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Blood of the North
Inv weapon shortblade 79
  • Blood of the North (3 ranks)
  • Frost, Tier 8
  • Increases Blood Strike and Frost Strike damage by 3/6/10%. In addition, whenever you hit with Blood Strike or Pestilence there is a 30/60/100% chance that the Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost or Unholy Rune.
Requirements
Class Death knight
Tree Frost
Points required 35
Properties
Affects Spell deathknight deathstrike [Blood Strike], Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike], Spell shadow plaguecloud [Pestilence]

Blood of the North is a Death knight talent.

Patch changes[]

  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-07-10): Fixed an issue with Blood of the North that could cause Death Runes to incorrectly revert back into Blood Runes.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now permanently converts both Blood Runes into Death Runes. There is no longer any proc interaction with Spell deathknight deathstrike [Blood Strike] required to activate Death Runes.
    Old: Whenever you hit with Blood Strike or Pestilence, the Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a level 55 Frost specialization ability (was a tier 8 Frost talent). No longer increases Blood Strike and Frost Strike damage.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Reduced to a 3-point talent. Increases Blood Strike and Frost Strike damage by 3/6/10% (was 3/6/9/12/15%). There is now a 30/60/100% chance whenever you hit with Blood Strike or Pestilence that the Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates (was 20/40/60/80/100%).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now also increases damage dealt by Frost Strike by 15%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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