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Unholy Death Knight DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5
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Welcome to our Unholy Death Knight starter guide, which covers everything you need to start playing a new character in Shadowlands. While our other guide pages go into more individual detail, this simple starter guide covers all the basics in one place, whether you're a new Unholy Death Knight, a returning player to Shadowlands, hardcore, or casual alike, it's the best place to get a beginners overview on the class. Included are basic talent builds, simplified rotations, stats, legendary recommendations, and more to get you started as quickly as possible.
Please keep in mind that this page is meant to get players started quickly as an introduction, and does not contain much in the way of detailed explanations, mechanics, competitive options, gearing, simulation comparisons, or nuance. For more in-depth information, including all those optimizations and more, check out the complete Unholy Death Knight Guide pages linked in the navigation on the left-hand side of the page, and if you're leveling up in Shadowlands, you can take a look at our
leveling tips
.
S3 Season 3
S3 Cheat Sheet
S3 Mythic+
S3 Raid Tips
S3 Talent Builds
S3 Rotation
S3 Support Buffs
S3 Gear
S3 Tier Set Bonus
Overview
Abilities & Talents
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Consumables
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
Mythic+
Common Questions
Leveling
Simulations
Hotfixes
PvP Overview
PvP Builds
Mage Tower
About the Author
This guide is written by Khazak, a Death Knight player since 5.4. Besides writing guides, I am a moderator in
Acherus, the Death Knight class Discord
and maintainer on SimC, contributing code and APL for Death Knights. I raid in Agency on Zul'jin US and sometimes stream raids on
Twitch
. I am always happy to take questions or comments about the guide through Discord.
Best Unholy Death Knight Covenant
Best Unholy Death Knights Covenants and Soulbinds for Raid
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Necrolord
Marileth
Necrolord
Marileth
Best Unholy Death Knight Covenants and Soulbinds for Mythic+
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Necrolord
Marileth
Night Fae
Dreamweaver
Best Unholy Death Knight Covenant
Kyrian Unholy Death Knight GuideNecrolord Unholy Death KnightGuide
Night Fae Unholy Death Knight GuideVenthyr Unholy Death Knight Guide
Best Unholy Death Knight Legendaries
Best Single Legendaries
Raid Legendary
:
Spira Letale
/
Mostruosità Frenetica
Mythic+ Legendary
:
Mostruosità Frenetica
/
Errante Rianimato
Best Double Legendaries
Raid Legendaries
:
Spira Letale
/
Mostruosità Frenetica
and
Frenesia dell'Abominio
Mythic+ Legendaries
:
Mostruosità Frenetica
/
Errante Rianimato
and
Trasferimento Dilagante
.
When it comes to crafting order, it depends heavily on the content that you're focusing on. If you are pushing raid seriously, do craft
Spira Letale
to the highest ilvl. If you're pushing Mythic+,
Mostruosità Frenetica
is much better to fully craft. Take a look at our legendary guide to learn more about the legendaries available to Unholy Death Knights, or our crafting guide to find all the materials you need to craft them.
UnholyDeath Knight Legendaries Guide
Best Unholy Death Knight Talents
This is a well rounded Unholy Death Knight build which works well in all situations. For a deeper look at each talent and more specialized builds, see the Unholy Death Knight Talent Guide.
Unholy Death Knight Talents Guide
Unholy Death Knight Stat Priority
Unlike previous expansions, primary stats such as Strength are much more important than they used to be, and secondary stats are close enough together that item level is usually more important factor when it comes to choosing gear. You can find out more about how stats work in the full
Unholy Death Knight Gear
and
Stat Priority
guides.
Strength > Mastery > Haste = Crit > Versatility
Strength
: Increases all damage done by native class spells, abilities, and auto attacks. Importantly, it also increases the damage from our pets since they inherit our stats! Previously one of the weakest stats, but now much more impactful, making raw item level much more important again.
Haste
: Compresses the rotation by reducing both the GCD as well as increasing the proc rate of most spells and trinkets.
Critical Strike
: Increases damage done by abilities, auto attacks, and trinkets.
Mastery
: Increases the shadow damage you do. Importantly, this is only spells and abilities specific to the unholy death knight, not trinkets or potions or other sources of potential shadow damage.
Versatility
: Increases damage done and reduces damage taken by half the amount. Unlike Mastery, however, it affects all damage done including trinkets, potions, and enchantments.
Unholy Death Knight Stats Guide
Unholy Death Knight Enchants and Consumables
Death Knights will always use a Runeforge enchant on their weapon. Other enchants follow our stat priority.
Cloak:
Incantamento Mantello - Velocità Rinforzata
Chest:
Incantamento Torso - Attributi Eterni
+
Potenziamento d'Armatura Desolato Pesante
Gloves:
Incantamento Guanti - Forza Eterna
Rings:
Incantamento Anello - Principio della Maestria
Weapon:
Runa del Crociato Caduto
Unholy Death Knight Enchants and Consumables Guide
Best Unholy Death Knight Rotation
This Unholy Death Knight rotation uses the talent build listed above to outline a basic priority. For the full rotation including talent variations, you can consult the Unholy Death Knight Rotation Guide.
Keep up
Piaga Virulenta
on all targets with
Contagio
(or
Sciame Empio
when possible).
Use
Trasformazione Oscura
on Cooldown.
Use
Apocalisse
on Cooldown, making sure you have 4 or more
Ferita Putrescente
s on the target before casting the ability.
Use
Morte e Distruzione
when fighting 2 or more enemies.
Cast
Assalto del Flagello
when fighting 2 or more enemies and your
Morte e Distruzione
is on the ground.
Cast
Assalto Putrescente
when you have less than 4
Ferita Putrescente
s on the target.
Cast
Assalto del Flagello
when you have 4 or more
Ferita Putrescente
s on the target
Cast
Epidemia
when fighting 3 or more targets to spend Runic Power and use up procs of
Condanna Improvvisa
.
Cast
Spira Mortale
to spend Runic Power or to use up procs of
Condanna Improvvisa
.
Use
Armata dei Morti
before engaging more powerful enemies.
Unholy Death Knight Rotation Guide
Best Conduits for Unholy Death Knights in Shadowlands
S-tier
Fame Eterna
Convocazione dei Morti
Presa Brutale
A-tier
Abbraccio della Morte
Frammento di Armatura Adattivo
Proliferazione
Tenebre Impenetrabili
Terreno Avvizzito
Unholy Death Knight Conduit Guide
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at the top of the page. If you are interested in more in-depth Unholy Death Knight guides for , make sure to browse the
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