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Death Charge

Death Charge1 point

Call upon your Death Charger to break free of movement impairment effects. For 10 sec, while upon your Death Charger your movement speed is increased by 100%, you cannot be slowed below 100% of normal speed, and you are immune to forced movement effects and knockbacks.

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TypeTalent
Ranks1 point
ClassDeath Knight
Specializations3
Tree sectionRider of the Apocalypse hero talent tree
Row2 of 5
Opens at1 points spent
Choice withOn a Paler Horse
Game build12.1.5
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Tree position

In the Frost Death Knight talent tree, Death Charge sits in the Rider of the Apocalypse hero talent tree, row 2 of 5. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 1 points are spent in Rider of the Apocalypse.

Choice node

Death Charge shares its node with On a Paler Horse. A character takes one of the two.

  • On a Paler Horse

    While outdoors you are able to mount your Acherus Deathcharger in combat.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Death Charge from Rider's Champion.

  • Rider's Champion

    Spending Runes has a chance to call forth the aid of a Horsemen for 10 sec. Mograine Casts Death and Decay at his location that follows his position and extends the duration of your diseases by 1.1 sec whenever it deals damage. Whitemane Casts Undeath on your target dealing (6.9% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage per stack every 3 sec, for 24 sec. Each time Undeath deals damage it gains a stack. Cannot be refreshed. Trollbane Casts Chains of Ice on your target slowing their movement speed by 40% and increasing the damage they take from you by 5% for 8 sec. Nazgrim While Nazgrim is active you gain Apocalyptic Conquest, increasing your Strength by 5%.

Connected below

Death Charge leads on to Whitemane's Famine.

Same row

Also on this row: Mograine's Might, Horsemen's Aid or Pact of the Apocalypse and Ride or Die!.

  • Horsemen's Aid

    While at your aid, the Horsemen will occasionally cast Anti-Magic Shell on you and themselves at 80% effectiveness. You may only benefit from this effect every 45 sec.

  • Pact of the Apocalypse

    When you take damage, 5% of the damage is redirected to each active horsemen.

  • Ride or Die!

    Pillar of Frost summons forth Trollbane for 6 sec.

Talent trees

Death Charge is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).

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Death Charge Changes by patch

Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.

  • First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)
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