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Sanguine Scent

Sanguine Scent1 point

Your Death Coil, Epidemic and Death Strike have a 15% increased chance to trigger Vampiric Strike when damaging enemies below 35% health.

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TypeTalent
Ranks1 point
ClassDeath Knight
Specializations3
Tree sectionSan'layn hero talent tree
Row4 of 5
Opens at1 points spent
Choice withPact of the San'layn
Game build12.1.5
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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'layn

    You 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 Life

    Each 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.

Same row

Also on this row: Inevitable, Incite Terror and Transfusion.

  • Inevitable

    Blood Plague deals up to 30% increased damage based on the target's missing health. Vampiric Strike grants maximum stacks of Clawing Shadows.

  • Incite Terror

    Vampiric Strike benefits from Incite Terror at 400% effectiveness.

  • Transfusion

    Vampiric 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).

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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)
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