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Death Knight Abilities and Spells

October 2, 2008 by Zuggy · Leave a Comment 

Death Knight Presences

Death Knight presences can be best described as equivalent to warrior stances. There are 3 stances a death knight may enter.

  1. Blood Presence - Increases damage done by 15% and heals the Death Knight by 2% of damage dealt. Only damage dealt to targets that grant experience or honor can trigger this heal.
  2. Frost Presence – Increases armor by 45%, increases health by 10%, reduces spell damage taken by 5%, and increases threat generated by 45%.
  3. Unholy Presence – Increases attack speed by 15%, increases movement speed by 15%, and reduces the global cooldown on all Death Knight abilities by 0.5 sec.

Death Knight Blood Abilities

Spell Cost Cooldown Train Type Description
Blood Boil Blood Rune None Trainable Causes any of the Death Knight’s diseases on the target, and all enemies within 30 yards of the target, to painfully erupt, dealing 117 to 143 Shadow damage.
Blood Strike Blood Rune None Trainable Instantly strike the enemy, causing 50% weapon damage plus 66 and an additional 33.0 bonus damage per disease.
Blood Tap 15% of base health 1 Minute Trainable Immediately activates a Blood Rune and temporarily converts it into a Death Rune. This rune counts as a Blood, Unholy, or Frost Rune. Lasts 20 sec.
Dark Command None 8 Seconds Trainable Commands the target to attack you, but has no effect if the target is already attacking you.
Death Pact 40 Runic Power 2 Minutes Trainable Sacrifices an undead minion, healing the Death Knight for 20% of his/her maximum health.
Pestilence Blood Rune 10 Seconds Trainable Causes 65 to 79 Shadow damage to the target and all targets within 10 yards and spreads any diseases on the target to the additional targets.
Strangulate Blood Rune 30 Seconds Trainable Strangulates an enemy, silencing them for 5 sec, and deals 180 Shadow damage at the end of the effect.
Rune Tap Blood Rune 1 Minute Talented Converts 1 Blood Rune into 10% of your maximum health.
Mark of Blood Blood Rune 3 Minutes Talented Place a Mark of Blood on an enemy. Whenever the marked enemy deals damage to a target, that target is healed for 4% of its maximum health. Lasts for 20 sec.
Hysteria Blood Rune 2 Minutes Talented Induces a friendly unit into a killing frenzy for 30 sec. The target is Enraged, which increases their physical damage by 20%, but causes them to suffer damage equal to 1% of their maximum health every second.
Vampiric Blood Blood Rune 1 Minutes Talented Increases health generated through spells and effects by 50% for 20 seconds.
Heart Strike Blood Rune None Talented Rank 6: Instantly strike the enemy, causing 50% weapon damage plus 109, and an additional 54.5 bonus damage per disease. Prevents target from using haste effects for 10 sec.
Dancing Rune Weapon 50 Runic Power 2 Minute Talented Unleashes all available runic power to summon a second rune weapon that fights on its own for 10 sec plus 1 sec per 5 additional runic power, doing the same attacks as the Death Knight.

Death Knight Blood Abilities and Spells

Spell Cost Cooldown Train Type Description
Chains of Ice Frost Rune None Trainable Shackles the target with heavy chains, reducing their movement to zero. The target regains 5% of their movement each second. Lasts for 20 sec.
Empower Rune Weapon None 5 Minutes Trainable Empower your rune weapon, immediately activating all your runes and generating 25 runic power.
Horn of Winter 20 Runic Power None Trainable The Death Knight blows the Horn of Winter, increasing total Strength and Agility of all party or raid members within 30 yards by 155. Lasts 2 min.
Icebound Fortitude 20 Runic Power 1 Minute Trainable The Death Knight freezes their blood to become immune to Stun effects and reduce all damage by 50% for 12 sec. Does not remove existing Stun effects.
Icy Touch Frost Rune None Trainable Rank 5: Chills the target for 90 to 96 Frost damage and infects them with Frost Fever, a disease that reduces melee and ranged attack speed by 14% for 12 sec.
Mind Freeze 20 Runic Power 10 Seconds Trainable Strike the target’s mind with cold, interrupting spellcasting while also preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec.
Obliterate Frost Rune, Unholy Rune None Trainable A brutal instant attack that deals 100% weapon damage plus 217, and an additional 108.5 bonus damage per disease, but consumes the diseases.
Path of Frost Frost Rune None Trainable The Death Knight’s freezing aura creates ice beneath his/her feet, allowing him/her and his/her party or raid to walk on water for 10 min. Works while mounted. Any damage will cancel the effect.
Rune Strike 15 Runic Power 5 Seconds Trainable Instantly strike the target for 60% weapon damage. Only usable after the Death Knight performs critical hit with an ability that causes a disease.
Lichborne None 3 Minutes Talented Draw upon unholy energy to become undead for 15 sec. While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects, and your horrifying visage causes melee attacks to have an additional 25% chance to miss you.
Deathchill None 2 Minutes Talented When activated, makes your next Icy Touch, Howling Blast, Frost Strike or Obliterate a critical hit.
Howling Blast Frost Rune, Unholy Rune 6 Seconds Talented Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing 192 to 208 Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Deals double damage to targets infected with Frost Fever.
Unbreakable Armor Frost Rune 1 Minutes Talented Increases your armor by 25% and total strength by 10% for 20 seconds.
Frost Strike 40 Runic Power None Talented Rank 6: Instantly strike the enemy, causing 30% weapon damage plus 80.1 as Frost damage.
Hungering Cold 60 Runic Power 1 Minute Talented Purges the earth around the Death Knight of all heat. Enemies within 10 yards are trapped in ice, preventing them from performing any action for 10 sec and infecting them with Frost Fever. Enemies are considered Frozen, but any damage other than diseases will break the ice.

