Dude you're a beast. I can't believe how simple it looks in 2 mins while I lost half of my life watching the other 2 hours guides and still i had doubts. Subscribed
Every content creator tries to go into too much detail about the little things in the class that you don’t really learn without playing. This video was the exception. I’m the MT for my guild and this video explains the basics and some good tips (macro runestrike for example) that even some decent people tanks would find helpful.
I think its perfect fine like this, if you go more and more into details it became a discussion about many things, like the runestrike macro f.e. I know many people use it but its overall not good if you have not a real control over your runicpower and u cant plan ahead for some IF oder AMS as some examples. And thats why this basic things are fine. And the best advice i could give there is to join your class discord there a super skilled players and so much theory stuff to learn about. The dk discord is also a super friendly discord its easy to use and beginners can improve there really much. And there are some of theeeese discords.... I look at you warriors
Thank you so much for this. I’m leveling my first dk as unholy and having a blast. I really like tanking, so I wanted to give blood a shot. But, the hour long guides going into the tiniest details and different scenarios have kept me away from it. This is exactly what I needed, very much appreciated!
another thing to add (depending on the weapon speed you got) blood boil is superior to bloodstrike in single target when using fast weapons. Other than that it is decent for people getting into blood dk before reading more into it in depth
IMO there are basically three things every tank DK needs to know. - defense cap is 540 - icy touch generates massive threat and generating threat as a blood DK basically revolves around throwing out as many as possible - you want tons and tons of stamina and effective hp That's all you really need to know as blood. As for aoe, yes you can use glyph'd d&d and morb, which is what I do, to have better aoe threat. But blood dks will never be very good at aoe compared to some other tanks, so ideally your raid should use other tanks for trash and reserve you for hard hitting bosses and especially spell damage bosses.
@@lolcats4ever you spam icy touch, and you're entire rotation revolves around using icy touch as much as possible. You shouldn't even be worried that icy touch will fall off your target because you're spamming icy touch so much.
I would not recommend macroing Rune Strike to your other abilities to automatically use it. In general, you don't want to dump runic power unless you have over half. That way, you always can pop your IBF, AMS, and Death pact when you need them.
I played shadowlands blood DK. That was a fun class spec for insta queues. The rune system iirc is different than classic wraths. Gonna play a blood DK in Classic Wrath!
should be more emphasis on icy touches massive threat component as its what makes Blood dk's one of the best /fastest threat generating Tanks on a single target fight Too many seem to relax on this then threat sensitive fights happen like Vezax/Hodir etc and casters wonder why they ripped aggro form a DK tank
Had an experiental blood DK for PvP, yes it was fun, over 50k hp and some arenas ended hilariously cos nobody dies when there's only me and a healer left, so it was about patience and rotation then one just... Quits and /wave
great video bro im looking more over the aoe side of the guide so you death and decay icy touch and plague strike then pestilence to spread disease and that should hold aggro right?
The only thing I think you missed is that in the AoE rotation, at least as far as I know, you press blood boil to not only do damage but also keep aggro.
is that the addon setup ur using? o.O i hv to try it cuz its basicly what i been trying to accomplish. just urs looks so clean ahha. and DK i find it hard to get the rotations done and still have an overview of the fights going on.. so ye would b nice i'd try this setup ^^
You get some of the basics but I have a few notes: 1. No reason to taunt/grip in opener, taunting puts you on the top of the threat meter, use it for when you need it - using it as an opener has effectively no good threat value. Open with Icy Touch, it has amazing threat! For the same reason you never taunt if you already have aggro, you never taunt on a mob at the beginning of combat. (Unless someone else pulled and you don't have frost runes or something). 2. Don't death strike as much as possible, use it when it gives you heals instead of when you're topped up. 3. Don't bind Rune Strike into all your abilities, that'll cause you to not have control over runic power for important mitigative cooldowns like AMS and IBF. You need to be ready to pop defensives if shit hits the fan, AMS and IBF is 20 runic power each, it's not a bad idea to try to stay on 30 runic power minimum. 4. Your job isn't necessarily to have a good usage of runes/squeeze out the most damage. Blood DKs have really bad damage anyways, you should manage your runes as needed (Icy Touch is great for threat if you have pumpers and you need to stay on top). Try to stay at a decent level of runic power so you can always pop defensives if shit hits the fan.
