Unholy Death Knight DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

This section covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Unholy Death Knight, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

If you do not want to bother with simulations, simply go for Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your epic gem and then Flawless Deadly Amethyst or Flawless Masterful Garnet as your non-epic gems. This is also the most likely to be your best setup anyway.

Midnight has two effects that synergise equipping multiple different gem colours: Powerful Eversong Diamond (Epic Gem) as well as Signet of Azerothian Blessings and Loa Worshiper's Band (Jewelcrafting). Whether or not it is worth to maximise the gem colours depend on your exact gear and stats. The number of available sockets and the number of rings that benefit from the effect can flip the decision. Furthermore, with the Loa ring, you control the effect it provides with the gem colours you have equipped, and therefore might to stack a specific colour to only get a specific summon. It is a simulation question at the end of the day but will generally not have a huge impact on your DPS. If you do go for max mixed-colour value, pick the following gems:

• Flawless Masterful Garnet
• Flawless Masterful Peridot
• Flawless Deadly Amethyst
• Flawless Masterful Lapis

Midnight has five different ring enchants that you can choose from. In general, we pick Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery due to the high Mastery value. Both Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle and Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury are options however and you should simulate yourself to be sure.

You can consume a number of different temporary items to increase your power in Dungeons and Raids. Below is a comprehensive overview of everything you want to use!

You generally want to use either Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of the Magisters in all content. The choice depends on your current stats and is unfortunately not an obvious one. If you have lots of Mastery and not much Crit, Shattered Sun is likely best. If you have lots of Crit and not much Mastery, Magisters is better. You need to simulate yourself to get the most accurate result that fits your character, but the above guidelines will serve you well in 99% of cases.

There are three options for potion that we can use. We recommend Light's Potential as your go-to potion. Draught of Rampant Abandon can sometimes sim highest but has a negative drawback where it drops a void zone under your feet and silences you.

Potion of Recklessness can sometimes sim a bit higher as well, but this depends on a variety of different factors. The biggest of them being that you want the Recklessness potion to proc Mastery, unless you are using Algeth'ar Puzzle Box, where you'd want the potion to grant Crit instead. There are a few other considerations as well, i.e. whether you already have a lot of Mastery by default, at which point the potion buff would be heavily affected by stat diminishing returns. In essence, run Light's Potential, but if you want to minmax, simulate your character to see if Recklessness is ever-so-slightly better.

You should also make sure to keep up a stock of Silvermoon Health Potion! These healing potions are great for when you need to quickly heal yourself, helping your healers and ensuring that you stay alive.

You can either pick up main stat food or secondary stat food in Midnight. For Unholy Death Knights, main stat is the best option. This means that you either want to eat a feast such as Harandar Celebration or Silvermoon Parade. If your party or raid team does not supply a feast, you can eat Impossibly Royal Roast or Royal Roast as an alternative.

• Rune of the Fallen Crusader: Nice strength and heal that falls a couple % short of Rune of the Apocalypse.
• Rune of Razorice: This Runeforge has more of a place with Frost Death Knights since Unholy does no frost damage.
• Rune of Sanguination: Provides a small execute effect for Death Strike and a small cheat death mechanic. This Runeforge has more of a place in PvP as opposed to PvE content.
• Rune of Spellwarding: Provides small defense towards casters, making it more geared towards PvP situations.
• Rune of the Apocalypse: Strong synergy with all Lesser Ghouls that you summon and best Runeforge in all content.
• Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle: This Runeforge is primarily a defensive option that does not see play for Unholy.
• Rune of Unending Thirst: Sometimes used for leveling since it provides movement speed, Haste, and heals when you kill an enemy.