From taking an enemy out of a fight to interrupting a powerful spell, Asphyxiate can be used in almost any scenario. The different options on the table when it comes to using a four-second stun are vast. Level 30: Asphyxiate – Asphyxiate is a great crowd control tool that can be used with a strong amount of versatility. Additionally, any target affected by the debuff takes increased damage from your minions, making the talent work extremely well in conjunction with All Will Serve. Level 25: Unholy Blight – Another monstrous DPS increase, Unholy Blight applies a stackable debuff to enemies that deals immense damage over time.
The other talents in the level 15 row don’t add enough to the Unholy rotation to outweigh the raw DPS increase provided by All Will Serve. Level 15: All Will Serve – A straightforward DPS booster, All Will Serve adds another skeletal ghoul to your arsenal of minions.
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Here’s how to make the most out of Unholy Death Knight in Shadowlands with the best talents and build for the class. Unholy Death Knight has plenty of tools at its disposal to rack up damage and hit hard with some class-defining abilities.
With boundless opportunities to summon a genuine army of undead minions to follow you into combat, you’ll never be alone when playing Unholy Death Knight.īut just because your minions are going to be hitting hard and contributing to a strong amount of your DPS numbers doesn’t mean you can’t pack a punch yourself. We’re also discussing how the 10% AP buff to Blessing of Might, etc, doesn’t even uniformly affect the spec because of our minions: Īllowing our minions to benefit from these two stats doesn’t just buff our DPS, but brings the exact same secondary stat “parity” that you mentioned as desiring for the spec.Unholy Death Knight represents the definition of a tried and true “summoner” class in World of Warcraft. We already know that the 5% Unholy Might buff won’t end up doing anything to affect this. It’s been acknowledged that Unholy hasn’t been a popular or in demand spec since the advent of 4.1. While they’d be closer in value to each other, we’d still value Haste > Mastery > Crit. The answer is pretty hilarious, if not astonishing: The Unholy stat priority would not be affected in the slightest by these two changes. Letting our minions benefit from Mastery would be a decent DPS gain and wouldn’t affect the priority in the slightest.Īt this point, we became a little more daring: What if minions began benefitting from Mastery and had the Crit bug fixed? I was curious: What if minions began benefitting from Mastery instead (by this, I mean doing additional damage as shadow damage)? Would it then eclipse Haste and upset stat weights?Īs it turns out, nope. This wouldn’t be something Blizzard would want to introduce, would it? While discussing this in the Acherus IRC, we were forced to acknowledge one point: If the Crit bug were indeed to be fixed, Crit would be valued ahead of Mastery. The relevant part of the question, to this thread, is where she points out that our minions don’t benefit from Crit (an obvious bug), nor do they benefit from our Mastery.īlizzard’s rationale: The Crit bug will not be fixed till 5.0 because it might disrupt secondary stat weights for Unholy DKs right now. Watch it, and their subsequent response here: As many of you may know, our beloved Matron Heartless was at Blizzcon this year, and had the opportunity to ask about the state of Unholy DKs during the Q&A panel