Improved Heart Strike
Tree position
In the Blood Death Knight talent tree, Improved Heart Strike sits in the Blood specialization talents, row 4 of 11. It takes 2 points to fill.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Improved Heart Strike from Bone Collector.
Bone CollectorWhen you would pull an enemy generate 1 charge of Bone Shield. Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones, increasing Armor, and your Haste. Each melee attack against you consumes a charge. Lasts 30 sec or until all charges are consumed.
Connected below
Improved Heart Strike leads on to Dancing Rune Weapon and Hemostasis.
Dancing Rune WeaponSummons a rune weapon for 8 sec that mirrors your melee attacks and bolsters your defenses. While active, you gain 30% parry chance.

Same row
Also on this row: Ossuary, Improved Vampiric Blood and Relish in Blood.
OssuaryWhile you have at least 5 Bone Shield charges, the cost of Death Strike is reduced by 5 Runic Power. Additionally, your maximum Runic Power is increased by 10.
Improved Vampiric Blood2 ranksVampiric Blood's healing and absorb amount is increased by 5% and duration by 2 sec.
Relish in BloodWhile Crimson Scourge is active, your next Death and Decay heals you for (37.5% of Attack Power) health per Bone Shield charge and you immediately gain 10 Runic Power.
Talent trees
Improved Heart Strike is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Improved Heart Strike Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)