Death Knight Talents, Level 80

Updated 5 November 2009 for Patch 3.2.2.

The sample size is 64130 level 80 Death Knights from the US and EU armouries.

Overall Spec Popularity

This table shows the overall spec distribution for level 80 Death Knights.

Blood Frost Unholy
44.4% 29.6% 26.0%

Dual and Single Spec Distribution

This table shows the distribution of dual and single specs for level 80 Death Knights.

Specs Popularity
Blood and Frost 20%
Blood and Unholy 13%
Frost and Unholy 10%
Two of Blood 7%
Two of Frost 4%
Two of Unholy 2%
One Blood 22%
One Unholy 14%
One Frost 8%

Most Popular Builds

This table lists the builds that make up at least 1% of all builds held by level 80 Death Knights.

Blood Frost Unholy
51/0/20 -- 14.7% 0/53/18 -- 3.1% 0/17/54 -- 3.9%
53/8/10 -- 2.2% 15/51/5 -- 1.6% 17/0/54 -- 2.4%
50/0/21 -- 2.2% 13/51/7 -- 1.4% 16/0/55 -- 2.3%
51/2/18 -- 2.1% 12/51/8 -- 1.2% 0/0/71 -- 1.2%
71/0/0 -- 1.2% 10/51/10 -- 1.2%
56/5/10 -- 1.1% 3/51/17 -- 1%
52/0/19 -- 1%
53/0/18 -- 1%

Overall Talent Popularity

This table shows the percentage of builds held by level 80 Death Knights which contain at least one point put into the talent.

Tree Tier Talent Popularity
Blood 1 Subversion 62 %
Blood 1 Butchery 51 %
Blood 1 Blade Barrier 35 %
Blood 2 Bladed Armor 70 %
Blood 2 Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 66 %
Blood 2 Scent of Blood 19 %
Blood 3 Dark Conviction 58 %
Blood 3 Death Rune Mastery 42 %
Blood 3 Rune Tap 28 %
Blood 4 Improved Rune Tap 20 %
Blood 4 Vendetta 9 %
Blood 4 Spell Deflection 8 %
Blood 5 Veteran of the Third War 45 %
Blood 5 Bloody Strikes 43 %
Blood 5 Mark of Blood 20 %
Blood 6 Abomination's Might 43 %
Blood 6 Bloody Vengeance 42 %
Blood 7 Hysteria 33 %
Blood 7 Bloodworms 32 %
Blood 7 Improved Blood Presence 24 %
Blood 8 Improved Death Strike 42 %
Blood 8 Sudden Doom 37 %
Blood 8 Vampiric Blood 25 %
Blood 9 Heart Strike 43 %
Blood 9 Might of Mograine 42 %
Blood 9 Will of the Necropolis 13 %
Blood 10 Blood Gorged 40 %
Blood 11 Dancing Rune Weapon 30 %
Frost 1 Improved Icy Touch 46 %
Frost 1 Toughness 42 %
Frost 1 Runic Power Mastery 37 %
Frost 2 Black Ice 42 %
Frost 2 Icy Reach 17 %
Frost 2 Nerves of Cold Steel 16 %
Frost 3 Annihilation 37 %
Frost 3 Icy Talons 23 %
Frost 3 Lichborne 17 %
Frost 4 Killing Machine 28 %
Frost 4 Chill of the Grave 22 %
Frost 4 Endless Winter 11 %
Frost 5 Glacier Rot 28 %
Frost 5 Frigid Dreadplate 18 %
Frost 5 Deathchill 16 %
Frost 6 Rime 28 %
Frost 6 Merciless Combat 21 %
Frost 6 Improved Icy Talons 18 %
Frost 7 Improved Frost Presence 18 %
Frost 7 Hungering Cold 15 %
Frost 7 Chilblains 7 %
Frost 8 Blood of the North 28 %
Frost 8 Unbreakable Armor 23 %
Frost 8 Threat of Thassarian 14 %
Frost 9 Frost Strike 29 %
Frost 9 Guile of Gorefiend 28 %
Frost 9 Acclimation 8 %
Frost 10 Tundra Stalker 29 %
Frost 11 Howling Blast 29 %
Unholy 1 Vicious Strikes 62 %
Unholy 1 Virulence 62 %
Unholy 1 Anticipation 34 %
Unholy 2 Epidemic 64 %
Unholy 2 Morbidity 62 %
Unholy 2 Ravenous Dead 57 %
Unholy 2 Unholy Command 17 %
Unholy 3 Necrosis 52 %
Unholy 3 Outbreak 28 %
Unholy 3 Corpse Explosion 8 %
Unholy 4 Blood-Caked Blade 46 %
Unholy 4 Night of the Dead 30 %
Unholy 4 On a Pale Horse 16 %
Unholy 5 Unholy Blight 26 %
Unholy 5 Impurity 25 %
Unholy 5 Dirge 17 %
Unholy 6 Master of Ghouls 27 %
Unholy 6 Reaping 18 %
Unholy 6 Desecration 16 %
Unholy 6 Magic Suppression 11 %
Unholy 7 Desolation 17 %
Unholy 7 Improved Unholy Presence 13 %
Unholy 7 Ghoul Frenzy 10 %
Unholy 7 Anti-Magic Zone 9 %
Unholy 8 Crypt Fever 25 %
Unholy 8 Bone Shield 24 %
Unholy 9 Ebon Plaguebringer 25 %
Unholy 9 Scourge Strike 23 %
Unholy 9 Wandering Plague 18 %
Unholy 10 Rage of Rivendare 24 %
Unholy 11 Summon Gargoyle 22 %