WoW The War Within San’Layn Death Knight Hero Talent Tree

World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion will feature a brand new feature that will add more flavor to the talents classes have so we will be taking a look at the Death Knight Hero Talent tree

WoW The War Within San’Layn Death Knight Hero Talent Tree
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World of Warcraft has a very ambitious plan and with the upcoming release of The War Within, the team at Blizzard has introduced a brand new Hero Talents system for the expansion.

We will be taking a close look at one of the three Hero Talent trees for Death Knights and examining just how powerful we can expect the talents to be.

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WoW The War Within San’Layn Death Knight Hero Talent Tree

Since there is a lot to cover in the initial Hero Talent tree, we will be separately examining all of the nodes so we can get a better understanding of the core concepts.

Death Knight San’Layn Hero Talent Tree Keystone

Vampiric Strike:

  • Your Death Coil and Death Strike have a 10% chance to make your next Heart Strike or Scourge Strike become Vampiric Strike.

Vampiric Strike heals you for 3% of your maximum health and grants you Essence of the Blood Queen, increasing your Haste by 1.5%, up to 7.5% for 20 seconds.

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San’Layn Hero Talent Tree Row 1

Choice Node: Newly Turned & Vampiric Speed

Newly Turned:

  • Raise Ally revives players at full health and grants you an absorption shield equal to 20% of your maximum health.

Vampiric Speed:

  • Death’s Advance and Wraith Walk movement speed bonuses are increased by 10%. Activating Death’s Advance or Wraith Walk increases 4 nearby allies' movement speed by 20% for 5 sec.

Blood-Soaked Ground:

  • While you are within your Death and Decay, your physical damage taken is reduced by 5% and your chance to gain Vampiric Strike is increased by 5%.

Choice Node: Vampiric Aura & Bloody Fortitude

Vampiric Aura:

  • Your Leech is increased by 3%. While Lichborne is active the Leech amount is increased by 100% and affects 4 nearby allies.

Bloody Fortitude:

  • Icebound Fortitude reduces all damage you take by up to an additional 30% based on your missing health. Killing enemies that grant honor or experience reduces the cooldown of Icebound Fortitude by 3 sec.

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San’Layn Hero Talent Tree Row 2

Infliction of Sorrow:

  • When Vampiric Strike damages an enemy affected by Blood Plague or Virulent Plague it consumes the disease dealing 200% of the remaining damage.

While Gift of the San’layn is active, Vampiric Strike no longer consumes your disease and instead extends the duration of your disease by 3 sec and deals 20% of the remaining damage to the enemy.


Frenzied Bloodthirst:

  • Essence of the Blood Queen stacks 2 additional times and increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 5% per stack.

The Blood is Life:

  • Vampiric Strike has a chance to summon a Blood Beast to attack your enemy for 10 sec.

Each time the Blood Beast attacks it stores a portion of the damage dealt and when the Blood Beast dies it explodes dealing 50% of the damage accumulated to nearby enemies and healing the death knight for the same amount.

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San’Layn Hero Talent Tree Row 3

Visceral Regeneration:

  • Your Heart Strike and Scourge Strike have a 3% per stack of Essence of the Blood Queen to refund a Rune. Vampiric Strike doubles the chance to refund a Rune.

Incite Terror:

  • Heart Strike and Scourge Strike extend the duration of Essence of the Blood Queen by 0.5 seconds. Vampiric Strike increases the extension by 100%.

Choice Node: Sanguine Scent & Pact of the San’layn

Sanguine Scent: 

  • Your Death Coil and Death Strike have a 15% chance to trigger Vampiric Strike when damage enemies below 35% health and it is guaranteed to critically strike.

Pact of the San’layn:

  • You store 50% of all Shadow damage dealt into your Blood Beast to explode for additional damage when it expires.

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San’Layn Hero Talent Tree Capstone

Gift of the San’layn:

  • While Vampiric Blood or Dark Transformation is active you gain Gift of the San’layn.

Gift of the San’layn increases the effectiveness of your Essence of the Blood Queen by 100% and replaces your Heart Strike and Scourge Strike with Vampiric Strike for the duration.

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Summary

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Overall, this Hero Talent tree aims to increase the utility of Death Knights whilst not only giving way to making them stronger Blood tanks but also giving the Unholy spec some more damage and survivability as well so whichever role you decide to play, you will have adequate assistance from these new talents.

It surely is exciting to see that else will be added in WoW's newest expansion. Hopefully, the new direction and design philosophy will lend its way to a better and more enjoyable experience for players.  As of now, it is difficult to examine and predict whether or not the new Hero Talent trees will break the game or offer insufficient stats, abilities, etc. to make a huge impact on gameplay.

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