How To Improve As Unholy Death Knight — Midnight Season 1

This page includes a list of common mistakes that we see new and sometimes seasoned Unholy players make. It can hopefully help you identify areas for improvement that are not obvious at a first glance.

Dread Plague is a critical debuff to maintain as it is a significant source of procs. Both Sudden Doom and Forbidden Knowledge proc off Dread Plague and are big parts of our DPS. You want to maintain 100% uptime on the plague at all times.

Festering Scythe has strong synergy with Dread Plague due to the increase tick rate increasing your procs. You want to make sure you have 100% uptime on the debuff on the target that has Dread Plague on it, to maximise the number of procs you generate.

Because you can have 3 Runes recharging at the same time, any time you are holding 4 or more Runes, you are effectively capped on runes and wasting potential Rune regeneration. There is never a point in your play where it would be valuable to not cast anything (unless you are pooling Runic Power and, even then, try to minimize downtime), or where you need more than 3 Runes saved up; always keep 3 Runes on cooldown.

Similarly, every point of Runic Power you generate when already at maximum Runic Power is a fraction of a lost Death Coil or Epidemic.

In fights that have burst AoE, you want to plan out your AoE for when adds spawn. One very important thing to incorporate into your rotation is a pooling phase, where you save 60+ Runic Power to immediately cast Epidemic several times once you have spread your Plagues.

Especially for Mythic+, it is easy to hold cooldowns in anticipation of larger and more difficult packs. It is generally a mistake to do so, though. Try and use your cooldowns as soon as they come up! It sounds easy, but it is a major improvement for many people.

In raiding scenarios, it is crucial to properly align your cooldowns. If they are all used as soon as they come up, they naturally align later in the fight. As soon as you start to delay CDs, you end up delaying further cooldown windows, or just failing to combine CDs at all.

When running Rider of the Apocalypse, bursting the Chains of Ice that your Trollbane rider applies to your enemy is really important. Make sure to track it and use Scourge Strike whenever it shows up. The rider will re-apply it once you remove it, enabling a lot more bursts if you actively track it!