Blood Death Knight Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.1

As part of your progression through Shadowlands you will gain the ability to craft Legendaries through Runecarving. Runecarving becomes available to you as you progress through Torghast. The Legendary Powers are obtained via various gameplay sources and once obtained you can craft your own specific, targeted Legendary! Each of these Legendaries will boost the power of your character in a specific way, however you can only wear 1 Legendary item at a time. This guide will detail the Legendary Powers available and which are the best ones to use in any given situation.

In the table below, the recommended slot for each item is bolded.

Focus	Legendary	Available Slots	Source	Stats
Raiding	Superstrain	Neck or Chest	Stone Legion Generals (Castle Nathria)	Haste and Versatility
Mythic+	Crimson Rune Weapon	Hands, Waist, or Shoulders	Halls of Atonement	Haste and Versatility
Torghast	Stable Phantasma Lure	Neck, Wrist, or Back	Torghast (Layer 6+)	Haste and Versatility
Generic Legendary	Superstrain	Neck or Chest	Stone Legion Generals (Castle Nathria)	Haste and Versatility

The aim with the new Runecarving system is that you can target specific Legendaries so you are not in a situation where you have to make the best of a bad situation. However, should you want a Legendary that works for all content types but is not strictly the best for all content types, we would recommend Superstrain. Whilst it may appear as a strictly DPS option, it has defensive benefits via Runic Power generation from Frost Fever.

If raiding is your main focus, Superstrain will be your choice. This Legendary will provide you with a DPS boost, but also provide you with Runic Power via Frost Fever, which will facilitate more casts of Death Strike.

An alternative competitive option for Raiding is Crimson Rune Weapon. This Legendary is optimal in fights when you are constantly losing charges of Bone Shield — you are always tanking something — and requires precise and optimal knowledge of the rotation in order to be able to incorporate the large number of modifications to it that this Legendary offers. The gain is obvious: sub-minute Dancing Rune Weapon cooldown, which is amazing both offensively and, for the fights where incoming damage can be parried, defensively.

Should you find yourself in a situation where you do not require the defensive benefit from a Legendary, we would recommend simming your character to find out what your highest DPS option is.

For Mythic+, Crimson Rune Weapon is the de-facto preferred option thanks to the versatility of play it provides. As you will be tanking a majority of the time, this Legendary allows you to lower the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon to around 1-minute, and reap a ton of benefits on top of it. The main benefit, however, is that you will have Dancing Rune Weapon going into virtually every pull of any key, instead of every other pull.

Other competitive options for Mythic+ include:

1. Superstrain can be used in Mythic+ and technically is better than Crimson Rune Weapon when doing dungeons with very frequent large pulls, Halls of Atonement being the best example. As its damage is not tied to a cooldown and not capped to a number of targets, it can certainly shine. The Runic Power coming from Frost Fever is a minor consolation prize defensively, however, and you lose the ability to have Dancing Rune Weapon for every pull.

Should you require additional Phantasma in Torghast, then Stable Phantasma Lure is a natural choice, as it will facilitate faster and more reliable Phantasma.

Should you not need the additional Phantasma, then we would recommend a more generic Legendary choice or the Mythic+ choice.

In Patch 9.1 every class will get one new Legendary for each Covenant. In the case of Blood Death Knight none are overwhelmingly powerful enough that you would want to replace any of the above options with them.

1. Venthyr Insatiable Hunger — This Legendary will make Swarming Mist deal a burst of damage when Swarming Mist ends which is based on the amount of Runic Power spent whilst Swarming Mist was active. In reality this means that to get the benefit from this Legendary you will need to play in a somewhat reckless manner by dumping all your Runic Power in order to gain a momentary burst of damage. There can be cases where you would want to take advantage of this, such as Sludgefist's Pillars in Castle Nathria, however those are few and far between to make this desirable immediately and more of an item you will craft when the situation presents itself.
2. Necrolord Abomination's Frenzy — This Legendary will increase the duration of Abomination Limb, make the target(s) pulled in by Abomination Limb take 10% increased damage from you for 12 seconds, and finally, increase the total amount of Bone Shield charges you will gain each cast. You were already gaining more Bone Shield charges than you needed, so adding more to this seems somewhat redundant. The other benefits of it can have very niche applications, such as RBGs, however it is one to craft when required rather than as a must-have.
3. Kyrian Final Sentence — This Legendary will refund a Rune each time Shackle the Unworthy spreads to a new target and give you a stacking 2% damage buff for 10 seconds, stacking to a maximum of 10%. This Legendary provides you with absolutely no benefit on single-target encounters, very little benefit on 2/3 target, and can be beneficial on 4+ targets; however, it would need to be a near-constant stream of 4+ targets which is unlikely even in Mythic+!
4. Night Fae Rampant Transference — This Legendary will increase the Strength gained from Death's Due (not the damage reduction) and increase your Runic Power generation by 20% whilst you are inside Death's Due. The Runic Power gain is nice, but compared to other Legendary options competing with your one Legendary slot it falls short of being great.