Unholy Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.0.7)
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Unholy Death Knight in World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.7).
Unholy Death Knight Mythic+ Guide for The War Within Season 1
In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Unholy Death Knight in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities most optimally.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.
To learn more about the Mythic+ Meta, check out our Mythic+ Tier List below.
Unholy Death Knight in The War Within Mythic+
Unholy Death Knight is a solid, versatile Mythic+ spec that does not need to sacrifice much Single Target to do optimal AoE. This means that we do solid damage to both bosses and trash. Furthermore, our Cooldowns come up every 45 seconds, allowing us to help out well on pretty much every pack.
Best Mythic+ Talents for Unholy Death Knight in The War Within
For a more general overview of Talents for Unholy Death Knight, please visit our dedicated Talents page.
Mythic+ Utility for Unholy Death Knight in The War Within Season 1
This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Death Knight Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.
Utility of Unholy Death Knight in The War Within
Interrupts, Stuns and Stops
Mind Freeze is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in
Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially
the tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.
- /stopcasting
- /stopcasting
- /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Mind Freeze
This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.
To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.
- /focus [@mouseover]
Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.
Stunning and "Stops"
Blinding Sleet is your "AoE stop". You blind all targets in a cone in front of you, disorienting them for 5 seconds.
Great way of stopping a big pack of mobs casting, especially if the cast is immune to standard interrupt.
Asphyxiate is your Single Target stun, lasting for 5 seconds. Not a
very common pick in our talent loadouts, but it's still a useful crowd-control tool.
Death Grip can both be used to help group up mobs, as well as
stop-casting them. Remember that you need to move the move a certain distance
to actually interrupt it, just so you do not use Death Grip when
the mob is already on top of you.
Other Utility
Raise Ally is a combat-ress that you can use to bring a dead teammate back
to life, even during combat!
Blinding Sleet, 
Chains of Ice, 
Remorseless Winter
and 
Death and Decay with 
Grip of the Dead all reduce the movement
speed of enemies hit, allowing us to help any tank that wants to kite the mobs.
Control Undead allows you to control an undead enemy in Mythic+. This is
only a crowd-control tool to be used in emergencies for Unholy. You lose your main
pet and thus a significant amount of your damage by controlling an enemy Undead.
Do it if you must to help your party from now wiping.
- #showtooltip Control Undead
- /target pet
- /script PetDismiss()
- /cast Control Undead
Affix Tips, Tricks and Management for Unholy Death Knight in The War Within Season 1
This guide mostly has Death-Knight-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.
How To Sim Mythic+ for Unholy Death Knight
MDT Sim
MDT Sim is the best way to sim Mythic+ for Unholy Death Knight. It allows you to sim an entire dungeon, pull-by-pull, with appropriate HP amounts and so on. In this way, you get a full picture within a single sim, of various target counts and durations. I have created a route that I feel is a good "average" of all dungeons that you can use. Drop the contents of the Pastebin into your Raidbots > SimC Expert Mode at the bottom > 'Footer'. Detailed instructions and more info on MDT Sim can be found on the MDT Sim Wago page.
On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Unholy Death Knight that also apply to Mythic+.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed and update for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 20 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 30 Jan. 2024: Updated the Wound M+ build.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 30 Apr. 2023: Reviewed and Updated for patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated talents for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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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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