Method Unholy Death Knight Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

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 but this is something that happens towards the later half of an expansion.

Races

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.

Horde:

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

Alliance:

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

Enchants

Gems and Ring enchants heavily depend on your current stat weights and will often fluctuate depending on your current gear. I will list the enchants and gems you will generally want to use, but you should always check on Raidbots to see which are currently the most valuable for you.

General Enchants/Kits:

Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
Chest: Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
Wrist: Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance
Legs: Stormbound Armor Kit
Boots: Enchant Boots - Scout’s March
Weapon: Rune of the Apocalypse - In Midnight, there were significant changes to allow the debuffs from Rune of the Apocalypse to trigger off of Lesser Ghoul Claw attacks in addition to our main ghoul. In addition to this, the new talent Outnumber enables them to be applied in AoE scenarios just as well as they are in single target. Easily rocketing this runeforge up to the best available.

Ring Enchants:

Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike: +315 Crit
Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery: +315 Mastery

Gems

Blasphemous Gem

Culminating Blasphemite: +181 Primary Stat + 0.15% Critical Effect per unique Algari Gem color

Gems

All gems are colored based on the stats they give:

Emerald (Green) = Haste
Ruby (Red) = Crit
Onyx (Purple) = Mastery
Sapphire (Blue) = Versatility
Amber (Orange) = Stamina

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