Unholy Death Knight Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.2.5

One of the features of Shadowlands is the ability to craft Legendaries through Runecarving. Runecarving becomes available to you as you progress through Torghast. You gain Legendary Powers through different gameplay sources, and once you obtain them you can craft your own Legendary. Each of these Legendaries will boost the power of your character in a specific way, however you can only wear 1 Legendary item at a time. This guide will go over the best Legendary effects to help you make the choice a lot easier.

Focus	Legendary	Best Slot	Source	Stats
Raiding	Deadliest Coil	Back	Sire Denathrius (Castle Nathria)	Haste and Mastery
Mythic+	Frenzied Monstrosity	Legs	World Boss: Nurgash Muckformed	Critical Strike and Mastery
Torghast	Frenzied Monstrosity	Legs	Torghast (Layer 6+)	Critical Strike and Mastery

When choosing your Legendary for Raiding, you generally have two options: either Deadliest Coil or Frenzied Monstrosity depending on situation. Deadliest Coil is your go-to Legendary, both creating value from the increased duration of Dark Transformation as well as the lower cost of Death Coil. The low cost allows you to cast more, leveraging our Army of the Damned talent more. Frenzied Monstrosity becomes our pick whenever there is good cleave, or when we cannot leverage the extra cooldown reduction from Deadliest Coil. For instance, if we have lots of downtime, or if the boss dies so quickly we cannot get two Armies anyway.

We must also mention Death's Certainty. This Legendary is part of a viable build using Night Fae with Rampant Transference and Defile. Due to the very short effective cooldown of Defile, you can keep up your Death's Due Strength buff at max stacks indefinitely. This is 20% Strength, constantly. The main negative aspect of this build is that its throughput is comparable to other options, with its versatility being much lower. Any downtime or heavy movement will break your buff, losing value. We still feel like it is good enough to be discussed as an alternative though!

For Mythic+, we pick either Frenzied Monstrosity or Reanimated Shambler. Frenzied Monstrosity brings solid single-target and AoE, making it the versatile choice which fits all scenarios. Reanimated Shambler synergises heavily with the Infected Claws and Bursting Sores build, helping to build wounds for that big burst window. The choice depends on dungeon, group, and personal preference since you do sacrifice some single-target with Shambler.

Due to the Unity Legendary power introduced in Patch 9.2, Unholy Death Knight has the option of using one Legendary from its current Covenant.

• Kyrian — Final Sentence — This is mainly an AoE Legendary. It does provide some value in single-target, 4% for 15 seconds, but this is overall really weak. It does well in AoE but the lack of single target makes it an overall mediocre Legendary.
• Necrolord — Abomination's Frenzy — One of the best Legendaries available to use. 20% damage increase every 2 minutes feeds well into our burst with Army of the Dead whenever we can combine these cooldowns. The extra duration is also nice, especially when you combine it with the Brutal Grasp Conduit. Abomination Limb really becomes a powerful cooldown! This Legendary is a large reason why we recommend you to run Necrolord for Raiding in Patch 9.2.
• Night Fae — Rampant Transference — This is a great Legendary for any AoE. The Strength buff stacks up to 20% very quickly, requiring only 1 Scourge Strike/ Clawing Shadows at 4 targets! This Legendary is a major reason why Night Fae is the recommended Mythic+ Covenant in 9.2.
• Venthyr — Insatiable Hunger — Mainly an AoE Segendary, this makes our Swarming Mist windows even more potent. Unfortunately, it only really shines in AoE, making it a mediocre Legendary overall.