Blood Death Knight Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Season 1

Welcome to our Blood Death Knight Gear Page for Midnight Season 1. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Blood Death Knight, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

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BiS Gear for Blood Death Knight

BiS Raid (San'layn) BiS Raid (Deathbringer) Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas Gear Mythic+

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Midnight raids for San'layn. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest performing gear available to players.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Liferipper's Cutlass	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Relentless Rider's Crown	Matrix Catalyst, or Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Neck	Eternal Voidsong Chain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Shoulder	Relentless Rider's Dreadthorns	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Defiant Defender's Drape	Magister's Terrace
Chest	Relentless Rider's Cuirass	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Spellbreaker's Bracers with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Gloves	Voidclaw Gauntlets	Seat of the Triumvirate
Belt	Bent Gold Belt	Pit of Saron
Legs	Relentless Rider's Legguards	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Greaves of the Unformed	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Ring #2	Loa Worshiper's Band	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Light Company Guidon	Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Midnight Season 1 raids for Deathbringer. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest performing gear available to players.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Liferipper's Cutlass	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Relentless Rider's Crown	Matrix Catalyst, or Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Neck	Eternal Voidsong Chain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Shoulder	Relentless Rider's Dreadthorns	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Defiant Defender's Drape	Magister's Terrace
Chest	Relentless Rider's Cuirass	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Kasreth's Bindings	Nexus-Point Xenas
Gloves	Voidclaw Gauntlets	Seat of the Triumvirate
Belt	Hate-Tied Waistchain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Legs	Relentless Rider's Legguards	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Greaves of the Unformed	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Ring #1	Masterwork Sin'dorei Band with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Ring #2	Loa Worshiper's Band	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Umbral Plume	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #2 (Alternate)	Heart of Ancient Hunger	Vorasius in The Voidspire

This list serves as a "My raid leader needs me to provide a wishlist, here is the wishlist" item list. If you were to assemble the best gear set from Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas specifically, and no other source, this is what you would wear.

TipsWhich Are the Most Important Items?

The following items are the most impactful in Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas:

• Gaze of the Alnseer is currently the best-performing trinket for almost every spec, even after its nerfs. The competition will be fierce.
• Eternal Voidsong Chain happens to be perfectly itemized for San'layn and triggers off of shadow damage - allowing us to very easily saturate its proc chance.
• Radiant Plume will be very valuable when March on Quel'Danas opens; until then, Heart of Ancient Hunger is almost as good.
• Finally, Light Company Guidon is particularly nifty for San'layn.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Alah'endal, the Dawnsong	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Helm	Relentless Rider's Crown	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Neck	Eternal Voidsong Chain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Shoulder	Relentless Rider's Dreadthorns	Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Chest	Relentless Rider's Cuirass	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Spellbreaker's Bracers with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Gloves	Relentless Rider's Bonegrasps	Vorasius in The Voidspire
Belt	Ezzorak's Gloombind	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Legs	Relentless Rider's Legguards	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Greaves of the Unformed	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Ring #1	Bond of Light	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Ring #2	Loa Worshiper's Band	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #2 (San'layn)	Light Company Guidon	Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire
Trinket #2 (Alternate)	Heart of Ancient Hunger	Vorasius in The Voidspire

This list contains the best items available per slot from Mythic+. It is there to provide you with a quick list of easily farmable gear if you need something in a specific slot.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Pit of Saron: A good defensive trinket ( Rotting Globule), two weapons, a very nice neck and a chest piece make this your highest value farm target if you need a variety of slots. You can also significantly help your group with Control Undead there, making it a nice dungeon to get value out of.
• Seat of the Triumvirate: Voidclaw Gauntlets - a decently high value pair of cantrip gloves.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: A pair of rings with an added bonus, which only loses value once you craft Loa Worshiper's Band.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Liferipper's Cutlass	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Crown of the Dark Envoy	Seat of the Triumvirate
Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker	Pit of Saron
Shoulder	Spaulders of Scorching Ray	Skyreach
Cloak	Defiant Defender's Drape	Magister's Terrace
Chest	Frost Wyrm Ribcage	Pit of Saron
Bracers	Trollhunter's Bands (170)	Maisara Caverns
Gloves	Voidclaw Gauntlets	Seat of the Triumvirate
Belt	Bent Gold Belt	Pit of Saron
Legs	Lightscarred Cuisses	Nexus-Point Xenas
Boots	Sabatons of Furious Revenge	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
Trinket #2	Solarflare Prism	Skyreach

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1, due to the presence of cantrip gloves ( Voidclaw Gauntlets), Blood Death Knights will want to prioritize getting Helmet, Shoulder, Chest and Legs. However, this advice only stands if you have Voidclaw Gauntlets on Myth-track.

While there are no immediately desirable trinkets or items to the point that you would struggle without them, if you are using Brand of Ceaseless Ire, we recommend preparing another trinket for levelling. A very good choice for this is Cursed Stone Idol, but any trinket that does not require a persistent amount of time in combat works.

Vessel of Tortured Souls is deliberately kept off the ranking as its implementation makes it extremely difficult to give a general ranking for. Its stacks are independent of each other, stack up to 3 and each last 1 minute. Taking a soul requires noticing a very faint green swirl and walking over to it (within 10 yards of you in any direction). Managing to snipe every soul puts it in S-tier, while missing even one puts it at barely B-tier.

