Blood Death Knight Mythic+ Build & Gear Guide in Midnight Season 2

Spec Popularity

Overall Played: 32.2%
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Best Team Comps

groups
Blood
+1
Alternatives
Guardian 3%
Protection 1%
+4 rarer (<1%)
Holy
Arms
+3
Alternatives
Arcane 5%
Demonology 2%
Retribution 1%
Beast Mastery 1%
+25 rarer (<1%)
Assassination
+13
Alternatives
Arcane 24%
Beast Mastery 5%
Retribution 5%
Balance 3%
Windwalker 3%
Subtlety 2%
Unholy 2%
Devourer 2%
Havoc 2%
Outlaw 1%
Frost 1%
Demonology 5%
Shadow 1%
Feral 1%
+20 rarer (<1%)
Elemental
+1
Alternatives
Arcane 5%
Beast Mastery 2%
+27 rarer (<1%)
6.4% of Runs 88% Timed Highest Key: +23
Blood
+1
Alternatives
Guardian 2%
Protection 1%
+6 rarer (<1%)
Holy
Alternatives
Holy 1%
+6 rarer (<1%)
Arcane
Alternatives
Demonology 2%
+25 rarer (<1%)
Elemental
+5
Alternatives
Demonology 5%
Arms 3%
Balance 2%
Retribution 2%
Shadow 1%
Beast Mastery 2%
+23 rarer (<1%)
Havoc
+12
Alternatives
Windwalker 2%
Demonology 13%
Unholy 3%
Subtlety 2%
Devourer 7%
Retribution 7%
Beast Mastery 5%
Shadow 3%
Frost 2%
Feral 1%
Balance 6%
Fury 2%
Outlaw 1%
+20 rarer (<1%)
5.5% of Runs 88% Timed Highest Key: +23

Highest Run

-23 Temple of Sethraliss EU
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Cleared in 33:48.933

Blood Holy Assassination Arms Elemental

Talents

Most Blood Death Knight players build into the San'layn hero tree. The pick that shifts the most in an individual dungeon is Control Undead, which far more players run in Kings' Rest than anywhere else. Open Talents per Dungeon to see every swap like this. The build list holds the complete builds players run. Click one to see it on the tree.

Builds on San'layn
Overview Pick rate of every talent
Standard build 99% +22 72% 1 flexible
Alternative 1 <1% +22 9% Relish in Blood Lifeblood Improved Heart Strike 1 flexible
Alternative 2 SIM +21 3% Relish in Blood Plague Infusion Blood Mist Sanguinary Burst Improved Vampiric Blood Foul Bulwark Umbilicus Eternus 6 flexible
Other builds: 16% of runs, each too rare to list
Overview Pick rate of every talent
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
96%
100%
2
100%
2
1%
7%
80%
0%
86%
100%
22%
100%
0%
100%
18%
99%
17%
100%
0%
35%
100%
93%
62%
75%
94%
3%
100%
100%
87%
100%
2
24%
100%
2
100%
1%
100%
1%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
87%
2
90%
2
20%
0%
100%
89%
100%
100%
0%
2%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
15%
100%
100%
0%
14%
3%
100%
97%
100%
13%
100%
100%
1%
100%
6%
100%
0%
92%
Stat Priority

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Stat priority is the order in which Blood Death Knight players value their secondary stats, based on what the highest-key players actually carry on their gear. Most prioritize Haste, followed by Crit, Mastery and Versatility. Strength is your main stat and comes mostly from item level, so a higher-item-level piece is almost always an upgrade. Use this order as a guide when choosing between similar items, gems and enchants, not as a hard rule.

1 Strength icon
Strength
2.4 K
then
2 Haste icon
Haste
1 K · 28.1%
then
3 Crit icon
Crit
952 · 25.8%
then
4 Mastery icon
Mastery
525 · 38.7%
then
5 Versatility icon
Versatility
441 · 8.2%
Tertiary Priority
1 Lifesteal icon
Lifesteal
104 · 4.3%
then
2 Speed icon
Speed
83
then
3 Avoidance icon
Avoidance
44 · 1.2%
Top Consumables

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The flask, potion, food, weapon enchant and augment rune most used by high-key Blood Death Knight players, from recorded Mythic+ runs.

