Blood Death Knight Azerite Traits, Azerite Armor, and Heart of Azeroth - Battle for Azeroth 8.3

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CatalystAcherus Death Knight communityBest Azerite Powers for Blood DKTraits that should be prioritized for Blood DKs are flagged in the tables below with the icon.Cœur d’Azeroth

Season 2 Changes
With the start of Season 2 and the coming of Battle of Dazar'alor, pieces that previously had four rings will now have five. This new ring comes before the Ring 1 and offer two different spec traits for each specialization. Note that Items from Uldir weren't updated with this change.

Ring 0 contains Spec traits and is the first section available on each item with two choices for each specialization. This ring is a new feature, found on Armor starting in Season 2, and requires only 15 levels on your Heart of Azeroth to be unlocked.

Ring 1 contains Spec/Zone traits and is the second section available on each item and will likely be available to select as soon as you acquire a given piece of gear, contain traits based on your class specs and source of the trait.

Ring 2 contain Role traits, based on the roles your class can perform. It is only found on epic item level 340+ gear. Lower-level armor won't have this ring.

Ring 3 contains Defensive/Utility traits and is the last set of choices available in the piece;

Final Ring always has Renforcé par l’azérite, which increases the item level of the armor piece it is in by 5 item level. The effect, in turn, increases the power from all previous rings.

It is currently advisable to always pick the generic option on the second ring

Power

Notes

Lame runique sanglante

The strength of this trait lies the runic power gain more than the haste. As such, subsequent copies lose ~50% of the value, as only the haste stacks. If possible, get one of these.

Ossements des damnés

This is the only trait on the class ring with a purely defensive component, and provides a small amount of armor along with a 15% chance to gain an additional charge of bone shield whenever marrowrend is cast. A common misconception is that this trait is valuable for the proc; under optimal play, this proc generates < 0.1 extra bone charges per minute. The armor itself can be worthwhile on encounters featuring an overwhelming amount of physical damage.

Cimetière de pointes d’os

Provides a small amount of damage and self-healing when Mort et décomposition is cast, scaling with the number of enemies in the reticle. A middle-of-the-pack trait, with slightly more strength in m+.

Coupures profondes

Causes the main target of Heart Strike to take additional damage from your plague. This additional damage, much like the plague it buffs, is leeched back to you. Each target affected provides ~110 additional HPS (with a 415 trait) while your plague affects them. The main drawback of this trait is that cleaving with Heart Strike while in Death and Decay does not apply this; as such, swapping targets is required to fully maximize the potential of this trait in high density fights.

Arme runique éternelle

This trait is more valuable in M+ than it is in raids, although it is still highly desirable on its first copy. Subsequent copies provide additional strength at a moment where, due to the 40% parry given by DRW, you are arguably at your strongest

Sang médullaire

Provides a very small amount of extra healing on every death strike for every charge of Bone Shield currently active. Due to the fact that this amount is static, this trait does not gain value based on the amount of damage taken, and is therefore a weak candidate defensively. If you do pick this trait, do note that it is inadvisable to change your playstyle to accomodate this, as the RP loss due to inefficient marrowrends is far bigger than the small HPS gain.

Notes

Due to the chance to proc an additional stack of Bouclier d’os with Ossements des damnés, if using a rank of this power you should use Déchirure de moelle at 6 or fewer stacks of Bouclier d’os instead of 7.

Since Lame runique sanglante has a 10s internal cooldown, and Fléau cramoisi cannot proc while Mort et décomposition is active, consuming Fléau cramoisi proc gets pushed up the priority list on single-target. You will ideally want to consume them within a few seconds of acquiring them, as every extra second at which Fléau cramoisi cannot proc is a second of uptime on the buff lost. If you've delayed it for more than ~3s, consider not consuming the proc entirely.

Power

Notes

Cœur des ténèbres

Provides a static boost to all your secondaries while you are above the corruption threshold. If you can activate this trait, you should be using it.

