Unholy Death Knight Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Priorities

Stats will always vary and change based on your gear situation, as stats can lose a lot of value once you reach certain thresholds. The best way to ensure you are using the best gear is to use Raidbots and check via the Top Gear option. You can learn how to sim your character by going to the ‘How to Sim Your Character’ section at the end of this guide.

Stat Ranking

Single Target: Strength > Crit => Mastery > Haste > Versatility

Multi-Target: Strength > Crit => Mastery > Haste > Versatility

Stat Summary

Strength - Primary stat is typically always the best. It's a simple, straightforward throughput increase to every aspect of Unholy Death Knight in both single and multi-target scenarios.

Mastery - This increases your Shadow damage and the damage of your Minions. Most of your damage as Unholy is shadow or minion damage, so this naturally makes Mastery a very potent secondary stat that scales in both single and multi-target scenarios (with very significant scaling in multi-target).

Haste - Haste is going to be a lot lower priority than Crit and Mastery. Since Haste has no effect on our disease tick rate, its value is diminished slightly compared to Mastery and Crit.

Crit - Crit will be our primary focus in terms of secondary stats. With its direct interaction with Mastery, and several Critical Strike damage increasing talents in our talent tree, it easily becomes our best secondary stat to get.

Versatility - Versatility is a very simple stat that does what it says on the tin, it just gives you a flat damage & healing increase and some mitigation. It’s not a very valuable stat early on, but once you start hitting diminishing return thresholds on your other stats, Versatility will start to gain value. This is something that happens towards the latter half of an expansion.

The races are not a massive throughput gain, sometimes they are, but generally, the gain is not that big for playing ‘the best race.’ For the most part play whatever Race you want; but for the players that want the best possible throughput, here are the best Races and the throughput ability they provide listed here.

Best Horde Races for Unholy DK:

• Troll - Berserking (On use ability)
• Mag’har Orc - Ancestral Call (On use ability)
• Panderan - Epicurean (Passive)

Best Alliance Races for Unholy DK:

• Human - The Human Spirit (Passive)
• Gnome - Nimble Fingers (Passive)
• Panderan - Epicurean (Passive)

Head: Empowered Blessing of Speed

Shoulder: Flight of the Eagle

Chest: Mark of the Worldsoul

Boots: Farstrider’s Hunt

Legs: Forst Hunter’s Armor Kit

Rings: Nature’s Fury / Zul’jin’s Mastery

Weapon: Rune of the Apocalypse

Diamond Gems:

• Powerful Eversong Diamond: +23 Primary Stat + 0.15% Critical Effect per unique Midnight Gem color
• Indecipherable Eversong Diamond: +32 Primary Stat

The DPS difference between these two gems is marginal at best. Depending on your current gear, it could be better to run either one. So, as usual, simulate your character to see which is best for you.

All gems are colored based on the stats they give:

• Peridot (Green) = Haste
• Garnet (Red) = Crit
• Amethyst (Purple) = Mastery
• Lapis (Blue) = Versatility

You will always want to use the dual stat gems as they give you more stats overall (example: Flawless Deadly Amethyst). The best way to find out the best gems for your character, make sure to sim multiple gem combinations!

Food: Harandar Celebration (Feast) / Royal Roast

Flasks: Flask of the Shattered Sun

Potions: Potion of Recklessness

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil

Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune