Unholy Death Knight Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Dread Plague damage increased by 25%. Virulent Plague damage increased by 25%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Putrefy deals 20% increased damage and causes your next Scourge Strike to cost no Rune.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Season 1 tier set is incredibly basic, just increasing the damage of our Plagues and Putrefy. At the same time, this will cause Scourge Strike to occasionally cost no runes. The implications of the free Scourge Strikes usually mean we overflow on resources, and doesn’t do much for us in terms of DPS.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Unholy Death Knight, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

For Unholy Death Knights, there are 5 prominent trinkets to consider:

1. Gaze of the Alnseer - This trinket is far and away the best trinket Unholy DKs can use currently. The amount of Strength it gives is unrivaled, leading to being the best trinket you can get. An ideal scenario is to get this and one of the following trinkets.
2. Light Company Guidon - The only 1.5m cooldown on use trinket strength users have access to in season 1 of Midnight. Unholy being a burst-focused specialization makes this trinket a no-brainer.
3. Umbreal Plume / Radiant Plume - Generally incredibly close to Heart of Ancient Hunger, it's hard to go wrong between these two trinkets. If you have one, you're set for the season.
4. Heart of Ancient Hunger - This trinket is an incredibly consistent Critical Strike buff trinket. Works well with Unholy's general stat priority, and competes for the 2nd-best passive trinket.
5. Algethar Puzzle Box - While no longer a 3-minute cooldown, instead a 2-minute cooldown, this potent Mastery on-use trinket is still one of the best. Its odd cooldown means it's generally best used with Dark Transformation every 2:15, and not worth saving for the 3-minute windows.

When it comes to Crafted Gear for Unholy Death Knights, there's just one obvious choice for endgame: Arcanoweave Lining - Easily the best embellishment available to Unholy Death Knights.

Generally, once you are near BiS gear, the best slot to put this on is a Cloak, and Bracers. Prior to that, though, it can be worth crafting on other slots to bump your item level up if you have any slots that are significantly behind item level-wise.

Early in the Season, one thing to consider is potentially crafting a Weapon. As Weapons are going to be your highest damage upgrade item slot without question. If you don't get one early on in the season (before your first craft essentially), consider waiting and crafting a 2h weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.While Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt isn't our best embellishment, it is still quite potent when fighting the right enemies. Here is a list of which enemy types provide which stat buff to help you out along the way:

• Elemental/Aberration/Demon - Haste Buff
• Mechanical/Beast - Crit Buff
• Humanoid/Dragonkin - Mastery Buff
• Undead/Giant/Not Specified - Versatility Buff

Most Raid encounters will provide either Haste or Mastery due to the bosses present in Season 1 of Midnight. Though Midnight Falls will give a Versatility buff when fighting L’ura.