Death Defiance
The cooldown of Death Pact is reduced by 30 sec, and you receive 50% increased healing while its healing absorb is active.
Tree position
In the Blood Death Knight talent tree, Death Defiance sits in the Death Knight class talents, row 5 of 10. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Class Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Death Defiance from Death Pact.
Death PactCreate a death pact that heals you for 50% of your maximum health, but absorbs incoming healing equal to 30% of your max health for 15 sec.
Connected below
Death Defiance leads on to Anti-Magic Barrier.
Anti-Magic BarrierReduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 sec and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40%.
Same row
Also on this row: Icy Talons, Death Notes, Anti-Magic Zone and Unholy Bond.

Death NotesRaise Ally costs 30 less Runic Power.
Anti-Magic ZonePlaces an Anti-Magic Zone for 6 sec, reducing the magic damage taken by party or raid members by 15%.
Unholy BondIncreases the effectiveness of your Runeforge effects by 20%.
Talent trees
Death Defiance is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Death Defiance Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)