

To do this, we’ll start by recommending talents that will fit both the levelling process and the endgame, although we recommend that you level this spec in dungeons rather than open-world questing. However, we still believe that it is possible to be an excellent tank while playing this class and specialisation, and we’ll show you how. In this Blood Death Knight guide, we’ll show you how to optimize your character for both level progression and end-game content.ĭue to the increased focus on with handling damage after the fact, rather than mitigating it as it arrives, the Blood Death Knight tank is very challenging to play, and has had a declining reputation as a reliable tank over the past few patches. Accordingly, its playstyle is reliant on self-healing and avoidance instead of pure damage mitigation. Blood Death Knight is unique among tanks in that it is a plate-wearer that eschews shields for massive two-hand weapons.
