Vampiric Aura

In the Blood Death Knight talent tree, Vampiric Aura sits in the San'layn hero talent tree, row 2 of 5. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 1 points are spent in San'layn.

Choice node

Vampiric Aura shares its node with Bloody Fortitude. A character takes one of the two.

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  Bloody Fortitude

  Icebound Fortitude reduces all damage you take by up to an additional 20% based on your missing health. Killing an enemy that yields experience or honor reduces the cooldown of Icebound Fortitude by 3 sec.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Vampiric Aura from Vampiric Strike.

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  Vampiric Strike

Connected below

Vampiric Aura leads on to The Blood is Life.

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  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.

Same row

Also on this row: Newly Turned or Vampiric Speed, Blood-Soaked Ground or Desecrate and Thrill of Blood.

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  Newly Turned

  Raise Ally revives players at full health and grants you and your ally an absorb shield equal to 20% of your maximum health.

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  Vampiric Speed

  Death's Advance and Wraith Walk movement speed bonuses are increased by 10%. Activating Death's Advance or Wraith Walk increases 4 nearby allies movement speed by 20% for 5 sec.

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  Blood-Soaked Ground

  While you are within your Death and Decay, your physical damage taken is reduced by 8% and your chance to gain Vampiric Strike is increased by 5%.

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  Desecrate

  Death and Decay deals its damage 33.3333% faster.

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  Thrill of Blood

  Dread Plague deals 20% and Virulent Plague deals 10% increased damage.