WoW: The War Within San’Layn Death Knight Hero Talents

In World of Warcraft: The War Within, one of the new Hero Talents for the Death Knight class is the San’layn. It is one of three Hero Talents available for Death Knight alongside Deathbringer and Rider of the Apocalypse. San’layn is available to both Unholy and Blood Death Knights. Here are all of the Hero Talents for San’layn Death Knight in WoW: The War Within.

All San’layn Death Knight Hero Talents

San’layn excel at using blood and shadow magic to weaken their enemies and empower their own capabilities. Utilizing their blood magic, below are all the Hero Talents available for San’layn Death Knight:

• Vampiric Strike (Passive) – Your Death Coil and Death Strike have a 10% chance to make your next Heart Strike or Scourge Strike become Vampiric Strike. Vampiric Strike heals you for 3% of your maximum health and grants you Essence of the Blood Queen, increasing your Haste by 1.5% up to 7.5% for 20 sec.
• 2 Possible Choices
  • Newly Turned (Passive) – Raise Ally revives players at full health and grants you and your ally an absorb shield equal to 20% of your maximum health.
  • Vampiric Speed (Passive) – 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.
• Blood-Soaked Ground (Passive) – While you are within your Death and Decay, your physical damage taken is reduced by 5% and your chance to gain Vampiric Strike is increased by 5%.
• 2 Possible Choices
  • Vampiric Aura (Passive) – Your Leech is increased by 3%. While Lichborne is active, the Leech bonus on this effect is increased by 100% and it affects 4 nearby allies.
  • Bloody Fortitude (Passive) – Icebound Fortitude reduces all damage you take by up to an additional 20% based on your missing health. Killing enemies that grant honor or experience reduce the cooldown of Icebound Fortitude by 3 sec.
• Infliction of Sorrow (Passive) – When Vampiric Strike damages an enemy affected by Virulent Plague or Blood Plague it consumes the disease to deal 200% of their remaining damage to the target. While Gift of the San’layn is active, Vampiric Strike no longer consumes your disease and instead extends the duration of your disease by 3 sec and deals 20% of the remaining damage to the enemy.
• Frenzied Bloodthirst (Passive) – Essence of the Blood Queen stacks 2 additional times and increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 2% per stack.
• The Blood is Life (Passive) – Vampiric strike has a chance to summon a Blood Beast to attack your enemy for 10 sec. Each time the Blood Beast attacks, it stores a portion of the damage dealt. When the Blood Beast dies, it explodes, dealing 50% of the damage accumulated to nearby enemies and healing the Death Knight for the same amount.
• Visceral Regeneration (Passive) – Your Heart Strike and Scourge Strike have 3% chance per stack of Essence of the Blood Queen to refund a Rune. Vampiric Strike doubles the chance to refund a Rune.
• Incite Terror (Passive) – Heart Strike and Scourge Strike extend the duration of Essence of the Blood Queen by 0.5 sec. Vampiric Strike increases the extension by 100%.
• 2 Possible Choices
  • Pact of the San’layn (Passive) – You store 50% of all Shadow damage dealt into your Blood Beast to explode for additional damage when it explodes.
  • Sanguine Scent (Passive) – Your Death Coil and Death Strike have a 15% increased chance to trigger Vampiric Strike when damaging enemies below 35% health.
• Gift of the San’layn (Passive) – While Vampiric Blood or Dark Transformation is active you gain Gift of the San’layn. Gift of the San’layn increases the effectiveness of your Essence of the Blood Queen by 150%, and Vampiric Strike replaces your Heart Strike and Scourge Strike for the duration.