Blood Death Knight Mythic+ Guide (2024)

When to use this spec

This is the default loadout going into any boss unless specified otherwise. You have to adjust the class talent tree based on the utility needed for the encounter. To make your life easier, dungeon-specific talent loadouts are available in theDungeonsection.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation andDeep Divesections below.

Spec Tree

• Bone Collector
  • Gain 1 charge of Bone Shield when pulling an enemy.
• Ossuary
  • While above 5 charges of Bone Shield your Death Strike costs less Runic Power.
• Improved Vampiric Blood
  • Improves all aspects of your Vampiric Blood.
• Heartbreaker
  • This provides a nice bonus to your Runic Power generation.
• Hemostasis
  • Blood Boil gives you stacks to improve your Death Strike. The more enemies you hit the more beneficial this is.
• Insatiable Blade
  • This is crucial for reducing your Dancing Rune Weapon cooldown. See the Deep Dive for a more detailed explanation!
• Everlasting Bond
  • Duplicating Dancing Rune Weapon magnifies this cooldown's potency.
• Reinforced Bones
  • With this, you now can have a maximum of 12 charges of Bone Shield.
• Red Thirst
  • This provides a huge cooldown reduction for your Vampiric Blood.
• Shattering Bone
  • Makes it so that losing stacks of Bone Shield deals a lot of damage to nearby enemies.
• Purgatory
  • A Cheat Death every 4 minutes.

Class Tree

• Improved Death Strike
  • Very important talent to make your Death Strike much stronger.
• Cleaving Strikes
  • Enables‍Death and Decayto cleave more targets and extend your‍Death and Decayduration. Details in the Deep Dive.
• Anti-Magic Barrier
  • Lowers the cooldown of your Anti-Magic Shell and makes it stronger.
• Icy Talons
  • With this, you obtain a new buff to upkeep.
• Grip of the Dead
  • Death and Decay now has a huge slow.
• Unholy Endurance
  • Lichborne now becomes a potent defensive ability.
• Insidious Chill
  • This reduces the enemy's attack speed and is more or less your party buff.
• Death's Echo
  • This grants you an additional charge of Death and DecayDeath Grip and Death's Advance making them easier to use and juggle correctly.

When to use this spec

This loadout is dropping extra Heart Strike for extra Vampiric Blood uptime and healing. This is a ~3/4% DPS loss in Dungeons.

Talent Adjustments

Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.

Spec Tree

• Added
  • Improved Vampiric Blood
    • +4 sec uptime and 10% healing during Vampiric Blood.

• Removed
  • Improved Heart Strike
    • 30% Heart Strike damage.

Boss Tips

Hackclaw's War-Band

• Use Anti-Magic Shell on Decayed Senses to prevent the disorientation.
• During Savage Charge make sure to soak for the targeted player and deal with the damage using defensives. Vampiric Blood and any other defensive is recommended.
• Make sure to keep interrupting Earth Bolt.

Treemouth

• Vine Whip is a really fast tank frontal that can be turned while casting. Aim it away from the team, and use Death's Advance to immune the small knockback.
• Use Blinding Sleet to control the Decaying Slimes that spawn from Decay Spray before they complete their Gushing Ooze cast.

Gutshot

• Gut Shot hits hard, use a defensive when tanking it. Also, use Death's Advance to immune the small knockback that happens.
• Call Hyenas summons two Hyeans, which you need to pick up. Being close to them causes a Crippling Bite, this is quite deadly and should be stunned or outranged. If you are hit press a defensive immediately!
  • As this is a bleed both Stoneform and Cauterizing Flame can save your life.
• If Master's Call is being cast when a Hyean is in a trap, be ready to interrupt it.

Decatriarch Wratheye

• Decaystrike puts a large heal absorb on you, be ready with your defensives for this mechanic.
• You need to aim the Choking Rotcloud boss frontal correctly. After it goes out the cloud travels clockwise through the room, keep this in mind when placing the Rotburst Totem.
• Rotburst Totem always spawns in the position which is furthest away from the boss. Keep this in mind when placing the boss in the room.
• Save your damaging cooldowns and Runic Power for each totem if you can tank Decaystrike without them. Killing the totem is the most important part of the fight.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• Pack Tactics from Warscourge, Rotsinger, and Ranger cause enemies to do a lot more damage. Keep this in mind when playing large pulls with these enemies.
• Use Blinding Sleet to stop Summon Lashers from Decayed Elders, this significantly reduces the damage your group takes.
• Counter Vicious Clawmangle from Claw Fighters with any of your available stops.

