When do dks get blood shield

Mostly I just miss the way blood played in cata pvp. And when that frost mage took me down i did not even get annoyed he was just very good. There are lots of reasons why your healer might not focus you as much as you would like.

With the way the shield works now, I still get the damage mitigation regardless of the health pool I currently have. History lesson, vengeance was introduced in Cata. Later in that expansion since it was so powerful it was taken away from player damage done to the tank. In WoD it was removed and replaced by resolve. What if blood dks Blood Shield worked off overhealing instead? Classes Death Knight. Also I'd like to say that this is like Word of Glory except it does damage.

Comment by Only absorbs physical damage, which is kind of disappointing considering the vague wording on the talent window makes it sound like Blood Shield would absorb all forms of damage. Comment by DarklingThrush I have gotten blood shields in excess of 20k with this, several times while tanking two enraged shambling horrors in LK fight my guild doesn't bother tranq'ing them anymore - "they don't do anything to you!

There is a new addon for tracking the strength of your shield while in combat and even forcasting the strength of a shield so you can best time Death Strike. This mastery is my favorite in the game atm. Comment by gremlinoutcast Before i say my piece, I'd like to mention I am no expert in the mechanics or mathematics involved in getting the value for Blood Shield.

This is just from my own experience. I recently downloaded an add on called Blood Shield Tracker Curse. This add on will tell you the possible heal you will get upon Death Striking and the amount of health you're shielded for with Blood Shield. One of my friends said I had around 3k heals. Comment by I have one question , does Glyphs of Deathstrike also helps making bigger Blood shields? Comment by bkevol so say you cast death strike and get a 20k shield.

Or does it subtract 20k or whatever because that damage was absorbed? Of course they can use this immediately again after the bubble wears off, for another 15, health healed and a 7, bubble for another 22, extra damage. Making a grand total of 45, damage extra they can take.

They get a critical hit however mastery doesn't activate, so they just get the heal from leader of the pack for a whopping 6, health can not activate more then once every 6 seconds with no damage absorbed.

You get another critical hit in the same 5 seconds mastery activates this time. Granted this is just a worst case scenario of the mastery activating but please compare, a Death Knight can take an extra 30, physical damage or Caster damage, and 15, pure physical damage.

Whereas a bear can take: extra damage. Again, this is just a worst case scenario if the mastery occurs for a bear, but a Death Knights is guaranteed, and look at how much better it is. Remember, a Death Knight can absorb 45, damage in just 10 seconds, whereas a Bear if mastery worked out perfectly and activated on every global cool down, in 10 seconds we could take an extra 35, damage or so. Comment by dav36van man, this mastery made me so super happy that I picked my death knight to level through cata as my new tank instead of my druid, pally or warrior I'm a tank altaholic.

EDIT: and in PvE this mastery is even more awesome since the majority of tank damage is almost always melee. Comment by Blood Shield can currently stack. I have been hearing people talking about "wasting" Death Strike hits by using the ability twice in a row, so suck it. You should, of course, still use Death Strike tactically, but you are not overwriting your first Blood Shield by hitting Death Strike twice in a row.

While testing if the shield stacked I thought it would be fun to see how big I could get my Blood Shield. It turns out that there is a cap on the size of the shield. That cap is your maximum health. Comment by Tried to have a little fun with the stacking effect from this. There is never a point in your play where it would be valuable to not cast anything, or where you need more than 3 runes saved up; always keep 3 runes on cooldown.

Similarly, every point of Runic Power you generate when already at maximum Runic Power is a fraction of a lost Death Strike. Even using Death Stike at full health provides significant damage output and a small defensive gain from Mastery: Blood Shield ; outside of needing to refresh Bone Shield with Marrowrend , there are no situations where it would be better to spend a rune than it would be to avoid capping Runic Power.

One of the most common reasons to find yourself with a glut of resources is spending too much time off target when moving between targets or avoiding damage zones. Blooddrinker can often be saved for use in periods where you are forced out of melee range of the target, but you should always be looking for ways to reduce your time off target. Due to the bonus Runic Power provided when spending a rune on Heart Strike over Marrowrend , it is advisable to spend the minimum amount of runes to stay over 5 stacks of Bone Shield.

Each inefficient Marrowrend is 20 Runic Power wasted with an additional 4 per extra target that would have been cleaved, if Heartbreaker is selected. This may not sound like much at first, but it means that two incorrect casts robbed you of a Death Strike.

This is the leading cause of mismanagement, and certain bosses punish you on this; Jaina was a good example. The vast majority of boss abilities are predictable and can be specifically planned for. Once you know your raid's strategy for a boss, you should develop a plan for what cooldowns you will use on what abilities, throughout the entire encounter. Trying to use cooldowns on the fly dramatically increases the chances you will be left without a cooldown available and be killed by a threatening ability.

Cooldown planning also helps to avoid reactive cooldown usage. Most defensive cooldowns provide vastly reduced benefit as an emergency button, used when already at low health. The goal in cooldown usage is to activate your defensive cooldowns immediately before the first attack in a period of high damage, where the benefit will be maximized.

Healers and some other specializations have access to powerful, targeted defensive cooldowns, which are normally referred to as external cooldowns or externals. You need to remain in communication with your healers and be ready to call for them to use their external cooldowns on you when necessary. These cooldowns can be incorporated into your cooldown plan discussed above as needed.

Use an addon such as Exorsus Raid Tools keep track of external cooldowns available in your raid. The healing provided by Death Strike scales on damage recently taken, so landing your Death Strikes during a window of time immediately following large spikes of damage is key to effective use of your Runic Power.

You should not be using Death Strike unless you are going to get the maximum benefit from the healing or because you need to dump Runic Power to avoid capping. In addition to maximizing the raw throughput of Death Strike , you need to make sure you are prepared to use Death Strike as soon as possible after large spikes of damage. Your goal is to heal yourself fast enough that you do not die, but slowly enough that you do not snipe your healers.

If you take too long to react, the value of your Death Strike is effectively wasted, since it will only cause the flood of heals you receive from your healers to be mostly overhealing. In most situations, your Bone Shield will continue to be refreshed in duration as you add stacks, due to melee attacks received. However, in encounters with large periods of time off target, encounters without melee attacks, and encounters with prolonged periods of off-tanking, you can easily go 30 seconds without having cast Marrowrend to add new stacks.

Allowing Bone Shield to expire can be catastrophic — it takes a full set of 6 Runes to recover 9 stacks of Bone Shield, leaving you starved of both Runes and Runic Power for several seconds. It may be tempting to think of the only job you have as a tank to be survival, but taking additional defensive tools at the expense of damage is a common trap newer tanks fall into. Your damage still contributes to the death of the boss, and each additional defensive measure taken will provide diminishing benefit over the last.

This is true of talents, gems, enchants, trinkets, and consumables. In addition to the general effect of lower damage output on killing the boss, reducing your damage output too much in favor of unnecessary defensive tools will expose you to threat issues — both from your co-tank and from your DPS.

In most situations, if you are having difficulty holding threat, you should consider what you need to do to increase your damage output. Panthea raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. You can follow him on Twitter. Sign In Remember me Not recommended on shared computers. Sign in anonymously. Sign in with Facebook. Diablo III. Diablo II. TBC Classic. Path of Exile. New World. More Games Diablo IV.

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