Murderous Efficiency
Consuming the Killing Machine effect has a 20% chance to grant you 1 Rune.
Tree position
In the Frost Death Knight talent tree, Murderous Efficiency sits in the Frost specialization talents, row 6 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Frost Talents.
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The tree draws a line into Murderous Efficiency from Arctic Assault, Frostreaper and Inexorable Assault.
Arctic AssaultConsuming Killing Machine fires a Glacial Advance through your target at 60% effectiveness.
FrostreaperObliterate deals 10% increased damage and has a chance to tether the souls of its target and a nearby enemy to yours. Frost Strike severs the tethers, dealing (411.8% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage to both foes.
Inexorable AssaultObliterate and Frostscythe consume up to 3 stacks, dealing an additional (26.3% of Attack Power) Frost damage for each stack consumed.
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Murderous Efficiency leads on to Howling Blades and Cryogenic Chamber.
Howling BladesRime empowered Howling Blast unleashes 2 icy blades at its target that deal (25.2% of Attack Power) Frost damage and have 15% chance to grant Killing Machine.
Cryogenic ChamberWhen Howling Blast consumes Rime, 15% of the damage it deals is gathered into the next cast of Remorseless Winter, up to 20 times.
Same row
Also on this row: Rage of the Frozen Champion, Enduring Strength, Frozen Dominion and Frigid Executioner.
Rage of the Frozen ChampionFrost Strike and Glacial Advance have a 15% increased chance to trigger Rime and Howling Blast generates 8 Runic Power while Rime is active.
Enduring StrengthWhen Pillar of Frost expires, your Strength is increased by 8% for 6 sec. This effect lasts 2 sec longer, up to 20 sec, for each Obliterate and Frostscythe critical strike during Pillar of Frost.
Frozen DominionPillar of Frost now summons a Remorseless Winter that lasts longer. Each enemy Remorseless Winter damages grants you Mastery, for 15 sec.
Frigid ExecutionerRunic Empowerment has a 25% chance to refund 1 additional Runes.
Talent trees
Murderous Efficiency is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Murderous Efficiency Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)