Battleground Blitz· Deathbringer

BloodDeath Knight


Small sample: 17 players, so one player moves a percentage by 6 points. Read these as a rough signal, not a consensus.

Ready-Made Talent Builds

In game: talent window → Import

Copy the code and paste it into the game. Each one is a complete loadout taken from a top player in this sample, not an average of several.

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Where players disagree

35 talents are taken by almost everyone. These are the picks the field is actually split on — top 10 of 17.

  • Anti-Magic Zone65%
  • Bloodied Blade65%
  • Boiling Point65%
  • Plague Infusion65%
  • Death Pact59%
  • Blood Mist59%
  • Improved Vampiric Blood59%
  • Proliferating Chill53%
  • Bloody Reflection53%
  • Foul Bulwark53%

Top Playersby rating

  1. 1ClockwerkauchindounMechagnome · Deathbringer · 277 ilvl51% W1812
  2. 2ИеваrazuviousHuman · Deathbringer · 266 ilvl50% W1684
  3. 3АрхаэльgordunniKul Tiran · Deathbringer · 292 ilvl48% W1652
  4. 4IllÿaantonidasNight Elf · Deathbringer · 311 ilvl46% W1588
  5. 5Azerkhamtarren-millOrc · Deathbringer · 270 ilvl43% W1583
+12 more on the leaderboard →

Stat Priority

Versatility > Mastery > Haste > Critical Strike

  • Versatility17.4% in game39.5%
  • Mastery49.4% in game30.6%
  • Haste13.2% in game15.7%
  • Critical Strike13.4% in game14.3%

Speed 3.6% · Leech 2.9% · Avoidance 0.4%

Order and bars: each stat’s share of the secondary stat rating on gear, averaged over the sample — what these players actually itemised for. In-game percentages are shown for reference only. They are not comparable between stats: each has its own rating-to-percent rate, and mastery is scaled by a coefficient that differs per specialisation.

Hero Talent Tree

  • Deathbringer100%

PvP Talents

  • Last Dance94%
  • Decomposing Aura76%

+5 more

Races

  • Human29%
  • Blood Elf18%
  • Kul Tiran12%
  • Dark Iron Dwarf6%
  • Draenei6%
  • Lightforged Draenei6%
  • Mechagnome6%

+3 more

Talent Tree

ActivePassiveChoiceCore path 80%+

Death Knight — Class

8 points23 points100%100%76%100%100%76%94%82%100%100%100%6%41%53%88%100%59%82%6%100%18%65%41%94%6%100%41%100%76%76%71%94%41%88%94%76%100%29%100%88%18%94%29%
  • Icebound Fortitude: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Death Strike: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Raise Dead: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Runic Attenuation: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Improved Death Strike: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Cleaving Strikes: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Mind Freeze: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Blinding Sleet: 82% (14 of 17 players)
  • Gloom Ward: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • March of Darkness / Wraith Walk: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Unholy Momentum: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Control Undead: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Enfeeble: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Coldthirst: 41% (7 of 17 players)
  • Proliferating Chill: 53% (9 of 17 players)
  • Permafrost: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Veteran of the Third War: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Death Pact: 59% (10 of 17 players)
  • Brittle: 82% (14 of 17 players)
  • Blood Bond: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Icy Talons: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Death Notes: 18% (3 of 17 players)
  • Anti-Magic Zone: 65% (11 of 17 players)
  • Death Defiance: 41% (7 of 17 players)
  • Unholy Bond: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Ice Prison: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Asphyxiate / Death's Reach: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Assimilation: 41% (7 of 17 players)
  • Anti-Magic Barrier: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Grip of the Dead: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Suppression: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Blood Scent: 71% (12 of 17 players)
  • Unholy Endurance: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Osmosis: 41% (7 of 17 players)
  • Insidious Chill: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Runic Protection: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Blood Draw: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Rune Mastery: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Subduing Grasp: 29% (5 of 17 players)
  • Will of the Necropolis: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Null Magic: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Unyielding Will: 18% (3 of 17 players)
  • Death's Echo: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Vestigial Shell: 29% (5 of 17 players)

Deathbringer — 100%

100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%
  • Reaper's Mark: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Wave of Souls: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Wither Away: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Bind in Darkness: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Frigid Resolve: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Soul Rupture: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Grim Reaper: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Pact of the Deathbringer / Rune Carved Plates: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Deathly Blows: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Swift and Painful: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Dark Talons / Reaper's Onslaught: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Death's Messenger / Expelling Shield: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Echoing Fury: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Exterminate: 100% (17 of 17 players)

