Sludge Belcher - Makes Raise Dead summon an abomination instead of a ghoul. Unholy Frenzy - Doubles your attack speed for 2 seconds whenever a Festering Wound bursts.Ĭastigator - Empowers your basic rotation abilities, causing each Festering Strike critical strike to apply 2 additional Festering Wound, and each Scourge Strike critical strike to burst an additional Festering Wound.Ĭlawing Shadows - This replaces Scourge Strike with a ranged attack that still bursts Festering Wound. Pestilent Pustules - Causes you to gain 1 Rune for every 6th Festering Wound you burst.īlighted Rune Weapon - Grants you a spell that causes your next 4 auto attacks to infect the target with 2 stacks of Festering Wound each, on a 1 minute cooldown. Activating it will cause all instances of your Virulent Plague to deal Shadow damage to the affected target and to all hostiles around them. LevelĪll Will Serve - Removes Raise Dead's cooldown and causes it to summon an extra minion with a ranged attack.īursting Sores - Increases the damage of bursting a Festering Wound by 50%, and deals Shadow damage to all nearby enemies.Įbon Fever - Taking this talent will halve the duration of Virulent Plague while keeping its damage intact, so you can cast it twice as often.Įpidemic - Grants you a spell with 3 charges and a 10-second recharge time. It remains a filler spell, and as such, there is no need to switch your talents or rotations.īefore we go into details about the picks we recommend for levelling, here's a runthrough of all the talents that you can choose as an Unholy Death Knight. Death Coil’s damage was increased by 50%, and this was merely to better balance Unholy as a damage dealer with the boosts given to underperforming specialisations such as Frost.
We have already outlined how you should go about choosing Relics to equip on your Artifact Weapon, and in a future update, we’ll detail what your stat priorities should be when choosing the best gear to equip.Įditor’s note: Update #1 - Patch 7.1 - Return to Karazhan brings very little new to the Unholy Death Knight. As we go, we'll explain why and how they should influence your playstyle. You will also find a section dedicated to helping you understand the best path for upgrading your Artifact Weapon - the greatsword Apocalypse - and we'll take you through each trait in the order you should activate them. We will also introduce you to the optimal rotations and use of abilities for this playstyle. With that said, we'll go through some tweaks you can make at maximum level to optimize your end game performance.
In this guide, we’re going to make specific recommendations on which talents you should choose to make levelling as smooth a process as possible, and that will also prove useful when playing a damage-dealing role in groups once you hit the level cap. This leads to a more tactical play style when compared to the lightning-fast, super-reactive melee whirlwind that is the Frost Death Knight. The Unholy Death Knight playstyle focuses around building up diseases on your target, progressively ramping up the damage the Death Knight inflicts until the target drops dead. In our Unholy Death Knight guide we’ll show you the ropes and put you on the path towards truling mastering the spec. While its damage output can be a little inconsistent at times, the spec performs admirably in most combat encounters. Unholy Death Knight is currently one of the best-in-class melee specialisations in World of Warcraft.