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Unholy Death Knight rotation guide & helper

Play Unholy Death Knight like a skilled player: the current priority, cooldowns that line up, AoE when it pays and kicks on the casts that matter.

Updated for patch 12.1.5 · World of Warcraft: Midnight · Windows
Guide

How Unholy plays.

Unholy builds Lesser Ghoul stacks with Festering Strike and spends them with Scourge Strike. Death Coil spends runic power, and Dark Transformation is the window where Putrefy and Soul Reaper come out. Army of the Dead and Dark Transformation go out on cooldown in Mythic+.

One target

  1. Death Strike when you're at 35% health or lower (changeable).
  2. Outbreak when your target has no Dread Plague.
  3. Army of the Dead and Dark Transformation.
  4. Soul Reaper during Dark Transformation, or on a target below 35%.
  5. Putrefy during Dark Transformation.
  6. Death Coil with Sudden Doom or when runic power is nearly full.
  7. Scourge Strike with a Lesser Ghoul stack, Festering Strike to build more.

Packs

  • From 3 targets the pack list takes over (changeable).
  • Epidemic takes Death Coil's place from 3 targets (4 with Forbidden Knowledge up).
  • Death and Decay from 3 targets with Cycle of Death.
  • Putrefy during Dark Transformation or when it's at full charges.

Good to know

  • Your ghoul must be out before the pull and set to Assist - Forbidden Knowledge and Putrefy procs need it.
  • San'layn and Rider of the Apocalypse both work without a list of their own.
  • Your racial goes out with Army of the Dead, Dark Transformation or Forbidden Knowledge.
What it does for you

Built for Unholy.

01

Cooldowns that line up

Your Unholy cooldowns go when the priority says so, not when a timer runs out.

02

AoE when it pays

Area spells only once enough enemies are around you. You pick the number.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, at the last safe moment, and no stuns on mobs that can't be stunned.

04

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

05

You stay in control

Every spell, threshold and line of the priority is yours to change. One switch turns it off.

In the rotation

Unholy spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Death StrikeFestering StrikePutrefySoul ReaperEpidemicScourge StrikeDeath CoilOutbreakDeath and DecayArmy of the DeadDark Transformation
Tuning

Tune Unholy your way.

A few of the settings you can change in game, shown with their default.

  • Death Strike: your own health at most 35%
  • Lines for 3+ targets start at 3 targets (and the single-target ones stop)
  • Lines for 4+ targets start at 4 targets (and the single-target ones stop)
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