Death Knight Talents, Level 80

Updated 11 January 2010 for Patch 3.3.

The sample size is 40578 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
43.4% 27.6% 28.9%

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 19%
Blood and Unholy 16%
Frost and Unholy 11%
Two of Blood 7%
Two of Frost 4%
Two of Unholy 3%
One Blood 21%
One Unholy 13%
One Frost 7%

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 -- 14.9% 0/53/18 -- 2.5% 17/0/54 -- 7.9%
53/8/10 -- 2.4% 15/51/5 -- 1.5% 0/17/54 -- 3.3%
50/0/21 -- 2% 13/51/7 -- 1.5% 16/0/55 -- 2%
51/2/18 -- 2% 12/52/7 -- 1.1% 0/0/71 -- 1.1%
71/0/0 -- 1.2% 10/51/10 -- 1%
56/5/10 -- 1.1%
52/0/19 -- 1.1%
53/0/18 -- 1.1%

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 65 %
Blood 1 Butchery 55 %
Blood 1 Blade Barrier 35 %
Blood 2 Bladed Armor 74 %
Blood 2 Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 68 %
Blood 2 Scent of Blood 20 %
Blood 3 Dark Conviction 61 %
Blood 3 Death Rune Mastery 41 %
Blood 3 Rune Tap 25 %
Blood 4 Improved Rune Tap 19 %
Blood 4 Vendetta 9 %
Blood 4 Spell Deflection 8 %
Blood 5 Veteran of the Third War 44 %
Blood 5 Bloody Strikes 43 %
Blood 5 Mark of Blood 19 %
Blood 6 Abomination's Might 42 %
Blood 6 Bloody Vengeance 41 %
Blood 7 Hysteria 33 %
Blood 7 Bloodworms 31 %
Blood 7 Improved Blood Presence 23 %
Blood 8 Improved Death Strike 42 %
Blood 8 Sudden Doom 36 %
Blood 8 Vampiric Blood 24 %
Blood 9 Heart Strike 43 %
Blood 9 Might of Mograine 41 %
Blood 9 Will of the Necropolis 13 %
Blood 10 Blood Gorged 40 %
Blood 11 Dancing Rune Weapon 30 %
Frost 1 Improved Icy Touch 42 %
Frost 1 Toughness 41 %
Frost 1 Runic Power Mastery 32 %
Frost 2 Black Ice 38 %
Frost 2 Nerves of Cold Steel 16 %
Frost 2 Icy Reach 15 %
Frost 3 Annihilation 33 %
Frost 3 Icy Talons 20 %
Frost 3 Lichborne 15 %
Frost 4 Killing Machine 27 %
Frost 4 Chill of the Grave 20 %
Frost 4 Endless Winter 10 %
Frost 5 Glacier Rot 26 %
Frost 5 Frigid Dreadplate 18 %
Frost 5 Deathchill 14 %
Frost 6 Rime 26 %
Frost 6 Merciless Combat 19 %
Frost 6 Improved Icy Talons 16 %
Frost 7 Improved Frost Presence 18 %
Frost 7 Hungering Cold 13 %
Frost 7 Chilblains 6 %
Frost 8 Blood of the North 26 %
Frost 8 Unbreakable Armor 22 %
Frost 8 Threat of Thassarian 14 %
Frost 9 Frost Strike 27 %
Frost 9 Guile of Gorefiend 27 %
Frost 9 Acclimation 7 %
Frost 10 Tundra Stalker 27 %
Frost 11 Howling Blast 27 %
Unholy 1 Vicious Strikes 63 %
Unholy 1 Virulence 62 %
Unholy 1 Anticipation 33 %
Unholy 2 Epidemic 67 %
Unholy 2 Morbidity 61 %
Unholy 2 Ravenous Dead 59 %
Unholy 2 Unholy Command 16 %
Unholy 3 Necrosis 52 %
Unholy 3 Outbreak 32 %
Unholy 3 Corpse Explosion 8 %
Unholy 4 Blood-Caked Blade 49 %
Unholy 4 Night of the Dead 32 %
Unholy 4 On a Pale Horse 14 %
Unholy 5 Unholy Blight 28 %
Unholy 5 Impurity 28 %
Unholy 5 Dirge 20 %
Unholy 6 Master of Ghouls 29 %
Unholy 6 Reaping 18 %
Unholy 6 Desecration 14 %
Unholy 6 Magic Suppression 10 %
Unholy 7 Desolation 21 %
Unholy 7 Improved Unholy Presence 11 %
Unholy 7 Ghoul Frenzy 9 %
Unholy 7 Anti-Magic Zone 9 %
Unholy 8 Crypt Fever 28 %
Unholy 8 Bone Shield 26 %
Unholy 9 Ebon Plaguebringer 28 %
Unholy 9 Scourge Strike 27 %
Unholy 9 Wandering Plague 22 %
Unholy 10 Rage of Rivendare 27 %
Unholy 11 Summon Gargoyle 25 %