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Costs 1 Rune and places a damaging area at the target location which persists for 10 seconds.

Costs 1 Rune and deals moderate damage; it is replaced once you choose a specialisation (Heart Strike for Blood).

Deals damage to the target and heals you for 25% of the damage taken in the previous 5 seconds; through Mastery: Blood Shield a percentage of that healing is also applied as a physical damage absorption shield.

Grants 2 Bone Shield charges when used.

Damages the target as well as another nearby target for 1 Rune; with Cleaving Strikes it strikes up to 5 targets while you stand in Death and Decay, and it applies a 20% snare. It is copied by Dancing Rune Weapon for 5 bonus Runic Power per active weapon through Blood Strike.

Hits the target for a light amount of physical damage and grants you 3 charges of Bone Shield; it is copied by Dancing Rune Weapon for 3 additional Bone Shield charges per active weapon.

Deals damage to all enemies within 10 yards and applies Blood Plague to them.

Summons a Ghoul for one minute; the ghoul auto-attacks your current target and frequently casts Gnaw, a 1-second stun.

Voidbound emissaries have 1% health and a large shield, making them ideal targets for Soul Reaper.

Listed among the abilities removed going from The War Within into Midnight.

Death Strike has a 35% chance to change Heart Strike into Vampiric Strike, which deals Shadow damage instead of Physical, heals you for 1% of your maximum health, and gives you 1 stack of Essence of the Blood Queen.

Each Rune spent gives you a 10% chance to summon one of the Four Horsemen: Mograine, Whitemane, Trollbane or Nazgrim.

Summons all 4 Horsemen for 20 seconds after casting Frostwyrm's Fury, or extends the current duration by 20 seconds if a Horseman is already out.

Exists in your spellbook and should remain there, as it is more inefficient than Death Strike at everything Death Strike does.

Grips an enemy to you and also taunts it; just like Dark Command this taunt comes with a 3s fixate and 300% threat boost.

Costs 30 Runic Power and battle resurrects a targeted dead ally, bringing them back to life even in combat.

Turns you undead for 10 seconds, making you immune to charm, fear and sleep and granting 10% leech.

A costly but very potent ranged snare: at the cost of one Rune you apply a 70% slow for 8 seconds.

Grants a magic absorption shield equal to 40% of your maximum health for 5 seconds; while it holds you are immune to most magical debuffs and each 1% of the shield consumed grants 0.873 Runic Power.

Your taunt: puts you at the top of an enemy's threat table and forces it to fixate on you for 3 seconds, during which you generate 300% bonus threat.

Applies a powerful Runeforge to your weapon, acting as a usually better enchant; you do this at the Runeforges in Acherus.

Summons a gate that teleports you to Acherus, where you can Runeforge your weapon and practise your rotation on target dummies; using it again brings you back.

Costs 1 Rune and grants everyone in your group the ability to walk on water; it breaks on any damage taken.

Available on the class tree for all Death Knights: for the next 8 seconds you take 30% less damage and are completely immune to Stun effects; it can also be used while stunned to remove the stun.

Interrupts your target if they are casting and locks them out of that school of magic for three seconds.

Disorients all targets in a 12yd cone in front of you for up to 5 seconds; when they take damage the disorient fades and they are instead slowed by 50% for 6 seconds.

Allows you to take control over any non-CC-immune undead enemy, turning it into your pet and possibly granting you access to some of its abilities.

Increases your maximum health and healing received by 30% for 10 seconds.

Heals you for 50% and applies a 30% healing absorption effect; while it holds all of your received healing is absorbed by it, and both effects snapshot your maximum HP at cast.

Places a shadowy zone on the floor for 6 seconds; the zone reduces all magic damage taken by players inside by 15%.

Stuns your target for 5 seconds.

Grips all enemies within 15 yards to your target; the target can be you, an ally, an enemy, or any other entity that can be attacked.

A PvP talent: a nice damage increase when pulling 3 or more enemies, though its 30-second cooldown prevents it from being used on every pull.

