Unholy Death Knight Legion: Remix Guide — The War Within (11.2.5)

Welcome to our Legion Remix Guide for Unholy Death Knight! Here we will cover everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Unholy Death Knight in the Patch 11.2.5 special feature, Legion: Remix.

This page is entirely dedicated to playing Unholy Death Knight in the new event. If you want to know more about Legion Remix in general, for example how it works and what rewards you can earn, you can check out our dedicated Legion Remix page!

Legion remix allows you to pick up an Artifact Weapon just like the old days. However, this time around all spec share the same artifact talent tree (used to be specific for each spec) which you put points in using the Infinite Power currency (used to be adding points as you leveled up). There are five different paths that you can take within the tree, each corresponding to a distinct active ability.

Choosing what active ability and consequently which talent path to use comes down both optimal throughput as well as personal preference. Given the limited time of the event and the nature of the content, picking the "coolest" talents is completely valid

For Solo Players: Arcane or Nature trees provide a good amount of defensives and healing, making it easier for you as a solo player to survive in all content. If you are all about the big pull and AoE-down playstyle, Storm or Fel will likely provide you with more DPS, just make sure you are ready with your defensive abilities, or team up with someone else that can aid you in surviving.

For Duo-ing: When you play with someone else, they can often help you surviving by providing healing or tanking some of the damage. We therefore recommend either Fel or Storm.

For Group Play: For 5-man dungeons, Storm is likely the best option due to its solid AoE potential with Tempest Wrath being a nice AoE ability on its own!

Here's a quick overview of each of the trees:

• Nature: This tree offers strong damage procs, while the active ability Call of the Forest shields you as well as dealing moderate AoE damage to targets in front of you. The passives in the tree provide good damage and survivability, and are particularly powerful when teaming up with other players.
• Fel: This is a purely damage-focused tree, allowing you to summon a Dreadlord with Twisted Crusade that will summon a Rain of Fire to deal damage in an area. With the capstone you can re-use this ability to sacrifice the Dreadlord and deal a massive amount of AoE burst around its location.
• Arcane: This tree mixes survivability and DPS, but only if you can stand still in combat (something we melee do not tend to do...). It's active ability, Naran's Everdisc, deals massive AoE damage to targets in front of you, and you can benefit from this up to 3 times if you catch the orb as it returns to you.
• Storm: A powerful choice for casters due to enabling casting while moving through its talents. Still useful for us Death Knights as the active ability deals a ton of AoE damage around us, great for those big AoE pulls.
• Holy: A more healing-oriented tree that is still useful for us, especially when playing solo. We are already great self-healers but this will help improve our self-sustain even further!

Below you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Unholy Death Knight in Legion Remix. The builds are different depending on the activities you choose as you level up, optimising different parts of your kit to synergise well with the given situations.

Please keep in mind that this Leveling section is specific to Legion Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Unholy Death Knight, you can head to the page below.

Since Legion Remix is the perfect opportunity to level classes you haven't played before, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible for those learning the spec. Simply use the slider to select your level to learn a little bit more about how and when to use the abilities you just unlocked.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is due to the differences in the recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.

1. Rune Strike is your main Rune Spending ability.
2. Army of the Dead should be used as much as possible, ideally on more difficult mobs, as the cooldown brings a lot of Single Target burst.
3. Legion of Souls should be used as much as possible to leverage its damage.
4. Unholy Assault to quickly set up wounds and make the use of Apocalypse nice and smooth.
5. Outbreak should be used to apply Virulent Plague to all targets.
6. Dark Transformation can be used off cooldown. However, you should also make sure you have it available for larger packs of mobs or more difficult packs.
7. Outbreak should be used to apply Virulent Plague to all targets. Only use it if Dark Transformation has not been used to apply your DoT already, or if the first application has run out.
8. Outbreak should be used to apply Virulent Plague to all targets. Only use it if Apocalypse has not been used to apply your DoT already, or if the first application has run out.
9. Use Apocalypse, ideally on a target with 4+ Festering Wounds but can be used on anything with more than one.
10. Death Coil to spend your Runic Power.
11. Death Coil to spend Runic Power at 1-2 targets.
12. Use Epidemic when there are 3+ targets.
13. Use Death and Decay to Scourge Strike cleave packs of 2+ mobs.
14. Use Scourge Strike when there is at least 1 Festering Wound on your target.
15. Use Scourge Strike when there is at least 1 Festering Wound on your target or to keep up your Plaguebringer buff.
16. Use Festering Strike when there are 0 Festering Wounds on your target and you are not currently cleaving with Death and Decay.