Rempart des anciens

Provides a fully controllable buff based on movement. While standing still, this provides a very competitive amount of versatility (equivalent to ~3% extra damage/healing and ~1.5% DR); while moving, the healing is pretty potent. The main drawback of this trait is that it does not exist above ilvl 460

Dévouement à Anduin / Résolution de Sylvanas

This is a Strength proc, with a flavor bonus if someone dies. This can have value particularly during progression, but is only found on PvP rewards.

Décoctions d’apothicaire

This trait provides a shared-cooldown proc with two possible effects - a DoT on an enemy target, or a HoT on yourself. Due to how blood DKs work, the only possible triggers for the HoT are blood worm bursts and Fallen Crusader procs. This means that the overwhelming majority of the procs from this trait will be damage. It is also worth noting that this trait does not exist above 460 ilvl.

Renforcement du Cœur

Engineering-only. The strongest of the options provided by the goggles for pure DPS, but has no defensive benefit. It is worth noting that the bombs take ~1.5s to land; on heavy movement, procs will be missed

Précision du champ de bataille / Concentration du combattant

Currently one of the strongest DPS traits available. However, as it only exists from PvP pieces coming out of the weekly conquest reward, it is exceedingly hard to acquire.

Infusion chancre-née

A dependable crit proc with ~25% uptime.

Rite de sang

This trait gains more value in M+ than it does in raids, as the buff refreshes to full duration when an enemy you are in combat with dies. Depending on the density of content you are doing, this could mean doubling or even tripling its uptime.

Âmes liées

A fantastic generic trait providing both healing and haste for yourself and the closest friendly player. In raids, this will usually be your co-tank; in M+, this will typically be somebody finding the proc to be valuable. The healing itself is consequent, its main drawback being a 5s tick rate.

Volonté collective / Front uni

This trait is an uncontrollable max HP and small primary stat proc for you and 4 nearby allies. Due to its uncontrollable nature and its lackluster proc rate, it is currently one of the weakest generics.

Dague surprise

A pure DPS proc. It is worth noting that simulations of this trait assume that daggers hit from the front for blood DKs. As such, even in such a situation, this trait is competitive offensively. It provides no defensive benefit.

Faim sans fin

This trait is one of the best available traits in the game, and easily better than its alliance counterpart. The versatility alone makes it a desirable trait; the healing is just the cherry on top. Its main drawback? You cannot get it at anything above 460.

Repli tactique

This trait's proc amounts to ~1% additional physical DR, and does nothing for throughput at a time of weakness. The movement speed may be useful, but as it stands, this trait is weak.

Transfusion contaminée

One of the strongest generics available to us, both defensively and offensively. Offensively, this trait is tuned competitively with pure DPS procs; defensively, since 100% of its damage is leeched back to you, you are healed for 100% of the damage dealt. You can expect upwards of 1,000 HPS from this trait.

Gloire au combat / Puissance du libérateur

This power is balanced around PvP, and the proc rate is undertuned in PvE. As a result, you should avoid this trait.

Provoquer la meute

A decent mastery proc with ~25% uptime. This has the additional benefit of buffing your two closest targets; in M+ and in raids, this may equate to a small DPS buff for them as well.

Planification méticuleuse

This trait gives you a proc that requires you to hit three different spells to fulfil. Off-GCD and defensive abilities count, which may make the fulfilment condition easier to achieve. A way to track this proc may be of use when this trait is used. It recently got buffed back to its expected effectiveness, and as a result is now a good choice.

Bidule de normalisation relationnelle

One of the weakest options on the engineering goggles both defensively and offensively. The proc is RNG, and while it is a decently strong proc, its uptime is lackluster.

Dernière offrande / Fureur de représailles

The proc rate of this ability is undertuned in PvE; avoid this.

Fureur de Rezan

One of the most potent pure DPS traits out there.

Robo-scie Imprévisible Pyromaniaque

The offensive and defensive parts of this trait share internal cooldowns. The offensive part is weak compared to Barrage de bombes, while the defensive part only procs off bloodworm bursts and fallen crusader proc. Overall, a very weak trait.

