Blood Death Knight Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Midnight Pre-Patch. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest performing gear available to players.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Maw of the Void (170)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Helm	Hollow Sentinel's Stonemask (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Neck	Duskblaze's Desperation (170)	The Soul Hunters in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Hollow Sentinel's Perches (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste (170)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Hollow Sentinel's Breastplate (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (167)	Crafted
Gloves	Hollow Sentinel's Gauntlets (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (167)	Crafted
Legs	Halkias's Towering Pillars (170)	Halls of Atonement
Boots	Hollow Sentinel's Greatboots (170)	Catalyst
Ring #1	Signet of Collapsing Stars (170)	Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet (170)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #1	Tome of Light's Devotion (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket #2	Unyielding Netherprism (170)	Fractillus in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2 (Long fights)	Brand of Ceaseless Ire (170)	The Soul Hunters

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Midnight Pre-Patch. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest performing gear available to players.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Skyreaver, Greataxe of the Keepers (170)	Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
Helm	Hollow Sentinel's Stonemask (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Neck	Duskblaze's Desperation (170)	The Soul Hunters in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Hollow Sentinel's Perches (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Crit (170)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Hollow Sentinel's Breastplate (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (720)	Crafted
Gloves	Hollow Sentinel's Gauntlets (170)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (720)	Crafted
Legs	Halkias's Towering Pillars (170)	Halls of Atonement
Boots	Devoted Plate Walkers (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (170)	Plexus Sentinel in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet (170)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #1	Tome of Light's Devotion (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (170)	Loom’ithar in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2 (Long fights)	Brand of Ceaseless Ire (170)	The Soul Hunters

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 Nerub-ara Palace specifically, and no other source, this is what you would wear.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Maw of the Void (170)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Helm	Artoshion's Abyssal Stare (170)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Neck	Chrysalis of Sundered Souls (170)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Beacons of False Righteousness (170)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste (170)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Manaforged Displacement Chassis (170)	Plexus Sentinel in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Discarded Nutrient Shackles (170)	Loom’ithar in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Gloves	Breached Containment Guards (170)	Forgeweaver Araz in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Belt	Fresh Ethereal Fetters (170)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Legs	Shrapnel-Fused Legguards (170)	Fractillus in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Plated Sabatons (170)	The Soul Hunters in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Omega (170)	Forgeweaver Araz in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Band of the Shattered Soul (170)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Trinket #1	Unyielding Netherprism (170)	Fractillus in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2 (Short fights)	Eradicating Arcanocore (170)	Plexus Sentinel in Mythic Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2 (Long fights)	Brand of Ceaseless Ire (170)	The Soul Hunters in Mythic Manaforge Omega

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.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Emberbrand Zweihander (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Helm	Wing Commander's Helmet (170)	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Sin Stained Pendant (170)	Halls of Atonement
Shoulder	Stoneflesh Spaulders (170)	Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste (170)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Breastplate of Otherworldly Influence (170)	Halls of Atonement
Bracers	Flameforged Armguard (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Gloves	Devourer's Gauntlets (170)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Belt	Venture Contractor's Floodlight (170)	Operation: Floodgate
Legs	Halkias's Towering Pillars (170)	Halls of Atonement
Boots	Implacable Weatherproof Treads (170)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #1	Ring of the Panoply (170)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #2	Whispers of K'aresh (170)	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #1	Tome of Light's Devotion (170)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket #2	Cursed Stone Idol (170)	Halls of Atonement

This Trinket Tier List is for trinkets that are used for Single Target/Raiding Purposes.

• Tome of Light's Devotion has two modes - a defensive mode which grants a pittance of armor and a chance to gain a small absorption shield when attacked, and an "offense" mode granting a decent amount of critical strike rating and a chance to deal holy damage to your target. You can switch between phases when you reach 50 stacks of the corresponding buff, which you gain when taking damage, or by using the trinket. Using the trinket also doubles the effect of the phase you swap into for 20 seconds.
  
  
• Brand of Ceaseless Ire applies a very small absorb shield to you and deals damage to nearby enemies. The values of either effect increase each time they proc. In practice, this trinket gains value on higher difficulties, and remains mediocre at best on farm, normal and half of the bosses on heroic.
• Unyielding Netherprism passively deals a moderate amount of damage and has a stacking buff (up to 15). This buff can be consumed to increase your Strength. The direct damage proc is not reduced for tanks, making it much better than it should be.
  
  As San'layn, use it with Dancing Rune Weapon. As Deathbringer, use it with Reaper's Mark.

