Blood Death Knight Tank The Eternal Palace Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Blood Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: The Eternal Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.
Introduction for Blood Death Knight Boss Advice in The Eternal Palace
In this section, you will find information pertaining to each boss individually in The Eternal Palace raid.
This advice is extremely preliminary in nature — this guide will be updated regularly over the next few weeks as bosses are experienced in their live state.
Talent and Essences Cheatsheet
Abyssal Commander Sivara
We advise you to use the following essences against Abyssal Commander Sivara.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- You can utilise Azeroth's Undying Gift to potentially solo soak Crushing Reverberation.
- You can collide with your co-tank to reset your energy, or soak a puddle of the opposite polarity.
- Mythic-only: Conduct your tank swap on the Overwhelming Barrage.
- Mythic-only: Each cast of Overwhelming Barrage, you should rotate the boss 180 degrees as the frost/toxic sides will swap each cast.
For more information, please refer to our Abyssal Commander Sivara strategy guide.
Blackwater Behemoth
We advise you to use the following essences against Blackwater Behemoth.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- Ensure that you keep Radiant Biomass active on you by timing your taunt swaps when this debuff expires.
- Do not cross open water with Radiant Biomass active on you
- Mythic-only: Split the damage of Piercing Barb with the raid.
For more information, please refer to our Blackwater Behemoth strategy guide.
Radiance of Azshara
We advise you to use the following essences against Radiance of Azshara.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- Swap after each cast of Tide Fist.
- You can negate the knockback from Tide Fist with Death's Advance.
- Pay attention to the add location when the boss is at approximately 90 energy to move to it efficiently.
- Mythic-only: Two adds now spawn in the intermission, so the raid will be split in two halves.
For more information, please refer to our Radiance of Azshara strategy guide.
Lady Ashvane
We advise you to use the following essences against Lady Ashvane.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- Swap on each cast of Barnacle Bash, using Azeroth's Undying Gift to help with this.
- When you are not tanking, you can help the raid soak Rippling Wave with Anti-Magic Shell.
- You can cast Anti-Magic Shell to immune the Briny Bubble
- Mythic-only: The farthest Coral from the boss will now create a Empowered Rippling Wave, which will require 3 soaks.
- Mythic-only: The Waterlogged debuff is now a 20-minute debuff.
For more information, please refer to our Lady Ashvane strategy guide.
Orgozoa
We advise you to use the following essences against Orgozoa.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- The damage when you start tanking will be very high and reduce with each stack of Desensitizing Sting. You should use Azeroth's Undying Gift for each tank swap, if available else you should use Vampiric Blood and/or Icebound Fortitude
- You can negate the knockback from the Hulk with Death's Advance.
- The boss will transition at 40%
- Mythic-only: Zoatroids spawn more frequently, which will mean that you may need to utilise players with immunities to soak Amniotic Splatter, if you do not have any stacks of Desensitizing Sting.
For more information, please refer to our Orgozoa strategy guide.
The Queen's Court
We advise you to use the following essences against The Queen's Court.
- Major Slot
- Azeroth's Undying Gift — Rank 3: Azeroth's Undying Gift + Hardened Azerite
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- Keep the bosses 21 yards apart from each other as much as possible.
- Swap before the Pashmar tank reaches 10 stacks to avoid the mind control effect from Pashmar's Touch.
- When Repeat Performance is active, rotate Blood Boil between casts to avoid being silenced.
- If you are tanking Pashmar during Zealous Eruption utilise defensive cooldowns or externals
- Mythic-only: When a decree is active, the section of the room closest to the banner representing that decree will have a Sphere of Influence around it.
- Mythic-only: There will always be a decree active.
For more information, please refer to our The Queen's Court strategy guide.
Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha
We advise you to use the following essences against Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- Ideally you should be the off-tank on this encounter due to how the DK toolkit functions being the main tank could lead to high damage being taken by your tanking partner
- Stay within 12 yards of your co-tank to reduce the damage from Mind Tether.
- Before the boss casts Delirium Realm, face him towards the centre of the room to allow for players to enter the Delirium Realm more easily.
- In the last phase of the encounter, ensure that other players are placing raid markers where the Maddening Eruption circles have spawned
- Mythic-only: Instead of Dark Pulse, the boss will cast Psychotic Split, which will require players in all realms to break a shield rather than just a shield on the boss.
For more information, please refer to our Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha strategy guide.
Queen Azshara
We advise you to use the following essences against Queen Azshara.
- Major Slot
- The Crucible of Flame — Rank 3: Concentrated Flame + Ancient Flame
- Minor Slots
- Conflict and Strife — Rank 3: Strife
- Nullification Dynamo — Rank 3: Null Barrier
Tips
- In Phase 1, When you are on 3 stacks of Cold Blast using Anti-Magic Shell will prevent you from becoming Frozen.
- When tanking Azshara, swap on approximately 7 stacks of Arcane Vulnerability (or when the stacks drop).
- In Phase 2, Anti-Magic Shell will prevent stack gain of Arcane Vulnerability
- When Azshara reaches 100 energy, you will need to hide in a Line of Sight area (the pillars in the room act as line of sight). Utilise Wraith Walk to move quickly to these areas.
- Mythic-only: A new ability is present throughout the entire counter, Divide and Conquer.
For more information, please refer to our Queen Azshara strategy guide.
Changelog
- 20 Dec. 2019: Updated essence choices.
- 23 Jul. 2019: Updated with Mythic information from Week 1.
- 13 Jul. 2019: Further updates to class tips.
- 11 Jul. 2019: Updated with additional information and up-to-date Essence recommendations.
- 08 Jul. 2019: 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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