Blood Death Knight Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.0.2

We do not currently provide a Best in Slot list. You should aim to prioritize item level above everything else, as anything 10 item levels or more is virtually guaranteed to be an upgrade.

If you have a choice on the same item level, the alternative will likely, in generic circumstances, not make a difference defensively. As such, we recommend just simming the choice and going with whatever helps you do more damage.

There are some exceptions to this rule and encounter-specific situations where a stat is massively devalued. You should keep an eye on the raid encounter guides to be aware of this. Similarly, certain Mythic+ key levels and dungeons will require a slightly different gearing path. We linked the related guides below, but generally, we will also add a note on here as well:

Below is a guideline of items to seek and the Dungeons they drop from:

Slot	Item	Dungeon
Helm	Darkfrost Helmet	The Necrotic Wake
Neck	Sin Stained Pendant	Halls of Atonement
Shoulder	Vile Butcher's Pauldrons or Pauldrons of Unleashed Pride	The Necrotic Wake or Halls of Atonement
Cloak	Blighted Margrave's Cloak	The Necrotic Wake
Chest	Abdominal Securing Chestguard	Plaguefall
Bracers	Pit Fighter's Wristguards	Theater of Pain
Gloves	Fleshfused Crushers	Plaguefall
Belt	Scarred Bloodbound Girdle	Plaguefall
Legs	Halkias's Towering Pillars	Halls of Atonement
Boots	Sabatons of the Rushing Juggernaut	Sanguine Depths
Rings	Ritual Bone Band or Ritual Commander's Ring or Entwined Gorger Tendril	Theater of Pain or The Necrotic Wake or Sanguine Depths
Weapon	Rimebinder's Runeblade	The Necrotic Wake

The main trinket to seek is Blood-Spattered Scale, this drops from De Other Side. It is a good defensive trinket and also has a good damaging component behind it too.

Your other trinket slot will generally be whatever you have that has a benefit that you are needing whether this be more DPS, stats or utility.