• Astral Antenna ( Deathbringer only; B-tier as San'layn) passively procs and gives you Critical Strike rating. In a Single Target raiding environment the random nature of the proc can be a downside as you have very specific damage windows and this buff may not be available for them. Deathbringer gains more value from this due to its relative dislike of haste and frequency of large damage windows compared to San'layn.
• Araz's Ritual Forge - use this as Dancing Rune Weapon starts, or on cooldown as Deathbringer. The health penalty is offset by a single Death Strike, and the amount of strength it provides more than outweighs this drawback.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker grants a large amount of critical strike rating every minute, and this can be extended further when you crit while this buff is up. As Blood deals a large amount of small instances of damage, this is almost a given - making this buff a 50% theoretical uptime with very little work.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood passively ramps with bonus strength. The buffs it provides stack and last 1 minute, independently of each other. This is more powerful on long fights, although its proc rate is affected by haste (and thus extremely swingy for San'layn and during Bloodlust).
• Eradicating Arcanocore gains stacks as you attack. Once it reaches 10 stacks, it unleashes a large amount of damage on all enemies near you. As of writing this trinket is simming very well but does not have a tank tax applied to it (reducing the damage it does by 33%).

• Signet of the Priory increases your highest secondary stat significantly on a 2 minute cooldown. This also buffs nearby players who also have the trinket equipped.
• So'leah's Secret Technique grants you and a chosen ally a decent amount of secondary stats. Passive, simple; track whether it is still active with a weakaura.
• Perfidious Projector deals a large amount of damage to your target. Simply use on cooldown.
• Incorporeal Warpclaw passively deals damage to your target and all enemies in a line in front of you.

• Screams of a Forgotten Sky passively deals damage to your target. It is not tuned competitively enough to justify its use, even on single target.
• Ticking Sack of Terror applies a stacking debuff to your enemies. When it reaches 3 stacks it will deal a high amount of damage. Short-lived targets can also cause you to waste some of the value of this trinket.

• Loom'ithar's Living Silk applies an absorb shield to yourself and 4 nearby players which also reduces damage taken by 75%. It is difficult to justify in raid as it will target four random people.
• Soulbinder's Embrace absorbs a relatively low amount of damage and pulses damage to nearby enemies. There are very few reasons to use this over Ringing Ritual Mud (and they are both underwhelming).
• Brand of Ceaseless Ire applies a very small absorb shield to you and deals damage to nearby enemies. The values of either effect increase each time they proc. In practice, this trinket gains value on higher difficulties, and remains mediocre at best on farm, normal and half of the bosses on heroic.
• All-Devouring Nucleus is a proc based trinket that will deal damage and heal you based on the damage dealt. It also has a cheat death effect, however the overkill value on this is quite low and also requires you to get back to 50% Health within 6 seconds to not die. It also interacts negatively with Purgatory, causing both to trigger relatively often. Another bug with Will of the Necropolis causes this trinket to misfire without you being sub-50% on very large hits when other absorbs are present, causing you to die 6 seconds later, as this trinket counts you going past 50% instead of just being above it at time of expiration.
• Ringing Ritual Mud absorbs a large amount of damage every 2 minutes; its effective cooldown is situationally reduced to a minimum of 96 seconds, and you should evaluate fight conditions to verify both whether this is useful to you, and its effective cooldown based on periodic damage effects present. It is somewhat difficult to justify this over Loom'ithar's Living Silk, but the situation may exist where you need to triple your effective health for a single hit.
• Codex of the First Technique forces you to trade a full Strength budget (~6% damage, ~1.5% physical damage reduction from armor) in order to randomly gain a ~1.1m 10% damage absorption effect 2.5 times a minute. Averaged, even as San'layn, this barely comes within range of Soulbinder's Embrace while being unreliable, unpredictable, low value, low damage reduction and reflects very little damage per proc, while trading a large amount both defensively and offensively. To highlight the absurdly poor tuning of this trinket, Symbiotic Ethergauze quite literally triples it in average value, assuming you can absorb this much damage.

This Trinket Tier List is for trinkets that are used for AoE Purposes in M+/Delves/Raiding.

• Tome of Light's Devotion has two modes - a defensive mode which grants a pittance of armor and a chance to gain a small absorption shield when attacked, and an "offense" mode granting a decent amount of critical strike rating and a chance to deal holy damage to your target. You can switch between phases when you reach 50 stacks of the corresponding buff, which you gain when taking damage, or by using the trinket. Using the trinket also doubles the effect of the phase you swap into for 20 seconds.
• Brand of Ceaseless Ire applies a very small absorb shield to you and deals damage to nearby enemies. The values of either effect increase each time they proc. In practice, this trinket gains value on higher difficulties, and remains mediocre at best on farm, normal and half of the bosses on heroic.
• Unyielding Netherprism passively deals a moderate amount of damage and has a stacking buff (up to 15). This buff can be consumed to increase your Strength. The direct damage proc is not reduced for tanks, making it much better than it should be.
  