As a general rule of thumb, we recommend the following:

Blood Death Knight Trinkets

• San'layn: Gaze of the Alnseer + Umbral Plume/ Light Company Guidon
• Deathbringer: Gaze of the Alnseer + Umbral Plume/ Radiant Plume

Click for Blood Death Knight Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Raid	Mythic+
S Tier	Gaze of the Alnseer - Click for Details This trinket has the downside of being very swingy due to how it functions, so while its average performance is very desirable, it can truly feel like feast or famine if you get unlucky and you are unable to extend your stacks. Radiant Plume/ Umbral Plume - Click for Details Pick whichever currently sims highest for you. There is no hard recommendation on this one as both hero talent and current stats can shift the recommendation from one to the other. Heart of Ancient Hunger Light Company Guidon (SL) - Click for Details San'layn only - macro this into Dancing Rune Weapon.	Radiant Plume/ Umbral Plume - Click for Details Pick whichever currently sims highest for you. There is no hard recommendation on this one as both hero talent and current stats can shift the recommendation from one to the other. Heart of Ancient Hunger Light Company Guidon (SL) - Click for Details San'layn only - macro this into Dancing Rune Weapon.
A Tier	Kroluk's Warbanner Heart of Wind Solarflare Prism - Click for Details Decent on long fights, gets noticeably worse the moment you add extra targets mid-way through a fight. Void Stalker's Contract - Click for Details This trinket does not split its damage, making it much more appealing if you can snipe adds with it.	Gaze of the Alnseer - Click for Details This trinket has the downside of being very swingy due to how it functions, so while its average performance is very desirable, it can truly feel like feast or famine if you get unlucky and you are unable to extend your stacks. Mythic+ exacerbates this behavior by adding downtime between pulls. Heart of Wind Void Stalker's Contract - Click for Details This trinket does not split its damage, making it much more appealing if you can snipe adds with it.
B Tier	Latch's Crooked Hook Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Click for Details Technically A-tier in performance but why would you put yourself through the hassle of having an on-use with cast time that also does not spell queue properly, only to get average performance?	Void Stalker's Contract - Click for Details This trinket very frequently snipes high-health targets, granting you less crit than you would get in raid on average. Kroluk's Warbanner Latch's Crooked Hook
C Tier	-	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Click for Details Puzzle Box is even worse in Mythic+ than it is for raid, as the forced downtime casting it inevitably means you will waste all its uptime while gathering enemies.

"SL" denotes SL-specific trinkets.

4.1.

Defensive Trinkets

Defensively, the trinkets available this season are unbalanced, and some of them are a mix of procs, controllable effects and just... terrible design.

• Rotting Globule is the most useful/interesting trinket on the list, as it is a controllable, very large on-use shield every 2 minutes.
• Jelly Replicator should just be avoided. It lacks the controllable aspect of Rotting Globule and confers no benefit to offset this. The pseudo-cheat proc is laughably small at half the power of the random proc.
• The Eternal Egg attempts to do both throughput and absorb and fails miserably at both. It manages to be worse than Jelly Replicator.
• Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale is just a worse version of Rotting Globule, and no primary stat on it means taking more physical damage at all times.
• Ampoule of Pure Void only shines in AoE and when taking a very large amount of damage, as its damage done is not split between targets. This is its niche - and it is useless outside of it. Its requirement to take damage while it is active (it only heals) makes it significantly less versatile in M+.

Midnight brings with it a host of new embellishments and crafted gear, and thanks to the exorbitant costs of upgrading items, you may see some unusual piece and types of pieces showing up on recommendations.

We recommend the following early crafting choices:

Blood Early Crafting Order

Blood Knight's Warblade → Loa Worshiper's Band → Optional Crafts

• A weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt; this is for when sparks become available, as doing this with Myth crests is significantly cheaper than upgrading any Myth-track weapon.
• Loa Worshiper's Band

Once you have acquired and fully upgraded a Myth-track weapon, swap your second embellishment to any of the bandings ( Devouring Banding is a good default, or Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier if you are using Loa Worshiper's Band) on bracers or belt, depending on which is your worst piece. The absolute BiS profile has it on Bracers, and this is an added advantage due to the scarcity of Socket items from the Great Vault.

• A weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt; this is for when sparks become available, as doing this with Myth crests is significantly cheaper than upgrading any Myth-track weapon.
• Signet of Azerothian Blessings or Spellbreaker's Bracers with Devouring Banding (personal stats) or Arcanoweave Lining (group value)

Once you have acquired and fully upgraded a Myth-track weapon, swap your second embellishment to Devouring Banding on bracers or belt, depending on which is your worst piece. The absolute BiS profile has it on Bracers, and this is an added advantage due to the scarcity of Socket items from the Great Vault.

You can find more information about crafted items, sparks, embellishments and more on our dedicated professions page:

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the Radiant Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if you acquired them in Season 1.

We recommend not upgrading pieces using Myth crests in the first few weeks of Midnight. The reason for this is due to the crest upgrade system requiring significantly more crests per upgrade level. Due to the partial overlap between Hero and Myth tracks, you can also save a handful of Myth crests by upgrading Hero pieces first.

As a result, if at all possible, you have an incentive to strategically game your upgrades, and craft Myth-track embellishment items first.

Use the following priority list to target your upgrades. These denote the item slot priority by its relative power:

Blood Death Knight Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon → Trinkets → Helmet/Chest/Legs → Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, irrespective of the item track the original item was on, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free. This includes crafted items; these restrictions, and more, are detailed here: Gear Upgrade System.

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be a replacement for simming. These charts are generated in isolation, without including a second trinket. As a result, this can mess with - to name just a few:

• Cases where you have two on-use trinkets and the order in which they are used
• Cases where trinket cooldowns clash at specific points
• Cases where a certain trinket drastically impacts your rotation when it comes off cooldown

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.