#Wow unholy dk talents how to
#Wow unholy dk talents Patch

In fact, I feel like almost all tanks have been overly reduced in terms of their durability and survival tricks, and Blood DK’s are definitely feeling the pinch. Level 60 Red Thirst I liked because it gives you more uses of Vampiric Blood, which frankly I feel is necessary in the new tanking scheme for Legion.I’m not saying Anti-Magic Barrier isn’t also a great choice, it’s down to what you’re comfortable with. Level 58 Ossuary buffs available Runic Power as well as reducing the cost of Death Strike.Level 57 Rapid Decomposition is another passive, and it buffs Death and Decay, which you’ll be using frequently - especially when AoE tanking.It just procs sometimes, and heals you when it does. Level 56 Bloodworms hearkens back to the old days of Wrath DK tanks, and it doesn’t require you to remember it.Once you’re more comfortable with your new abilities you can make choices and customize yourself accordingly. That’s because you may be a raid tank in Mythic content, or you may just run five mans or solo on your Blood DK, so I wanted to give you the fastest, easiest to grasp options. The talent selection I’ve used here is extremely generic. Your talent choices can customize certain abilities like Death and Decay or Heart Strike as well as giving you all new abilities or passive benefits. Death Strike is your self heal, it costs Runic Power, generates threat and heals you. Heart Strike is your cleave, it hits two targets and generates Runic Power. Marrowrend is a new attack, it stacks Bone Shield on you so you’ll use it when possible. You use Death’s Caress to apply Blood Plague to a single target, Blood Boil to apply it to multiple targets.

#Wow unholy dk talents how to

To some degree, Blood DK’s won’t be too confused about how to play their class come Legion.

#Wow unholy dk talents Patch

I’m going to break down what I consider the easiest Blood, Frost and Unholy specs to play once the patch drops to get to learn your abilities. Each spec plays differently - some old hands at Death Knight play might be thrown by the changes. That covers the bare minimum basics for the class. Keep in mind that there’s a chance to get ilevel 700 weapons from the invasion event. They’ll be ilvl 655, so if you have access to better 1h weapons you should use those instead.

If you’re Frost, you will be provided two 1h weapons as soon as you log on after the patch.

While Frost can still equip a 2h, many of their abilities require dual wielding to use properly - Obliterate, Frost Strike and others won’t work at all if a two hander is equipped. Frost Death Knights use two one-handed weapons.

Blood and Unholy Death Knights use a two handed weapon.

For example, Army of the Dead is Unholy only.

Many talents have been changed, and several old favorite abilities are either talents for a specific spec, or abilities that only one spec gains access to.

Instead of there being Blood or Frost or Unholy or Death Runes, there are just runes.

Both Icy Touch and Plague Strike are gone – Death Knights apply their diseases via the methods above.

Frost DK’s will use Howling Blast to spread Frost Fever to their targets, while Unholy DK’s use Outbreak to infect enemies with Virulent Plague, and Blood DK’s use Blood Boil and Death’s Caress to spread Blood Plague.

Each spec has a unique disease it uses.

Death Knights no longer use Blood, Frost or Unholy Presence - any benefits from these Presences are either gone, or just baked into your specialization ( all Blood DK’s generate more threat, as an example) so you don’t have to think about them. One of the biggest changes is that Presences are gone. While this isn’t an exhaustive compilation of every change made to Death Knights in Legion, it will help you get to grips with your class and spec of choice once the patch drops. There are a lot of changes coming in patch 7.0 tomorrow, so if you’re currently one of our dead but loving it knightly sorts, we’ll be covering some of the most important changes here.