Death Knight Unholy Abilities and Spells

Spell Cost Cooldown Train Type Description
Anti-Magic Shell 20 Runic Power 15 Seconds Trainable Surrounds the Death Knight in an Anti-Magic Shell, absorbing 75% of the damage dealt by harmful spells and preventing application of harmful magical effects. Damage absorbed by Anti-Magic Shell energizes the Death Knight with additional runic power. Lasts 5 sec.
Army of the Dead Blood Rune, Frost Rune, Unholy Rune 20 Minutes Trainable Summons an entire legion of Ghouls to fight by your side. The Ghouls will swarm the area, taunting and fighting anything they can. While channeling Army of the Dead, you will take less damage equal to your Dodge plus Parry chance.
Death and Decay Blood Rune, Frost Rune, Unholy Rune 30 Seconds Trainable Corrupts the ground targeted by the Death Knight, causing 52 Shadow damage every sec that targets remain in the area for 10 sec. This ability produces a high amount of threat.
Death Coil 40 Runic Power None Trainable Fire a blast of unholy energy, causing 148 Shadow damage to an enemy target or healing 222 damage from a friendly Undead target.
Death Gate Unholy Rune 1 Minute Trainable Returns you to Ebon Hold.
Death Grip None 35 Seconds Trainable Harness the unholy energy that surrounds and binds all matter, drawing the target toward the Death Knight and forcing the enemy to attack the Death Knight for 3 sec.
Death Strike Frost Rune, Unholy Rune None Trainable A deadly attack that deals 60% weapon damage plus 178.2 and heals the Death Knight for a percent of damage done for each of <his/her> diseases on the target.
Plague Strike Unholy Rune None Trainable A vicious strike that deals 30% weapon damage plus 30 and infects the target with Blood Plague, a disease dealing Shadow damage over time. The strike removes one heal over time effect from the target.
Raise Dead None 5 Minutes Trainable Raises a Ghoul to fight by your side. If no humanoid corpse that yields experience or honor is available, you must supply Corpse Dust to complete the spell. If the corpses of friendly players are raised, they will have control over the Ghoul. You can have a maximum of one Ghoul at a time.
Acherus Deathcharger None None Trainable Summons a Deathcharger, which serves as a mount. Speed is increased by 100%.
Corpse Explosion Unholy Rune None Talented Rank 5: Cause a corpse to explode for 220 Shadow damage to all enemies within 20 yards. Will use a nearby corpse if the target is not a corpse. Does not affect mechanical or elemental corpses.
Summon Gargoyle 30 Runic Power 3 Minutes Talented A gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight’s attack power. Persists for 1 sec per 8 runic power up to 1 min.
Anti-Magic Zone Unholy Rune 2 Minutes Talented Places a large, static Anti-Magic Zone which can protect any party members inside it. The Anti-Magic Zone absorbs 75% of the damage dealt by the next harmful spell. Absorbs up to 10000 damage. Lasts 30 sec.
Bone Shield Unholy Rune 1 Minute Talented The Death Knight is surrounded by 4 whirling bones. While at least 1 bone remains, he or she takes 40% less damage from all sources and deals 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Each damaging attack that lands consumes 1 bone. Lasts 5 mins.
Scourge Strike Frost Rune, Unholy Rune None Talented Rank 4: An unholy strike that deals 65% of weapon damage as Shadow damage plus 196.95, and an additional 98.475 bonus damage per disease.
Unholy Blight 60 Runic Power None Talented Rank 4: A vile swarm of unholy insects surrounds the Death Knight for a 10 yard radius. Enemies caught in the area take 37 Shadow damage per sec and are considered diseased. Lasts 20 sec.

Sources: wotlk.wowhead.com, wotlkwiki.info, deathknight.info

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Death Knight Abilities and Spells

July 19, 2008 by Zuggy · 1 Comment 

The guys over at wowdb.com have uncovered the complete listing of all current death knight abilities and spells currently on the beta client. By this point we’ve all heard about lots of these, but it’s great to see everything in one place. Hats off to those guys.

If you haven’t seen the new talents make sure you check those out here, death knight talent tree.

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