Blood Death Knight Tank Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Blood Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Blood Death Knights and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Blood Death Knight
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Blood Death Knight
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- On each
Tank Buster cast use
Death's Advance (to not get knocked back) with
Vampiric Blood and
Icebound Fortitude /
Lichborne.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown, unless the intermission is coming up then you will want to save them to take advantage of the vulnerability.
Mechanical Tips
- The knockback from
Tank Buster can be negated with
Death's Advance.
- All of the pit mechanics are susceptible to CC. This means you can grip them under the boss so they can be cleaved down easier!
Mythic Difficulty
- The Support Rig adds can be gripped away (if they get too close) and slowed with
Chains of Ice (to let a player in the raid with hard CC have more time to cast it).
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Icebound Fortitude /
Lichborne to mitigate the follow up damage from
Lightning Bash. The follow up damage can be reduced with
Anti-Magic Shell.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell and
Icebound Fortitude /
Lichborne to mitigate the damage from
Eruption Stomp.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- If you get stunned from moving too much with
Static Charge,
Icebound Fortitude can remove it.
Mythic Difficulty
- You may be tasked with kicking the miniature figurines, run into them so that they are sent toward the middle of the room.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- The auto attacks on this encounter deal Sonic damage. This means that they are not reduced by armour. This makes
Death Strike a very valuable tool to have as this is based on your damage taken. While armour may not have an impact on the damage you take, you still need to maintain
Bone Shield for your wider toolkit.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown but if the intermission is coming up, hold them as the boss takes 99% less damage during this phase and you will have nothing to hit.
Mechanical Tips
- N/A.
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Heroic:If your group does not have any disease dispellers,
Dancing Rune Weapon becomes valuable while tanking Hyenas, as it helps parry their auto attacks and prevent application of
Infected Bite stacks.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell,
Vampiric Blood and
Icebound Fortitude /
Lichborne for every
Meltdown cast that you take.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
Anti-Magic Shell can be used to prevent
Incinerator from spawning on you.
- Heroic: Territorial Bombshell can be gripped once they are below 80% HP.
Mythic Difficulty
- Your job as a Blood DK on this fight will be to never deal with the ball mechanic and just tank the boss and grip bombshells.
- As you are the boss tank, this means you will get hit by every
Meltdown.
- Boss movement is completely in your control, make sure that you have the boss away from fire for each
Electromagnetic Sorting cast as the bombshells spawn on newly spawned big garbage piles only.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Heroic: If you opt to soak 2x
Foot-Blasters in a row, you won't need much on the first one but be ready to
Death Strike the damage you took. For the second soak you will want to use
Icebound Fortitude and
Anti-Magic Shell.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
Death's Advance negates the movement speed reduction from running against the conveyor belt.
- You should have a charge of
Death's Advance for every
Pyro Party Pack you get to help with running away from the raid.
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- If you ever need to click a pylon to trigger the effects again and remove
Shocking Fields you will take a large physical hit. One
Death Strike should heal you back up. If you are low on HP before clicking the Pylon you may want to consider using
Lichborne or
Icebound Fortitude before clicking.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Be ready with
Death's Advance to run away with
The Big Hit as it drops a pool after the cast completes. This does not give you a debuff so as soon as you see the boss casting the ability run away! Optionally you can talent into
Wraith Walk for a bigger speed boost and it will be available for each hit you take.
- The 3 Coin Attendants have fixed locations. Be ready to drag the boss on top of them after it uses
Pay to Win.
- Be mindful of the
Voltaic Streak beams in the enrage phase. These will connect from the pylons which you have placed in the previous phase to the boss.
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- N/A.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Do not soak any
Earthshaker Gaol's. If the boss follows you inside there the adds will enrage
Molten Gold Knuckles requires heavy movement after you land from the knock back. If you are struggling with this the stun applied at the end can be removed with
Icebound Fortitude.
- If you opt to soak mines make sure you have
Death's Advance active as this will prevent the knockback from soaking it.
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Blood Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Be ready to use
Anti-Magic Shell after each
Scatterblast Canisters in Phase 1 and
Bigger Badder Bomb Blast in Phase 3.
- Many soak based mechanics will apply a heal absorb on you, be ready to simply
Death Strike the heal absorb away.
Cooldown Usage
- If you use
Abomination Limb on pull, it will be ready for the first intermission and it will then be available for every other intermission phase.
Mechanical Tips
- Be ready to
Death Grip adds during intermission phases.
Mythic Difficulty
- The fundamentals of the fight remain the same on Mythic, however the order everything happens in is compeltely different. This will be updated with any relevant nuance once data becomes available.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Changelog
- 25 Mar. 2025: Added additional defensive tips and tips for Mythic.
- 18 Mar. 2025: Gallywix tips added.
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Mandl and Panthea.
Mandl is one of Acherus' Useful Minions and Blood Death Knight theorycrafter.
Panthea raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. He plays all tanks and is a "Useful Minion" for the Acherus Death Knight Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.
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