Unholy Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.5)

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.

• /stopcasting
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Mind Freeze

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.

• /focus [@mouseover]

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 6% DR 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 Defile 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 now wiping.

• #showtooltip Control Undead
• /target pet
• /script PetDismiss()
• /cast Control Undead

• Big M.O.M.M.A
  • Use Death's Advance and stand inside the boss when you get targeted by Sonic Boom.
  • Generally use Epidemic when the adds are up. Swap to Death Coil when they end up spread, or some of them have died off, or you need to priority target one of them.
• Demolition Duo
  • Follow Keeza Quickfuse as she jumps around and swap back to Bront when he stacks up.
  • Leverage Defile when the bosses are stacked.
  • Use Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by Bront's charge.
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell if you get targeted by Kinetic Explosive Gel to help mitigate the damage.
• Swampface
  • Use Anti-Magic Zone during Awaken the Swamp to help mitigate the damage. Also cycle personal defensives with Anti-Magic Shell, Icebound Fortitude, Lichborne and Death Grip to survive.
• Geezle Gigazap
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell if you are targeted with Gigazap to help mitigate the damage and immune the DoT that otherwise follows.
  • Use Anti-Magic Zone during Turbo Charge to help mitigate the damage.

• Use Death Grip to group up the Darkfuse Demolitionists. They can easily get left outside of the pack since they simply cast continuously.
• Use Anti-Magic Shell when Bubbles casts Backwash to immune the application of the DoT. Use Anti-Magic Zone to help your team survive the damage.
• Use Anti-Magic Zone during the Warp Blood cast from the Darkfuse Bloodwarper.

• An affront of challengers
  • Use Defile as much as possible to cleave during the encounter.
  • Use Death Coil throughout the encounter. Try and tab through the bosses to maintain Death Rot stacks.
  • Anti-Magic Shell can be used both to safely traverse the Noxious Spores on the ground, or to help mitigate the damage from the Searing Death debuff.
• Xav the Unfallen
  • Save Death's Advance for Brutal Combo to dodge the AoEs.
  • Use Defile and Outbreak when Oppressive Banner spawns to cleave efficiently.
  • Do not use your cooldowns just before Blood and Glory to avoid wasting them on your teammate...
• Kul'tharok
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when you get targeted by Well of Darkness to help mitigate the damage.
  • Use Defile on the adds from Draw Soul to help cleave them down quickly. Use Death Grip and Abomination Limb to help group them up if they spawn spread out.
• Gorechop
  • Use Defile as much as possible to cleave on the adds that spawn.
  • Use Icebound Fortitude and Lichborne if you get hooked by Meat Hooks to help mitigate the damage.
• Mordretha, the Endless Empress
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell to help mitigate the damage from Manifest Death. Also use Defile to cleave the adds and Death Grip/ Abomination Limb to group them up.
  • Use Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from Echoes of Carnage as the boss reaches 50%, it deals heavy magic AoE damage to the party.
  • Use Death's Advance to immune to pulling effect from Grasping Rift.

• Use Death Grip to grip in and interrupt Blighted Sludge-Spewer when they cast Withering Discharge. They frequently jump around which can make them difficult to interrupt.

• Kyrioss
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell to help mitigate the damage from Crashing Thunder.
• Stormguard Gorren
  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell to complete negate the Chaotic Corruption mechanic. Use AMS and then stand close to the person with the debuff. When it jumps to you, you immune the application and remove the mechanic, very useful! You can do this on every other cast. It also works if you are the first target, simple transfer to someone else and then immune it when it jumps back to you.
  • Use Death's Advance to immune the pulling effect from Dark Gravity.
• Voidstone Monstrosity
  • Use your Dark Transformation on pull but save your Unholy Assault for the first Void Shell break when the boss takes increased damage. It usually takes 45 seconds (depending on difficulty) and you want to put as much damage into the boss as possible during this phase.

• Use Death's Advance to negate the pulling effect from Attracting Shadows cast by Coalescing Void Diffuser.

