Unholy Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — 12.0.5

This Rider of the Apocalypse build significantly resembles our best Single Target build, only swapping out Ghoulish Frenzy for Menacing Magus. The result is a versatile build that brings both really high Single Target as well as respectable AoE.

This San'layn build is a direct copy of our recommended Rider of the Apocalypse build, but running the Sanlayn Hero Talents. It unfortunately falls short in both Single Target and AoE but does provide a slightly different flair. Pact of the San'layn is about 0.3% ahead of Sanguine Scent so there is a potential option there.

This San'layn build focuses heavily on plague damage, routing into the Blightfall talent. Blightfall is a really fun talent which revolves around building up significant plague durations, and then consuming them for great burst damage. It generally falls behind the superior Rider builds but does provide a fun alternative gameplay loop.

Mind Freeze is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Blinding Sleet is your "AoE stop". You blind all targets in a cone in front of you, disorienting them for 5 seconds. Great way of stopping a big pack of mobs casting, especially if the cast is immune to standard interrupt.

Asphyxiate is your Single Target stun, lasting for 5 seconds. Not a very common pick in our talent loadouts, but it's still a useful crowd-control tool.

Death Grip can both be used to help group up mobs, as well as stop-casting them. Remember that you need to move the move a certain distance to actually interrupt it, just so you do not use Death Grip when the mob is already on top of you.

Death Grip is notably also a defensive ability. With Subduing Grasp, it provides damage reduction against any target you use it on. Useful when you are mitigating damage in boss fights or mini bosses.

Gnaw is your pet stun that stuns your target for 1 (2 during Dark Transformation) seconds. Off the GCD so a very useful quick stop.

Raise Ally is a combat-ress that you can use to bring a dead teammate back to life, even during combat!

Blinding Sleet, Chains of Ice and Death and Decay with Grip of the Dead all reduce the movement speed of enemies hit, allowing us to help any tank that wants to kite the mobs.

Control Undead allows you to control an undead enemy in Mythic+. This is only a crowd-control tool to be used in emergencies for Unholy. You lose your main pet and thus a significant amount of your damage by controlling an enemy Undead. Do it if you must to help your party from wiping.