Thanks so much for the feedback! You always taunt or death grip into an icy touch. Every tank should get into the habit of taunting on pull, it allows you a grace period so your dps can start sooner.
@@rcpclassic Icy Touch has a x7 threat modifier, x14 in frost presence, taunt does nothing for your opener, there's no grace period to be had. If DPS can rip off you with an Icy Touch opener within the seconds a taunt lasts, you're in the wrong presence or something, or have questing gear in a raid with full BiS, the threat is simply that great with IT. It's not a good habit, and it's very typical for new tanks to misuse taunt.
can you explain why you said frost presence for active tanking instead of blood? im newish so i am just wanting to verify that... im more in dungeons than raids btw if that helps
It depends, starting out just go with 2h its fine and good for damage. Later on when you have more hit + spell hit to support DW then you can switch to wielding x2 weapons for more beefy stats and bigger life pool. Deathstrike return based on lifepool not damage.
Are you sure you want to start with a taunt? I'd personally save Dark Command until needed since it doesn't generrate threat unless someone else has more threat than you as far as I know.
It forces the target to attack you for a short period and it's a longer range than icy touch. So you toss that into an icy touch so Dps can start sooner
For tank absolutely not fallen crusader. Its one of the gargoyle runes i dont remember the exact name Now but it gives 25 flat defense (HUGE) And 4% total stamina
@@rcpclassic your talents are wrong and major glyphs too and with cds you should never have dancing rune weapon. As a rotation for single its not good. You dont need heart strike only for some bosses and you shouldnt always spam death strike for aggro. Your main aggro abilities are icy touch and rune strike. Also its not that big of a deal if your diseases drop. You are not playing dps.
@@darkjounin7576 Death Strike requires diseases for its heal, and letting them drop means wasting a rune on plague strike. With glyph of pestilence there's no reason not to keep them up on everything indefinitely.
God damn,this spec is still the most fking boring of all time. Still the same since 15 years ago,spread disease and spam Death Strike. Palatank is hundred times more fun than this garbage.
Yes you missed the defence cap. Still gonna give a like because the video was great. But kinda wanna give a dislike because of missing the defense cap. Actually to avoid others seing this wasting their time im going to dislike the video. Sorry.
@@rcpclassic u can't make a guide misinforming possibly thousands of people And then ask for tips in the comments but just a few things Are Wrong talents, Wrong glyphs, Wrong rune tips in the comments And more
Rotation also Wrong, starting with taunt Is just straight up Wrong And spaming Blood strike on rune cd aswel. You need Blood rune for multiple defense cds(life tap for example)
Dude you're a beast.
I can't believe how simple it looks in 2 mins while I lost half of my life watching the other 2 hours guides and still i had doubts. Subscribed
Thanks so much!
Every content creator tries to go into too much detail about the little things in the class that you don’t really learn without playing. This video was the exception. I’m the MT for my guild and this video explains the basics and some good tips (macro runestrike for example) that even some decent people tanks would find helpful.
Thanks! We are trying something new with this channel.
I think its perfect fine like this, if you go more and more into details it became a discussion about many things, like the runestrike macro f.e.
I know many people use it but its overall not good if you have not a real control over your runicpower and u cant plan ahead for some IF oder AMS as some examples.
And thats why this basic things are fine. And the best advice i could give there is to join your class discord there a super skilled players and so much theory stuff to learn about.
The dk discord is also a super friendly discord its easy to use and beginners can improve there really much.
And there are some of theeeese discords.... I look at you warriors
Just needed a refresher been almost 10 years, this is the best quick guide to remember. Ty
Thank you so much for this. I’m leveling my first dk as unholy and having a blast. I really like tanking, so I wanted to give blood a shot. But, the hour long guides going into the tiniest details and different scenarios have kept me away from it. This is exactly what I needed, very much appreciated!
Never used a blood DK but it's good to see that what I thought I'd need to do, is what I was going to do.
Dude these guides rock. Thanks for making them.
Really appreciate the comment. Thank you!
Said it just with 3 sentences. Thats it brother . Well done . Thanks alot . God bless you ❤
i really need that UI omg. Great video !!
Listing the macros is such a turn on for me. thank you. here's a sub
dang dude, glad to find your channel.
simple, fast and easy to understand
I press sub right away
Thanks so much!
Absolutely phenomenal lad keep it up
Thanks!
