Sanguine Scent
Your Death Coil, Epidemic and Death Strike have a 15% increased chance to trigger Vampiric Strike when damaging enemies below 35% health.
Tree position
In the Blood Death Knight talent tree, Sanguine Scent sits in the San'layn hero talent tree, row 4 of 5. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 1 points are spent in San'layn.
Choice node
Sanguine Scent shares its node with Pact of the San'layn. A character takes one of the two.
Pact of the San'laynYou store 10% of all Shadow damage dealt into your Blood Beast to explode for additional damage when it expires.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Sanguine Scent from The Blood is Life.
The Blood is LifeEach time the Blood Beast attacks, it stores a portion of the damage dealt. When the Blood Beast dies, it explodes, dealing 15% of the damage accumulated to nearby enemies and healing the Death Knight for the same amount. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Connected below
Sanguine Scent leads on to Gift of the San'layn.
Gift of the San'laynWhile Dancing Rune Weapon is active you gain Gift of the San'layn.
Same row
Also on this row: Inevitable, Incite Terror and Transfusion.
InevitableBlood Plague deals up to 30% increased damage based on the target's missing health. Vampiric Strike grants maximum stacks of Clawing Shadows.
Incite TerrorVampiric Strike benefits from Incite Terror at 400% effectiveness.
TransfusionVampiric Strike increases the damage of your Lesser Ghouls by 10% for 8 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.
Talent trees
Sanguine Scent is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Sanguine Scent Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)