Unholy Death Knight Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.1

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.

Four new Legendaries arrived in Patch 9.1, one for each Covenant. None of these are competitive in any form of PVE content. We do not recommend crafting any of them.

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
Generic Legendary	Frenzied Monstrosity	Legs	World Boss: Nurgash Muckformed	Critical Strike and Mastery

Generally as an Unholy Death Knight, you will either run Deadliest Coil or Frenzied Monstrosity. No other Legendary really comes close to performing as well in the situations where you would choose any of these.

Deadliest Coil is your go-to single-target Legendary. It brings superiour single-target by both extending your Dark Transformation as well as lowering the cost of Death Coil. This means that all your cooldown reduction abilities also work better. Dark Transformation is more easily aligned with Unholy Blight, Apocalypse is also more easily aligned with Unholy Blight, and Army of the Dead comes off cooldown more quickly. Whenever there are situations which break this cooldown reduction utility, Deadliest Coil loses value. This can be because the fight is shorter, not allowing for a second Army. You also have instances of fights requiring you to hold your cooldowns, again dropping the cooldown reduction value.

Frenzied Monstrosity comes into play whenever there is cleave. It is your Mythic+ Legendary with its great single-target as well as good cleave. It can also replace Deadliest Coil in situations where you cannot leverage the value of Deadliest Coil. You will generally see people running this Legendary more frequently as the tier progresses. It can bring superiour overall throughput with slightly less priority damage. As players re-kill bosses, getting better ranks leads to the pickup of a slightly more pad-oriented Legendary.