Death Knight – Best PvP & PvE Build Tree

Death knights in World of Warcraft are one of the most versatile classes, and for a good reason. Since their emergence, gamers appreciated their significant damage in two specializations – Frost and Unholy — and the ability to survive in the battle for a long time without a healer in the specialization Blood in any patch. All have a primary stat strength and unique runic powers. The PvP component of the class is also powerful, especially in mass battles, and inflicts permanent damage with the ability to control. Next, our guide will tell you about the current builds.

Death Knight PvE Builds in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

Death Knights have proved themselves as excellent members of groups and raids for many reasons. This includes consistent high damage, useful buff, excellent survivability, nice heal for himself, functional group abilities, and massive AoE. We recommend reading our little hints and current talent branches and applying them to the journey across Azeroth.

Blood Death Knight PvE Build

First, we will draw players' attention to the only spec suitable for tanking in dungeons and raids. DK is the ability to regenerate a lot of health quickly, low rollback of essential critical skills, and, instead, targets and mass battles. The primary abilities are Death's Caress, Death and Decay, Blood Boil, Heart Strike, and Marrowrend. The talent's build looks like this:

Among this tank's pluses are many survival options like Anti-Magic Shell, Icebound Fortitude, Lichborne, and Vampiric Blood, increased self-healing, excellent debuffing option, and the ability to live long without healing. The disadvantages here are low mobility, dependence on the availability of rune power, and a relatively weak reduction of incoming damage. Blood DK PvE Talents.

Blood Death Knight Pluses in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

• Wide array of cooldowns for all situations: Anti-Magic Shell, Icebound Fortitude, Lichborne, and Vampiric Blood, to name a few.
• Utility: ranged interrupt, 90% snare, combat ress, short-duration immunity to magic debuffs.
• Predictable, simple rotation, with options to truly get the maximum out of the spec in the hands of a skilled player.
• Reactive self-healing, based on damage taken.

Blood Death Knight Minuses in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

• Very EHP-dependent (meant to take more up-front damage than other tanks and heal it back).
• Cooldown usage and planning can make or break you.
• Dependent on Death and Decay placement in Dragonflight.

Unholy Death Knight PvE Build

Next, we'll look at two DPS specializations, the first of which will be the Unholy Death Knight. Incredible AoE damage, great in-one target boss fight, increased magic damage, and protective spells characterize this build. The primary skills are Outbreak, Festering Strike, Dark Transformation, Death Coil, Soul Reaper, Raise Abomination, and Plaguebringer. The current form looks like this at level 70:

Unholy DK's strengths include high damage tolerance in all situations, good single target burst, good raid and group abilities, and excellent in-game parameters. Weaknesses include low mobility and dependence on cooldowns.

Unholy Death Knight Pluses in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

• High single-target and AoE burst potential.
• Great add control with Death Grip.
• Knockback prevention with Death's Advance.
• Anti-Magic Zone as a magic damage raid cooldown.
• Effective at range.
• One of the tankiest specs.

Unholy Death Knight Minuses in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

• Limited mobility.
• Limited spread, add cleave.
• Limited raid and mythic+ utility.

Frost Death Knight PvE Build

The last specialization is Frost, the essential features of which are the ability to deal colossal damage in a solo target and AoE with specific skills, many defensive spells, and high comfort when playing.  The primary abilities are Frost Strike, Obliterate, Remorseless Winter, and Howling Blast. The talent tree looks as follows at all points:

Death Knight PvP Build in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

In PvP content, only two branches of talent are available, which can deal damage and give proper control over the enemy. Both specializations are significant in 2v2 and 3v3 arenas and mass battlegrounds. Try to choose the most comfortable style of play, use our builds, and go into battle.

Unholy Death Knight PvP Guide

The first of these is the most popular — Unholy Death Knight, which has not lost relevance since the early days of the class. The primary cooldown is Outbreak, Festering Strike, Dark Transformation, Death Coil, Soul Reaper, Festering Wound, and Plaguebringer. Also, additional spells are Death and Decay, Unholy Assault, and Apocalypse. The choices of talent look as follows:

The pluses of choice are excellent explosive and constant damage on multiple and single targets, gain extensive control options, and defensive cast skills. The disadvantages are the lack of retaliation and low mobility.

Unholy Death Knight Pluses in WoW Dragonflight 10.2

• Strong burst damage
• Great consistent damage
• CC prevention
• Great lockdown toolkit

Unholy Death Knight Minuses

• No large hits for finishing power
• Many setup global
• Low mobility

Frost Death Knight PvP Build

WoW Dragonflight 10.2 Death Knight Changes

All WoW Dragonflight 10.2 Death Knight Changes listed below.

Frost Death Knight Changes in 10.2

• Fixed an issue with Chill Streak not decrementing a bounce when it bounced off of the Death Knight.

Unholy Death Knight Changes in 10.2

• Unholy Assault now increases all damage dealt by 20% (was granting 20% Haste for 20 seconds).
• Raise Dead (Mail Ghoul) damage increased by 10%.
• Summon Gargoyle damage reduced by 30%.
• Soul Reaper damage increased by 20%.
• Army of the Dead damage of ghouls reduced by 25%.
• Ghouls summoned by Apocalypse now have their scaling from the Death Knight’s stats separate from Army of the Dead.
• Apocalypse damage increased by 12%.
• Death Coil damage increased by 12%.
• Scourge Strike damage increased by 12%.
• Festering Strike damage increased by 20%.
• Festering Wound damage increased by 10%.