Unholy Death Knight DPS Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.0.5)

• #showtooltip Raise Ally
• /cast [@mouseover,help][@target]Raise Ally

This macro casts Raise Ally on your mouseover target, if they are a friendly player. Otherwise, it casts Raise Ally on your current target.

• #showtooltip Mind Freeze
• /cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Mind Freeze

This macro allows you to interrupt your focus target, if you have one, and if not to simply interrupt your current target.

These two macros help reduce the number of buttons you need to press in your opener (when running Summon Gargoyle)!

• #showtooltip Summon Gargoyle
• /cast Summon Gargoyle
• /cast Dark Transformation

Here is your second one for when you cast Unholy Assault! It is a good idea to add in a "/w PRIESTNAME PI me Please" here if you are getting PI.

• #showtooltip Unholy Assault
• /cast Unholy Assault
• /use 13

• #showtooltip Outbreak
• /cast [target=mouseover,exists] Outbreak; Outbreak

This macro will cast Outbreak on your mouseover target.

• /petdismiss [pet]

This macro allows you to dismiss your pet, which might be required for dungeons, especially if you also have All Will Serve talent.

• #showtooltip Death and Decay
• /cast [@cursor] Death and Decay

• #showtooltip Anti-magic Zone
• /cast [@cursor] Anti-magic Zone

These macros allow you to quickly plant your Death and Decay/ Defile or Anti-Magic Zone on your cursor.

Controlling your pet is a great way of optimizing your DPS and gameplay, here are some useful macros for that!

Move your pet to where you want.

• /petmoveto

Make it follow you so it does not get stuck somewhere!

• /petfollow

Resummoning the pet is sometimes the last resort to get it to you. This macro will dismiss your pet if you have it and raise it if you do not. Be careful to spam this as it can accidentally dismiss your pet twice, leaving you waiting for 30 seconds before you can summon it again.

• /script PetDismiss()
• /cast [nopet] Raise Dead

Controlling an Undead creature in dungeons is generally a major DPS downgrade for Unholy. However, it is sometimes needed for hard CC. The macro below automatically dismisses the controlled pet and then controls it straight afterward:

• #showtooltip Control Undead
• /target pet
• /script PetDismiss()
• /cast Control Undead

ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.

Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.

GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.

Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.

Recount is a well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS (Healing Per Second). This add-on is not really lightweight, and provides a very high amount of information (and it can sometimes cause issues with performance). It is generally a good option to use Recount for checking what you take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.

An alternative to Recount (similar in function, so the choice is personal preference) is Details!.

A lightweight alternative to Recount and Details! is Skada Damage Meter.

Omen Threat Meter is the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on your target. We recommend you to use it to avoid taking aggro when the tank is still building up threat on an enemy.

TellMeWhen is an extremely useful addon with a user-friendly interface that allows you to track a multitude of things, from internal cooldowns, to buffs, debuffs, and procs.

ElvUI comes with decent raid frames. The only real reason for using Grid and GridClickSets is if you want to be able to mouseover dead raid or party members to resurrect them with Raise Ally. If you choose to go with Grid, then you might also want to use GridStatusRaidDebuff.

Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.