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A Beginner's Guide To Blood Death Knight! BDK In Midnight!

Bowser the Healer

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Blood Death Knight is an intimidating tank spec. However, once you learn how it stays alive? It's such a joy to play! This guide walks you through everything you need to know to get started!

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Death Bringer (my favorite :3)
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San'Layn (still fun!)
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~Table of Contents~
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Pros and Cons of BDK
03:30 - Basic Defense and mitigation (how you live as DK)
15:04 - Going over abilities/rotation
24:33 - Basic Rotation (non-cooldown)
28:23 - 3 EXTREMELY important topics, 1. Dancing Rune Weapon
30:59 - 2. Vampiric Blood
34:18 - 3. Rune Forge Your Weapon
36:50 - Hero Talents
42:57 - Defensives, Utility, etc!
52:26 - How Healers Heal Blood Death Knight!

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20 Comments

@Glitchdacatliker 4 months ago

I consider myself a fairly high end Blood death knight, but here I am, watching this guide simply because it is so fun to watch. The quality is amazing and while I may not learn too much, it is a pleasure to just see, and understand what you are talking about.
Keep up the good work

@staryoshi 2 months ago

Bonus points for mentioning Worgen - their racial sprint ability is a HUGE bonus that gets overlooked. Plus, they're werewolves and are inherently better.

@SerPeanutz 1 month ago

I am currently a frost dk but this has now made me a blood dk, thank you for your service

@oxSynfulxo 2 months ago

Never touched tank in my life, always played a ranged dps or healer, wanted to give tanking a shot and thought blood DK would be my best fit. Tried it and hated it, came back and watched this video, now I think I'm a tank main. It was so well made and so informative, I picked it up almost instantly. Thank you for this! <3

@SpyroL33t 4 months ago

3.6k blood main. Still listening to the guide, nodding cause real recognize real.

Spit that shit my man!

@rezameigoli4879 1 month ago

Thank you ❤️ no extra stuff pure explanation

@Zezeds 3 months ago

Thank you very much, bro.
Haven't played bdk for a few xpacs and willing to go all tanks 3.4k this season.
This guide really helped catching up.

@WolfeXOXO 4 months ago

Man, I rarely comment, but this guide is so good and expressed with such joy it's made me excited to learn BDK again.

@McKannon 2 months ago

Brother I’ve watched thousands of guides over the years. Usually it’s on classes I don’t know too much but want a better understanding of.
Given the state of BDK in S2 of midnight, I found myself watching this guide.
The way you explain things is PERFECT for my brain. Often I’ll get people going “if you use cleave you’ll get heartrender and you need stacks of hesrtrender to increase the damage of your next zigglybob and zigglybobs will increase your cleave dmg” etc. it’s always so fucking confusing and unless I have a cheat sheet infront of me, I often can’t follow along.

You literally made this guide so easy for me to follow that I feel like I could go tank a 16 (at least) on my DK and I’ve never done it before.

@rolfkristensen3967 4 months ago

Many thanks for a well explained video with good tips and advises!!

@grrlboy 2 months ago

1 hr dk guide oh let me lock in tysm for the vid

@normannseils3936 4 months ago (edited)

Best Enchant for BDK WOTLK nitro Belt! A Game changer for moving trough the dungeon

@Daaboo-zugzug 3 months ago

I am new to BDK. Just 3k atm. This might help push me higher!

@schwolmart 2 months ago

Just bought Midnight after only ever playing WoW for like 5 months during War Within and only playing Disc Priest. Made a blood dk and used my boost to see if I'm strong enough for solo q tanking

@HerugorTV 4 months ago

ofc a healer tanks on blood so they can stay on top of the hps meter 🤪

@Zargnaza 4 months ago

Me during TWW: Maybe i should try tanking? My main is monk, let's try Brewmaster
Bowser uploads a video mere days after about trying tanking and is playing brew.
Me now during midnight: I've enjoyed tanking with brewmaster now, let's try BDK
Bowser uploads a video mere days after about BDK....
You stalking me Bowser?

@hect0r2791 4 months ago

Waiting for TW to lvl up my bdk. Already hit 3.4k on prot pally but bdk looks so much fun

@jorgz3436 4 months ago

very nice vid, just a little correction, you said rune generation could feel a little weird. its because you can only generate a total of 3 runes at a time. so if you´re 5 down 2 wont start generating before you have one free generation slot. so if you´re just dumping all 6 runes and expect them to be up at the same time. it wont be happening.