Boss Tips

Magmatusk

• During this boss, your main focus is to make the fight easier for the rest of the group with good boss positioning and movement. You can largely dictate if the Blazing Charge has a good or bad angle depending on boss positioning.

Chargath, Bane of Scales

• Fiery Focus does a lot of damage to you and you should use defensives whenever this happens. On top of that, drag the boss through 3 chains one at a time to stun the boss and end the phase.
  • Due to the movement and ground swirls you have to dodge make use of Vampiric Blood whenever this phase starts and Anti-Magic Shell when needed.

Forgemaster Gorek

• Heated Swings deals a lot of damage to you. Rotate your defensives accordingly for this mechanic. On top of that at the end of the cast, you are knocked back. You want to get knocked to the same position the whole fight.
  • Do not use Death's Advance as this immunes the knockback and the boss just leaps on your position and probably kills you.

Warlord Sargha

• You can cast Chains of Ice on the Burning Ember to slow it and help your group. If you want to kill it make sure to Death Grip it into melee.
• Since the boss doesn't have a tank mechanic your main objective is to pick up Piles of Gold to gain the weapons to break the Magma Shield.
  • Make sure to cast Anti-Magic Shell before picking up the gold to avoid the curse on you.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• If you are fighting multiple Lava Flares use Blinding Sleet or Death Grip to stop their casts since it makes them go on cooldown.
• Keep an eye out for the Qalashi Bonesplitter's Dragonbone Axe & Pierce Marrow to disrupt them.
• Qalashi Wardens cast Blazing Slash on you which is one of the most deadly tank busters in M+ watch out for that.
• Magma Fist is a frontal from Qalashi Trainee, so make sure to face them away from your group.
• Reverberating Slam is another very deadly tank buster be ready for it and make sure to use a defensive. You can also Anti-Magic Shell the debuff application.

Boss Tips

Granyth

• Nokhud Saboteurs spawn throughout the fight and need to be killed or controlled.
  • Make sure to use Chains of Ice when a slow is needed and Death Grip to keep them into melee so they can be cleaved down.

The Raging Tempest

• Energy Surge is an important mechanic to look out for, it buffs the boss to do magic damage with its melee swings.
  • If you have a purge class in your group make sure to let them know you can't do anything against this!
  • When you need tank it, press Vampiric Blood or any other defensives to reduce your damage taken for the buff's duration.
• Minmaxing Surge of Power stacks are very important since they not only buff your damage but also your healing making it easier to survive.
  • In most cases leave the stacks to the DPS players first since surviving this fight is normally not a big issue.
• If you run out of melee range the boss instantly casts Wind Burst which does very high magic damage. This means if you ever need to leave melee press a defensive or Anti-Magic Shell first.

Teera and Maruuk

• The most important part of the group's survival, and your own, is that you move the bosses together as fast as possible on every Spirit Leap. This is because the bosses receive a stacking damage buff from Ancestral Bond when separated.
  • In some cases, it's unavoidable that the boss gets 1-2 stacks.
• Brutalize is the main tank nuke coming from Maruuk, it deals a huge amount of physical damage to you.
  • Make sure to be ready with a Vampiric Blood and at least 1 Death Strike's worth of Runic Power to instantly top yourself off.
  • This mechanic can become quite hard because of the heavy movement this fight has.

Balakar Khan

• This fight is split into 2 phases with a changing tank mechanic that does a lot of damage in different ways:
• Phase 1 the boss casts Rending Strike a bleed that increases your damage taken from the next mechanic Savage Strike by 500%. This is by far the highest damage hit you are gonna be taking in this fight so make sure to start rolling defensive for each of these.
  • If you are a Dwarf or have an evoker in your group you can utilize their bleed removal mechanics Cauterizing Flame and Stoneform to completely negate the 500% damage taken increase making it deal almost no damage.
• In Intermission make use of Death Grip to gather and Blinding Sleet to stop the Storm Bolt casts of the adds.
• During phase 2 the boss now casts Conductive Strike into Thunder Strike in a similar way to the first phase's tank mechanic. The change now is that this is magic damage and the debuff that increases your damage taken can be dispelled by your healer.
  • Every second set you can pre-use Anti-Magic Shell to avoid getting the Conductive Strike debuff making it easier for you and your healer.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• You can cast Control Undead on the Risen Mystic to apply Swift Wind to your whole party a 20% Haste Buff for 10 seconds.
• This Dungeon has a lot of mobs that need stops to prevent casts from happening that wipe the group so make sure to use Blinding Sleet and Death Grip to stop these enemies.
  • Nokhud Hornsounder Rally the Clan.
  • Nokhud Beastmaster Hunt Prey.
  • Desecrated Ohuna Rotting Wind.
  • Risen Mystic Swift Wind.
• Primal Stormshields deal very high magical tank damage so try to ensure you have enough defensives ready when pulling multiple Primal Stormshields.
• Unstable Squall casts Surge on whoever has aggro, it is important to instantly get aggro on this mob as Surge deals extremely high damage.
• Ukhel Deathspeakers cast Chant of the Dead, this has a long cast time, Move all undead enemies out of it since they would get a buff which makes the pull even harder.

