Unholy Death Knight DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.5)

Last updated on Apr 21, 2025 at 19:35 by Bicepspump 73 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Unholy Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.5).

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Introduction

Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.

On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Unholy Death Knights and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.

All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.

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Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Unholy Death Knight

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Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Unholy Death Knight

Vexie Fullthrottle Cauldron of Carnage Rik Reverb Stix Bunkjunker Sprocketmonger Lockenstock One-Armed Bandit Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
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Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Unholy Death Knight

2.1.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell before running through Oil Slick Icon Oil Slick to completely ignore the damage.
2.2.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Death and Decay Icon Death and Decay to increase your cleave when the adds spawn. You can pre-use it where you see that the bike adds will crash to cleave more efficiently.
  • The boss takes 100% increased damage in the intermission, make sure that you have all your cooldowns available for this part. Your raid will generally reach this point at the 1.5min mark, making everything align nicely if you use all CDs on pull. If it is later, hold your Cooldowns for it!
  • For secondary burst windows, hold your 1.5 minute cooldowns to allow for full overlap!
2.3.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death Grip Icon Death Grip and Abomination Limb Icon Abomination Limb to help group up the adds in the intermission.
2.4.

Best Talents

We recommend San'layn talents here due to the low target cleave. You can opt for a Rider of the Apocalypse build with Menacing Magus Icon Menacing Magus as well if you prefer that playstyle.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Unholy Death Knight

2.5.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone during Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash to help mitigate the damage dealt to the raid.
  • You can use Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by Static Charge Icon Static Charge.
2.6.

Cooldown Usage

  • Even if you gain good two-target cleave during Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash, it is better to just send your cooldowns as they come up.
2.7.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Chains of Ice Icon Chains of Ice and Blinding Sleet Icon Blinding Sleet to help control the Voltaic Image Icon Voltaic Image adds.
  • You can run to the edge, use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell and then grip one of the adds to trigger it out of the way for everyone.
2.8.

Best Talents

Due to the stacked 2-target cleave during the Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash, we recommend San'layn for its high Death Coil Icon Death Coil cleave damage.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Rik Reverb for Unholy Death Knight

2.9.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone during the intermission to help mitigate the raid damage.
2.10.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Death and Decay Icon Death and Decay to help cleave on Pyrotechnics adds. Try and use it just before they spawn, so that you do not waste a GCD once they are up.
2.11.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Lichborne Icon Lichborne to break the charm from Resonant Echoes Icon Resonant Echoes.
2.12.

Best Talents

Rik spawns spread add that need to be cleaved down. This favours San'Layn for its solid cleave.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Unholy Death Knight

2.13.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone if one of the bombs explode.
2.14.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on Cooldown.
  • Make sure to use Death and Decay Icon Death and Decay to cleave on the adds that spawn.
2.15.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death Grip Icon Death Grip and Abomination Limb Icon Abomination Limb to help group up the adds that spawn. Remember that only certain adds can be gripped!
2.16.

Best Talents

A fight with a great deal of cleave and AoE which favours San'layn! On Mythic you can opt for a more AoE-focused Mythic+ build.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Unholy Death Knight

2.17.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone either during Bleeding Edge Icon Bleeding Edge or for one of the tank explosions.
2.18.

Cooldown Usage

  • On mythic, delay your cooldown set at the 3 minute mark until after your raid has moved to a new position.
2.19.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death's Advance Icon Death's Advance to immune the conveyor belt push effect in the intermission.
  • Position yourself to get knocked to the location that the boss jumps to for the relevant knockbacks.
2.20.

Best Talents

A pure Single Target fight with relatively large amount of movement. You can opt for either the Commander of the Dead Icon Commander of the Dead version of San'layn or the standard Superstrain Icon Superstrain version of the build here.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Unholy Death Knight

2.21.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell before running through the electric AoE on the ground to completely avoid taking damage. This is useful if the tank leaves the electricity on the spot where the boss jumps to!
2.22.

Cooldown Usage

  • Make sure that you time your cooldowns with Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust in the final phase, potentially holding them when relevant.
2.23.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by the Coin. This is great since it means that you can aim for the High Roller! Icon High Roller! buff more aggressively.
2.24.

Best Talents

The fight has sections with 2-target cleave, making the Death Coil Icon Death Coil from San'layn very valuable. We therefore recommend it for this fight. On Mythic you can opt for a more AoE-focused Mythic+ build.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Mug'Zee for Unholy Death Knight

2.25.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell to immune the DoT from blowing up bombs.
2.26.

Cooldown Usage

  • Generally use on Cooldown but make sure you have your 1.5min CDs ready for the Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust in the final phase. Adapt to your raids kill speed and potentially hold your Cooldowns to align with Bloodlust.
2.27.

Mechanical Tips

  • You cannot cleave to the Goons that spawn when they are in their stone prisons. However, when the prisons are broken, you can cleave again.
2.28.

Best Talents

The fight has parts with cleave which favours San'layn.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Unholy Death Knight

2.29.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell for the fall-off AoE in the final phase.
2.30.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use your Cooldowns as much as possible.
2.31.

Mechanical Tips

  • When the adds spawn, always make sure to cleave off one of them to the boss. With how hitboxes work, your Scourge Strike Icon Scourge Strike will not hit the adds if your primary target is the boss. However, if you target an add it will hit everything!
2.32.

Best Talents

A fight with a lot of add cleave which favours San'layn!

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

2.33.

General Offensive Cooldown Usage

Unholy Death Knight has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:

  • Dark Transformation Icon Dark Transformation + Apocalypse Icon Apocalypse - Our 45 seconds cooldowns.
  • Unholy Assault Icon Unholy Assault + Raise Abomination Icon Raise Abomination - Our 1.5 minute cooldowns.

Make sure to use your cooldowns on cooldown as much as possible unless certain adds or DPS phases allow you to get more value out of them. This is typically something you will want to discuss with your Raidleader or the rest of the raid in static groups, while PUGs are more freeform than that. You will use your CDs as soon as they come up in the majority of cases.

2.34.

General Defensive Cooldown Usage

Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell, Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude and Lichborne Icon Lichborne are your main personal defensive spells. Use these when you are targeted by mechanics, or when the raid is taking damage to help mitigate it. Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone is our raid defensive cooldown that you should coordinate with your group for when to use it. Finally, Death Grip Icon Death Grip can be used as a defensive since the boss takes less damage when you grip it through Subduing Grasp Icon Subduing Grasp.

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Changelog

  • 21 Apr. 2025: Added some more tips.
  • 16 Mar. 2025: Updated tips and talent builds.
  • 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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