Crimson Rune Weapon
Dancing Rune Weapon generates 5 Bone Shield charges. When a charge of Bone Shield is consumed, the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon is reduced by 5 sec. Additionally, when Dancing Rune Weapon fades, your Rune regeneration rate is increased by 40% for 10 sec.
Gorefiend’s Domination
Vampiric Blood generates 45 Runic Power. Additionally, Heart Strike reduces the remaining cooldown on Vampiric Blood by 2 seconds.
These changes make Crimson Rune Weapon a competitive legendary, CRW + Tombstone talent will most likely reduce the cooldown on Dancing Rune Weapon by 1 minute assuming we have 100% tanking uptime on a boss, also the 40% extra rune regen is nice.
Could be baseline buffs to dancing rune weapon & vampiric blood & Blood DK would still be mediocre, the fact Blizzard thinks these minor buffs to leggo’s is going to help Blood DK is sad, especially since super strain is easily the best.
Slow/poor kiting, overall squishy, low damage, poor initial mitigation, poor conduits & leggo’s. Even in TOP where you can MC an add that gives the party a pretty good defensive aura, there is only one DK in the top 100 & hes 96.
I disagree on everything except slow/poor kiting, we need better tools in that department.
I don’t want to be that guy but maybe this is a L2P issue? There are really good Bood dk guides on youtube, not throwing shade so please do not misunderstand but the issues you listed are easily solved.
Also, if you are not a diehard-hardcore-min maxer-world first kind of player then the top 100 tanks is not relevant, at all.
Well a lot of Blood dks are not struggling post 10+ including myself, I can’t jump in and do insane dmg like Veng dhs but I can survive 15s+ and below just fine, many are doing Mythic raids and not struggling.
The term ‘relative’ is important here when discussing the how squishy a BDK is, and what kind of DPS we can pull. If you roll an alternative tank class and find them to be MORE squishy than a BDK and do LESS DPS, then I think it’s a L2P issue when using those other classes. Perhaps you find BDK adequate to get through those 12 keys, but relative to other tanks, its definitely the hard-mode option, excluding our good friends the prot warriors of course
the legos dont matter, superstrain is bis, and will stay bis because threat is also an issue, and a much bigger issue, and its the only lego that gives dps gain
It’s not going to do anything if we continue to do half of the damage compared to other tanks.
We are 2nd lowest on damage, but we are definitely not half the damage of other tanks. And that doesn’t mean that this legendary wouldn’t be good for M+. Need to do some testing.
Thoughts on Gorefiends + Red Thirst? This seems to have (cocktail napkin math) the ability to drop the 1.5 min cd down to around 40 seconds. Overrated?
I know they didn’t buff that particular aspect of it, but the 45 rp trigger could be quite nice as well.
Defensively I think it’s awesome, will it compete with Crimson Rune Weapon? offensively no but it will be a nice combo to have when we get to use two legendaries.
