Unholy Death Knight DPS Sepulcher of the First Ones Raid Guide — Shadowlands 9.2.5

During Shadowlands Season 4, Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and Sepulcher of the First Ones will each spend time being featured as a Fated Raid. During these times encounters within the specific raid will include an additional mechanic and items will drop at increased item levels. If you would like to learn more general information about the Fated Raids system as a whole, please see our overview below. Otherwise, continue to use this page for specialization-specific tips.

On this page, you will find Unholy Death Knight-specific information to deal with each boss in the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid.

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 what you can do to deal with each fight as best as possible.

Generally, the choices we make for each boss are whether or not to pick up Clawing Shadows in the first talent row and if we want to run Frenzied Monstrosity instead of Deadliest Coil as our Legendary.

We advise you to use the following talents against Vigilant Guardian.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Vigilant Guardian: Frenzied Monstrosity.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Try and leverage your Soul Reaper as much as possible on the adds, especially if you have the Unholy DK 4-Piece.
• Use Death Grip to help group up the adds as they spawn.
• Use Anti-Magic Zone close to the end of the fight, to help reduce the raid-wide magic damage!

For more information, please refer to our Vigilant Guardian guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• You can use Death's Advance when the boss burrows towards you to avoid the knockback. Do be careful so the boss does not immediately melee you!

For more information, please refer to our Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Artificer Xy'mox.

• Level 15: Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Artificer Xy'mox: Frenzied Monstrosity.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Save Abomination Limb for the intermission to help group up all the adds that spawn.
• Use Death Grip to help group up adds.
• You can use Anti-Magic Shell and run over the halo without taking any damage. Do this to increase your boss uptime! This also prevents your pet from respawning when you take the teleport.
• Use Anti-Magic Zone on your raid when the tank debuff expires.

We advise you to use the following talents against Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• You can use Anti-Magic Shell and run across the halo without receiving the debuff. This trivializes the mechanic and enables higher boss uptime for you!
• Use Anti-Magic Zone when the boss channels and your raid takes heavy ticking damage.
• Make sure to leverage Soul Reaper on the adds that spawn, it is a big DPS boost!

For more information, please refer to our Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Prototype Pantheon.

• Level 15: Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight (or Bursting Sores, situationally)
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact (or Defile, situationally)
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Prototype Pantheon.

1. Frenzied Monstrosity
2. Death's Certainty

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord or Night Fae

• Try and leverage your Death and Decay and much as possible when the bosses are stacked.
• Night Fae with Defile and Death's Certainty is a viable option on this fight.
• Make sure to leverage your Soul Reaper on the adds that spawn throughout the fight!
• You can use Icebound Fortitude to get out of a spear if you get hit.

For more information, please refer to our PrototypePantheon guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Lihuvim, Principal Architect.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Lihuvim, Principal Architect.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Death's Advance negates the pushback from Cosmic Shift.
• Controlling your pet on this fight is very important. Make sure to leverage petmove, petfollow and petattack to properly move your pet in the huge fighting arena.
• Use Abomination Limb when the adds spawn after the intermission to help group them up.

For more information, please refer to our Lihuvim, Principal Architect guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Halondrus the Reclaimer.

• Level 15: Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Halondrus the Reclaimer: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Death's Advance will negate the knockback in the intermissions' Shatters.
• Fleshcraft with Plague Deviser Marileth also works to negate the knockback!

For more information, please refer to our Halondrus the Reclaimer guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Anduin Wrynn.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendaries against Anduin Wrynn.

1. Frenzied Monstrosity
2. Deadliest Coil

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Make sure to fully leverage your Epidemic in the Fallen King phase!
• Use your Abomination Limb and Death Grip in the first Kingsmourne phase to help group the adds!
• Save your Army of the Dead for the Fallen King phase to take advantage of the damage increase you get then!
• Make sure to leverage Soul Reaper on the small adds in the Fallen King phase, to keep as much uptime on the Unholy DK 4-Piece bonus as possible!

For more information, please refer to our Anduin Wrynn guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Lords of Dread.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Ebon Fever or Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Lords of Dread: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Use Death Grip to grip in the add once it reaches 100% health! and loses the Incomplete Form buff!
• Save Abomination Limb for every swarm phase to maximize your damage. Also make sure to align all your other cooldowns for these phases!
• You can use Unholy Blight and Dark Transformation on pull, but save everything else.
• Use Anti-Magic Zone during the Swarm phase to help your raid!

For more information, please refer to our Lords of Dread guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Rygelon.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Rygelon: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Leverage Soul Reaper on the Quasars as much as possible. If done properly, you can reach up to 70% uptime on the Unholy DK 4-Piece bonus!
• Use Abomination Limb on pull and then cancel it as soon as the first Quasars spawn (/cancelaura Abomination Limb). Use it in the intermission phases after this point!

For more information, please refer to our Rygelon guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against The Jailer.

• Level 15: All Will Serve or Clawing Shadows
• Level 25: Unholy Blight
• Level 30: No specific recommendation
• Level 35: Soul Reaper
• Level 40: No specific recommendation
• Level 45: Unholy Pact
• Level 50: Army of the Damned

We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Jailer: Deadliest Coil.

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• Use Death's Advance to negate the pulling effect of Chains of Oppression.
• Use Anti-Magic Shell if you have to jump into a hole with another player.
• Make sure to use your Army of the Dead on cooldown, you can get three uses in the fight!
• Help control mind-controlled players with Death Grip and Death and Decay (with Grip of the Dead).
• Use Abomination Limb in the final phase to help grip in the adds that spawn!

For more information, please refer to our The Jailer guide.