Blood Death Knight Tank Macros and Addons — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Blood Death Knight in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
Macros
Generic Macros for Death Knights
Raise Ally
- #showtooltip Raise Ally
- /cast [@mouseover,help][@target]Raise Ally
This macro casts Raise Ally on your mouseover target, if they are a
friendly player. Otherwise, it casts Raise Ally on your current target.
Mind Freeze
- #showtooltip Mind Freeze
- /cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Mind Freeze
This macro allows you to interrupt your focus target, if you have one, and if not to simply interrupt your current target.
Specific Macros for Blood Death Knights
Gorefiend's Grasp
- #showtooltip Gorefiend's Grasp
- /cast [target=focus] Gorefiend's Grasp
This macro allows you to use Gorefiend's Grasp to grip adds on top of
your focus target.
- #showtooltip Gorefiend's Grasp
- /cast [@mouseover,exists,nodead][@player] Gorefiend's Grasp
If you have your cursor over a valid target to center
Gorefiend's Grasp on, this macro will cast Gorefiend's Grasp at your
cursor. Otherwise, it will center your Gorefiend's Grasp on yourself.
Death and Decay
- #showtooltip Death and Decay
- /cleartarget
- /cast [mod:ctrl, @cursor] Death and Decay; [@player] Death and Decay
- /targetlasttarget
This will drop Death and Decay at your feet without using the ground
targeting reticle; while holding down CTRL, it will instead cast Death and
Decay wherever your cursor is pointing (again, without using the ground
targeting reticle). Since the vast majority of bosses have a large enough
hitbox to be affected by a Death and Decay dropped at your feet, this speeds up
casting and maximizes your ability to shift around and still remain standing in
Death and Decay.
Blessing of Protection Cancelaura Macro
- /cancelaura Blessing of Protection
This macro is very useful to have. It allows you to cancel a
Blessing of Protection that may have been cast on you. It is
important because while you are under the
effect of Blessing of Protection, mobs will not attack you and instead will just
attack the next person on the aggro list (often a DPS player), though taunting
a mob will still force it to attack you for 3 seconds.
Re-Control Pet
- /target pet
- /run PetDismiss()
- /use Control Undead
- /petassist
Dragonflight Season 2 has no valuable Control Undead uses. We have
kept this here as a reference in case players would like to prepare, or
experiment with this macro.
Addons
Generic Addons for Death Knights
ElvUI
Here, at Icy Veins, we use ElvUI for all our characters. This addon is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, cooldown timers, proc display, etc.
We strongly recommend that you get this addon and our forum moderator Pandacho has written a quick configuration guide for it.
Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.
GTFO
GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.
Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.
Weak Auras
WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.
Recount / Skada / Details!
Recount is a well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS (Healing Per Second). This add-on is not really lightweight, and provides a very high amount of information (and it can sometimes cause issues with performance). It is generally a good option to use Recount for checking what you take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.
An alternative to Recount (similar in function, so the choice is personal preference) is Details!.
A lightweight alternative to Recount and Details! is Skada Damage Meter.
Omen Threat Meter
Omen Threat Meter is the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on your target. We recommend you to use it to check on your current threat levels and ensure that you are not being overtaken in aggro.
Method Raid Tools
Method Raid Tools is a useful addon that allows you to track the cooldowns of other raid members, as well as providing you with a wealth of other useful raid information.
Clique
Clique allows you to
bind specific spells to be cast as mouseover casts on unit frames. This can be
very useful for casting Raise Ally without changing your target.
Compact Runes
Compact Runes is a great addon for tracking Rune cooldowns, and it also has a number of other Death Knight-specific modules to track your buffs, debuffs, and cooldowns.
Specific Addons for Blood Death Knights
Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.
Changelog
- 29 Apr. 2023: Clarified control undead and its use in Season 2.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 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 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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