could use it While Running onto the Boss ?
NAME OF SONG OR ZONE SONG@@!@!@>?????
Ive been playing Blood since Cata release cause its my new main and we where doing BoT and I solo'd the 2 dragons down from 20% on 10m as blood the survivability you can have once you get decent at Blood is fuckin unbeatable
Can you gear for blood dk tank and then reforge into unholy offspec whenever or no?
great Guide!
I've noticed a mistake in the Macros: Deathgrip Macro reads "Death Drip" While being super cool, it wont work if copied directly ingame 😀
Mastery gives offensive gains too it gives attack power
Gave the secrets away
great guide but this macro seems not to work: #showtooltip Death Pact
/cast [target=pet, exists, nodead] Death Pact; Raise Dead