Unholy Death Knight DPS Easy Mode - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

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This page is intended for players who are new to the game or class,have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty, or simply want a morestraightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmedby the numerous subtleties and active abilities that need to be taken intoconsideration for optimal play.

For those who are new to Unholy Death Knight and are not sure what eachabilitydoes or how they interact with the Unholy toolkit, we recommend checking out ourSpell Summary guide is linked below.

Unholy Death Knight is a melee DPS specialization that provides strongsingle-target and AoE DPS. Its play style is somewhat complex (considering the largenumber of cooldowns). However, it isincredibly rewarding to master.

Your main goal throughout a fight is applying the Festering Wounddebuff with Festering Strike (ensuring not to over-cap it) andthen consuming these stacks with Scourge Strike while also makingsure to use Death Coil or Epidemic to not over-cap on RunicPower.Furthermore, you should aim to maintain uptime on your disease Virulent Plagueby using Outbreak or Unholy Blight

The following talent choices are effectively best in most situations.

These are the easiest talents to use when factoring in gear and rotation,but if you want to use the absolute best talents for Unholy Death Knight, depending on the situation, then we have a more in-depth page linked below.

Currently, you will want to prioritize stats as follows.

1. Mastery,
2. Haste,
3. Critical Strike,
4. Versatility.

This can be different depending on your character's gear, so make sure yousim yourself, to find what your stat priority is. As a general rule,when looking at your raw stat amounts, they should follow the above order.7000 Mastery, 6500 Haste, 4000 Crit and 3500 Versatility are bis numbers.

1. Use Army of the Dead as you run towards the boss.
2. Use Outbreak or Unholy Blight.
3. Use Festering Strike.
4. Use Fyr'alath the Dreamrender.
5. Use Death and Decay/ Defile.
6. Use Dark Transformation + Summon Gargoyle + Potion.
7. Use Death Coil 3 times.
8. Use Empower Rune Weapon + Unholy Assault + Trinket ( Power Infusion if you get it).
9. Use Apocalypse.
10. Use Blood Fury (if Orc), Berserking (if Troll).

1. Cast Soul Reaper if the target is below 35% (if you have taken thistalent).
2. Cast Outbreak or Unholy Blight to apply Virulent Plagueon the target. Try to maintain 100% uptime on the disease.
3. Use Death Coil when you have 80+ Runic Power or a Sudden Doom proc.
4. Use Festering Strike to apply Festering Wounds on thetarget. Do this if the target has 1 or fewer Festering Wounds.
5. Use Scourge Strike when there are at least 4 Festering Wounds on the target.
6. Use Death Coil.

Please find below a rotation on a dungeon trash pack.

1. Use Defile to stack the mastery buff and enable cleave.
2. Use Scourge Strike to initiate Plaguebringer.
3. Use Outbreak or Unholy Blight to apply Virulent Plague on alltargets.
4. Use Dark Transformation.
5. Use Unholy Assault or Festering Strike + Empower Rune Weapon.
6. Use Apocalypse.
7. Use Abomination Limb.
8. Spam Epidemic until you are out of Runic Power.
9. Use Defile when your Mastery buff from the previous one runs out.
10. Spam Scourge Strike and use Epidemic once you gain enough Runic Power.
11. Keep using Defile to maintain the 8% buff and enable Scourge Strikecleave.
12. After you run out of Defile to use, go to single target rotationwith Epidemic at 4+ (with Improved Death Coil, 2+ without) targets.

Make sure to stand in your Death and Decay once you have used it.The cleave from your Scourge Strike/ Clawing Shadows depends onyou standing in the circle, not if the enemies do so.

For a more in-depth rotation, please consider checking out our rotation pagelinked below.

Unholy Death Knights have potentially 10 cooldowns; they should beused as follows:

• Empower Rune Weapon should be used with your other cooldowns.
• Abomination Limb should generally be used on cooldown. Hold it foradd waves that need grouping up.
• Unholy Blight should be used on cooldown. It is primarily a wayof applying your Virulent Plague efficiently, especially in AoE.
• Unholy Assault should be used on cooldown. Especially strong inMythic+when paired with Vile Contagion. Used in Single Target with yourother CDs.
• Vile Contagion should be used in AoE on a target that ideallyhas 6 Festering Wounds. This should then be followed by Death and Decayand Scourge Strike to pop all wounds.
• Army of the Dead should be used on cooldown. This is the first abilityyou press as you run toward the boss. With Army of the Damned, thecooldownis 3 minutes. Make sure to time it with your Summon Gargoyle and Dark Transformation (if you have Commander of the Dead).
• Apocalypse should be used when you have 4 stacks of Festering Wounds. In AoE, use with 1 or more Festering Wounds.
• Dark Transformation should be used off cooldown and as anopener on packs of multiple mobs.
• Sacrificial Pact should only be used to save yourself fromdeath.
• Summon Gargoyle should be used on cooldown. Once used, prioritizespending Runic Power via Death Coil above everything else.
• Defile should be used back-to-back with your Apocalypse.In AoE, use it as much as possible, chaining the Mastery buff you get from the ability.