Rider of the Apocalypse should be swaped with Deathbringer

Classes Death Knight
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I think Rider of the Apocalypse should be swaped with deathbringer. This interacts better with blood dk.
Deathbringer is too much dmg oriented, the mark thing will work for both frost and unholy.
Blood can’t afford to spend runes like the dps spec, mainting bone shield is a priority, it will make the gameplay clunky.

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False.

The best Blood DK parse on Mythic Fyrakk pressed Marrowrend 22 times and Death’s Caress 3x. You keep boneshield up entirely with Abom Limb and DRW with proper play.

I don’t think you actually play Blood, at least not in a form of content that is challenging enough to punish mistakes.

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Keeping bone stacks on a boss is a thing… i was talking more about mythic +
When you start a pull with a blood, your priority is to get bone shield stacks. Other tanks have an easier time on the begin of the pulls. 2 runes before grabbing bone shield stacks is clunky…
You can’t use dancing rune weapon on the start of every pull.

Anyway, the mark don’t fit a tank that much… The benefits from the horseman, like dmg reduction would be cooler on a tank.

Also the extra mobility on a tank, benefits the whole group.
Would be cool to have this Horse themed on both tank and dps specs.

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DRW has a very low CD to with all the bone shield interactions and should be up most pulls. Outside of it and Limb you have 30s to maintain your stacks and you only need 5 ultimately. Not clunky or difficult in the slightest, especially in M+, unless you’re playing it wrong.

Deathbringer is for Blood and Frost because they have poor execute damage and the tree helps massively there.

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you are wildly misunderstanding blood dk

rider would be horrible for blood dk defensively and offensively

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no
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Are you seriously suggesting that Unholy shouldn’t have Rider? And that every rune is going into Marrowrend and Death’s Caress? You do know that Blood has a strong enough Bone Shield surplus, that we’re all running Tombstone, right?

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Nothing wrong with being damage-oriented as blood anyway, the spec feels best when we’re blasting.

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Leave my Deathbringer alone for my BDK, I love it, make things go boom and SHADOWFROST BLOOD BOIL BABY!!!

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How to say you don’t actually play Blood, without saying you don’t actually play Blood.

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Pretty sure Sanalyn will be for tanks