Method Unholy Death Knight Guide - Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to the Unholy Death Knight guide. I’m Taeznak, Death Knight analyst for Method and have been a part of Method and the Race to World First since The War Within.

In this guide I will walk you through how to play, optimize and perform on Unholy Death Knight in Midnight.

Feel free to find me in the Acherus Discord or on any of my socials, where I will happily answer any questions you may have about the class, spec or playing dps in general. Also, shout out to Khazak and all the other DK theorycrafters from the Acherus Discord.

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/taeznak

Acherus Discord: https://discord.gg/acherus

What has changed

Midnight Changes for Unholy Knight

Removed

Apocalypse removed.
Festering Wound removed.
Legion of Souls removed.
Defile removed.

Added

Putrefy - A new short-duration cooldown.
Reanimation - A new capstone talent.
Pestilence - A new capstone talent.
Outnumber - A new capstone talent.

Changed

Scourge Strike - Now spreads Virulent Plague to a nearby target if it is not already active. Base range increased to 30 yards.
Death Coil and Epidemic - Now extend the duration of our Plagues on targets hit.
Festering Strike - Now applies Lesser Ghoul stacks to yourself, rather than Festering Wounds to targets.
Doomed Bidding - Now summons a lesser ghoul, instead of a Magus.
Clawing Shadows - No longer replaces Scourge Strike, instead applies a buff that allows Scourge Strike to cleave more targets for every Scourge Strike cast.
Sudden Doom - Now procs off Dread Plague ticks, and no longer forces Death Coil and Epidemic to critically strike.
Soul Reaper - Can only be used if the target has 35% hp or less, and its main damage hit is no longer delayed. Also applies a debuff to the target hit, increasing the damage of our active pets and diseases for a few seconds.
Festering Scythe - Now applies a Debuff that increases the tick rate of our Diseases.
Cleaving Strikes - Now instead applies a minor buff to Scourge Strike and Festering Strike while standing in Death and Decay.
Infliction of Sorrow - Damage component has been removed, instead increasing the damage of Virulent Plague (Erupt), and Dread Plague (Erupt) when triggered by Vampiric Strike.

Patch 12.0.1