Blood Death Knight Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.2)
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Blood Death Knight, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.2).
Best Gems for Blood Death Knights
You should use a Culminating Blasphemite in your first
available gem socket, and fill every other with
Versatile Ruby.
Best Enchants for Blood Death Knight in The War Within
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In practice, these guidelines are largely down to how enchants do not compete over primary stats, merely secondaries. As a result, the gearing stat priority is applicable and can be simply followed: Versatility as a good default, or whatever sims the highest for you at the time for damage. You can find more information about this on the stats page of this guide.
Consumables for Blood Death Knights
Best Flask for Blood
Use Flask of Alchemical Chaos as a general-use Flask. If you prefer
to have a simpler flask that provides a single secondary stat
Flask of Tempered Versatility
can be used instead.
Mythic+ Flask Swap Strategies
If you are actively pushing Mythic+ keys and gold is no issue to you, it is possible to gain a significant amount of value on specific encounters by swapping phials mid-run. If you intend to do so, you should plan your swaps ahead.
The only flask that is worth noting on this is Flask of Tempered Versatility; while it is
less raw stats than
Flask of Alchemical Chaos, if you absolutely need to be able to
rely on it for damage reduction (particularly when paired with a
Tempered Potion),
you should temporarily swap to it.
Best Weapon Augments, and Potions for Blood Death Knight
Algari Mana Oil as a safe defensive and offensive option.
For raw damage, you should sim between
Algari Mana Oil and
Ironclaw Whetstone /
Ironclaw Weightstone.
Your default potion for all situations is Tempered Potion.
Flask of Alchemical Chaos may temporarily alter the secondary stats it
provides as a result.
You should use Invigorating Healing Potion for in-combat healing.
Healing potions do not share a cooldown with
Healthstones, so you can use both
independently if you can access a Warlock.
Best Food for Blood
Use The Sushi Special /
Everything Stew as your food buff of choice if a Feast is
not available.
If a Feast of the Midnight Masquerade /
Feast of the Divine Day is available, use this instead.
Augment Runes for Blood
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable
runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Through the Patch 10.2 Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream Wardens
Faction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune, which is
permanent!
Changelog
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Added horrific visions enchants and a blurb on how they are not quite the same as before.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within Launch with new consumables and enchants!
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Added helm enchant, changed health pots to 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated and clarified Onyx annulet section, added 10.1 Belt enchant, clarified gems, clarified potions and phials. Ready for 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added Onyx Annulet and clarified info for 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Mandl and Panthea.
Mandl is one of Acherus' Useful Minions and an avid Blood Death Knight theorycrafter.
Panthea raids in the Hall of Fame guild Catalyst. He plays all tanks and is a "Useful Minion" for the Acherus Death Knight Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.
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