Blood Death Knight Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Shadowlands 9.0.2
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 — Shadowlands 9.0.2.
Best Gems for Blood Death Knights
Currently, all your sockets should be filled with Versatile Dark Opal
for general purposes, or whatever stat sims the highest offensively. The
difference between the two will be minimal on a single socket.
Best Enchants for Blood Death Knights
Slot | Enchantment |
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Rings | |
Weapon |
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Chest | |
Bracers | |
Cloak | |
Gloves | |
Feet |
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 Flasks, Oils, and Potions for Blood
Use Spectral Flask of Power for most content — only use
Spectral Flask of Stamina if the encounter requires you to have a
larger health pool to survive specific spike damage events.
Shadowcore Oil should be placed on your weapon to provide passive
damage, and also enhance the power of your combat potions.
When in combat, you have several options for which in-combat potion to
use. For both of these potions you should use Shadowcore Oil on your
weapon to enhance the power of them.
Potion of Phantom Fire should be used when potting for damage.
Potion of Empowered Exorcisms should be used in Mythic+ where you can reliably tank multiple targets for its full duration.
Potion of Spectral Strength can be used as a general purpose potion.
You should use Spiritual Healing Potion for in-combat healing. Healing
potions do not share a cooldown with
Healthstones, so you can use both
independently if you have access to a Warlock.
Best Food for Blood
Use Steak a la Mode is your Versatility food buff of choice.
Best Armor Kit for Blood
Use Heavy Desolate Armor Kit as it provides you with the most Stamina.
Augment Runes for Blood
If you can afford it, you should use Veiled Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of these runes
available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Changelog
- 14 Jan. 2021: Adding soul treads and shaded hearthing to enchants.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands with Oils, Armor Kits, New enchants.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Mandl and Panthea.
Mandl is one of Acherus' Useful Minions and Blood Death Knight theorycrafter.
Panthea raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. 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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