This is truly such an efficient breakdown
another thing to add (depending on the weapon speed you got) blood boil is superior to bloodstrike in single target when using fast weapons. Other than that it is decent for people getting into blood dk before reading more into it in depth
Great addition, thanks
Dude omg this is the best guide everrrrrrrr
Perfect for getting started. nice work.
IMO there are basically three things every tank DK needs to know.
- defense cap is 540
- icy touch generates massive threat and generating threat as a blood DK basically revolves around throwing out as many as possible
- you want tons and tons of stamina and effective hp
That's all you really need to know as blood. As for aoe, yes you can use glyph'd d&d and morb, which is what I do, to have better aoe threat. But blood dks will never be very good at aoe compared to some other tanks, so ideally your raid should use other tanks for trash and reserve you for hard hitting bosses and especially spell damage bosses.
Great additional info here. Thank you!
what so you recast icy touch even if it's not about to run out to generate more agro? or u mean just having it spread?
@@lolcats4ever you spam icy touch, and you're entire rotation revolves around using icy touch as much as possible. You shouldn't even be worried that icy touch will fall off your target because you're spamming icy touch so much.
Appreciate the video!
I would not recommend macroing Rune Strike to your other abilities to automatically use it. In general, you don't want to dump runic power unless you have over half. That way, you always can pop your IBF, AMS, and Death pact when you need them.
I've not been in a situation where I can't use ibf or ams but it could happen. I just make sure to never death coil unless I'm close to capping on rp.
I played shadowlands blood DK. That was a fun class spec for insta queues. The rune system iirc is different than classic wraths. Gonna play a blood DK in Classic Wrath!
Hope this channel comes back for cata
Fantastic. Thank you
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nice information than other, thanx
Aaaah straight to the point, needed this! Will you be making these class series for PvP also?
well this was very helpful. Thank you 😆
should be more emphasis on icy touches massive threat component as its what makes Blood dk's one of the best /fastest threat generating Tanks on a single target fight
Too many seem to relax on this then threat sensitive fights happen like Vezax/Hodir etc and casters wonder why they ripped aggro form a DK tank
Had an experiental blood DK for PvP, yes it was fun, over 50k hp and some arenas ended hilariously cos nobody dies when there's only me and a healer left, so it was about patience and rotation then one just... Quits and /wave
great video bro im looking more over the aoe side of the guide so you death and decay icy touch and plague strike then pestilence to spread disease and that should hold aggro right?
Im not big into wow anymore but great video keep it up :D
Wow this is a great comment thank you
The only thing I think you missed is that in the AoE rotation, at least as far as I know, you press blood boil to not only do damage but also keep aggro.
Yeah, but you risk not having runes for DnD which is way worse than missing Blood Boil.
hey man your UI is so clean, could you share the addons you used, please?
Pretty please make a video on weakauras for rune strike
What most people do is macro rune strike into their other abilities so you never even have to think about it.
Great video!
I cant seem to figure out how to use the = Dancing rune weapon - ability though, what am i doing wrong? it wont ever let me cast it.
is that the addon setup ur using? o.O i hv to try it cuz its basicly what i been trying to accomplish. just urs looks so clean ahha. and DK i find it hard to get the rotations done and still have an overview of the fights going on.. so ye would b nice i'd try this setup ^^
did you ever figure it out?
can we get something for your addons and setup? super appealing
hi bro, i like ur video , maybe can u share weakauras for BDK
You get some of the basics but I have a few notes:
1. No reason to taunt/grip in opener, taunting puts you on the top of the threat meter, use it for when you need it - using it as an opener has effectively no good threat value. Open with Icy Touch, it has amazing threat! For the same reason you never taunt if you already have aggro, you never taunt on a mob at the beginning of combat. (Unless someone else pulled and you don't have frost runes or something).
2. Don't death strike as much as possible, use it when it gives you heals instead of when you're topped up.
3. Don't bind Rune Strike into all your abilities, that'll cause you to not have control over runic power for important mitigative cooldowns like AMS and IBF. You need to be ready to pop defensives if shit hits the fan, AMS and IBF is 20 runic power each, it's not a bad idea to try to stay on 30 runic power minimum.
4. Your job isn't necessarily to have a good usage of runes/squeeze out the most damage. Blood DKs have really bad damage anyways, you should manage your runes as needed (Icy Touch is great for threat if you have pumpers and you need to stay on top). Try to stay at a decent level of runic power so you can always pop defensives if shit hits the fan.
Thanks so much for the feedback!
