Unholy Death Knight DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.7)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Unholy Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.7).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Nerub-ar Palace. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Nerub-ar Palace guides.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Unholy Death Knight and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Unholy Death Knight
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Unholy Death Knight
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- You can help clear
Stalker's Netting by using
Anti-Magic Shell or
Icebound Fortitude (Mythic). Anti-Magic Shell will deplete as you soak, so it only works for a small number of soaks. Icebound works until the effect ends. Be careful when soaking as the AoE is larger than the actual soak range, causing nearby raid members to easily get rooted as well.
- Use
Death's Advance to negate the pulling effect of
Carnivorous Contest.
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone for
Carnivorous Contest as the raid groups up to soak the damage.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your Cooldowns as they come up. You can opt to send your 1.5-minute cooldowns during the intermission to do heavy add damage.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death Grip and
Abomination Limb to help group up the adds in the intermission.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone when your group soaks
Gruesome Disgorge or when the boss casts
Goresplatter.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell for
Goresplatter to soak up the damage.
Cooldown Usage
- Simply use your Cooldowns as much as possible.
- Use
Outbreak on the boss when you get sent downstairs. The big hitbox means that you can DoT up most of the adds, even the ones on the other side of the boss.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death Grip to help control the Blood Horror adds, preventing them from reaching the boss.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sikran for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
Phase Blades is physical damage, so you can only use
Icebound Fortitude and
Lichborne to help yourself survive the mechanic.
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone when your raid destroys multiple
Cosmic Simulacrum.
- You can use
Anti-Magic Shell to immune the DoT from
Decimate destroying the adds.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on Cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure to save
Death's Advance for when the boss casts
Shattering Sweep to quickly get out and back in again.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rasha'nan for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone and
Anti-Magic Shell when the boss casts
Erosive Spray.
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone for
Web Reave in the second phase.
- You can use
Anti-Magic Shell to run across the puddles on the ground. The heavy movement and large damage of the puddles make this a good tip.
Cooldown Usage
- Save Runic Power for the adds that spawn so you can DoT them up and
spam
Epidemic.
- Move your pet further out from the boss when you have
Dark Transformation for the adds, allowing you to DoT them up more efficiently.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure to have
Death's Advance or
Wraith Walk ready for when you are targeted by
Spinneret's Strands so that you can quickly get out of the web.
- Use
Death Grip and
Abomination Limb to help group up the Infested Spawn adds.
- Try and save both charges of
Death's Advance and
Wraith Walk for the intermission, to help you keep up with the group!
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone when the tank explodes with
Volatile Concoction.
Cooldown Usage
- Save your Cooldowns for the adds that spawn. This means that you sometimes hold for around 20 seconds to line up with add spawns.
- Pool Runic power and leverage
Outbreak to quickly DoT up the adds around the boss and spam
Epidemic to kill them quickly.
- On Mythic, make sure to stack up 6
Festering Wounds on the boss before the adds get gripped in. Follow up with
Vile Contagion and
Scourge Strike spam. Make sure to use both
Abomination Limb,
Dark Transformation and
Death and Decay before the adds spawn.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Blinding Sleet to interrupt the Blood Parasite adds.
- Use
Death Grip to help control Blood Parasite adds that are fixating your fellow raiders.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell before
Sticky Web to immune the application.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone during
Starless Night.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell during the
Nether Rift pull to soak up the magic damage
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death's Advance to negate the pulling effect from the rifts.
- Save a charge of
Death's Advance if you get targeted by
Twilight Massacre.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for The Silken Court for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell before you get hit by
Venomous Rain to immune the DoT application.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
- Use
Death and Decay to cleave when the bosses are close together.
- Use
Death Coil as your Runic Power spender as we pick up
Improved Death Coil.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Death Grip,
Abomination Limb and
Blinding Sleet to help control the adds.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Queen Ansurek for Unholy Death Knight
Defensive Tips
- Use
Anti-Magic Zone in phase 1 if your raid gets 3+ stacks from the
Venom Nova mechanic.
- Use
Anti-Magic Shell to immune the root from
Silken Tomb. This also prevents the root add from spawning.
Cooldown Usage
- Stack up Runic Power and ideally a proc of
Sudden Doom before each
Silken Tomb add spawn. Use
Outbreak to DoT up the adds and then follow with
Epidemic. Do the same for the
Infest mechanic in the final phase, where the tank runs out to spawn a group of adds. You can stick on the boss during this, just doing your standard rotation with lots of
Epidemic weaved in.
- Leverage
Death and Decay in the final phase to help cleave the three adds that spawn, as well as the two web pulls.
Mechanical Tips
Wrest is cast multiple times during the encounter. Use
Death's Advance to immune the pull. You will not have it up for each one, so plan out when you need to do the mechanic properly.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Unholy Death Knight has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate
throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often
as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like Icebound Fortitude
for large incoming damage.
Anti-Magic Shell
Anti-Magic Zone
Icebound Fortitude
Lichborne (with
Unholy Endurance)
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed and update for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Added more detailed tips.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player raiding with Pescorus on Kazzak. He is heavily involved in the DK DPS theorycrafting community, testing hyoptheses and investigating the correct priority to use. He produces guide content on YouTube and frequently streams on Twitch.
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