Deathbringer DK Hero Tree First Look | Blood and Frost Death Knight Talents in The War Within

I continue my review of the recently released hero talent trees, this time discussing Deathbringer Death Knight for Blood and Frost. I'll be keeping you guys constantly updated with War Within news, so make sure you're subscribed to the channel with notifications on so you don't miss out!
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[@forrest3867]

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[@Tactyks]

Appreciate the kind words and support my friend! I'm not too concerned about view count right now honestly, its a slow time for WoW until the next expansion enters the beta cycle so mostly just reminding people I still exist until then haha. Glad to hear you're enjoying my content in the meantime though!

[@normannseils3936]

I think for blood, Saylayn is the beginning hero talent due the amount of haste if gives even with low gear. For later in the expansion I can see myself running Deathbringer if the tuning is comparable.

[@dixiekongfan1]

In terms of tanking, I want the talent trees to have both Defensive and Offensive benefit. I feel like this talent tree (And the Brewmaster/VDH one) is 99% damage and 1% defensive. I still think Guardian Druid has the best designed ones.

[@Tactyks]

I think there's more defensiveness to this tree than you're giving credit for. Shuddering Soul is a bit meh, but then you've got consistent DR from Rune Carved Plates, 30s of Lichborne CDR, and all the Blood Plague amps which synergize really well with talents like Umbilicus Eternus in the spec tree. Maybe those could be improved on slightly but it's a tough balance because giving too much defense to the paired DPS/Healer spec could be problematic.

[@dixiekongfan1]

@@Tactyks Yeah I get it, (I forgot about the Umbillicus synergy, sounds good) but it just seems like some of the other trees have much better defensive nodes. Even Brewmaster has a 10% DR when he dodges(So basically infinite). Compare that to something like Runed Carved plates which is 2-10% and has to stack for each type.

[@Justin-mu8hh]

My first thought for it was "eh", another damage ability. I would prefer reapers mark to be something a bit more interesting or helpful. It would be cool if Reapers Mark dropped DnD at the mobs feet, that stayed on the mob as the mob moved, and the explosion caused another DnD to drop that did the same thing. I would love that. Then you could have DnD do some more interesting things for ST.

[@Tactyks]

Yeah we'll have to see what they end up doing with DnD in War Within, as they said on a blue post that they want to pull back on the benefit from standing in it to make it feel less punishing when you're not.

[@johnj4471]

You doing the dh one? Seems a bit boring though honestly

[@Tactyks]

I was planning to but got a bit distracted by 10.2.6 stuff haha

[@johnj4471]

@@Tactyks lol

[@tonygraham7789]

Ya know they should have just left some of our talents alone like.. oh idk army of the dead lol or ya know forcing us to duel weld for awhile... but I hope one day they'll stop trying to make us work more than most melee classes