Unholy Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

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 Midnight Mythic+ page below, or check out our Mythic+ Tier List if you're curious about the current Mythic+ Meta!

Unholy Death Knight is a solid, versatile Mythic+ spec that brings both good Single Target and AoE. We have the option to focus on either our Plagues with Pestilence builds or on our minions with Reanimation builds. We have strong burst every 1.5 minutes with smaller burst windows every 45 seconds.

Unholy Death Knight has a wide array of potential talent build in Mythic+ which offer both unique gamestyles, as well as different damage profiles. In general, we recommend running minion-based builds with Rider of the Apocalypse in Mythic+. This brings close to optimal Single Target while also doing very well in AoE.

You have the option to talent more heavily into AoE by sacrificing Soul Reaper and Reaping, this is the "AoE-heavy" build below. Finally, you can also run San'layn, both with the standard minion-based build but also with Pestilence. The Pestilence build brings an interesting plague-focused gameplay loop with huge potential AoE burst moments.

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

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 Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

Midnight Season 1 offers four unique affixes that we can deal with to different degrees with our kit. They rotate weekly with only one being active at a time. They are also the only affixes that are active and require you to specifically handle them.

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant: Three waves of orbs will spawn that need to be interrupted or disrupted. Blinding Sleet is your most effective tool here to handle these orbs, with Mind Freeze and Death Grip handling any stray ones left.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound: A Void Emissary add will spawn that needs to be focus-targeted and interrupted. Simply swap to the new add and focus it down. If you know it is spawning soon, considering holding your Cooldowns to deal with it quickly.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar: Orbs will spawn around players and circle around them. You have 15 seconds to soak all of these to buff your group. Use your movement abilities like Wraith Walk and Death's Advance to quickly soak these up.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour: All party members will be affected by a healing absorb. You can pre-immune this with Anti-Magic Shell. However, this does mean that you miss out on the buff received when the shield is removed. Alternatively, help your healer to remove the shield by using Death Strike and Health Potions/ Healthstones if required.

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+.