A PvP talent with limited value in PvE content.

A PvP talent with limited value in PvE content.

Removed; this results in having less major defensive cooldowns against large tank hits.

Removed; not a huge loss since this was a very niche talent and not played very often.

Listed among the abilities removed going from The War Within into Midnight.

Provides a small speed boost and prevents you from being slowed below 100% of your movement speed for 10 seconds, and grants immunity from knockbacks and pushbacks.

Breaks all roots currently on you, renders you immune to subsequent root effects while channelling, and increases your movement speed by up to 4 seconds.

Does not work at all in raids.

The choice you always take over On a Paler Horse, greatly increasing your mobility and allowing you to break roots and slows.

A passive that increases your mounted movement speed by 20%; it does not stack with other movement speed abilities such as Crusader Aura.

Allows each auto-attack hit on a plagued target a 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Death and Decay; this can only happen if Death and Decay is not already active on the floor.

Your mastery: every time you use Death Strike a percentage of the raw healing done is duplicated as an absorption shield on yourself, and it also increases your attack power.

A passive ability, currently invisible in your spellbook, that automatically grants you 100% of your critical strike rating as parry rating.

Grants a very high chance to generate 5 Runic Power each time you successfully auto-attack a target, working out to an average of 50 RP per minute, increased by your Haste.

A very important talent to make your Death Strike much stronger.

Increases the maximum number of targets Heart Strike will hit from 2 to 5 while you are standing in your Death and Decay; it also buffs Vampiric Strike specifically by 10% due to a bug.

Increases all absorption effects cast on you by 15%, including your own and effects from others such as Life Cocoon and Anti-Magic Shell.

Grants an additional 25% movement speed, 60% in total, for the first three seconds of Death's Advance.

Grants you 2% (rank 1) or 4% (rank 2) additional haste.

Grants a chance for your ghoul's auto-attacks to reduce the damage the target deals to you by 12% for 6 seconds and to snare them by 30%.

Gain 1 charge of Bone Shield when pulling an enemy.

Reduces the cooldown of Mind Freeze by 3 seconds, and if you successfully interrupt a spell you gain 10 Runic Power.

Causes Chains of Ice to cleave to the nearest enemy target.

Grants you a shield equal to 40% of all auto-attack damage you deal; it stacks and refreshes on each auto-attack but is capped at 20% of your maximum health.

Increases your stamina by 20%.

Causes your ticks of Blood Plague to have a chance to weaken the target, increasing all your damage dealt to them by 6% for 5 seconds.

While you are below 50% health and your ghoul is active, you deal 4% of its health in damage to heal yourself for 1% of yours every second.

While above 5 charges of Bone Shield your Death Strike costs less Runic Power.

Increases the duration of Vampiric Blood by 2 seconds and its healing amplification and maximum HP increase by 5% per rank.

Increases the damage dealt by Heart Strike by up to 15% per rank.

Grants you a small heal and 10 Runic Power when you consume a Crimson Scourge proc.

With this you obtain a new buff to upkeep.

Significantly reduces the cost of Raise Ally.

Reduces the cooldown of Death Pact by 30 seconds and increases all healing received while its healing absorption effect is active.

Causes each Heart Strike damage event to heal you for 0.5% of your maximum HP.

Causes each hit of your own Heart Strike to grant an additional 1 Runic Power per point; the copies cast by Dancing Rune Weapon do not count.

Increases your maximum HP by 1% for each charge of Bone Shield you currently have.

Each target hit by Blood Boil grants a stacking buff up to 5 stacks; casting Death Strike consumes all stacks to increase its damage and healing, but not the blood shield generated through Mastery: Blood Shield.

Reduces all damage taken by 4% for 6 seconds when you consume a Crimson Scourge proc.

Grants a chance to spawn Bloodworms, which deal light physical damage and burst after 15 seconds or when you drop below 50% HP, healing you for 15% of your missing HP.

