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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.

The multi-target Runic Power spender, which replaces Frost Strike at 3 targets.

The ability Frozen Dominion activates for free from Pillar of Frost and the ability the Season 2 tier set revolves around.

The single-target Runic Power spender, replaced by Glacial Advance at 3 targets.

Your single-target Rune spender, cast with Killing Machine stacks or with Exterminate available.

Your Rime consumer.

The multi-target Rune spender, which replaces Obliterate at 2 targets.

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.

A Killing Machine and Runic Power generator that makes your Obliterates free when cast during Pillar of Frost.

Frost Death Knight's major cooldown; when talented into Frozen Dominion it activates a free Remorseless Winter.

Required to interact with the Apex Talent Chosen of Frostbrood, and it summons the 4 horsemen when playing Rider.

A cooldown cast together with Pillar of Frost.

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.

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.

The raid Haste buff outside of which Gathering Storm is difficult to sustain.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your Mastery, increasing your Frost damage.

A passive giving a 1.8% chance per Runic Power spent to fully regenerate a Rune.

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%.

The proc whose consumption reduces Empower Rune Weapon's cooldown by 6 seconds with Frostbound Will.

The buff you gain a massive number of during Pillar of Frost with Obliteration, empowering Obliterate and Frostscythe.

Sends out a Glacial Advance towards your facing that applies Razorice to all enemies hit and refreshes Icy Talons.

Increases Frost Strike and Glacial Advance damage.

Reduces the cooldown of Empower Rune Weapon by 6 seconds for every Rime consumed.

Increases maximum Runic Power and Rune regeneration rate.

One of the talents that drastically increases Remorseless Winter damage.

Provides a stacking buff up to 5 times every 4 seconds; Obliterate and Frostscythe consume up to 3 stacks for additional Frost damage per stack.

Obliterate deals 10% increased damage and has a chance to tether a nearby enemy to your target; Frost Strike severs the tether, dealing Shadowfrost damage to both.

Frost Strike and Glacial Advance cause your next Frost Strike or Glacial Advance to deal increased damage and cost more Runic Power, stacking until the next Runic Empowerment proc.

One of the talents that drastically increases Remorseless Winter damage.

Gives a chance to generate a Rune when you consume a proc of Killing Machine.

Frost Strike and Glacial Advance have an increased chance to trigger Rime, and consuming Rime generates Runic Power.

Provides a Strength buff after your Pillar of Frost buff fades; every Obliterate and Frostscythe critical strike extends the duration by 2 seconds up to 20 seconds.

When talented, Pillar of Frost activates a free Remorseless Winter, and it removes your ability to cast Remorseless Winter separately.

Runic Empowerment has a chance to refund an additional Rune.

Consuming Rime deals additional Frost damage to the target and has a chance to trigger Killing Machine.

Consuming Rime stores a percentage of the damage dealt into your next Remorseless Winter.

One of the talents that drastically increases Remorseless Winter damage.

Howling Blast hits an additional target at 100% effectiveness and Rime increases Howling Blast damage by an additional amount.

Provides a stacking 1% critical strike buff for 10 seconds whenever you consume Killing Machine; consuming a proc at 5 stacks converts the buff into increased Frost damage for 10 seconds.

Increases auto-attack damage and increases the number of times Icy Talons can stack.

Provides extra AoE damage whenever you consume a proc of Rime and applies a stack of Rune of Razorice to all targets hit.

Makes your Rime also grant increased damage to your primary target.

Allows you to gain a massive amount of Killing Machine buffs during Pillar of Frost, making it an incredibly high burst window.

One of the effects Dark Talons enables more procs of.

Frost Strike now consumes 5 stacks of Razorice to increase its damage by 115%, and it has an additional effect that causes Frostbane to consume Razorice and deal an additional 300% damage.

Runic Power abilities sometimes additionally deal a percentage of their damage over 4 seconds.

Allows you to consume 2 stacks of Killing Machine at once, leading to considerably less wasting of procs.

Now increases the duration of Pillar of Frost by 1 second per auto attack crit, up to a maximum of 4 seconds.

A proc with a ramping chance based on targets hit that does cleave damage with your Frost Strike, and which consumes Razorice stacks for 300% additional damage.

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%.

The two-handed passive that raises the effective Killing Machine proc rate to 100%, versus roughly 50% for dual-wield.

The disease Exterminate refreshes or applies with Wither Away.

The debuff Arctic Assault applies to all enemies hit and that Shattering Blade and Frostbane consume.

A Runeforge whose healing and Strength gain are both increased by Unholy Bond.

Whitemane's disease with a 24 second duration that spreads and gains 1 stack every time you use Obliterate or Frostscythe on the infected target.

The Strength buff whose value Nazgrim's Conquest increases by 3% per enemy death while Nazgrim is active and by 1% per Rune spent.

The Runeforge that applies Razorice; Breath of Sindragosa builds typically do not use it.

A single-target focused talent that empowers Soul Reaper for the entire encounter and allows Soul Reaper uses before the boss is within execute range at 35% health or below.

The recommended off-hand Runeforge when playing the raid build as Dual-Wield.