Éclair ruineux

This trait no longer pulls additional mobs, and as such, it is now viable in M+ and raids. Worthwhile DPS for a purely offensive trait.

Secrets des profondeurs

This trait causes light and dark orbs to periodically spawn within 8yds of your character. You can expect 100% uptime on the weaker proc (light), and ~20% uptime on the stronger proc (dark). Not a bad trait, but it does require you to pay attention to those orbs. It is also worth noting that orbs persist for 15 seconds on the ground; it is possible to "hoard" them by deliberately staying in combat.

Pouvoir de séduction

The mechanical aspect for this spell is similar to Secrets des profondeurs, but Bwonsamdi has a tendency to spawn further than 20yd away and in extremely awkward places as a tank.

Ombre d’Élune

A relatively strong proc with ~25% uptime. Only available at a maximum of ilvl 460.

Sables tourbillonnants

A strong critical strike proc with ~25% uptime. On average, the full 18 second duration is easily achievable

Condensateur d’allumage synaptique

The strongest of the four traits on the goggles for throughput. The 5% damage reduction is welcome, although not something to actively think about. On top of this, its damage is decent. Do note that enemies around the spark coil also includes the spark coil itself.

Explosion tonitruante

One of the strongest pure DPS traits out there.

Reflux des marées

One of the strongest DPS traits out there. The proc also gives you a chance for a single-target slow applicable from range.

Alizés

A decent mastery proc. This has the additional bonus of jumping to the nearest friendly ally at 1/4 of the strength, thus providing additional team benefits.

Accord perfide

The extra damage taken portion of this trait is a non-issue. For more info, see the notes. While above 50%, this is the strongest available strength trait on average. Whether you should use this trait or not boils down to how often you can stay above this threshold. For the majority of people, this is a trait you want to actively seek out.

Catalyseur instable

This trait has two drawbacks: it requires you to stay in a relatively small area, and its animation masks anything below it. This will actively kill you more often than you'll gain benefit from it.

Advanced Notes

Accord perfide's damage taken penalty takes the form of a debuff (Accord perfide) on yourself being applied 100ms after the hit that brought you below 20%. While this buff is up, every ability deals 15% more damage.
Realistically, in all but trivial content, if you are dropped below 20% HP for long enough to take another melee swing from a target, the 15% extra damage will not have decided the death. The harder the content, the less likely you are to experience this effect. Furthermore, the fact that it acts as a debuff and not a partial application aura like Will of the Necropolis makes it even less likely to have an impact.

For this reason, this trait is recommended, with the caveat that the decision to use it should be made based on how often you are above 50%, as opposed to how often you are below 20%.

Power

Notes

Blindage ablatif

This provides around 8% physical damage reduction when it procs; it can be a good choice during progression or on encounters where you continue to actively tank after a high-damage ability that would trigger the effect. Subsequent hits reduce the effect.

Carapace cristalline

This should be always active while tanking content of any difficulty. The armor equates to between ~0.2% and ~0.9% depending on content, and the thorns-like effect is decent in high-density M+.

Vitesse vitale

A small amount of static Haste and Avoidance. Not particularly amazing, but not bad either.

Arrache-tripes

This is a strong option for single-target dps, particularly on longer fights or fights where the execute phase is the most important part of the encounter.

Entendez mon appel

This is the strongest damage power on this ring by a significant margin.

Vents de la guerre

This will provide significant melee avoidance in 2+ target encounters, and is almost permanently up in M+. A potential strong contender depending on incoming damage.

Globules d’azérite

On top of being a relatively low damage proc, this requires three applications on the same target. If the target dies with it on, those procs were wasted. To be avoided.

Veines d’azérite

The heal from this is going to have a high uptime for a tank, but is not strong enough to make it something we actively pursue.

Siphon de sang

Neither Mastery nor Leech are particularly valuable to us; avoid this power.

Lien de terre

This provides a moderate, fluctuating Strength buff, and is a decent (but not great) option.

