Magedonia´s Unholy Death Knight Guide. [PandaWoW - 5.4.8 ]

First of all don't laught about my english becouse it sucks :D.

RACES

[spoiler=Races on alliance]ALLIANCE

Human, i think is the best choice for be a dk in alliance,reason? http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=59752/every-man-for-himself

[spoiler=Races on horde]HORDE

Orc, orcs got very good racial, http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=20572/blood-fury , gives a lot of atack power, so that's make dk's hit more( obv )

Undead,undead´s got nice racial spell too http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=7744/will-of-the-forsaken wich make us remove any Charm, Fear and Sleep effect, but the bad point this effect shares a 30 sec cooldown with other similar effects(like http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=49039/lichborne)

TALENTS

In this section ill coment personality them.

[spoiler=Lvl 56 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=163616/bloody-whirl(Roiling blood,sorry i can't found roiling blood in wowhead xD) Roiling blood is 1 of the best choices from 57 lvl talents, as description says: your http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50842/blood-boil ability now also triggers pestilence if it strikesa diseased target

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=123693/plague-leech : This talent it's speciality for 2vs2 or Duels w/e, it work very easy, use it when enemie is doted,and it consume the dots for give 2 dead runes(If i don't explained good sorry me)

[spoiler=Lvl 57 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=49039/lichborne is the best talent in 57 ilvl talents,Draw upon unholy energy to become Undead for 10 sec, increasing Leech by 10%, and making you immune to Charm, Fear, and Sleep.This spell share cd with http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=7744/will-of-the-forsaken

[spoiler=Lvl 58 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50041/chilblains is 1 of the best talents in lvl 58 with http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=108194/asphyxiate

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50041/chilblains are better vs teams wich they have lot of movility, so you can slow them with that talent.

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=108194/asphyxiate I think is the best talent here, becouse it gives stun every 30 seconds, it's very good vs class like Rogue/Druid/Pala/Monk/ and also Hunter(it replaces http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47476/strangulate)

[spoiler=Lvl 60 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=48743/death-pact is very good heal talent in duels or bgs, also is very good vs double dps class in arenas

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=119975/conversion it's very good vs Healer/Dps, if you are playing Dk/rdruid you should take it, but this talent got 1 "bad" thing, its becouse you waste 5 runic power every second when it's activated, but you can take runic power easy if you need heal using http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45524/chains-of-ice

[spoiler=Lvl 75 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45529/blood-tap is the best talent for lvl 75, better than all 2, http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45529/blood-tap consume 5 blood charges to activate a random fully-depleted rune as a death rune(You can stack it using http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil 1 http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil = 2 stacks of http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45529/blood-tap

[spoiler=Lvl 90 Talents] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=108201/desecrated-ground best spell of lvl 90, as you can read it corrupts the ground in a 8 yard radius beneath the death knight for 10 secs,standing in this corruption, you are immune to effects that cause loss of control

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=108199/gorefiends-grasp you can use it in 5c5 or bgs, you can combinate it with roiling blood

GLYPHS

[spoiler=Major glyphs] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58631/glyph-of-icy-touch

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58647/glyph-of-shifting-presences

http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58623/glyph-of-anti-magic-shell

Also you can change http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58623/glyph-of-anti-magic-shell or http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58647/glyph-of-shifting-presences to this http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58616/glyph-of-unholy-frenzy

MACROS

Dk don't have lot of macros but i got some1 wich they can help you

[spoiler=Burst macro]► Burst (Add Gloves before Gargoyle If you have Engineering)

#showtooltip Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Unholy Frenzy

/cast Summon Gargoyle

[spoiler=Silence macro]/cast [target=focus] strangulate

[spoiler=Heal macro]/showtooltip Lichborne

/cast !Lichborne

/cast [target=player] Death Coil

/cast Death pact

[spoiler=Death grip macro]/cast [target=focus] Death grip

[spoiler=Dark simulacrum macro]/cast [target=focus] Dark simulacrum

[spoiler=Stop cast macro]This macro is speciality for people wich they don't know when the oponent gonna make fakecast

/cast Mind Freeze

/cast Gnaw

ARENA COMPS

[spoiler=2c2]Dk/Hpal

Dk/Rdru

Dk/Rsham

Dk/Mw( i think is the best comb for dk)

