Unholy Death Knight DPS Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

In this section you will find information pertaining to each boss individually in the Battle of Dazar'alor raid. It is recommended you follow the standard talent build found in the Builds, Talents, and Glyphs section of the guide unless otherwise advised, on a per boss basis. As each boss is hardest on its Mythic difficulty mode, we will first explain the strategy for Mythic, followed by a short explanation on what changes in this strategy, if anything, for Heroic.

For DPS on the add that you are required to switch to, you can use cooldowns such as Apocalypse and Unholy Frenzy if they line up well. You can also use a Outbreak on the adds to apply Virulent Plague, as it will occasionally generate Runic Power.

Note: This boss is the second boss for Horde players, and the third boss for Alliance players. For the second Alliance boss (Jadefire Masters), see further below.

The Apetagonizer 3000 does not line up well with any of Unholy Death Knight's cooldown so if your raid needs the damage you can choose to hold cooldowns for the adds. However, that is not very efficient and will lead to less of those cooldowns in the fight.

Depending on your strategy, you should be attacking the boss that needs the most damage which will usually be Grimfang/Mestrah unless Firecaller/Flamefist has Fire Shield up, in which case you would work to pop the shield.

While killing the constructs, make sure that you dodge the frontal cone when the construct telegraphs a ground smash. If your raid is struggling to kill the Spirits of Gold then you can run a heavier AoE build with Bursting Sores. Grip of the Dead is a very strong slow and will be effective for the Spirits of Gold as you will be using Death and Decay when the adds come out anyway.

AoE on this fight is fairly pointless, however Virulent Plague does have a chance to generate Runic Power, so we recommend you apply Virulent Plague when you can. Asphyxiate is a useful talent to stun the Raptors that come out occasionally.

It may be worth using Wraith Walk to spread in case you get Plague of Fire. In Phase 1 you should still use Outbreak on King Rastakhan as any damage applied to him in this phase is redirected to the adds that you are focusing.

Make sure you back away from Mekkatorque when he casts Blast Off to prevent taking damage. If you are targeted with a bomb, you can use Anti-Magic Shell to prevent the application of the debuff when the bomb goes off.

Grip of the Dead can be used to help slow the Energized Storms at the discretion of your raid. On Mythic difficulty the Ire of the Deep has a knockback that is preventable with Death's Advance, however Death's Advance is only available for every other Ire of the Deep.

You can use Anti-Magic Shell to prevent the application of Jaina's DoT. This can be life saving in some circumstances.

In Mythic difficulty you should use Army of the Dead on pull in order to get a second cast during the execute phase of Jaina.