  As San'layn, use it with Dancing Rune Weapon. As Deathbringer, use it with Reaper's Mark.
• Cursed Stone Idol - use this right before Dancing Rune Weapon as San'layn, or use on cooldown as Deathbringer. This is primarily an AoE trinket, as its damage is unsplit and uncapped, but the generous amount of Critical Strike it provides makes it still worthwhile in single target.
• Araz's Ritual Forge - use this as Dancing Rune Weapon starts, or on cooldown as Deathbringer. The health penalty is offset by a single Death Strike, and the amount of strength it provides more than outweighs this drawback.

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker grants a large amount of critical strike rating every minute, and this can be extended further when you crit while this buff is up. As Blood deals a large amount of small instances of damage, this is almost a given - making this buff a 50% theoretical uptime with very little work.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood simply provides a very large amount of value. As the buff it provides can stack, has an absurdly large amount of maximum range, does not decay out of combat and can be kept between pulls, it really shines in Mythic+.
• Eradicating Arcanocore gains stacks as you attack. Once it reaches 10 stacks, it unleashes a large amount of damage on all enemies near you. This effect is currently is not currently subject to the 33% tank tax, rendering it stronger than it should be. You can keep the stacks of this trinket between pulls, making it even more appealing in Mythic+.
• Screams of a Forgotten Sky passively damages your current target. When a target hit by this dies it will also trigger an AoE around them based on the amount of times they were hit by the initial effect. This has significantly larger value in Mythic+ as this AoE pulse will frequently trigger.

• Signet of the Priory can be used every 2min along with burst cooldowns from most of your team, rendering the entire group (or at least those also wearing this trinket) stronger.
• So'leah's Secret Technique grants you and a chosen ally a decent amount of secondary stats. Passive, simple; track whether it is still active with a weakaura.
• Astral Antenna passively procs and gives you Critical Strike rating. In an M+ Scenario this is quite useful as this is additional parry chance and will also amplify your damage dealt.

• Perfidious Projector deals a large amount of damage to your target on a 2 minute cooldown. This effect splits with nearby enemies without gaining bonus damage, making it instantly worth less on the majority of the time spent in a key.
• Ticking Sack of Terror applies a stacking debuff to your enemies. When it reaches 3 stacks it will deal a high amount of damage. Due to the larger target count in Mythic+ and frequent enemy deaths, this very often leads to losing the majority of the procs from this trinket.
• Incorporeal Warpclaw deals damage to your target and all enemies in the path. This damage splits based on the amount of enemies hit, lowering its value significantly in Mythic+.

• Loom'ithar's Living Silk applies an absorb shield to yourself and 4 nearby players which also reduces damage taken by 75%. The cooldown of this trinket is low enough to form a plan around it, and the fact it will apply to your whole M+ group is even more tempting.
• Soulbinder's Embrace absorbs a relatively low amount of damage and pulses damage to nearby enemies. There are very few reasons to use this over Ringing Ritual Mud (and they are both underwhelming).
• Brand of Ceaseless Ire triggers when you take damage, up to once every 15 seconds. When it triggers, all enemies near you take damage, and you receive a shield. Both effects are relatively small, but every time this trinket procs, its potency increases by 100%, up to a maximum of 15 stacks. Stacks decay out of combat at the rate of one stack every 3 seconds. This trinket starts off small, but is incredibly potent on long fights and in keys where you can maintain stacks.
• All-Devouring Nucleus is a proc based trinket that will deal damage and heal you based on the damage dealt. It also has a cheat death effect, however the overkill value on this is quite low and also requires you to get back to 50% Health within 6 seconds to not die. It also interacts negatively with Purgatory, causing both to trigger relatively often. Another bug with Will of the Necropolis causes this trinket to misfire without you being sub-50% on very large hits when other absorbs are present, causing you to die 6 seconds later, as this trinket counts you going past 50% instead of just being above it at time of expiration.
• Ringing Ritual Mud absorbs a large amount of damage every 2 minutes; its effective cooldown is situationally reduced to a minimum of 96 seconds, and you should evaluate fight conditions to verify both whether this is useful to you, and its effective cooldown based on periodic damage effects present. It is somewhat difficult to justify this over Loom'ithar's Living Silk, but the situation may exist where you need to triple your effective health for a single hit.
• Codex of the First Technique forces you to trade a full Strength budget (~6% damage, ~1.5% physical damage reduction from armor) in order to randomly gain a ~1.1m 10% damage absorption effect 2.5 times a minute. Averaged, even as San'layn, this barely comes within range of Soulbinder's Embrace while being unreliable, unpredictable, low value, low damage reduction and reflects very little damage per proc, while trading a large amount both defensively and offensively. To highlight the absurdly poor tuning of this trinket, Symbiotic Ethergauze quite literally triples it in average value, assuming you can absorb this much damage.

Anything not listed above would be a stopgap until you get something better.