Turns Chains of Ice into a 4-second root, which also roots the nearest enemy with Proliferating Chill, but adds a 12-second cooldown to Chains of Ice.

Increases the range of Death Grip to 35 yards and causes its cooldown to reset each time you deal a killing blow to a target that yields experience or honor.

Reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Zone to 3 minutes and increases its duration to 8 seconds.

Lowers the cooldown of your Anti-Magic Shell and makes it stronger.

Snares enemies by 90% when they enter Death and Decay; every second from the time they first take damage from Death and Decay the snare is reduced by 10%.

Increases your Haste by 10% while at least one charge of Bone Shield is active.

Reduces the cooldown of your Dancing Rune Weapon.

Death Strike cleaves two additional enemies for 75% of its normal damage and generates one more Coagulopathy per additional enemy hit.

Causes Blood Plague and Death and Decay to tick 15% faster, and Blood Plague leeches 50% more health from enemies.

Increases your avoidance by 3%; when you are impacted by a crowd-control effect you gain an additional 6% avoidance for 6 seconds.

Increases your leech by 3%.

Causes Lichborne to last 2 seconds longer.

Heart Strike has a chance to cause your next Blood Boil to deal 50% bonus damage and cast again 3 seconds later; these echoes trigger all effects a regular Blood Boil would.

Casting Death Strike heals you for 20% of the value of its original healing, ticking instantly and lasting five seconds.

Causes Dancing Rune Weapon to summon a second Dancing Rune Weapon to mirror all your abilities and increases its duration by 4 seconds.

Increases the healing done by Death Strike by 20%, increases its minimum healing to 10.5% of your maximum HP, and grants 15% leech for 8 seconds after using Death Strike.

When Anti-Magic Shell absorbs damage it also duplicates the amount absorbed as a direct heal on you.

Increases all healing received, not including absorbs, by 15% while Anti-Magic Shell is active.

Your new raid utility debuff: each auto-attack applies a debuff lasting 30 seconds and stacking to 4 times, reducing the target's auto-attack speed by 5% per stack.

Increases armor by 6%; its critical strike reduction is irrelevant for tank specialisations as that is already passive for all tanks.

Triggers once every 2 minutes when you drop below 30% health: it deals damage to enemies within 8 yards and heals you for the damage dealt, reduces damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds, and reduces the cost of Death Strike by 10 Runic Power for 8 seconds.

Critically striking with Blood Plague has a chance to reduce the remaining cooldown on a charge of Blood Boil by 0.25 seconds.

Up to once every three seconds while Blood Shield is active you have a chance to deal a small amount of damage to the next enemy that damages you; in addition the cap on Mastery: Blood Shield is increased to 65% of your maximum health.

You generate 20% more Mastery: Blood Shield and it lasts 2 seconds longer; the cap on Mastery: Blood Shield is not increased.

You deal 5% more damage to enemies afflicted by Blood Plague, and each enemy hit by Death Strike grants a buff increasing the damage of all Blood Plagues by 10%, stacking up to 4 times.

Spending a rune can occasionally grant you 3% strength per rank for 8 seconds; the number of runes spent per ability does not affect the chance.

When you attempt to grip an enemy it deals 6% less damage to you for 6 seconds; using Death Grip to trigger it may lead to enemies becoming taunt immune because Death Grip taunts.

Causes a portion of all damage taken while below 30% health, or that would bring you below 30%, to be reduced by a percentage; the behavior is non-trivial and explained on a separate page.

When you cast Dancing Rune Weapon you gain 5% more parry rating for 8 seconds and pulse damage instantly and every second while the effect is active, gaining 2 Runic Power per enemy hit up to a maximum of 10 Runic Power per second.

Causes you to deal 5% more damage and receive 5% more healing and absorption effects from all sources while you are in your Death and Decay.

Increases all damage you deal by 8% and reduces all damage taken by 4% while Mastery: Blood Shield is active; Death Strike always benefits from this.

Provides a huge cooldown reduction for your Vampiric Blood.