You always taunt or death grip into an icy touch. Every tank should get into the habit of taunting on pull, it allows you a grace period so your dps can start sooner.
@@rcpclassic Icy Touch has a x7 threat modifier, x14 in frost presence, taunt does nothing for your opener, there's no grace period to be had.
If DPS can rip off you with an Icy Touch opener within the seconds a taunt lasts, you're in the wrong presence or something, or have questing gear in a raid with full BiS, the threat is simply that great with IT.
It's not a good habit, and it's very typical for new tanks to misuse taunt.
You missed icy touch as the greatest spammable threat generation in the game
can you explain why you said frost presence for active tanking instead of blood? im newish so i am just wanting to verify that... im more in dungeons than raids btw if that helps
hi are you using tidy plate? Can you tell me how do you set it up to show debuffs on every enemies you affected please?
Which addon you're using for showing skills and runes
icy touch opener joins the chat. Ice Ice Baby
Hello, is it better to DW as blood DK or 2H ? Thanks !
It depends, starting out just go with 2h its fine and good for damage. Later on when you have more hit + spell hit to support DW then you can switch to wielding x2 weapons for more beefy stats and bigger life pool. Deathstrike return based on lifepool not damage.
@@666evo666 ok ty !
Sorry I'm a year late, is there a place i can find all the addons ur using in this video? Thanks
whats waekaura u used bro? share pls
what addons do you use?
Are you sure you want to start with a taunt? I'd personally save Dark Command until needed since it doesn't generrate threat unless someone else has more threat than you as far as I know.
It forces the target to attack you for a short period and it's a longer range than icy touch. So you toss that into an icy touch so Dps can start sooner
@@rcpclassic Fair enough. Thank you for the information :)
You don't miss not having a target frame?
My target frame is at the top of my screen. I hardly ever look at it but it's there
I was 1 minute through the video very confused when I realized this is for WotLK. Maybe put that in the title.
oh dman. sorry bro. The channel is for Classic. Sorry
and how do i hold aggro when there are a lot of mobs?
What rune for my two handler?
Fallen Crusader
For tank absolutely not fallen crusader. Its one of the gargoyle runes i dont remember the exact name Now but it gives 25 flat defense (HUGE) And 4% total stamina
Stoneskin gargoyle
they went so overkill with this class lol
What about blood dps bro???
Blood boil?
your weak aura code pls
Do u think u can write the macro text on my comment? “For the lazy people”
Not a good video. Anyone that says it is has never played a blood death knight past level 60
Thank you for the feedback. Could you explain what's not good about it?
@@rcpclassic your talents are wrong and major glyphs too and with cds you should never have dancing rune weapon. As a rotation for single its not good. You dont need heart strike only for some bosses and you shouldnt always spam death strike for aggro. Your main aggro abilities are icy touch and rune strike. Also its not that big of a deal if your diseases drop. You are not playing dps.
@@darkjounin7576 Death Strike requires diseases for its heal, and letting them drop means wasting a rune on plague strike. With glyph of pestilence there's no reason not to keep them up on everything indefinitely.
Skilling Bloodworms is really really bad as they steal aoe heals. Don't skill it!
Could you explain a little more?
@@rcpclassicthey do negative healing as they have an HP pool and get targeted by aoe heals like wild growth. They steal potential healing from players
@@Wladik0 hmm, im going to have to test this out. Thanks for the feedback!
Where’s the fuckin taunt button
God damn,this spec is still the most fking boring of all time. Still the same since 15 years ago,spread disease and spam Death Strike. Palatank is hundred times more fun than this garbage.
Absolute worst tank class in wotlk!
Yes you missed the defence cap. Still gonna give a like because the video was great. But kinda wanna give a dislike because of missing the defense cap. Actually to avoid others seing this wasting their time im going to dislike the video. Sorry.
Appreciate the feedback. I don't go over gear in these videos, it's not what these videos are.
@@rcpclassic still. Def cap is a basic. I wouldnt call that gear.
This guide Is So Wrong 💀💀
Then make yourself useful and explain how it's wrong.
@@rcpclassic u can't make a guide misinforming possibly thousands of people And then ask for tips in the comments but just a few things Are Wrong talents, Wrong glyphs, Wrong rune tips in the comments And more
Rotation also Wrong, starting with taunt Is just straight up Wrong And spaming Blood strike on rune cd aswel. You need Blood rune for multiple defense cds(life tap for example)