Additionally, Blood struggles with mobility. You will need to be careful to time your Death Strikes to maximize healing and avoid causing healers to overheal damage you're mitigating through self-heals. The reactive self-healing mitigation model Blood uses is particularly difficult to deal with in challenging raid encounters. Beyond that, Blood still has a higher degree of self-sustain than most tanks it is likely that any time a third tank is needed to 'babysit' a target, Blood will remain a strong choice for this role. In many raids, there will be one or more encounters for which these abilities are so strong as to be virtually mandatory.

They are both tank multiclassers and Useful Minions for the Acherus Death Knight community, where they answer questions regarding death knights and discuss class and encounter strategies.īlood's primary benefit in raids, versus other tanks, is utility - particularly Death Grip and Gorefiend's Grasp.

This guide has been written by Panthea, who raids in Catalyst (Tarren Mill-EU) and Mandl (Mandl#0001 on Discord).

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