Death Knight

All specializations

Everything here is read from the head of each specialization, EU and US merged into one list by rating — not the class as a whole.

What the top of each specialization plays

Each card is its own whole: the bar splits that specialization's characters between the hero talents they picked, so it is all of the specialization and never a share of the class. Nothing here compares one specialization against another.

Blood San'layn 32·64% Deathbringer 18·36% 50 of 50 ranked characters have a known hero talent Frost Deathbringer 50·100% 50 of 50 ranked characters have a known hero talent Unholy San'layn 1·2% Rider of the Apocalypse 49·98% 50 of 50 ranked characters have a known hero talent

The class as a whole

Two things a card above cannot say, because each of them is one specialization: what the class plays across all of them at once, and where its rating has been.

Most played races

What the class plays, counted over every specialization at once rather than over the ten above.

Highmountain Tauren 36
Orc 35
Human 18
Night Elf 11
Blood Elf 9
Other races 41

Rating over the season

Nothing stores what the class was rated a week ago, so there is no line to draw yet. This is where it will go.

soon

Top Solo Shuffle Death Knights

The ten highest-rated Death Knights, every specialization in one list. Ten and no deeper: each of the ten is certainly inside its own specialization's cut, while a place further down would be a seam between three separate cuts rather than the class's own order. EU and US are merged by rating, so a place here is not a character's rank in its own region.

1 Jüdås Xavius (EU) Frost Deathbringer 2661
2 Gódsgíft Kazzak (EU) Frost Deathbringer 2637
3 Royjones Sargeras (US) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2633
4 Zámåchäu Ravencrest (EU) Frost Deathbringer 2596
5 Wotlkmønster Eredar (EU) Frost Deathbringer 2578
6 Sairusmarsik Ravencrest (EU) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2562
7 Slackjawed Dalvengyr (US) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2554
8 Cerséï Tichondrius (US) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2543
9 Üuü Barthilas (US) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2543
10 Кромгони Soulflayer (EU) Unholy Rider of the Apocalypse 2539

For gamers, by gamers

purge is the head of World of Warcraft's PvP ladder, rebuilt from Blizzard's own data.

Cut: The top 50 of every specialization, EU and US merged into one list by rating.
Updated: Every few hours — last crawl 2026-09-16T05:36:44Z.
Source: Blizzard's Game Data API, off the profiles of live characters. Nothing here is entered by hand.
Caveat: This is whatever a character was wearing when it was read, so nothing filters out someone who logged out in their PvE gear.