Tourbillon élémentaire

Our secondaries are mostly well-balanced; this isn't a bad option. Don't seek it out, but it shouldn't be actively avoided.

Puissance accablante

This power provides a strong amount of haste. As there is a shared ICD on both the regular and damage-based decay, this trait is much stronger than the tooltip lets it out to be. Very desirable and one of the best general purpose traits on this ring.

Havre scintillant

This power isn't strong enough to justify taking it over other options on this ring, particularly given how it will restrict your movement while benefiting from it.

L’union fait la force

Even at its maximum value, the proc is only moderately good, and the situations where you'll be able to reliably benefit from the maximum value are few and far between. Avoid this.

Flammes instables

A pretty decent amount of nearly-static crit. On average, you'll be sitting on 3 stacks of this, making it a middle-of-the-pack trait.

Power

Notes

Visage impassible

The heal from this will proc nearly on cooldown and can provide significant self-healing. By its nature, you will have close to zero overhealing from it as well. In many encounters, this is our best trait in this tier.

Protection résonnante

You will receive full benefit from this trait as a tank. It is a good general-purpose throughput mitigation trait.

Peau de gemmes

In encounters where Avoidance reduces a meaningful amount of your damage as a tank, this is a stand-out trait. In other situations, it's strictly middle-of-the-road.

Rempart des multitudes

This trait will generally not proc often in raids; in Mythic+, if you manage to proc it on cooldown, you'll gain ~40% compared to Protection résonnante, and lose almost all of this on bosses due to it not proccing. A dubious choice, but with some possible uses.

Absorb-o-tron personnel

Between the two options on Binocles orthogonaux AZ3-R1-T3, this is the one you'll want to use most of the time. It is worth noting that, due to the way this trait functions, it will regularly take a lot more damage off you than the tooltip leads you to believe.

Auto-cicatrisant personnel

In most situations this power will be inferior to Absorb-o-tron personnel; however in any encounter with bleed effects - and especially stacking bleeds - this power can be very useful.

Cœur froid

This provides a small amount of healing at a point where you are already at your strongest. The healing itself is ~25% of what most other traits would give you over a fight, and the cooldown reduction on Robustesse glaciale isn't enough to justify this choice.

Long marcheur

The movement speed buff is theoretically nice for questing, but the scaling is so low that you'll barely notice it.

Marche des damnés

At lower levels, this is completely negligible; however, at raid gear levels this is a significant boost to the effectiveness of Death's Advance. It could be worth keeping an item with this power for specific encounters.

Barrière runique

The additional 1 second on the duration of Carapace anti-magie could have some situational utility, but otherwise this power should be avoided.

Guérison autonome

This power has no value in a dungeon or raid environment and should be avoided.

Vitesse vampirique

This will proc fairly often in Mythic+. Depending on the content, this can be be a middle-of-the-pack trait or a great contender.

Azerite Power Rotation Changes for Blood Death KnightAzerite Armor for Blood Death Knightthe increase to Strength, Armor, and Stamina from an item level upgrade is more valuable than a given combination of Azerite Traits.

Name

Ring 0

Ring 1

Ring 2

Ring 3

Source

Cimetière de pointes d’os

Cœur des ténèbres

Tourbillon élémentaire

Barrière runique

N'Zoth le Corrupteur

Lame runique sanglante

Lame runique sanglante

Cimetière de pointes d’os

Condensateur d’allumage synaptique

Puissance accablante

Absorb-o-tron personnel

Engineering

Name

Ring 0

Ring 1

Ring 2

Ring 3

Source

Ossements des damnés

Cœur des ténèbres

Arrache-tripes

Protection résonnante

Fureur de N'Zoth

Arme runique éternelle

Fureur de Rezan

Blindage ablatif

Rempart des multitudes

Résidu des Titans

Lame runique sanglante

Planification méticuleuse

Carapace cristalline

Marche des damnés

Résidu des Titans

Name

Ring 0

Ring 1

Ring 2

Ring 3

Source

Lame runique sanglante

Lame runique sanglante

Griffes déchiqueteuses

Entendez mon appel

Protection résonnante

Résidu des Titans

Arme runique éternelle

Secrets des profondeurs

Carapace cristalline

Peau de gemmes

Résidu des Titans

Finding Azerite Armor

Periodic Emissary Caches, scaling with player item level up to 445.