Boss Tips

Overgrown Ancient

• This boss casts Barkbreaker increasing your physical damage taken by 100% for 8 seconds. This mechanic is very deadly since it also works on the lashers spawned later in the fight.
  • Use any of your available defensives when getting hit by this mechanic and keep in mind it also does a decent amount of initial damage so pre-use your cooldowns.
• You want to be stacked with the group while playing Germinate so the lasher adds spawn at the same positions.
• When Burst Forth is being cast all dormant lashers wake up and attack players you must get aggro on all of these so be ready with a Death and Decay down and Blood Boil to pick them up.
  • These Lashers debuff you with‍Lasher Toxinthis needs to get dispelled by your group members poison dispel.
  • Should the stacks go too high use slows and kite them especially important during the‍Barkbreakerdebuff.
  • You can also use Anti-Magic Shell to reset these stacks since they are poison.
• It is recommended to have a target macro for taunting the Ancient Branch as it can spawn a bit out of melee range and be quite hard to target.
  • Remember to Death Grip the add into melee.

Crawth

• Savage Peck does heavy upfront tank damage to you and leaves a big bleed behind. Generally, make sure to have Vampiric Blood or any other defensive ready for the initial hit and the following bleed.
  • If you are a dwarf or have an evoker in your group you can utilize their bleed removal mechanics Cauterizing Flame and Stoneform to completely negate the mechanic and only take the initial damage.
• Deafening Screech is the main magic damage mechanic happening every 25 seconds, use Anti-Magic Shell to immune as many as possible to lower the damage you take from this mechanic.
  • On higher stacks make sure to press a defensive more as it sometimes lines up with a Savage Peck bleed debuff and can be deadly.

Vexamus

• This boss has a deadly tank frontal Arcane Expulsion, this deals magic damage so use Anti-Magic Shell for every second one and cover the other one with Vampiric Blood.
• Preferably you soak 2-3 Arcane Orbs on each rotation to make the fight easier for the rest of the group.
• Around 2 minutes into the fight there is a deadly overlap of Mana Bomb and Arcane Fissure, use Anti-Magic Zone if talented to help the group.

Echo of Doragosa

• Move the boss when one area of the room gets too crowded with Arcane Rifts.
  • At the beginning of the fight he casts 2 Arcane Rifts in the middle of the room, so bring the boss to the entrance area. These 2 pools despawn 2 minutes into the fight
• Power Vacuum sucks you into the boss if you want you can tank it with Death's Advance to keep high uptime but it is not recommended.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• In this dungeon, there are some very dangerous tank buster mechanics on the trash that you should be aware of and have a defensive ready for:
  • Guardian Sentry Storm Slash does very high magic damage.
  • Eagle Peck stacks up a dangerous ticking bleed.
  • Spellbound Battleaxe Severing Slash big initial damage with a bleed after.
• The other dangerous part is the casts on the group, make sure to utilize your stop Blinding Sleet and Death Grip to the best of your ability.
  • Corrupted Manafiend Surge and Mana Void.
  • Spellbound Scepter Mystic Blast big AoE cast needs to be stopped.
  • Unruly Textbook Monotonous Lecture.
  • Spectral Invoker Arcane Missiles.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You should always pick the Red Dragonflight Pledge Pin buff as it's numerically the highest value even though it's tempting to grab Bronze Dragonflight Pledge Pin.

Boss Tips

Watcher Irideus

• Titanic Fist is a fast frontal cast that you need to aim away from the group and then dodge for yourself. Apart from this, the fight does not do much tank damage.
• Utilize your Blinding Sleet to stop Nullification Devices from casting Purifying Blast on your group.

Gulping Goliath

• Make sure to slow the Curious Swoglets with Chains of Ice when needed.
  • Unless it's Sanguine it is recommended to spec into the Death and Decay slow Grip of the Dead to help with them.
• Make sure to keep all Curious Swoglets inside the Gulp you should also stand in it to avoid enraging the boss.
  • Anti-Magic Shell can be used to immune some poison stacks on yourself

Khajin the Unyielding

• This Boss does a lot of group damage and she sometimes casts Frost Shock dealing high magic damage to you and slowing you.
  • Pre-use Anti-Magic Shell before the timer to immune this mechanic.
• Make sure to move the boss close to the Ice Boulders to ensure melee uptime during Hailstorm casts.