Food SIM

Impossibly Royal Roast

Impossibly Royal Roast

52%

Weapon Enchant SIM

Thalassian Phoenix Oil (Quality 2)

Thalassian Phoenix Oil (Quality 2)

73%

Augment Rune

Void-Touched Augment Rune

Void-Touched Augment Rune

100%

Gear Overview

This section lists the gear that Blood Death Knight players equip most often in those high keys, broken down slot by slot. For each slot the most popular item is shown first with its alternatives underneath, and the percentage next to each item tells you how common that choice is. It is a snapshot of what is being played, not a guaranteed upgrade for your character, so always simulate your own character before committing to gear changes. You can do that with Raidbots Top Gear.

Item
Popularity

7 %

+22

Skullguard of the Risen Sacrifice

The Venomous Abyss Haste Crit

2 %

+22

Adherent's Silken Shroud

Crafted Haste Versatility

18 %

+22

7 %

+21

7 %

+21

Amani Summoning Shawl

The Venomous Abyss Crit Versatility

2 %

+22

1 %

+20

1 %

+19

Reckless Spirit Breastplate

The Venomous Abyss Haste Mastery

3 %

+22

1 %

+21

1 %

+21

Shellbound Bracers

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Crit

3 %

+22

1 %

+20
Item
Popularity

Spellbreaker's Girdle

Crafted Crit Haste

18 %

+22
SIM

13 %

+22

9 %

+21

Forgotten Grotto Girdle

The Tidebound Grotto Haste Versatility

8 %

+22

Fanged Brute's Greatbelt

The Venomous Abyss

2 %

+22

Pledgebearer's Girdle

Versatility Crit

2 %

+20

Chausses of Unbound Rancor

The Venomous Abyss Crit

13 %

+22

Venom Warden's Greaves

The Venomous Abyss Haste Mastery

1 %

+21

21 %

+22
SIM

12 %

+22

Entombed Cultist's Sabatons

The Venomous Abyss Crit Haste

9 %

+22

7 %

+21

Scaled Fiend's Warboots

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

4 %

+22
Enchants, Gems & Crafting

Expand any panel below for the finer gear choices Blood Death Knight players make in these high keys. It covers the enchants and gems they run in each slot, the embellishments and missives on their crafted gear, and the combinations they pair together. Each list is ordered by how common the choice is among the sampled characters, over the same rolling two-week window as the gear above.

5x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

21 %

+21
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

15 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

12 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

11 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

10 %

+22
5x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible
2x Bite of Zul'jan

9 %

+21
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible
2x Bite of Zul'jan

7 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible

6 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible
2x Bite of Zul'jan

5 %

+22
4x Baleful Grave-Knight's Crucible
2x Bite of Zul'jan
SIM

4 %

+22

19 %

+22

18 %

+21

8 %

+21

7 %

+22

7 %

+20

7 %

+21

6 %

+22

6 %

+20

4 %

+20

4 %

+21
SIM

SimC pick

Consumables

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Every flask, potion, food, weapon enchant and augment rune seen on sampled high-key players, ranked by how many ran it. Percentages are the share within each category.

How this data is collected

Every talent, stat and gear number on this page is drawn from real Mythic+ runs recorded this season, so it shows what players actually do rather than theory. To keep the picture focused on how Blood Death Knight is played at the highest level, only the hardest keys are counted. For each dungeon we look up the highest keystone level anyone has completed, across every class and spec, and then include every run from there down to 5 levels below it, giving the 6 highest key levels of that dungeon. The hardest key completed anywhere this season so far is a +23 in Den of Nalorakk, so there every run of +18 and above is counted. Each dungeon uses its own top key, so a quieter one keeps a lower band. In Ruby Life Pools, for example, the hardest key so far is a +22, so its runs start from +17 instead. The sample keeps refreshing as new high keys are posted, so the numbers track how the spec is being played right now rather than averaging the whole season. On top of that, the talent, gear and stat breakdowns are built from a rolling window of roughly the last two weeks, so they stay in step with recent tuning and meta shifts. Run totals and key levels still cover the full season.