Reduces magic damage taken by 10% and makes most magic debuffs on you fade 35% faster.

Makes Anti-Magic Shell remove harmful magic debuffs on you, but increases its cooldown by 20 seconds.

Grants an additional charge of Death and Decay, Death Grip and Death's Advance, making them easier to use and juggle correctly.

When you cast Anti-Magic Shell the two nearest friendly targets, pets included, get a Lesser Anti-Magic Shell; that lesser shell is only a magic absorb and gives none of Anti-Magic Shell's other benefits.

When Blood Mist expires it deals damage and heals you for 18% of the damage it deals; this burst is increased by 2% for every point of Runic Power spent during it.

A Cheat Death every 4 minutes.

Tallies all damage dealt by Blood Plague while Vampiric Blood is active; when Vampiric Blood fades the total is quintupled and applied to you as a shield, capped at your maximum HP before any additional amplification effect.

The central focus of the San'layn tree: every stack grants 1% Haste for 20 seconds and each stack refreshes the duration, up to 5 stacks or 7 with Frenzied Bloodthirst. The Haste gained is multiplicative, so the more Haste you have the better the buff is.

Choice node 1: when you use Raise Ally, both you and the person resurrected gain a 20% health absorption shield.

Choice node 1: the movement speed of Death's Advance and Wraith Walk is increased by 10%, and casting either gives the four nearest friendly players a 20% movement speed buff for 5 seconds.

Choice node 2: while standing in your Death and Decay you take 5% less Physical damage and have a 5% increased chance to trigger Vampiric Strike.

Choice node 3: your leech is increased by 2%; when you cast Lichborne it doubles and the 4% bonus is given to the four nearest friendly players.

Choice node 3: increases the damage reduction of Icebound Fortitude by up to 20%, snapshotting its value on your current HP at the time of the hit and at full value at 0% health; a killing blow also reduces Icebound Fortitude's cooldown by 3 seconds.

Essence of the Blood Queen also grants 0.2% Blood Shield mastery and 0.1% bonus AP per stack, tripled during Gift of the San'layn.

When Vampiric Strike hits an enemy with Blood Plague, the duration of Blood Plague is increased by 3 seconds and it instantly deals 20% of its damage.

Increases the maximum stacks of Essence of the Blood Queen by 2, and you deal 5% more damage per stack with Death Strike.

Vampiric Strike has a chance to spawn a Blood Beast, which attacks your target for 10 seconds and explodes for a portion of the damage it dealt; the explosion also heals you.

Consuming Crimson Scourge procs grants you 12% strength for 12 seconds.

Blood Plague deals up to 30% bonus damage based on the target's missing health.

A debuff, applied by casting Vampiric Strike or Heart Strike on the target, that increases shadow damage taken by 1% per stack for 15 seconds up to 5 stacks with each stack refreshing the duration; Vampiric Strike itself deals 4% more damage per stack.

Choice node 4: Blood Beasts now store 15% of the Shadow damage you deal.

Choice node 4: the chance to trigger Vampiric Strike is increased by 15% if the target is below 35% health.

Casting Vampiric Strike increases the damage of any active Dancing Rune Weapon by 20% for 8 seconds; individual applications can overlap and this is a buff on the Dancing Rune Weapon unit itself.

While Dancing Rune Weapon is active Heart Strike is replaced with Vampiric Strike, and the Haste bonus of Essence of the Blood Queen, the damage bonus of Frenzied Bloodthirst and the mastery bonus of Thrill of Blood are increased by 200%.

Applying Reaper's Mark fires Wave of Souls from you to your target and back; enemies critically hit take 5% increased damage per stack up to 2 stacks, and the wave always critically strikes when it returns to you.

Blood Plague deals damage every 1.5 seconds instead of every 3 seconds, and the second scythe from Exterminate applies Blood Plague to all enemies it hits.

Blood Boil's damage becomes Shadowfrost and is recoloured blue; any Shadowfrost damage source grants two stacks to Reaper's Mark, four if it crits.