With dps

Dk/Warr yior(one of the best combos for double dps with dk)

Dk/Rogue(if you have cordinate you can do it good aswell)

Dk/Feral( Very over powered damage)

Dk/Rpala

Dk/Hunter( if you andour hunter cc good, you can win every teams)

Dk/balance( insane damage and heal)

I dont think class like shadow priests,mages,locks and shamans are not good in 2vs2 with dk,becouse or they have low movilty or they are easy to kill)

[spoiler=3c3]Here we go with cleaves

Ebola Cleave Feral/Dk/Heal

Turbo Cleave with dk Enh/Dk/Heal

TSG most easy team Warr/Dk/Heal

PHD Dk/Hunt/Heal

Shadow Cleave Dk/affli lock/Heal

Zombie Chicken Cleave Dk/Boomy/Heal(resto shaman is the best option)

Unholyplay Dk/Spriest/Heal

Freedom Cleave Dk/Rpala/Heal

SmokeBomb Cleave Dk/Srogue/Heal

For me the best cleaves are TSG, PHDK and Freedom cleave

ROTATION

[spoiler=1 Rotation with burst] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45462/plague-strike > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45477/icy-touch 2x > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50842/blood-boil 2x > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=55090/scourge-strike >http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47568/empower-rune-weapon >Burst with ► Burst (Add Gloves before Gargoyle If you have Engineering)

#showtooltip Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Unholy Frenzy

/cast Summon Gargoyle macro > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=55090/scourge-strike 2x > http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=73975/necrotic-strike 4x > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil 3x ( Before use http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=73975/necrotic-strike you can use the 3x http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil )

[spoiler=2 Rotation with out burst] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45462/plague-strike > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=85948/festering-strike 2x > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=55090/scourge-strike > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47568/empower-rune-weapon > Burst with the burst macro: Burst (Add Gloves before Gargoyle If you have Engineering)

#showtooltip Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Prideful Gladiator's Badge of Victory

/cast Unholy Frenzy> http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=55090/scourge-strike 2x > http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=73975/necrotic-strike 4x > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil 3x ( you can use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil before http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=73975/necrotic-strike )

[spoiler=Rotation with out burst] In the rotation with out burst you need to improvise something like this http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45462/plague-strike > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45524/chains-of-ice 1x or 2x(chains of ice generate more runic power becouse your gloves bonus set add 10p more runic power,thats like 30 runic power per chains of ice) > http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=47541/death-coil >http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=55090/scourge-strike... etc, every 5 http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45529/blood-tap use it for http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=73975/necrotic-strike also you should dispell buffs with http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=45477/icy-touch+http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58631/glyph-of-icy-touch, if enemies are near and 1 of them don't have dots on, and you dont want waste unholy rune use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50842/blood-boil with Roiling Blood talent

REFORGES

[spoiler=Mastery Critic Dk]Head-> Expertise>Critical

Neck-> Expertise> Mastery

Shoulders-> Expertise> Mastery ( if you have pvp shoulders, and if you have http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=103785/tusks-of-mannoroth don't touch reforges)

Back-> Haste> Mastery

Chest-> Haste>Mastery

Wrist-> Haste>Critic

Hands-> Hit>Mastery

Waist-> Don't touch reforges

Legs-> Haste>Mastery

Feet-> Don't touch reforges

Finger 1-> Hit>Mastery

Finger 2-> Haste>mastery

Weapon-> Don't touch reforges

[spoiler=Mastery Haste Dk]Head->

Neck-> Expertise>Mastery

Shoulders-> Expertise>Mastery

Back-> Hit>Mastery

Chest-> Critic>Mastery

Wrist-> Don't touch reforges

Hands-> Hit>Mastery

Waist-> Critic>haste

Legs-> Critic>Mastery

Feet-> Critic>haste

Finger 1-> Hit>haste

Finger 2-> Critic>Mastery

Weapon-> Critic>Haste

GEMS

[spoiler=Critic Dk] http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76886/reverberating-primal-diamond Meta gem+ http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76696/bold-primordial-ruby in red sockets+ http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=89674/tense-imperial-amethyst in blue sockets + http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76661/inscribed-vermilion-onyx in yellow sockets

[spoiler=Mastery Dk] http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76886/reverberating-primal-diamond Meta gem +http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76696/bold-primordial-ruby in red sockets + http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=89674/tense-imperial-amethyst in blue sockets + http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76674/skillful-vermilion-onyx in yellow sockets

[spoiler=Streng Dk] http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76886/reverberating-primal-diamond Meta gem + http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=76696/bold-primordial-ruby in rest of sockets.

