Death Knight Talent Trees

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Talent Trees

The talent trees for the death knight are Blood, Frost, and Unholy.

  • Blood: Talents in this tree focus on weapons, armor, and strikes.
  • Frost: Talents in this tree focus on control, counters, and combos.
  • Unholy: Talents in this tree focus on spells, summons, and diseases.

Example Abilities / Presences

Death knight talent trees are complemented by Presences -- self-only auras that benefit the death knight. Selecting the matching Presence for each tree augments the class abilities for that school of magic.

  • Blood Presence increases damage output by a percentage and restores a percentage of damage dealt as health.
  • Frost Presence increases threat and lowers damage taken by a percentage.
  • Unholy Presence increases attack speed and reduces the global cooldown on death knight abilities.

Class Roles

  • Tank: The plate-wearing death knight is a capable tank for small groups as well as raids. His or her damage output while tanking will be respectable.
  • DPS: The death knight can also spec and gear for a melee DPS role, which draw upon many debilitating disease effects as well as direct damage and instant attacks.

Summoned Creatures

Creating minions from the ranks of the unliving is a core ability of the death knight.

  • Raise Dead: : The death knight can raise a ghoul companion from the corpses of fallen creatures, as well as those of both friendly and enemy players. If cast on a friendly player, that player will have the opportunity to actually play as the ghoul, controlling its movements and actions.
  • Army of the Dead: This channeled spell raises a group of undead followers who will attack the death knight¡¯s enemies but only exist very briefly before disintegrating.
  • Summon Deathcharger: Every death knight can summon the level-40 version of a deathcharger land mount. At higher levels, they can complete a quest to learn the epic version.

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