Blood Death Knight Tank Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Season 1

You should default to Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your unique Thalassian Diamond gem, as Midnight has very few other options. Powerful Eversong Diamond is not tuned highly enough to warrant choosing.

Along with it, you should simulate your gems to optimize them. A sensible default for Deathbringer is Flawless Masterful Garnet, while San'layn prefers Flawless Quick Garnet.

Slot	Enchantment
Head	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Blood Knight's Armor Kit
Feet	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Rings	Deathbringer: Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity San'layn: Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury
Weapon	Deathbringer (up to 5T): Rune of Sanguination Deathbringer (5T+): Rune of the Fallen Crusader San'layn: Rune of Sanguination

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.

We also recommend buying the Ethereal Augment Rune from Kar'esh. While its throughput power will be small, augment runes in Midnight will be very expensive for a while.

The best Flask for San'layn is Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of the Blood Knights, depending on your current stats. As Deathbringer, the best flask will be either Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of Thalassian Resistance.

You should sim yourself to identify which one it is; it will very likely come down to margin of error.

Midnight expanded the array of oils and weapon enchants, but the power of most of them is middling at best. largely did away with non-attack-power temporary weapon enchants. When you are fully geared, your choice of weapon imbuement will generally be Thalassian Phoenix Oil as a default.

Very early on in the gearing process and only on single target, due to its static value, Smuggler's Enchanted Edge may provide a small edge.

Your default potion is Potion of Recklessness, followed by Light's Potential. Potion of Recklessness is virtually guaranteed to be better, but it is also worth checking.

For pure single target (and by that I mean "never actually having a second target while the potion is up"), Potion of Zealotry is a strong contender, but its benefit is only damage. It is worth evaluating via sims, while realizing that this potion will be better the worse your gear is.

Do not get baited by Draught of Rampant Abandon. It is slightly more strength than Light's Potential, but its negative effect drops a 12 yard silence zone centered on you that persists until the potion is over, and this can happen multiple times. As a tank, one of your main responsibilities is positioning enemies, and there are very few things worse than an AoE denial that forces you to move at a moment's notice.

You should use Silvermoon Health 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.

Feasts are the only food in Midnight to grant stamina as well as secondaries. Use Harandar Celebration (primary) or Blooming Feast (secondary stats); at the start of the expansion, these will be roughly comparable.

The personal food equivalents to both is Royal Roast (primary stat) or Champion's Bento (secondary stat). As mentioned, they are slightly worse.

Midnight brings teas to the table, as an additional food-related buff that stacks with regular food. We do not know yet if they persist in instanced content, but just in case, you should use one of them for the ~4% speed it provides. Any of them will do - with Argentleaf Tea currently being the cheapest to craft.

Midnight brings with it a new augment rune, as is the custom for every expansion. For the entirety of the expansion, you will be using Void-Touched Augment Rune.

Since these will be very limited in supply and expensive, we recommend getting the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune from K'aresh as a stopgap. It is a very small amount of primary stats, but it is more than zero in all of the cases where Void-Touched Augment Rune is out of financial reach.