Unholy Death Knight Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set Bonus:

• (2) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 6%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 10%.

There's not a ton to say about the Midnight Prepatch tier set bonuses, they are as simple as they come. Being a flat damage buff for both the 2 and 4 piece bonuses means that there are no hero talent interactions, nor spec talent interactions to skew which hero talent will be played.

The tables below aim to give you a general list of gear that is good for Unholy Death Knight, these lists are not a perfect replacement for simming your character.

• Raiding
• Mythic+

This section will cover the most notable and strong items that you will want to acquire in this season, as well as alternative trinket options you can use if you don’t have the best ones yet.

Best Trinkets:

• Cursed Stone Idol (On use)
• Astral Antenna (Passive)

Good/Decent Trinkets:

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (Passive)
• Unyielding Netherprism (On use)
• Araz's Ritual Forge (On use)

Other Notable/Strong Items:

• Interloper's Plated Sabatons

Best Embellishment for Unholy DK: Everforged Vambracers & Everforged Greatbelt (with Dawnthread Lining).

In Season 3 embellishments are falling further behind natural ilvl upgrades simply because they do not scale with the ilvl of the crafted item. With this in mind, it is a significant enough downgrade to have a crafted 2H weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension than it is to gain the extra 3 ilvls on a 723 2H weapon.

So, as we are not using Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension or Writhing Armor Banding (as it loses all of its value if it’s not buffing a Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension weapon), double Dawnthread Lining is the best option. Dawnthread Lining gives you a decent secondary stat (Crit) which will go up in value this season due to talent changes and Mastery hitting its DR (diminishing returns) threshold. Also, Death Knight in general is a very strong class defensively, so your uptime on Dawnthread Lining is going to be pretty decent as well.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

With turbo boost coming midway through the season, we will have access to Puzzling Cartel Chips which can be used to purchase key items from Manaforge Omega and the Season 3 Mythic Plus dungeon pool.

To unlock the ability to purchase the Mythic version of these items, you will need to have defeated the boss which it drops from on Mythic for raid items, or time all keystones on a +12 for the dungeon items.Here is a shopping list for the items (and their sources) you will want to get with your Puzzling Cartel Chips!

• Cursed Stone-Idol (+12 All Keys)
• Interloper’s Plated Sabatons (The Soul Hunters)
• Astral Antenna (Loom’ithar)

Reshii Wraps

11.2 takes you through a campaign in the new zone K’aresh. After completing Chapter 4 of the campaign you will unlock a new Artifact cloak called the Reshii Wraps. You will upgrade this cloak as you progress through the season and this will be the only cloak you use as no other cloaks are dropping from season 3 content. You can upgrade the cloak by turning in Ethereal Strands which are earned by doing World Content, Raid Bosses, Delves and Mythic Plus.

The Reshii Wraps have a passive damage effect which does not impact your rotation so there’s not much you can do with it other than upgrade and slot a Fiber into the socket slot to allocate a specific secondary stat to it. These Fibers come in two different qualities, with the best versions (Pure Fibers) requiring a Tailor to craft them for you via a `Work Order`.

It is always best to sim which Fiber is best for you in your current gear setup, but generally Unholy will want to use either the Pure Precise Fiber (Crit) or the Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery).

Pure Fiber Stats:

• Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste)
• Pure Precise Fiber (Crit)
• Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery)
• Pure Dexterous Fiber (Versatility)