Consumption
Frontal enemy strike heals for a portion of damage dealt.
Class reworks
Every spec has been reworked and rebalanced. Pick a class to see what changed and plan your talents.
Death KnightBlood
Tank
A dark guardian who manipulates and corrupts life energy to sustain themselves in the face of an enemy onslaught.
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Frost
Damage
An icy harbinger of doom, channeling runic power and delivering vicious weapon strikes.
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Unholy
Damage
A master of death and decay, spreading infection and controlling undead minions to do their bidding.
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Spell changes
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Sanguine Fortress
Each 40 Runic Power spent reduces Vampiric Blood and Dancing Rune Weapon cooldowns.
Blooded Resilience
Tank role tuning: single-target damage is 70% of baseline; direct spell and weapon attacks that hit multiple enemies retain authored per-target damage. Healing and mitigation are unchanged.
Death Gate
Opens a gate which you can use to return to Ebon Hold. Using a Death Gate while in Ebon Hold will return you back to near your departure point.
Runeforging
Allows the Death Knight to emblazon their weapon with runes.
Heart Strike
Cleave main target and nearby enemies; extra Runic Power per additional enemy.
Blood Boil
Nearby damage applies and refreshes owned Blood Plague on every hit.
Blood Plague
Shadow periodic damage heals owner for a portion dealt; faster ticks preserve base duration. Haste makes this periodic effect happen more often without shortening its base duration.
Death Strike
Recent-damage self-heal; excess Runic Power spent strengthens healing and Blood Shield.
Marrowrend
Grant Bone Shield and splash Physical damage around target.
Bone Shield
Successful incoming melee hits can trigger a small retaliatory bone strike.
Bonestorm
Consume Runic Power for nearby damage and healing per enemy hit.
Dancing Rune Weapon
Copy Heart Strike, Blood Boil and Death Strike; Runic Power spending reduces cooldown.
Gorefiend's Grasp
Pull nearby enemies to target; empower next Blood Boil damage.
Vampiric Blood
Increase maximum health and healing received; Death Strike extends slightly up to cap.
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Permafrost Shield
Legion support payload for Permafrost: Your damage adds 8% of damage dealt to this absorb and refreshes its 10-second duration, up to 20% of your maximum health. Hoarfrost Armor increases the rate to 10%.
Death Gate
Opens a gate which you can use to return to Ebon Hold. Using a Death Gate while in Ebon Hold will return you back to near your departure point.
Runeforging
Allows the Death Knight to emblazon their weapon with runes.
Horn of Winter
No active Frost spellbook button: remove Horn of Winter and its obsolete free-cast descendants during specialization-spell learning, including stale learned copies after relog or spec change.
Empower Rune Weapon
Passive emergency recharge when both Runes and Runic Power are low.
Killing Machine
Auto attacks can automatically cast Rune-free Obliterate at current target.
Obliterate
Can trigger Rime; partial Frost splash to nearby enemies.
Rime
Automatically cast Howling Blast on proc.
Howling Blast
Target-area explosion hits up to 20 enemies and applies Frost Fever to every enemy hit.
Frost Fever
Frost periodic damage generates Runic Power; faster ticks preserve base duration. Haste makes this periodic effect happen more often without shortening its base duration.
Frost Strike
Automatically cast when Runic Power would overflow.
Remorseless Winter
Nearby periodic Frost damage; faster ticks preserve base duration. Haste makes this periodic effect happen more often without shortening its base duration.
Frostscythe
Killing Machine may choose automatic Frostscythe instead of Obliterate with several nearby enemies.
Breath of Sindragosa
Fixed-duration breath; Runic Power spending and Killing Machine hits extend slightly.
Pillar of Frost
Obliterate and Frostscythe reduce cooldown.
Permafrost
Damage dealt builds self absorb shield for solo sustain.
Obliterate Off-Hand
Obliterate off-hand weapon strike. Resolves the off-hand Physical hit as part of Frost's two-weapon attack.
Razorice
Razorice weapon effect. Applies the Frost weapon debuff used by the Death Knight's Frost damage loop.
Frost Strike Off-Hand
Legion support payload for Frost Strike: Instantly strike the enemy with your off-hand weapon, causing $sw2 Frost damage.
Icy Talons
Legion support payload for Frost Strike: Frost Strike also increases your melee attack speed by $194879s1% for $194879d, stacking up to $194879u times.
Shattering Strikes
Legion support payload for Frost Strike: If there are 5 stacks of Razorice on the target, Frost Strike will consume them and deal $s1% additional damage.
Runic Attenuation
Legion support payload for Frost Strike: Auto attacks generate $s1 Runic Power.
Winter is Coming
Winter is Coming stun effect. Stuns enemies after they have been affected by Remorseless Winter as defined by the talent.
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Unholy Frenzy
Ghoul and temporary undead inherit portion of owner attack speed and trigger more wound effects.
Scourge Splash
Legion support payload for Scourge Strike: Deal Shadow damage to a nearby enemy infected with your Virulent Plague.
Enduring Monstrosity
Legion support payload for Dark Transformation: Dark Transformation lasts 5 additional seconds.
Virulent Tide
Legion support payload for Epidemic: Epidemic deals 20% increased damage.
Necrotic Claws
Legion support payload for Unholy Frenzy: Unholy Frenzy's chance to apply Festering Wounds from undead melee auto attacks increases from 5% to 10%.
Death Gate
Opens a gate which you can use to return to Ebon Hold. Using a Death Gate while in Ebon Hold will return you back to near your departure point.
Runeforging
Allows the Death Knight to emblazon their weapon with runes.
Festering Strike
Applies Festering Wounds; auto attacks can also apply wounds.
Outbreak
Immediately applies owned Virulent Plague to the target and up to 19 nearest enemies within 10 yards and line of sight.
Virulent Plague
Shadow periodic damage; faster ticks preserve base duration. Haste makes this periodic effect happen more often without shortening its base duration.
Festering Wound
At maximum wounds automatically burst oldest wound on overflow.
Scourge Strike
Burst wound; splash Shadow damage to up to 7 nearest owned-diseased enemies within 8 yards and line of sight.
Sudden Doom
Automatically cast Death Coil on proc.
Death Coil
Automatically cast from excess Runic Power; reduce Apocalypse cooldown.
Apocalypse
Burst up to 8 owned wounds on each of up to 20 nearest enemies carrying your wounds within 10 yards of the target and in line of sight; summon ghouls based on wounds burst.
Dark Transformation
Automatically activate after enough ghoul attacks; remove maintenance button.
Epidemic
Every nearby owned Virulent Plague pulses Shadow damage as disease AoE spender.
Army of the Damned
Death Coil and wound bursts reduce Army of the Dead and Apocalypse cooldowns.
Death Pact
Strong self-heal with reduced healing penalty.
Virulent Eruption
Virulent Eruption damage payload. Deals the disease explosion damage associated with Virulent Plague.
Bursting Sores
Bursting Sores damage payload. Explodes nearby owned Festering Wounds for the talent's area damage.
Clawing Shadows
Legion support payload for Scourge Strike: Deal Shadow damage from up to 30 yards away, bursting a Festering Wound. Also splash Shadow damage to up to 7 nearest other enemies within 8 yards that are affected by your Virulent Plague and in line of sight. Replaces Scourge Strike.
Unholy Vigor
Legion support payload for Death Coil: Grants the Death Knight's $?s207313[abomination][ghoul] $s1 energy.
Army of the Dead
Army of the Dead ghoul summon helper. Creates the temporary undead associated with the Legion Army cast.
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