Unholy Death Knight DPS Sanctum of Domination Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Unholy Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Sanctum of Domination. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.
Introduction
During the Dragonflight Pre-Patch, Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and Sepulcher of the First Ones will be simultaneously featured as Fated Raids. During this time encounters within each specific raid will include an additional mechanic and items will drop at increased item levels. If you would like to learn more general information about the Fated Raids system as a whole, please see our overview below. Otherwise, continue to use this page for specialization-specific tips.
On this page, you will find Unholy Death Knight-specific information to deal with each boss in the Sanctum of Domination raid.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Unholy Death Knights and what you can do to deal with each fight as best as possible.
Talents
We recommend the following talent setup for all bosses, and you can import it easily with the following string:
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Tips
- In order to engage this encounter you will need to kill the Infused Goliaths. When defeated they will drop an Anima Orb with 3 choices of powers. Once you have defeated all 4 Infused Goliaths the boss will spawn.
- When it comes to your choices, there is generally always a clear-cut option. Do not pick anything that can potentially have a negative impact on your group. Otherwise, just pick up the DPS power that can be chosen.
- You can soak
Chains of Eternity with
Icebound Fortitude.
- Heroic: You can soak
Remnant: Soulforge Heat with
Anti-Magic Shell and not receive any debuffs.
- Mythic:
Anti-Magic Shell will no longer prevent debuffs from
Remnant: Soulforge Heat.
For more information, please refer to our The Tarragrue guide.
The Eye of the Jailer
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against The Eye of the Jailer.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Recommended Covenant: Necrolord
Tips
Death's Advance can be used to avoid the pulling effect from
Dragging Chains.
- You can use
Death's Advance +
Anti-Magic Shell to run through the
Annihilating Glare.
For more information, please refer to our The Eye of the Jailer guide.
The Nine
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against The Nine.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Recommended Covenant: Necrolord
Tips
- You can grip Formless Mass adds, use
Death Grip to do so.
Death's Advance can be used to help with the pull/push effects of the encounter.
For more information, please refer to our The Nine guide.
Remnant of Ner'zhul
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Remnant of Ner'zhul.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Recommended Covenant: Necrolord
Tips
- You can use
Death's Advance to dodge the huge knockback. Ideally you should use it for the second cast on Heroic.
For more information, please refer to our Remnant of Ner'zhul guide.
Soulrender Dormazain
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Soulrender Dormazain.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Tips
- Mawsworn Agonizers can be gripped. Use
Death Grip and
Abomination Limb to help group them up.
For more information, please refer to our Soulrender Dormazain guide.
Painsmith Raznal
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Painsmith Raznal.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Tips
- The
Flameclasp Traps leave a stacking debuff when they blow up. Your raid should stagger them but
Anti-Magic Shell is still useful to prevent the debuff stacking on yourself.
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone when the tank runs out with the debuff or when your raid is triggering the
Flameclasp Traps.
- Make sure to align your
Abomination Limb for the adds that spawn after the intermission (Mythic).
For more information, please refer to our Painsmith Raznal guide.
Guardian of the First Ones
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Guardian of the First Ones.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone for when your raid stacks up to tank the
Purging Protocol.
- Another possible usage of Anti-Magic Zone is when the Energy Cores explode, dealing magic damage to everyone in the raid.
For more information, please refer to our Guardian of the First Ones guide.
Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Fatescribe Roh-Kalo.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Tips
- You can pre-immune the application of
Twist Fate with
Anti-Magic Shell. The application is random so there is only a chance that you can make it work.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell to run across beams in the intermission phase. This is particularly important if you are running the central rune!
For more information, please refer to our Fatescribe Roh-Kalo guide.
Kel'Thuzad
We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Kel'Thuzad.
Deadliest Coil
Frenzied Monstrosity
Tips
Anti-Magic Shell can avoid the root when soaking
Frost Blast.
Wraith Walk can be used to remove the root if you do not use Anti-Magic Shell.
- Both
Shadow Fissure and
Foul Winds can be dodged by using
Death's Advance.
For more information, please refer to our Kel'Thuzad guide.
Sylvanas Windrunner
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Sylvanas Windrunner: Deadliest Coil.
Tips
Shadow Dagger can be dodged by pre-using
Anti-Magic Shell. The application is random so there is only a chance you will dodge it.
- You can use
Death's Advance to avoid the pulling effect of
Domination Chains.
Banshee's Bane applies stacks that can be avoid by using
Anti-Magic Shell.
- Don't pick
Soul Reaper on this fight, it is essentially worthless.
For more information, please refer to our Sylvanas Windrunner guide.
Changelog
- 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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