• Coin-Operated Crowd Pummeler
  • Save your first set of cooldowns until the first Footbomb Launcher set. This will align your 45 second CDs with every damage amp phase!
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell for Static Pulse. You mitigate the raw damage and immune the DoT that would otherwise apply after the damage. You can also use Death's Advance to avoid the knockback.
• Azerokk
  • Make sure to leverage Defile as much as possible to cleave on the adds. Also use Death Grip to keep them stacked.
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell for Resonant Quake to mitigate the damage.
• Rixxa Fluxflame
  • Use Death's Advance when you are targeted by Propellant Blast to immune the knockback.
  • Be careful when using Anti-Magic Shell, it will immune Propellant Blast which is not something you want to do. You can pre-use it for Azerite Catalyst to immune it.
• Mogul Razdunk
  • DoT up both the adds in the intermission when they spawn.

• You can use Icebound Fortitude if you get targeted by Iced Spritzer to get out of the stun.
• You can use Death Grip to help control Crawler Mines in the area before the final boss. Help out your teammates and create more efficient cleave!

• Captain Dailcry
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when the boss casts Holy Radiance to mitigate the damage and generate Runic Power. Also use Anti-Magic Zone for this.
• Baron Braunpyke
  • We are really good at soaking up the Sacrificial Pyre since we immune the DoT with Anti-Magic Shell. However, it still soaks up a part of the shield so we can only soak a limited amount! The number of stacks you can trigger depends on the level of the key and your defensives. On a +16, you can soak 5 as long as you Icebound Fortitude up. Keep an eye out on when you receive the DoT and stop soaking at that point. Furthermore, wait with using Anti-Magic Shell until after Castigator's Shield to avoid it soaking up your shield.
• Prioress Murrpray
  • Anti-Magic Shell completely immunes Blinding Light, no need to turn away even.
  • Use Defile with Grasp of the Dead to help slow and control the adds that spawn at the start of phase 2.

• No specific DK tips here.

• Tussle Tonks
  • Leverage Defile as much as possible here to cleave.
  • Make sure to swap away from Platinum Pummeler when it casts Platinum Plating. Swap back when the tank stuns it with one of the hammers.
• K.U.-J.0.
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when targeted by Explosive Leap to help mitigate the damage.
• Machinist's Garden
  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell and walk over the Hidden Flame Cannon beam without taking any damage. This is very useful if you end up out of position when the ability shows up!
• King Mechagon
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when targeted by Mega-Zap. This mitigates the damage and immunes the DoT that otherwise follows.
  • Use Death's Advance to mitigate the pull effect from Magneto-Arm. Also use Anti-Magic Zone to help your group mitigate the damage.

• You can use Anti-Magic Shell to immune the healing absorb from Corrosive Gunk cast by the Metal Gunk mobs.
• Use Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from the following abilities:
  • Mega Drill cast by Waste Processing Unit.
  • Fiery Jaws cast by Junkyard D.0.G. Use Anti-Magic Shell can also immune the DoT if you have it on before the mob jumps on you.
  • Short Out cast by Defense Bot Mk III.
  • High Explosive Rockets cast by Spider Tank.

• Ol'Waxbeard
  • Use Blinding Sleet and Defile with Grip of the Dead to help control the adds during Luring Candleflame, it makes it a lot easier to kite them!
  • Use Defile and Epidemic when the adds are stacked on the boss. Swap to Death Coil to help priority kill the Underhanded Track-tics add.
• Blazikon
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell and Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from Dousing Breath.
• The Candle King
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell and Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from Eerie Molds. Try and coordinate with your healer to not overlap defensive party cooldowns.
• The Darkness
  • Use Lichborne to break the fear if the boss casts its fear (if the candle heat is depleted).
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when targeted by Shadowblast.

• Use Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from Quenching Blast cast by Wandering Candle.

• Brew Master Aldyr
  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell to immune the application of Throw Cinderbrew. There is a visual yellow mob that gets thrown on two players so keep an eye out and react if the blob moves to you.
  • Use Icebound Fortitude if you get stuck in a Crawling Brawl.
• I'pa
  • Use Death Grip and Abomination Limb to help group up the adds.
• Benk Buzzbee
  • Use Death Grip and Abomination Limb to help group up the adds.
  • Use Death's Advance to avoid the knockback effect of Fluttering Wing.
• Goldie Baronbottom
  • Use Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage from Let It Hail!. This usually also triggers Cindering Wounds stacks on players so will also mitigate that.
  • Use Anti-Magic Shell when targeted by Burning Ricochet to mitigate the damage and immune the DoT that comes afterwards.

• No DK-specific tips here.