ENCHANTS

Enchants are very simple:

Shoulder: 200 streng + 100 Critical Strike http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=83006/greater-tiger-fang-inscription

Back: 180 Critical strike / Or with tailoring Swordguard Embroidery http://www.wowhead.com/skill=197/tailoring http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=74713/enchant-cloak-superior-critical-strike

Chest: +80 All Stats http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=74708/enchant-chest-glorious-stats

Wrist: 180 Streng http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=74704/enchant-bracer-exceptional-strength

Hands: 170 Streng / Or if you have engineering use Synapse Springs http://www.wowhead.com/skill=202/engineering http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=74721/enchant-gloves-super-strength

Waist: +1 socket gem http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=90046/living-steel-belt-buckle

Legs: 285 Streng + 165 Critical Strike http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=83765/angerhide-leg-armor

Feet: 140 mastery + Minior Speed Increase http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=74718/enchant-boots-pandarens-step

Weapon: http://www.wowhead.com/skill=960/runeforging from dk's skill , you need to use this enchant : http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=53344/rune-of-the-fallen-crusader it give lot of streng.

PROFESSIONS

Dk mainly proffesion it's tailoring, it's very important, the back enchant of tailoring gives a lot of atack power http://www.wowhead.com/skill=197/tailoring ( http://www.wowhead.com/skill=197/tailoring ) swordguard embroidery

Engineering: With engineering you can enchant your Hands, that enchant make you up your streng to 1920 streng for 10 seconds.+ ( http://www.wowhead.com/skill=202/engineering ) http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=126734/synapse-springs

Jewelcrafting: With jewelcrafting you can buy http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=83141/bold-serpents-eye 2x ( http://www.wowhead.com/skill=755/jewelcrafting )

Blacksmithing: You can add 2 free sockets , 1 in your Hands and 1 in your Wrist ( http://www.wowhead.com/skill=164/blacksmithing )

Alchemy: Alchemy gives a flask with 320p streng ( http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=83141/bold-serpents-eye ) http://www.db.pandawow.me?item=83141/bold-serpents-eye http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=156564/draenic-strength-flask but on lvl 90

SOME SPELLS

[spoiler=Never use this spells] http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=52374/blood-strike Don't use this spell, it's very useless and waste 1 blood rune

Don't use http://legion.db.pandawow.me?spell=91939/pestilence becouse you already have http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=50842/blood-boil with 57 lvl talent Roiling blood

[spoiler=Spells in special moments]You should use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=49998/death-strike when the oponent like rogue or warr start using http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=5277/evasion or http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=118038/die-by-the-sword wich make you dodge your atacks, but http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=49998/death-strike is undodgeable.

Use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=43265/death-and-decay speciality vs rogues/druids/ or any class wich can sleath,and you can use it in arena too for make your openents run slow with http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=58629/glyph-of-death-and-decay vs shamans it's very good glyph

Use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=48707/anti-magic-shell before any magic spell gonna hit you( i mean cc like poly, clone etc) Or you can combibate with the macro heal wich i writed in MACROS http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=48707/anti-magic-shell + the macro heal, it make you heals more

You should use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=49576/death-grip when your oponent gone to away and you need to catch him, don't waste it in unecesary moments like face to face fight, you use it too for dont let a druid clone you or use any cast spell, for cancer lock portal,make poly etc etc..

If you used http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=123693/plague-leech on some one and you don't have runes for dot him again use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77575/outbreak

Use http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=130736/soul-reaper at 50%-40% hp, if you finish your oponent with http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=130736/soul-reaper you will win some haste afther your openent died from http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=130736/soul-reaper

And never forget combinate http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=48263/blood-presence and http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=48265/unholy-presence Use blood when the dps is atacking you and the unholy when nobody is hiting you

Don't forget http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=70900/dark-transformation too , becouse your pet will do more damage,( you can stack it using dead coils)

It's my first post/guide on this forum, i hope you will appreciate it , im really sorry for my english :D Im 2400 exp dk from retail and 2900 from private servers. HOPE THIS GUIDE HELPED YOU SOME! :D Honorable mentions to Bioshockx Ceroline Funk and Eldkpujo

Can I please geta a rotation guide?

