WotLK Death Knight - Ebon Hold

Death Knight Leveling Spec (Blood)

Blood Spec Link

Two of the must-have abilities in this spec are Butchery and Vendetta. They return a huge amount of runic power and health every time you kill a mob that grants experience. It would be wise to include at least those two abilities in any Death Knight Leveling build.

Mark of Blood is also available early on, which should all but remove your need to ever need to eat or bandage while leveling. This provides a huge advantage to other classes and even other Death Knight specs. While not available until much later in the tree, Bloodworms and Vampiric Blood help improve your leveling time significantly. If you find you aren’t ever losing enough health to need Rune Tap, you can drop it for higher damage abilities in either the Blood or Unholy trees.

Blood (65 points)
    2/2 Butchery
    3/3 Subversion
    5/5 Blade Barrier
    5/5 Bladed Armor
    3/3 Scent of Blood
    2/2 Two-Handed Weapon Specialization
    1/1 Rune Tap
    5/5 Dark Conviction
    3/3 Death Rune Mastery
    3/3 Improved Rune Tap
    3/3 Vendetta
    3/3 Bloody Strikes
    3/3 Veteran of the Third War
    1/1 Mark of Blood
    3/3 Bloody Vengeance
    3/3 Bloodworms
    2/2 Blood Aura
    5/5 Sudden Doom
    1/1 Vampiric Blood
    3/3 Might of Mograine
    5/5 Blood Gorged
    1/1 Dancing Rune Weapon

Frost (0 points)
    None

Unholy (6 points)
    2/2 Vicious Strikes
    3/3 Morbidity
    1/2 Epidemic

Death Knight Leveling Spec (Unholy)

Unholy Spec Link

Again, this spec relies on Vendetta and Butchery for the health and runic power restoration while leveling. Instead of being as oriented toward melee damage, however, the Unholy spec focuses on Ghouls, magical damage, and Area-of-Effect abilities (primarily Corpse Explosion).

Good variation of this build are possible by going deeper into the Blood tree, possibly including Rune Tap and Bladed Armor, depending on your play style and downtime between pulls. Alternatively, dropping Two-Handed Weapon Specialization and Dark Conviction would allow you to get some of the more powerful talents deep in the Unholy tree.

Blood (19 points)
    2/2 Butchery
    3/3 Subversion
    5/5 Blade Barrier
    3/3 Scent of Blood
    3/3 Death Rune Mastery
    3/3 Vendetta

Frost (0 points)
    None

Unholy (45 points)
    2/2 Vicious Strikes
    3/3 Morbidity
    2/2 Epidemic
    3/3 Ravenous Dead
    3/3 Outbreak
    5/5 Necrosis
    1/1 Corpse Explosion
    3/3 Blood-Caked Blade
    1/1 Shadow of Death
    1/1 Summon Gargoyle
    5/5 Impurity
    3/3 Reaping
    1/1 Master of Ghouls
    5/5 Desecration
    3/3 Crypt Fever
    3/3 Ebon Plaguebringer
    1/1 Scourge Strike

Conclusion

Choosing a spec is largely comes down to personal preference and play-style. However, some abilities such as Butchery and Vendetta are going to greatly improve the speed you can level no matter which tree and abilities you prefer. Even if you are not a fan of the melee oriented Blood tree, if you plan on leveling solo, you should consider it a very strong option if you plan on leveling as quickly and easily as possible.

• Create glyphs to be used in glyph slots; granting characters permanent buffs to spells and abilities.
• Create scrolls to increase stats.
• Create Scrolls of Recall; functioning as one-time-use Hearthstones with a 15 minute cooldown.
• Create card decks; granting special rewards upon completion.
• Decypher ability which, “Allows the deciphering of strange and mysterious writings.”

WotLK Inscription Glyph Interface

Inscription provides a sub-skill, known as Milling. Milling herbs allows you to create pigments which are used in creating your inscription. Herbalism is the gathering skill required by inscription, due to the herbs required for Milling.

Using Milling you can turn 5 herbs into 2 to 4 pigments, which are then combined with parchments to create glyphs and scrolls.

Herbs Required for 1 – 450 Inscription Leveling

Note: The numbers below are the combined total of herbs for each pigment type. You can Mill any combination of the herbs in each pigment group to reach the total.
Click an herb for a detailed map showing locations where to collect it.

• 110 Bloodthistle, Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Earthroot, Mageroyal (Creates Alabaster Pigment)
• 80 Briarthorn, Swiftthistle, Bruiseweed, Stranglekelp (Creates Dusky Pigment)
• 200 Wild Steelbloom, Grave Moss, Kingsblood, Liferoot (Creates Golden Pigment)
• 160 Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar’s Whiskers, Wintersbite (Creates Emerald Pigment)
• 160 Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas’ Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood (Creates Violet Pigment)
• 250 Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom, Icecap (Creates Silvery Pigment)
• 260 Any Outland Herbs (Creates Nether Pigment)
• 450 Any Northrend Herbs (Creates Azure Pigment)

Inscription Pigment Types

• Emerald Pigment – Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar’s Whiskers, Wintersbite
• Violet Pigment – Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas’ Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood
• Silvery Pigment – Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom, Icecap
• Nether Pigment – All Outland herbs
• Azure Pigment – All Northrend Herbs

Inscription Leveling Guide

Note: There are many different Scrolls and Glyphs in the same skill ranges, with the same materials required as those listed below. If a certain scroll or glyph is more valuable to you, feel free to craft it instead.

Additional WotLK Inscription Resources

WoWWiki: Inscription Recipes
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