Death Knight Blood Talents

Common Abbreviations

 * AoE = Area of Effect
 * AMS = Anti-Magic Shell
 * APE = Attack Power Equivalence
 * BB = Blood Boil
 * BCB = Blood Caked Blade
 * BP = Blood Presence
 * IT = Icy Touch
 * DK = Death Knight
 * DC = Death Coil
 * DnD = Death and Decay
 * DPS = Damage per Second
 * DRW = Dancing Rune Weapon
 * FC = Rune of the Fallen Crusader
 * GCD = Global Cooldown
 * GoD = Glyph of Disease
 * GoDD = Glyph of Dark Death
 * HoW = Horn of Winter
 * PS = Plague Strike
 * RP = Runic Power
 * UP = Unholy Presence

Specs
ALL SPECS USE BLOOD PRESENCE, Gylphs are included in the links.

Glyph of Dark Death Build
51/0/20

Glyph of Disease Build
51/0/20

There are 4 extra points to play with in the Blood tree. To max out your DPS you can do 3/3 Bloodworms and 1 point in Imp Blood presence. Bloodworms will add a little DPS. You can choose to put points into Mark of Blood and Vampiric Blood but both require the use of a Blood Rune. That whould then mean one less Heart Strike.

In the Unholy tree the most common line of thinking goes: Ravenous Dead > BCB > Necrosis. Keep in mind though that Necrosis can effectively crit, whereas BCB cannot, so people with very high crit rates may see a swing in the relative value of these two talents. Typically you max all three, but if you want to play around, have at it.

Morbidity works itself out to be approximately .6% DPS per point, which is why we remove the point from there for our Glyph of Disease Build which requires 2/2 epidemic.

Runeforges

 * Fallen Crusader