Primal Tsunami

• Squall Buffet and Focused Deluge are very hard hitting tank mechanics that are cast back to back.
  • Squall Buffet does high initial damage and knocks you back, use Death's Advance to immune the knock and Vampiric Blood to survive the damage.
  • After that, Focused Deluge is cast. This does less initial damage but way more over time. You can pre-use Anti-Magic Shell to immune this mechanic but if it is not ready use Icebound Fortitude or Lichborne.
• When starting the intermission use Death Grip to stack up all 4 casters to make it easier to kill them. Ideally, you want to kick 1 and grip 2 close to the kicked one and let your team handle the last one.
• In the Intermission make sure to stop Inundate with your Blinding Sleet if needed.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• To minimize the chance of getting stunned by Cheap Shot from Skulking Zealots place a Death and Decay on top of them to break their stealth.
• Glacial Proto-Dragons are very deadly for tanks with their Oceanic Breath. You can pre-use Anti-Magic Shell to immune most of the damage.
  • Glacial Proto-Dragons are accompanied by Primalist Icecallers which cast Ice Shard on you as a tank, this spell is a deadly fast cast that can be disrupted. so make use of your Blinding Sleet and Death Grip but also ask your group for help since you are going to take a lot of damage in these pulls.
• Apart from these there are some more general stops/disrupts that are useful to keep an eye out for:
  • Refti Defender Demoralizing Shout.
  • Primalist Shocktrooper Elemental Focus.
  • Primalist Galesinger Thunderstrike.

Boss Tips

Leymor

• It is difficult to get aggro on all the Bubbling Sapplings that spawn after Consuming Stomp. Make sure to have Death and Decay down and Blood Boil ready for this.
• Use Anti-Magic Shell to immune Infused Strike and trivialize the mechanic.
• Erupting Fissure is a high damage frontal, you should press Vampiric Blood and any other defensive if needed.
  • You can also outrange it if you don't have enough defensives but this is quite difficult to do as a slow class.
  • Erupting Fissure needs to be aimed at the Trees to clear them, pick a good spot long before the cast happens since you want to position the boss correctly.
• Consuming Stomp does a decent amount of damage to you but overall should not be deadly.

Azureblade

• Summon Draconic Image spawns a Draconic Images that need to be interrupted. Make sure to grip them close to the boss with Death Grip.
• Arcane Cleave is the main tank mechanic that is also a frontal cleave, it does a high amount of damage. Make sure to rotate Vampiric Blood and other defensives when tanking it. You can also outrange this mechanic if you run fast enough or the boss is busy casting but it is quite difficult without a leap.

Telash Greywing

• This boss does not do anything special for tanks, the only dangerous part is the Absolute Zero since it drops you quite low while the boss flies down and instantly swings at you. Consider using a defensive such as Vampiric Blood at the last possible moment of the cast.

Umbrelskul

• Dragon Strike is a very deadly tank mechanic, luckily you can use Anti-Magic Shell for a lot of them. Whenever you have to tank a Dragon Strike without it make sure to use Vampiric Blood and be ready to Death Strike after the hit.
• To increase the odds that Detonating Crystals spawn stacked you can tank the boss on the edges of the room which basically removes half of the possible spawn locations.
  • The crystals spawn at 75%, 50%, and 25% boss hp.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• One of the important interrupts in this dungeon is Icy Bindings from the Rune Seal Keeper. If not interrupted it causes a groupwide root which probably wipes you since there are too many ground-based mechanics to dodge during these pulls.
  • This cast can be stopped by all of your AoE crowd control if necessary or kicks.
• Crystal Furies cast Piercing Shards quite frequently which you can mostly tank during the start of a pull. Later on or when the stacks are too high you want to start stopping this cast with Blinding Sleet and Death Grip then get help from your group.
• Ice Cutter from both Vault Guards & Scalebane Lieutenant deals massive damage should be respected. Utilize all your defensives on these pulls and if you are out of defensives make sure to kite them as the range of Ice Cutter is not that big
  • These packs are also accompanied by Rune Seal Keepers which inevitably cast Condensed Frost on you, it does a good amount of magic damage keep that in mind when tanking them.
  • Ice Cutter can also be stopped by any stun or AoE stop such as Blinding Sleet but the cast is quite fast.
• Some other noteworthy adds that can/should be disrupted or stopped with Blinding Sleet and Death Grip:
  • Conjured Lasher Mystic Vapors.
  • Arcane Elemental Waking Bane.
  • Nullmagic Hornswog Null Stomp.

