Unholy Death Knight Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Dragonflight 10.2.5

One of the features of Dragonflight Pre-Patch is the ability to craft Legendaries through Runecarving. Runecarving becomes available to you as you progress through Torghast. You gain Legendary Powers through different gameplay sources, and once you obtain them you can craft your own Legendary. Each of these Legendaries will boost the power of your character in a specific way, however you can only wear 1 Legendary item at a time. This guide will go over the best Legendary effects to help you make the choice a lot easier.

Focus	Legendary	Best Slot	Source	Stats
Raiding	Frenzied Monstrosity	Cloak	World Boss: Nurgash Muckformed	Haste and Mastery
Mythic+	Reanimated Shambler	Waist	Torghast	Critical Strike and Mastery
Torghast	Frenzied Monstrosity	Legs	Torghast (Layer 6+)	Haste and Mastery

When choosing your Legendary for Raiding, you generally have two options: either Deadliest Coil or Frenzied Monstrosity. Frenzied Monstrosity is generally the best option that works well in any situation. Deadliest Coil is a good option if you want to lean fully into the Death Coil spam. In the Dragonflight Pre-Patch, Death Coil only costs 30 Runic Power by default, being lowered to 20 with the legendary. This allows for an absurd amount of Death Coils to be used throughout a fight. Furthermore, they still count as 30 Runic Power cost for Summon Gargoyle buffing! It is a fun alternative that will also be powerful. Please note, you must deselect the Eternal Agony talent in the spec tree for the legendary to actually work!

We must also mention Death's Certainty. This Legendary is part of the Disease Build using Night Fae with Rampant Transference and Defile. Due to the very short effective cooldown of Defile, you can keep up your Death's Due Strength buff at max stacks indefinitely. This is 20% Strength, constantly. I would 100% recommend trying it out since it feels completely different to normal Unholy and is a ton of fun!

For Mythic+, we pick either Frenzied Monstrosity or Reanimated Shambler. Frenzied Monstrosity brings solid single-target and AoE, making it the versatile choice which fits all scenarios. Reanimated Shambler synergises heavily with the Infected Claws and Bursting Sores build, helping to build wounds for that big burst window. The choice depends on dungeon, group, and personal preference since you do sacrifice some single-target with Shambler.

You can also choose to run Death's Certainty here as well with the Disease Build, providing a ton of damage from Defile, your DoTs, and Death Coil!

Due to the Unity Legendary power introduced in Patch 9.2, Unholy Death Knight has the option of using one Legendary from its current Covenant.

• Kyrian — Final Sentence — This is mainly an AoE Legendary. It does provide some value in single-target, 4% for 15 seconds, but this is overall really weak. It does well in AoE but the lack of single target makes it an overall mediocre Legendary.
• Necrolord — Abomination's Frenzy — One of the best Legendaries available to use. 20% damage increase every 2 minutes feeds well into our burst with Army of the Dead whenever we can combine these cooldowns. The extra duration is also nice, especially when you combine it with the Brutal Grasp Conduit. Abomination Limb really becomes a powerful cooldown! This Legendary is a large reason why we recommend you to run Necrolord for Raiding in Patch 9.2.
• Night Fae — Rampant Transference — This is a great Legendary for any AoE. The Strength buff stacks up to 20% very quickly, requiring only 1 Scourge Strike/ Clawing Shadows at 4 targets! This Legendary is a major reason why Night Fae is the recommended Mythic+ Covenant in 9.2.
• Venthyr — Insatiable Hunger — Mainly an AoE Segendary, this makes our Swarming Mist windows even more potent. Unfortunately, it only really shines in AoE, making it a mediocre Legendary overall.