Does anyone know just yet what will be the best covenant to pick for Blood DKs or tanks in general? 
its looking like venthyr or night fae for blood dk
Thanks for the hot tip.
A nature death knight, seems legit? Night Fae LOL
Night Faeās class ability, Death and Decay/Deathās Due (+15% str -15% dmg taken) is pretty nifty for tanking packs, bosses, or offspec dps. Thereās also a few artifacts that synergize well with Death and Decay that might make that even better. The covenant ability provides a medium mobility cooldown, which is something we are pretty hard up for, and could help a lot for kiting in mythic.
The Night Fae soulbinds can give you a cheat death, turn your covenant mobility feature into a substantial heal or a beginning of combat charge, let you benefit from overhealing, and another flat out reduces physical damage taken by 10%.
Venthyrās class ability appears to have only minor defensive benefit unless the RP generation is per mob hit. Itās class ability is useful for kiting, and they have a couple interesting soulbinds, including one that reduces damage taken below 40% health by 10%, something a DK might benefit from more than most tanks, and itās in the same tree as a 4% healing taken buff.
Necrolord deserves a mention because the pulsing grip is obvious beneficial for tanking and one of itās binds provides a holy-priest esque ākeep doing your job after death for 10 secondsā effect that could give your party the space they need to recover from a tank death that might ordinarily wipe the team, and this doesnāt appear to have a cooldown. Unfortunately Fleshcraft is looking pretty terrible for PvE.
Overall I think unless Venthyr is needed for skips or damage, it will only be the cov of choice for Unholy. Night Fae will probably be the cov of choice for blood. Frost is forgotten unless maybe they make some of the abilities deal shadowfrost.
This is pretty much why Iām thinking night fae might be the best overall choice for Blood. Superstrain looks to be a must have legendary but pheromones might sync up well with this skill(anyone know if you can equip 2 like legion?).
Venthyr really seemed top tier but the more I look at night fae the more I think Iām going to have to pick it as primarily a blood dk who does mythic +
Itās too bad we wonāt get to test out any of the soulbinds before having to make āthe decisionā.
Thanks for the breakdown. It sounds like Night Fae is the way to go. I am glad as they are the most interesting looking to me. Just hope their dailies arenāt absolute trash. <3
As it stands today Nightfae is best. 100% up time and the signature ability gives mobility which DK lacks.
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Perhaps i was looking at a previous version, but it appeared to me the Faes deaths due ability was %1 up to 15%? So possible leeching per mob thats inside it making it still top choice for aoe and mythic plus but def not the best choice for single target. Anyone have more info on the way it leeches the str/damage reduction?
Currently, Nightfae is the go-to pick for all DK specs.
Turns your Death and Decay into a virtually permanent damage reduction and stat boost.
The other covenants are very niche in usage, and only in those rare niche scenarios will they even be comparable to Nightfae.
for now.
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