Boss Tips

The Lost Dwarves

• Baelog casts 2 spells that need to be aimed away from the group Wild Cleave and Heavy Arrow.
• PutOlafon focus to quickly interrupt his‍Defensive Bulwarkwhen he casts.

Bromach

• After the boss casts Call of the Deep he summons 4 adds into the fight. 3 melee adds and 1 caster, make sure to grab aggro on all these running in with Blood Boil and use Death Grip to move the caster into melee.
• Quaking Totem summons a totem and while you want to hit the totem to avoid a wipe you also want to move all the adds into the totem circle so they get stunned by Tremor when the totem dies.

Sentinel Talondras

• As a tank, your main job is to remove‍Inexorable stacks from the boss with Resonating Orb, these spawned and dropped on the ground by party members.
• When Inexorable is removed use Resonating Orb to stop Titanic Empowerment before the cast goes off.

Emberon

• Searing Clap is the main frontal mechanic. This does a lot of damage to you so use defensives on this! On top of that, it applies a debuff to the whole group, you can pre-use Anti-Magic Shell to immune the debuff and damage from the ability.

Chrono-Lord Deios

• Move the boss around the room to ensure the uptime of any melee DPS or to allow your group members to Line of Sight the‍Wing Buffet.
  • You can also use Death's Advance to immune the knockback.
• Sand Breath is another frontal boss mechanic and the same as Emberon it does a lot of damage to you make sure to rotate defensives here.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• Refti Custodian's are the main tank killers with their Jagged Bite the bleed it applies is really dangerous and should be avoided but outranging the cast when it happens.
  • Over time they stack up a Ancient Power increasing their dmg when stunned they apply a 50% damage increase to them Systemic Vulnerability and reset their stacks. Make sure to utilize your‍group's stuns for that purpose.
• Some other noteworthy adds that can/should be disrupted or stopped with Blinding Sleet + Death Grip:
  • Vicious Basilisk Spiked Carapace.
  • Stonevault Geomancer Chain Lightning.
  • Earthen Weaver Hail of Stone.
  • Earthen Warder Curse of Stone.

Boss Tips

Melidrussa Chillworn

• The boss casts Frigid Shardat you the entire time. It does a good amount of damage and you need to use a defensive when Chillstorm is going on.
  • Chillstorm sucks you toward its drop-off location and at the end does a bigger hit and a pushback. Use Death's Advance to immune the push and Anti-Magic Shell if you are running low on defensives.
• At 75% and 45%, Melidrussa spawns a lot of Infused Whelps. Make sure to meet these Whelps when they spawn to pick them up with Blood Boil.

Kokia Blazehoof

• Searing Blows is the tank combo happening every time after Ritual of Blazebinding. The effects of this tank combo can be dodged and parried so tools like Dancing Rune Weapon are extremely strong!
  • If you do get hit you are affected by Searing Wounds this can be removed by Evokers thorugh Cauterizing Flame or Stoneform if you are a Dwarf.
• To ensure as much time as possible between Blazebound Firestorms Inferno casts you should interrupt the first 2 Roaring Blazes early and the 3rd one late.

Erkhart Stormvein / Kyrakka

• The initial hit from Stormslam is quite high so make sure to be ready with a defensive, on top of that you need to be dispelled after.
  • You can pre-use Anti-Magic Shell to immune the debuff application
• Make sure to tank Erkhart Stormvein at the back of the room to ensure that Kyrakka always lands on the platform.

Trash Tips

These notes are here to help guide you through the overall flow of the dungeon and highlight key things to watch out for. The War Within Guide is going to be a lot more detailed!

• Flame Dance from Primalist Flamedancers is the main tank killer, you need to disrupt this cast with Blinding Sleet and Death Grip also ask your team for help on these stops.
• High Channeler Ryvati always prioritizes the tank with Shock Blast until you already have the debuff, and then he casts it on a random target in your group.
  • It is possible to immune Shock Blast with Anti-Magic Shell.
• Some other noteworthy adds that should be disrupted or stopped with Blinding Sleet and Death Grip.
  • Flashfrost Earthshaper Tectonic Slam.
  • Flashfrost Chillweaver Ice Shield.
• Important interrupts in this dungeon are:
  • Primalist Cinderweaver Cinderbolt.
  • Flame Channeler Flashfire.
  • High Channeler Ryvati Shock Blast.
  • Tempest Channeler Thunder Bolt .

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