Unholy Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.0)

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Unholy Death Knight in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities most optimally.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

To learn more about the Mythic+ Meta, check out our Mythic+ Tier List below.

Unholy Death Knight is a solid, versatile Mythic+ spec that excels in big AoE scenarios. Furthermore, our damage is highly predictable and our Cooldowns are short, allowing us to output good DPS on pretty much all packs during the dungeon. Finally, we are very tanky which helps us survive mechanics in higher keys.

For a more general overview of Talents for Unholy Death Knight, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

We have plenty of choices to make when we select talents for Mythic+. There is such a large variety when it comes to both what Hero Talents we want to run, but also how we build our spec tree to optimise our damage for a specific dungeon. As a general rule however, we have a generic Rider build which does good AoE damage that does not take too long to setup. This works well in lower keys or keys with big AoE. Furthermore, we have a San'Layn build which excells in cleave damage (and does a bit more Single Target than rider). However, it takes a lot longer to get going and therefore does not work as well in lower keys.

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Death Knight Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

This guide mostly has Death-Knight-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

MDT Sim is the best way to sim Mythic+ for Unholy Death Knight. It allows you to sim an entire dungeon, pull-by-pull, with appropriate HP amounts and so on. In this way, you get a full picture within a single sim, of various target counts and durations. I have created a route that I feel is a good "average" of all dungeons that you can use. Drop the contents of the Pastebin into your Raidbots > SimC Expert Mode at the bottom > 'Footer'. Detailed instructions and more info on MDT Sim can be found on the MDT Sim Wago page.

On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Unholy Death Knight that also apply to Mythic+.