Permafrost stacks twice as fast, though its cap is not increased, and it also tallies up 10% of any damage dealt by Exterminate.

When Reaper's Mark explodes, 10% of the damage dealt to the target is dealt to nearby enemies.

Applying Reaper's Mark grants 3 stacks of Bone Shield, and when Reaper's Mark explodes it deals up to 30% additional damage based on the missing health of the target.

Choice node 1: once every 2 minutes you can trigger Death Pact at 50% effectiveness; Reaper's Mark reduces the cooldown of this effect and of Death Pact by 5 seconds.

Choice node 1: up to 7.5% damage reduction against Physical and Magic damage at 1.5% per stack; spending a rune grants a stack of magic damage reduction for 5 seconds and regenerating a rune grants a stack of physical damage reduction, with each new stack refreshing the duration.

Death Strike deals 5% bonus damage.

In single target, Reaper's Mark grants you 10% strength for 8 seconds when it detonates, and Wave of Souls is 100% more effective against the target Reaper's Mark was cast on.

Choice node 3: Marrowrend and Heart Strike randomly cause you to gain 3 more Icy Talons stacks, and Death Strike grants 2 stacks of Reaper's Mark, 4 if it critically strikes, as long as Icy Talons is active.

Choice node 3: reduces the cooldown of Reaper's Mark to 30 seconds but causes it to only grant one Exterminate stack.

Choice node 4: the cooldown of Lichborne and Raise Dead is reduced by 30 seconds.

Choice node 4: if an enemy directly hits you with a Magic spell, no DoTs and no AoE, while Anti-Magic Shell is active, their casting speed is reduced by 10% for 6 seconds.

Casting Dancing Rune Weapon grants you one Exterminate charge; apex talent procs do not trigger this talent.

A PvP talent that can be very strong when completing open-world content in a group but has very limited value in solo play.

A PvP talent that can be very strong when completing open-world content in a group but has very limited value in solo play.

A PvP talent with limited value in PvE content.

A PvP talent with limited value in PvE content.

A PvP talent that drastically reduces the duration and cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon.

Removed; it no longer deals passive damage to enemies when losing Bone Shield stacks.

With this you can now have a maximum of 12 charges of Bone Shield.

Together with Bind in Darkness it transforms Blood Boil to deal Shadowfrost damage and gives Blood Plague a chance to deal extra Shadowfrost damage, contributing more stacks to Reaper's Mark.

With Exterminate, this talent combination makes Reaper's Mark empower your next 2 Marrowrend casts.

A passive granting a free Death Strike whenever you kill an enemy that grants honor or experience, and increasing that Death Strike's healing by 10%.

When Obliterate or Frostscythe damages a target affected by Undeath it gains 1 stack and infects another nearby enemy.

Passively increases Frost Fever, Frost Strike and Frostbane damage.

Standing in Mograine's Death and Decay increases your damage and critical strike by 5%.

Nazgrim grants you 5% Strength, increasing by 1% for every Rune spent while he is active.

Increases the duration of your Horsemen when spending Runic Power, with synergy with Ride or Die! and Let Terror Reign.

The build currently played has incredible synergy with it, allowing for huge Frost Strikes and Frostbanes during your burst.

Depends on the value of Anti-Magic Shell during the fight; it can be incredibly potent, allowing you to pre-immune debuffs or absorb high amounts of magic damage.

Grants you 5% damage reduction per Horseman out, or a 20% damage reduction during your cooldowns with Apocalypse Now.

Trollbane's repeatedly cast Chains of Ice gets shattered by Obliterate or Frostscythe through this talent.

Increases Obliterate damage by 10% and increases the duration of Remorseless Winter by 2 seconds.

Pillar of Frost summons Trollbane for 6 seconds.

Casting Frost Strike or Frostscythe orders Trollbane to cast his own Frost Strike or Frostscythe alongside you at 100% effectiveness while active.

Increases the damage of abilities cast by the Horsemen by 5%.