Cleaving Strikes
Frostscythe deals 20% increased damage during Remorseless Winter.Heart Strike hits up to 3Scourge Strike and Festering Strike deal 10% increased damage. additional enemies while you remain in Death and Decay. When leaving your Death and Decay you retain its bonus effects for 4 sec.
Tree position
In the Blood Death Knight talent tree, Cleaving Strikes sits in the Death Knight class talents, row 2 of 10. It is a single-point node.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Cleaving Strikes from Raise Dead.
Raise DeadRaises a geist to fight by your side. You can have a maximum of one geist at a time. Lasts 1 min.
Connected below
Cleaving Strikes leads on to Unholy Momentum, Control Undead and Enfeeble.

Control UndeadDominates the target undead creature up to level 38, forcing it to do your bidding for 5 min.
EnfeebleYour ghoul's attacks have a chance to apply Enfeeble, reducing the enemies movement speed by 30% and the damage they deal to you by 12% for 6 sec.
Same row
Also on this row: Runic Attenuation and Improved Death Strike.
Runic AttenuationAuto attacks have a chance to generate 3 Runic Power.
Improved Death StrikeDeath Strike's cost is reduced by 5, and its healing is increased by 15%.
Talent trees
Cleaving Strikes is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Cleaving Strikes Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)