Blood Death Knight Leveling Guide
Blood Death Knight Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 28, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Blood Death Knight leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Unholy Death Knight!
Talents
Blood Death Knight
Deathbringer Level 70
Spec Tree
- Blooddrinker
- Nice tool to pull mobs and do damage while walking to the next mobs.
- Dancing Rune Weapon
- Can be used to pull a far group of enemies.
- Bonestorm + Tombstone
- Big burst with Shattering Bone on AoE.
Class Tree
- Death's Reach
- Longer range and resets on Death Grip.
- Abomination Limb
- Helps stack up mobs.
Hero Talents
- Deathbringer doesn't require you to stack a buff or stand still in Death and Decay which makes it by far the best leveling Hero Talent.
- Reaper's Mark is amazing in killing any big target off while later Exterminate just cleaves any remaining targets.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Deathbringer as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Wave of Souls.
- Pick Soul Rupture.
- Pick Painful Death
- Pick Exterminate
- Pick Blood Fever
- Pick Grim Reaper
- Pick Wither Away
- Pick Bind in Darkness
- Pick Rune Carved Plates
- Pick Death's Messenger
Rotation
Blood Death Knight
Single-Target
- Pull with Death Grip as much as possible.
- Keep Reaper's Mark on cooldown.
- Spent all your Runic Power on Death Strike.
AoE
- You want to focus on pulling as many enemies as possible. Stack them up and cleave them down with your cooldown or just Blood Boil and Heart Strike.
- Utilize all your ranged spells to pull as many mobs as possible.
- Stack them up use Death and Decay paired with Dancing Rune Weapon, Tombstone and Bonestorm to burst them down.
- Cleaving Strikes enables Heart Strike to cleave a lot of targets so it becomes a nice button for overall AoE damage
Shopping List
Blood Death Knight
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Meeres
Reviewed by: Rycn