What do you mean m8?

Great guide! Looks good.

About the rotation burst etc. At necrotic strike, why don't u use Blood tap once > Necrotic strike > blood tap > Necrotic strike.

And you generate most runic power with Chains of Ice, with your gloves bonus or set bonus, not completely clear about it.

In non burst, you don't use Festering Strike? I use Plague strike 1st ( Refresh when procs occured ) Then use Festering Strike when available into Chain of ice spam to use Death coil, building Blood tap and so on.

Great guide! Looks good.

 

About the rotation burst etc. At necrotic strike, why don't u use Blood tap once > Necrotic strike > blood tap > Necrotic strike.

 

And you generate most runic power with Chains of Ice, with your gloves bonus or set bonus, not completely clear about it.

 

In non burst, you don't use Festering Strike? I use Plague strike 1st ( Refresh when procs occured ) Then use Festering Strike when available into Chain of ice spam to use Death coil, building Blood tap and so on.

In non burst i dont use feestering strike becouse it make your runes gone fast,it's better use chains of ice example for generate more runic power,about blood tap necro, sometimes runes got buged and got cd, eldkpujo reported it, you can chek it, i wanted add that macro too, im using it atm, but sometiems get buged and i don't wanted to put it in guide, anyway i don't writed some times becouse my english suck and i can't not explain , i gonna complete it all

In non burst i dont use feestering strike becouse it make your runes gone fast,it's better use chains of ice example for generate more runic power,about blood tap necro, sometimes runes got buged and got cd, eldkpujo reported it, you can chek it, i wanted add that macro too, im using it atm, but sometiems get buged and i don't wanted to put it in guide, anyway i don't writed some times becouse my english suck and i can't not explain , i gonna complete it all

Ah alright.

I recommend you to not use Bloodtap/Necro macro, it can bug easily.

What do you mean m8?

Simple. How do I rotate my abilities out of cooldowns and how inside the cooldowns?

Simple. How do I rotate my abilities out of cooldowns and how inside the cooldowns?

I don't understand you m9 nemifest help me xD,you need to press your abilities lol

I don't understand you m9 nemifest help me xD,you need to press your abilities lol

He means that he wants a guide on the rotation without using cooldowns and with cooldowns.

How to do u have uptime on your abilities without using any cooldowns, and with cooldowns.

Play dk and prove it

Misty,well when i was orc i never used 1900 critic trinket,o use double pvp streng trinket,becouse dk got 2 free trinkeys(near 3 with lichborne)so double streng trinkets+blood fury it's Op

Why scourge strike in burst ? this is useless

bad gemming for str dk : /

Why scourge strike in burst ? this is useless

bad gemming for str dk : /

Takaa my son,in burst you have lot of chance for hit scourge strike.

u need use festering x2 and spam necros in burst ' date=' btw scourge hit 20k : /[/quote']

 

Yeah, exactly what I used to do with my dk.

 

In burst, try to keep your burst DoTs up as much as possible with festering meanwhile spamming necrotic strikes, hardly used scourge strike.

Nice Guide -.-

I have enjoyed reading it.

Keep up the good work :D

I pref using 2 touch of ice and 2 blood boils for full magic dmg, 2 dispels, and 2 spread dots, also make your runes charge one after the other so your rotation is more constant.

Well ye, is better use that than 2 feestrng,4x better than 2 :D,also takaa,i gives my tips from my 2900 exped,i gived my tricks etc but dk is not always necro xd

Why scourge strike in burst ? this is useless

bad gemming for str dk : /

why is useless?

dk is not always necro xd

Well, I have to tell you. Dk's outside bg/arena, it's DoT>Kite=Survive

In arena.. It's mostly just time your burst, get trinket procs etc > pop cd > DoT > build necrotic strike up > soul reaper = Done..

That's pretty much how I play, and it's good for me, your guide is good too :D