WotLK PVE Blood Death Knight DPS Guide (Quick)

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WotLK PVE Blood Death Knight DPS Guide (Quick)

WotLK PVE Blood Death Knight DPS Guide (Quick)

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Welcome to our Blood Death Knight DPS guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Death Knight class as Blood.

Talents

This is the popular Blood DK build. Once you have 90% Armor Penetration your damage goes up dramatically.

Standard Blood DK Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants to your gear. 

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (8%)
  2. Expertise
  3. Armor Penetration
  4. Strength
  5. Critical Strike
  6. Agility
  7. Haste
  8. Attack Power

Rotation

Icy Touch -> Plague Strike -> Heart Strike x2 -> Death Strike -> Death Coil
Death Strike -> Heart Strike x3 -> Pestilence -> Death Coil

Heart Strike x4 -> Death Strike -> Death Coil
Death Strike -> Heart Strike x3 -> Plague Strike -> Death Coil

Glyph of Disease allows us to use Pestilence to refresh our Diseases.

Army of the Dead should be used before the encounter starts. Casting it instead of doing your rotation will cause you to lose DPS.

Hysteria should be used on cooldown.

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antmorera1
Ant
3 years ago

isn’t the last talent on blood kinda useless?

Omegazell
Omegazell
1 year ago
Reply to  Legacy-WoW

Then why isn’t it included in the rotation ?