Blood Death Knight Tank Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You should default to Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your unique Thalassian Diamond gem, as Midnight has very few other options. Powerful Eversong Diamond is not tuned highly enough to warrant using.

For rare gems, a sensible default for Deathbringer is Flawless Masterful Garnet, while San'layn prefers Flawless Quick Garnet. You may get more mileage out of simming yourself for a potential sub 1% gain, but you can't go wrong with these suggested gems.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Midnight expanded the array of oils and weapon enchants, but the power of most of them is middling at best. When you are fully geared, your choice of weapon imbuement will generally be Thalassian Phoenix Oil as a default for all content.

Slot	Enchantment
Head	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Forest Hunter's Armor Kit
Feet	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Rings	Deathbringer: Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity San'layn: Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury
Weapon	Deathbringer (up to 5T): Rune of Sanguination Deathbringer (5T+): Rune of the Fallen Crusader San'layn: Rune of Sanguination

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

The best Flask for San'layn is Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of the Blood Knights, depending on your current stats. As Deathbringer, the best flask will be either Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of Thalassian Resistance.

You should sim yourself to identify which one it is; it will very likely come down to margin of error.

Your default potion is Potion of Recklessness, with Light's Potential being slightly worse. In situations where you do not have to worry about performance, you can play Light's Potential if it is a lot cheaper to craft/buy.

For pure single-target, Potion of Zealotry is a strong contender, but its benefit is only raw damage, and only in situations where there is not even a single add spawning throughout the encounter. This potion will be better the worse your gear is, but is only worth playing when all of these conditions apply to your current situation.

Do not get baited by Draught of Rampant Abandon. It provides slightly more strength than Light's Potential, but its downside-effect drops a 12 yard silence zone on you that persists until the potion is over. As a tank, one of your main responsibilities is positioning enemies, and there are very few things worse than an AoE denial that forces you to move at a moment's notice.

You should use Silvermoon Health Potion for in-combat healing. Healing potions do not share a cooldown with Healthstones, so you can use both independently if you play with a Warlock.

Feasts are the only food in Midnight to grant stamina alongside primary or secondary stats. Use Harandar Celebration (primary) or Blooming Feast (secondary stats); either option is fine and they provide comparable benefits to you, so it will likely be down to which feast your raid is placing.

The personal food equivalents to both is Royal Roast (primary stat) or Champion's Bento (secondary stat). As mentioned, they are slightly worse due to not providing Stamina.

Midnight brings with it a new augment rune, as is the custom for every expansion. For the entirety of the expansion, you will be using Void-Touched Augment Rune.

Since these will be very limited in supply and thus quite expensive, we recommend getting the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune from K'aresh as a stopgap. It is a very small amount of primary stats, but it is more than zero in all of the cases where Void-Touched Augment Rune is out of financial reach.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

Mandl and Panthea

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This guide has been written by Mandl and Panthea.

Mandl is one of Acherus' Useful Minions and an avid Blood Death Knight theorycrafter.

Panthea raids in the Hall of Fame guild Catalyst. He plays all tanks and is a "Useful Minion" for the Acherus Death Knight Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.