Level 45: Unholy Pact – Another boost to your minions’ damage, Unholy Pact gives a buff to your Dark Transformation casts. Wraith Walk is a must-have talent if you want to make sure that you have as many mobility options as possible because there aren’t many baseline abilities that will grant you flexibility in the way you move around an encounter. Level 40: Wraith Walk – Death Knight is easily the least-mobile melee class in all of WoW and is right at the bottom of the mobility tier list alongside some classes like Warlock and Shaman. And when striking an enemy below 35 percent HP, the extra damage that the ability deals will boost your DPS numbers in the later stages of an encounter. Level 35: Soul Reaper – Soul Reaper adds another hard-hitting ability to your rotation. From taking an enemy out of a fight to interrupting a powerful spell, Asphyxiate can be used in almost any scenario. The different options on the table when it comes to using a four-second stun are vast. Level 30: Asphyxiate – Asphyxiate is a great crowd control tool that can be used with a strong amount of versatility. Additionally, any target affected by the debuff takes increased damage from your minions, making the talent work extremely well in conjunction with All Will Serve. Level 25: Unholy Blight – Another monstrous DPS increase, Unholy Blight applies a stackable debuff to enemies that deals immense damage over time. The other talents in the level 15 row don’t add enough to the Unholy rotation to outweigh the raw DPS increase provided by All Will Serve. Level 15: All Will Serve – A straightforward DPS booster, All Will Serve adds another skeletal ghoul to your arsenal of minions. Talents Screengrab via Blizzard Entertainment
Here’s how to make the most out of Unholy Death Knight in Shadowlands with the best talents and build for the class. Unholy Death Knight has plenty of tools at its disposal to rack up damage and hit hard with some class-defining abilities. With boundless opportunities to summon a genuine army of undead minions to follow you into combat, you’ll never be alone when playing Unholy Death Knight.īut just because your minions are going to be hitting hard and contributing to a strong amount of your DPS numbers doesn’t mean you can’t pack a punch yourself.
So it's better, imo, to spec into the BiS spec and learn it inside out.Unholy Death Knight represents the definition of a tried and true “summoner” class in World of Warcraft. Learning the playstyle at BiS will be the difference between topping the charts and underperforming. More often than not, the difference between bad and good dps is not because of spec, it's because of playstyle.
You should focus on learning your class and rotation.
Second, I'm not a fan of changing your spec too much as you gear up. Getting in the habit of using this whenever you can will pay off when you go into ToC, and even ICC. The -20RP on mind freeze makes using it a no-brainer. As a DK dps, you are one of the best interrupters in the game, bar-none. The reason I say to go as a frost subspec is twofold:įirst, endless winter. However, at higher gear levels, when haste becomes one of your most valuable stats, icy talons becomes invaluable. At your gear level, the flat damage/crit increases from 2h weapon mastery/dark conviction (as well as bladed armor) far outweigh the scaling haste bonus from icy talons. The reason is that you don't have enough haste to justify icy talons, and you don't have enough strength to justify endless winter. At your gear level, it is a dps loss, but I still recommend it: here's why.įor low gear (3.8 is fairly low gear), you are supposed to go blood/unholy.