Weren’t the changes implemented to Blood DK in S4 Dragonflight meant to take the Janky HP spikes away in high keys and provide more linear and manageable healing and dmg reduction?
I have noticed little to no improvement and the changes to death strike have arguably made the situation worse
BDK needs a flat buff to baseline dmg reduction IMO to bring its survivability in line with other meta tanks like Pally, Warrior and Druid.
I don’t play BDK this season. But I looked up on logs and saw that BDKs were being healed as much as other tanks.
I don’t see any reason to play BDK at this current state, unless you are a BDK hardcore who lives and dies with this class.
The tank nerfs destroyed BDK, brew, and pally. They somehow fixed pally, but still left BDK and brew to the obvilion.
So yea the first pulls are always the scariest I’m a new blood dk and if I over pull on the first pull I’m dead before I can press keys lmao. One you have bs stacks you are safer nothing a death strike won’t fix 
“defensive” death strike XD
Heya. I’ve played Blood through a couple tiers and this is definitely the most difficult it has been, but also the most rewarding. It does truly punish mistakes in a way that I do not think other tanks have though. Too the point where I almost know I am chalked if I accidentally used a cool down ineffectively.
Really focus on having at least one mit CD up for every pull and you’ll be ok.
no, it was to nerf BDK out of the picture so that healers could get a spot in keys. otherwise with a self healing tank and smart dps with a few offheals, there is no need for healers to exist.
I will 100% agree with this. I’ve mained BDK since Legion, and now it doesn’t even feel the same nor play the same. You still get chunked, but now you can only death strike once every 5 seconds or so and sometimes it doesn’t even fully heal you. Then grippy hands no longer gives bone shield charges, and any talents that use to buff death strike beyond voracious is just not good. Blood shield sucks, because it no longer benefits from vampiric blood, and you can’t keep stacking it because you can’t death strike more than once every 5 seconds or your wasting runic power.
All in all, I’ve actually went back to my warrior that I originally switched from to my dk and I’ve been playing that. Blood was my spec, and they just murdered it. Sanlayn sucks, and deathbringer got nerfed into the ground. I have no idea what their tank changes were meant to accomplish but it absolutely destroyed the BDK play style that I’ve loved. RIP
It is like they have something against the hero classes at the moment. Maybe they want people to move away from DK and DH and back to the classic classes for now. haha. Paladin, Shaman, Rogue and Mages are so OP at the moment.
wierd how i watch my dmg taken and when i deathstrike its does almost nothing…