Class Guide

Blood Death Knight

How this spec actually plays, read from real archived arena matches: the talents top-rated players converge on, which of them earn their slot in-game, and the burst window.

4 matches · rated 1968–1680

Death Knight

Blood Frost• Unholy•

Demon Hunter

Devourer• Havoc• Vengeance

Druid

Balance• Feral• Guardian• Restoration•

Evoker

Augmentation• Devastation• Preservation•

Hunter

Beast Mastery• Marksmanship• Survival•

Mage

Arcane• Fire• Frost•

Monk

Brewmaster• Mistweaver• Windwalker•

Paladin

Holy• Protection• Retribution•

Priest

Discipline• Holy• Shadow•

Rogue

Assassination• Outlaw• Subtlety•

Shaman

Elemental• Enhancement• Restoration•

Warlock

Affliction• Demonology• Destruction•

Warrior

Arms• Fury• Protection•

• = match sample analysed

The core kit

Taken by nearly every sampled player, and put to work in nearly every game.

Boiling Point

used in 4/4

Coagulopathy

used in 4/4

Voracious

used in 4/4

Blinding Sleet

used in 4/4

Anti-Magic Barrier

used in 4/4

Unholy Endurance

used in 4/4

Improved Death Strike

used in 4/4

Rune Mastery

used in 4/4

Mind Freeze

used in 4/4

Icy Talons

used in 4/4

Bloodshot

used in 4/4

Improved Heart Strike

used in 4/4

Sanguinary Burst

used in 4/4

Blood Mist

used in 4/4

Insatiable Blade

used in 4/4

Everlasting Bond

used in 4/4

Sanguine Ground

used in 4/4

Hemostasis

used in 4/4

Dancing Rune Weapon

used in 4/4

Rapid Decomposition

used in 4/4

Improved Bone Shield

used in 4/4

Ossuary

used in 4/4

Deadly Reach

used in 4/4

Marrowrend

used in 4/4

Heart Strike

used in 4/4

Blood Boil

used in 4/4

Bone Collector

used in 4/4

Iron Heart

used in 4/4

Vampiric Blood

used in 4/4

Proliferating Chill

used in 4/4

Death's Echo

used in 4/4

Dance of Midnight

used in 4/4

Death Strike

used in 4/4

Gorefiend's Grasp

used in 4/4

Burst window

View the full talent build →

The single highest-damage real 12s window in the sample

Reaper's Mark
→
Marrowrend
→
Exterminate
→
Death Grip
→
Strangulate
→
Chains of Ice
→
Death Strike
→
Death Strike
→
Marrowrend
→
Exterminate
→
Mind Freeze

Also commonly taken

Blood Draw 4/4 Runic Attenuation 4/4 Will of the Necropolis 4/4 Runic Protection 4/4 Grip of the Dead 4/4 Brittle 4/4 Unholy Momentum 4/4 Unholy Bond 4/4 Red Thirst 4/4 Null Magic 4/4 Plague Infusion 4/4 Last Dance 4/4 Spellwarden 4/4 Umbilicus Eternus 2/4 Assimilation 2/4 Suppression 2/4 Osmosis 2/4 Foul Bulwark 2/4 Bind in Darkness 2/4 Wither Away 2/4 Exterminate 2/4 Consumption 2/4 Deathly Blows 2/4 Reaper's Mark 2/4 Death's Messenger 2/4 Rune Carved Plates 2/4 Strangulate 2/4 Raise Dead 2/4 Gift of the San'layn 2/4 Frenzied Bloodthirst 2/4 Bloodied Blade 2/4 Visceral Strength 2/4 Vampiric Strike 2/4 Desecrate 2/4 Decomposing Aura 2/4 Gloom Ward 2/4 Permafrost 2/4 Blood Feast 2/4 Swift and Painful 2/4 Grim Reaper 2/4 Wave of Souls 2/4 Soul Rupture 2/4 Echoing Fury 2/4 Dark Talons 2/4 Insidious Chill 2/4 Cleaving Strikes 2/4 Purgatory 2/4 Heartbreaker 2/4 Relish in Blood 2/4 Infliction of Sorrow 2/4 Incite Terror 2/4 Inevitable 2/4 The Blood is Life 2/4 Transfusion 2/4 Thrill of Blood 2/4 Vestigial Shell 2/4 Blood Scent 2/4 Coldthirst 2/4 Pact of the San'layn 2/4 Bloody Fortitude 2/4

▶ The sample — 4 matches

Match	Rating	Length	Flagged talents
Match 1	1968	294s	7
Match 2	1968	294s	7
Match 3	1680	350s	6
Match 4	1680	350s	6