Unholy Death Knight DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5

1. The Importance of "Simming Yourself" as a Unholy Death Knight

At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character, that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, Azerite traits, trinkets and combinations thereof in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

2. Azerite Gear for Unholy Death Knights

For information about what Azerite traits to choose and what the best items are, see our Azerite page.

3. Stats

With the changes in Battle for Azeroth your primary stat is going to be your best stat. Even though this is the case, a higher item level piece of gear does contain more secondary stats which usually makes it an upgrade. When you are looking for gear upgrades you will usually find them in a higher item level piece of gear.

4. Trinket Simulation for Unholy Death Knight

5. Recommended Battle for Dazar'alor Gear

6. What Gear Do I Farm/Bonus Roll/Chase After?

When identifying what gear you should be aiming after, we recommend using RaidBots' Droptimizer feature. It requires the SimulationCraft Addon. Once you have the addon installed, write "/simc" into the chat in-game, and copy-pasting the contents into the RaidBots Droptimizer.

Simply select the raid and difficulty you are interested in, and RaidBots will take a while to figure out where you should spend your bonus rolls, and more.

This does not include items that are found outside of the raid, so this may be altered based on items you have available from outside sources. Note that this also does not include trinkets as they are covered in the above chart:

Also note that this is not a guide on which bosses to bonus roll. Refer to the Droptimizer guide above to plan out your bonus rolls.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Helm of Tempered Jade	Jadefire Masters in Battle of Dazar'alor
Shoulder	Dyno-Sprocket Spaulders	High Tinker Mekkatorque in Battle of Dazar'alor
Cloak	Loa Exultant's Shroud	Conclave of the Chosen in Battle of Dazar'alor
Chest	Sea Swell Chestplate	Stormwall Blockade in Battle of Dazar'alor
Wrists	Splinter-Bone Vambraces	Grong in Battle of Dazar'alor
Gloves	Crusade Pummelers	Champion of the Light in Battle of Dazar'alor
Belt	Embersear Waistguard	Jadefire Masters in Battle of Dazar'alor
Legs	Arcing Thunderlizard Legplates	Conclave of the Chosen in Battle of Dazar'alor
Boots	Coinage Stampers	Opulence in Battle of Dazar'alor
Ring #1	Seal of the Zandalari Empire	King Rastakhan in Battle of Dazar'alor
Ring #2	Band of Multi-Sided Strikes	Jadefire Masters in Battle of Dazar'alor
Weapon	Dawnbreaker	Champion of the Light in Battle of Dazar'alor

7. Changelog