Personal Loot Drops from The Eternal Palace, up to 445 on Mythic difficulty.

Personal Loot Drops from Ny'alotha, the Waking City, up to 485 on Mythic difficulty.

Weekly PvP Ranking Rewards, up to 475 at 2100+ (Duelist or higher rank)

Random or specific Azerite pieces from Thaumaturge Vashreen, at the expense of Résidu des Titans.

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Commentaires

Commentaire de Drynix

Just noticed an error, I was going through the azerite traits on your suggested gear just to check what kinda things I can expect.

In your shoulders list you have a piece listed named "7th legionnaire's shoulderplates" your tier 3 trait list listed as "Dark-runed axe". I read it and instantly got excited, an extra button to press! A legit cast time on a frontal cone! But I noticed the lil tag "azerite trait" was missing. Going to the gearpiece itself on wowhead revealed that the trait doesn't exist!

Going by other pieces, most likely the eternal runeblade trait on there would be the best choice. Just a lil correction!

But don't play with my emotions like that, I want more buttons to press when there is downtime, which there will be in blood DK!

Commentaire de Khaimos

TL;DR for blood dk: Avoid having Azerite Traits.

Commentaire de darkhowler

So what your saying is that takr basically any azerite power you want for flare on the battlefield since they are all pretty much useless. Welp time to make a lord marrowgar "stick around!" Macro for dnd, and enjoy the sweet visuals of the marrowrend proc :D

Commentaire de Straggo1337

You should take another look at Vampiric Speed in the inner ring. It says enemies harmed that die, not killed. It's great for leveling and also reduces downtime between packs in dungeons. Especially packs with many small mobs.

Commentaire de Unowhat

Hey guys, have you tried stacking some of these traits? They're useless on their own but if you stack a bunch of a specific one then it may have better results.

Commentaire de LiriellGarrosh

How about a list that shows all of the Azerite Traits in order of usefulness? So that if we have to pick between 2 "avoid" choices, we can pick the one that's not as low on the list.

Commentaire de neganur

Blindage ablatif does not provide 20% damage reduction. It's more in the order of 3% (depending on your current armour and lvl of attacker)

Commentaire de blupache

Has Marrowblood been updated since this was written?

Just throwing some approximate numbers at it - a DK of around 370 will quite reasonably have somewhere around 315k health (with full buffs).

At 370 Marrowblood will be doing an extra 239 for each remaining charge of Bone Shield. You should have a minimum of 6 charges, so it should be at least 1434 extra healing (up to 2390 at 10 stacks).

Plugging in a range of Death Strike heals:
10% heal = 31,500 hp, Marrowblood is 4.5% to 7.6% extra
20% heal = 63,000 hp, Marrowblood is 2.3% to 3.8% extra
30% heal = 94,500 hp, Marrowblood is 1.5% to 2.6% extra

So clearly Marrowblood has a problem with scaling, but it looks to me like it's a long way off the "0.05% - 0.2% increase to your Death Strike healing" mentioned in this guide(?)

Commentaire de tkioz

This guide really isn't that helpful. Everything is "avoid" and "bad", yeah it might be true, but can we at least have them in ascending order of badness?

Commentaire de Ganteving

New to 8.1 lineup is the Cœur froid which you don't have listed or any info on. This would be nice to know about as it seems like a good option to take.

Commentaire de Syrlin

Can this please get updated for 8.2? Specifically, the three new azerite choices from the Benthic armor.

Commentaire de Sangfoudre

Please note that as of 8.3, Ancient Bulwark can be found on 460 item level gear, the amount of vers is insane.

Blood Death Knight Azerite Traits, Azerite Armor, and Heart of Azeroth - Battle for Azeroth 8.3

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