Unholy Death Knight DPS Sepulcher of the First Ones Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

During the Dragonflight Pre-Patch, Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and Sepulcher of the First Ones will be simultaneously featured as Fated Raids. During this time encounters within each 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.

We recommend the following talent setup for all bosses, and you can import it easily with the following string:

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• 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 Legendaries against Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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 Legendary against Artificer Xy'mox.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. 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 Legendaries against Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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.

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

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

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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.
• 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 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 Legendaries against Halondrus the Reclaimer.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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 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!

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

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

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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 Legendaries against Rygelon.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

Recommended Covenant: Necrolord

• 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 Legendaries against The Jailer.

1. Deadliest Coil
2. Frenzied Monstrosity

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.