San'layn — 0%

  • Vampiric Strike: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Newly Turned / Vampiric Speed: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Blood-Soaked Ground / Desecrate: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Vampiric Aura / Bloody Fortitude: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Thrill of Blood: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Infliction of Sorrow: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Frenzied Bloodthirst: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • The Blood is Life: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Visceral Strength: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Inevitable: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Incite Terror: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Pact of the San'layn / Sanguine Scent: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Transfusion: 0% (0 of 17 players)
  • Gift of the San'layn: 0% (0 of 17 players)

Blood — Spec

8 points20 points100%100%100%100%100%100%59%71%71%6%82%53%100%100%24%35%100%94%100%76%88%65%76%100%94%24%65%53%100%65%88%59%100%82%6%82%35%88%6%53%94%
  • Heart Strike: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Marrowrend: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Blood Boil: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Vampiric Blood: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Bone Collector: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Ossuary: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Improved Vampiric Blood: 59% (10 of 17 players)
  • Improved Heart Strike: 71% (12 of 17 players)
  • Relish in Blood: 71% (12 of 17 players)
  • Leeching Strike: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Heartbreaker: 82% (14 of 17 players)
  • Foul Bulwark: 53% (9 of 17 players)
  • Dancing Rune Weapon: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Hemostasis: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Perseverance of the Ebon Blade: 24% (4 of 17 players)
  • Bloodworms: 35% (6 of 17 players)
  • Gorefiend's Grasp / Abomination Limb: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Improved Bone Shield: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Insatiable Blade: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Deadly Reach: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Rapid Decomposition: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Boiling Point: 65% (11 of 17 players)
  • Lifeblood: 76% (13 of 17 players)
  • Everlasting Bond: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Voracious: 94% (16 of 17 players)
  • Blood Feast: 24% (4 of 17 players)
  • Plague Infusion: 65% (11 of 17 players)
  • Bloody Reflection: 53% (9 of 17 players)
  • Iron Heart: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Bloodied Blade: 65% (11 of 17 players)
  • Coagulopathy: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Blood Mist: 59% (10 of 17 players)
  • Sanguine Ground: 100% (17 of 17 players)
  • Bloodshot: 82% (14 of 17 players)
  • Consumption: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Red Thirst: 82% (14 of 17 players)
  • Sanguinary Burst: 35% (6 of 17 players)
  • Purgatory: 88% (15 of 17 players)
  • Carnage: 6% (1 of 17 players)
  • Umbilicus Eternus: 53% (9 of 17 players)
  • Dance of Midnight: 94% (16 of 17 players)

Gear

Head

  • 47%
  • 12%
  • 12%
  • 12%

+3 more

Neck

  • 29%
  • 24%
  • 12%
  • 6%

+5 more

Shoulder

  • 76%
  • 6%

+3 more

Back

  • 18%
  • 12%
  • 12%
  • 6%

+9 more

Chest

  • 59%
  • 12%
  • 6%
  • 6%

+3 more

Wrist

  • 18%
  • 12%
  • 12%
  • 12%

+6 more

Hands

  • 47%
  • 18%
  • 18%

+2 more

Waist

  • 18%
  • 18%
  • 18%
  • 12%

+4 more

Legs

  • 41%
  • 18%
  • 18%
  • 12%

+2 more

Feet

  • 29%
  • 18%
  • 12%
  • 12%

+4 more

Ring

  • 35%
  • 12%
  • 9%
  • 6%

+13 more

Trinket

  • 18%
  • 12%
  • 9%
  • 9%

+14 more

Main Hand

  • 24%
  • 18%
  • 18%
  • 12%

+4 more

Enchants

Head

  • Empowered Blessing of Speed24%
  • Blessing of Speed18%
  • Empowered Hex of Leeching18%

+1 more

Shoulder

  • Akil'zon's Swiftness35%
  • Silvermoon's Mending18%
  • Flight of the Eagle6%

+1 more

Chest

  • Mark of the Worldsoul41%
  • Mark of Nalorakk24%

Legs

  • Forest Hunter's Armor Kit59%

Feet

  • Farstrider's Hunt24%
  • Shaladrassil's Roots12%

Ring

  • Zul'jin's Mastery21%
  • Silvermoon's Alacrity18%
  • Nature's Fury9%

+4 more

Main Hand

  • Rune of the Fallen Crusader59%
  • Rune of Sanguination29%

+3 more

Gems and Embellishments

Gems48 total

  • 38%
  • 8%
  • 8%
  • 8%
  • 6%
  • 6%

+9 more

Embellishments15 total

  • Arcanoweave Lining60%
  • Blessed Pango Charm13%
  • Prismatic Focusing Iris13%

+2 more

Collected Sep 22