Blood Death Knight
Deathbringer
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Blood Death Knight (Deathbringer) deals 76% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 7 of 12) and 85% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 3 of 11).
At a glance
4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept
| Fight | Manual DPS | SBA + cooldown | SBA alone | Assisted Highlight | Rank (SBA + cooldown) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M+ dungeon | 178,811 | 76.0%−23.99% | 66.8%−33.22% | 80.6%−19.38% | 7 of 12 |
| Raid boss | 133,508 | 84.6%−15.37% | 75.1%−24.91% | 93.2%−6.76% | 3 of 11 |
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
- Manual178.8Kreference
- SBA + cooldown135.9K76% of manual
- SBA alone119.4K67% of manual
- Assisted Highlight144.2K81% of manual
Cooldowns and defensives
Cooldowns in SBA + cooldown
The button alone never presses these. In SBA + cooldown you press them on your own keys, with your potion and on-use trinket, and the simulator presses them on time.
Best talents for the button
Our standard build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.
Best of 179 builds tested with the button on the raid boss (2026-10-22): our standard build, the 3 most played builds on Warcraft Logs for this hero talent, then every single talent swap from the best of them. Defensive talents are locked: the search never trades survival for damage.
Searched on the raid boss only: SimulationCraft does not support tanks in its dungeon fight, so AoE talents for Mythic+ are not tested.
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.
| Ability | Manual | SBA + cooldown | SBA + cooldown vs manual |
|---|---|---|---|
 Death Strike | 27.2K19.2% · 79.3 casts | 21.8K19.1% · 70.7 casts | −5,359 |
 Exterminate (Second Hit) | 12.5K8.9% · 18.5 casts | 8,2437.2% · 16.7 casts | −4,286 |
| Exterminate | 10.1K7.1% · 18.8 casts | 8,7187.6% · 17.3 casts | −1,344 |
 Heart Strike | 9,7906.9% · 78.7 casts | 7,9877.0% · 69.6 casts | −1,803 |
 Wave of Souls | 9,7616.9% · 16.3 casts | 9,7428.5% · 16.3 casts | −19 |
 Reaper's Mark | 8,0005.7% · 7.4 casts | 7,0826.2% · 6.8 casts | −918 |
 Perfected Guillotine | 7,6105.4% · 25.4 casts | 7,5586.6% · 25.2 casts | −52 |
 Blood Boil (Boiling Point) | 7,3785.2% · 21.4 casts | 2,8682.5% · 10.2 casts | −4,510 |
 Consumption | 3,1072.2% · 7.1 casts | 4,6564.1% · 7.8 casts | +1,549 |
 Sanguinary Burst | 4,2843.0% · 4.5 casts | 4,0823.6% · 4.5 casts | −202 |
 Death and Decay (Damage) | 3,6722.6% | 3,5193.1% | −153 |
| Blood Boil (Dance Of Midnight) | 3,2602.3% · 34.7 casts | 8610.8% · 9.2 casts | −2,399 |
 Reaper's Mark | 3,0502.2% · 7.4 casts | 2,0411.8% · 6.8 casts | −1,009 |
 Blood Mist | 2,8032.0% · 40 casts | 3,0152.6% · 40.2 casts | +212 |
 Prismatic Focusing Iris | 2,1821.5% · 26 casts | 2,1801.9% · 26.1 casts | −2 |
| Death Strike (Dance Of Midnight) | 2,0441.4% · 35.6 casts | 1,4001.2% · 27.6 casts | −644 |
 Bloody Demise (AoE) | 1,8731.3% · 5.5 casts | 1,4931.3% · 5.5 casts | −380 |
 Blood Plague (Dance Of Midnight) | 1,7911.3% · 99.1 casts | 6680.6% · 25.3 casts | −1,123 |
 Venomfang Burst | 1,6841.2% · 74.9 casts | 1,6611.5% · 74.4 casts | −23 |
| Heart Strike (Dance Of Midnight) | 1,6381.2% · 40.9 casts | 1,1791.0% · 32.9 casts | −459 |
| Reaper's Mark | 1,6091.1% · 8.2 casts | 1,6191.4% · 8.2 casts | +10 |
| Blood Boil | 1,5711.1% · 12.9 casts | 2900.3% · 2.8 casts | −1,281 |
| Blood Boil (Everlasting Bond) | 1,5701.1% · 12.9 casts | 2890.3% · 2.8 casts | −1,281 |
 Devour Morsel | 1,4111.0% · 41.4 casts | 1,3321.2% · 39.2 casts | −79 |
 Marrowrend | 1,1970.8% · 20.9 casts | 1,3101.1% · 24.1 casts | +113 |
| Bloody Demise | 1,2830.9% · 5.5 casts | 1,2771.1% · 5.5 casts | −6 |
| Consumption (Leech) | 5680.4% · 14.9 casts | 1,2731.1% · 22.8 casts | +705 |
| Venomfang | 1,2700.9% · 79.2 casts | 1,2581.1% · 78.7 casts | −12 |
| Blood Plague | 1,1530.8% · 40.7 casts | 2670.2% · 7.2 casts | −886 |
| Blood Plague (Everlasting Bond) | 1,1520.8% · 40.7 casts | 2670.2% · 7.2 casts | −885 |
| Death Strike (Everlasting Bond) | 1,1420.8% · 17.4 casts | 7890.7% · 13.5 casts | −353 |
 Rune of Unleashed Fire | 1,0380.7% · 54.6 casts | 1,0390.9% · 54.7 casts | +1 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) | 4750.3% · 160.9 casts | 4730.4% · 160.3 casts | −2 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) (Bloodworm) | 4480.3% · 427.1 casts | 4250.4% · 410.3 casts | −23 |
| Heart Strike (Everlasting Bond) | 4470.3% · 6.3 casts | 4130.4% · 4.9 casts | −34 |
 Rune of Lingering | 2790.2% · 54.6 casts | 2740.2% · 54.7 casts | −5 |
 Bloody Reflection | 2110.1% · 5.9 casts | 1330.1% · 3.6 casts | −78 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) (Dance Of Midnight) | 1910.1% · 52.2 casts | 1720.2% · 47.6 casts | −19 |
| Marrowrend (Dance Of Midnight) | 1810.1% · 9.3 casts | 1690.1% · 9.3 casts | −12 |
| Marrowrend (Everlasting Bond) | 1740.1% · 8.1 casts | 1420.1% · 6.6 casts | −32 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) (Everlasting Bond) | 900.1% · 21.9 casts | 970.1% · 23.2 casts | +7 |
 Claw | 820.1% · 21.6 casts | 880.1% · 22 casts | +6 |
 Death's Caress | 580.0% · 4.3 casts | – | −58 |
| Death's Caress (Dance Of Midnight) | 110.0% · 2.5 casts | – | −11 |
| Total | 141.3K | 114.2K | −27.1K |
A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.
Questions about Blood Death Knight (Deathbringer)
How much DPS does Blood Death Knight (Deathbringer) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Blood Death Knight (Deathbringer) deals 76% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 7 of 12) and 85% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 3 of 11).
Related builds
Other hero talents of Blood Death Knight
DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking
How it's measured, and its limits
- SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
- Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
- Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
- The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route. Nothing hits the tank there, so SimulationCraft does not support it for tanks.
- The raid boss is SimulationCraft's Patchwerk fight with a boss that hits the tank. Only damage is compared: survival is not measured.
Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.