Blood Death Knight Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.0.2
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 — Dragonflight 10.0.2.
Best Gems for Blood Death Knights
You should use 
Quick Ysemerald or 
Keen Ysemerald in all
sockets.
Best Enchants for Blood Death Knights
| Slot | Enchantment |
|---|---|
| Rings | |
| Weapon |
|
| Chest | |
| Cloak | |
| Bracer | |
| Legs | |
| 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 Phials, Weapon Augments, and Potions for Blood
Use 
Phial of Glacial Fury for raiding content and
Phial of the Eye in the Storm
for Mythic+ content.
Howling Rune as a safe defensive option and
Primal Whetstone/
Primal Weightstone as offensive alternatives.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power should be your combat potion of
choice.
You should use 
Refreshing 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 
Timely Demise as your Haste food buff of choice.
If a 
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak 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.
Changelog
- 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 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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