I’m not going to list out all the talent specs I’ve seen thus far for the Death Knight on the Internet – there are literally dozens of them and many more are being put up all the time. Because players essentially get access to 49 talents within the first two hours of gameplay, it’s no surprise that there are so many different options – no one has really spent enough time sorting through all the talents to figure it out.

I won’t say I have either, but here are a few of my thoughts on what you’re getting with each of the major talent builds:

Blood Tree
The blood tree is designed to be a hybrid spec for DPS or tanking that focuses on physical damage as well as disease augmentation.
You can usually raid with this spec or DPS at the same time and in PvP, the DPS build is very popular. Builds here will usually go with 51 points in Blood and a combination of points in Frost and Unholy to get a boost to Icy Touch, Glacier Rot, and Vicious Strikes

Frost Tree
The frost tree is based on burst damage and tanking, allowing you to land huge damage by freezing opponents and hitting them hard with explosion and frost related abilities. The majority of these builds will start with 51 or 52 talent points in Frost and the rest in Blood for additional physical damage output.

Unholy Tree
The Unholy talent tree is designed for those who want to summon ghouls and use them in their combat. You are going to find that this tree focuses on summons and diseases – the closest similarity being to Warlocks (though nowhere near the same in actuality). This is a good leveling build and has solid DPS as well. Most builds will go with 54 points in Unholy and a split of the rest with 10 or more in Frost to maintain DPS.

Of course, these are just the basics – there are dozens of hybrids and useful mixtures that can make a Death Knight useful in almost any situation when properly played.

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