Unholy Death Knight Midnight 12.0.5 Guide

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.

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Patch 12.0.5 Hotfixes (May 5th)

• Festering Scythe - Now applies a buff to the player to increase all plague tick rates, rather than a debuff on enemies.
• Various Tuning changes targeted at reducing AoE damage.

Patch 12.0.5 Changes

Removed

• Blightfall
• March Of Madness
• Scythe Of Decay

Added

• Cycle of Death - A new talent, replacing Scythe of Decay

Changed

• Raise Abomination - No longer provides a pet damage increase while active, instead deals a small amount of AoE damage to enemies near the abomination.
• Putrid Echoes - Increased to +2 charges of Putrefy, and now allows Putrefy to consume up to 2 charges when cast.
• Pestilence - Now replaces Dark Transformation instead of Outbreak, and has been renamed to Blightfall.
• Unholy Armaments - Gained a new effect to increase the damage of our Risen Skulker, and all of our ghouls (both primary and lesser).
• Desecrate - Reworked, now doubles the tick rate, and halves the duration of Death and Decay.

Patch 12.0.1 Changes

Added

• Scythe of Decay - new mid-tier talent.

Changed

• Army of the Dead - The summoned ghouls' duration has been reduced from 30 seconds to 15 seconds. Now generates 40 Runic Power when cast.
• Putrefy - Now summons a ghoul to be Putrefied.
• Soul Reaper - Consumes all currently available Putrefy charges.
• Superstrain - New effect to trigger a Dread Plague (Erupt) on 1 extra target when Dread Plague ticks.
• Unholy Devotion - Duration increased from 5 seconds to 12 seconds.
• Pestilence - Now only replaces Outbreak after casting Dark Transformation.

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.