Unholy Death Knight DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Unholy Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Unholy Death Knights and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Unholy Death Knight
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Unholy Death Knight
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- You can use
Anti-Magic Shell before running through 
Oil Slick to
completely ignore the damage.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Death and Decay to increase your cleave when the adds spawn. - The boss takes 100% increased damage in the intermission, make sure that you have all your cooldowns available for this part.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death Grip and 
Abomination Limb to help group up
the adds in the intermission.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
We recommend 
San'layn talents here due to the low target
cleave.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone during 
Colossal Clash to help mitigate the
damage dealt to the raid.
Cooldown Usage
- Ensure that you have
Dark Transformation available for each
Colossal Clash to leverage our 
Death Coil cleave
to the max.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Chains of Ice, Death Grip and 
Blinding Sleet
to help control the 
Voltaic Image adds.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
Due to the stacked 2-target cleave during the 
Colossal Clash, we recommend
San'layn.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use Anti-Magic Zone during the intermission to help mitigate the raid damage.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Death and Decay to help cleave on Pyrotechnics adds.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use
Lichborne to break the charm from 
Resonant Echoes.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
Rik spawns spread add that need to be cleaved down. This favours San'Layn which is why we recommend it.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use Anti-Magic Zone if one of the bombs explode.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on Cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
A pure Single Target fight with periods of forced downtime (when you are running with the ball). This
has a negative impact on San'layn which drops the 
Essence of the Blood Queen buff.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use Anti-Magic Zone either during
Bleeding Edge or for one of the tank explosions.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on Cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death's Advance to immune the conveyor belt push effect.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
A pure Single Target fight with relatively large amount of movement. This favours 
Rider of the Apocalypse
which is more flexible when it comes to downtime.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
Cooldown Usage
- Use on Cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use
Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by the Coin. This is great
since it means that you can aim for the 
High Roller! buff more aggressively.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
The fight has sections with 2-target cleave, making the 
Death Coil from San'layn
very valuable. We therefore recommend it for this fight.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
Cooldown Usage
- Use on Cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- You cannot cleave to the Goons that spawn when they are in their stone prisons. However, when the prisons are broken, you can cleave again.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
The fight has parts with cleave which favours San'layn.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Unholy Death Knight
This boss was not testable on the TWW Alpha/Beta servers. Information will be forthcoming once it is available on Live servers.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Offensive Cooldown Usage
Unholy Death Knight has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:
- Dark Transformation +
Apocalypse - Our 45 seconds cooldowns. 
Unholy Assault + 
Raise Abomination - Our 1.5 minute cooldowns.
Make sure to use your cooldowns on cooldown as much as possible unless certain adds or DPS phases allow you to get more value out of them. This is typically something you will want to discuss with your Raidleader or the rest of the raid in static groups, while PUGs are more freeform than that. You will use your CDs as soon as they come up in the majority of cases.
General Defensive Cooldown Usage
Anti-Magic Shell, 
Icebound Fortitude and 
Lichborne
are your main personal defensive spells. Use these when you are targeted by
mechanics, or when the raid is taking damage to help mitigate it. 
Anti-Magic Zone
is our raid defensive cooldown that you should coordinate with your group for when to use it.
Finally, 
Death Grip can be used as a defensive since the boss takes less damage
when you grip it through 
Subduing Grasp.
Changelog
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player raiding with Pescorus on Kazzak. He is heavily involved in the DK DPS theorycrafting community, testing hyoptheses and investigating the correct priority to use. He produces guide content on YouTube and frequently streams on Twitch.
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