Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Enchants & Gems for Unholy Death Knights in Cataclysm
All sections for Unholy Death Knight PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Unholy Death Knight in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will show you the best PvP enchants and gems that you can use as a Unholy Death Knight in Cataclysm Season 9.
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Best Unholy Death Knight Enchants
Helmet: Arcanum of Vicious Strength
Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Jagged Stone
Cloak: Swordguard or Greater Critical Strike
Chest: Peerless Stats or Mighty Resilience
Bracers: Major Strength
Gloves: Mighty Strength
Belt: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
Legs: Dragonscale Leg Armor
Boots: Haste
Main-hand Weapon: Rune of the Fallen Crusader
Your helmet enchant will be purchasable through PvP content using honor. Your shoulder enchant will be purchasable by obtaining Exalted reputation with the Therazane, but is worth the grind due to the extra damage your character will receive with increased primary stat and Critical Strike. For your chest enchant, choose Peerless Stats for more damage throughput, otherwise choose Mighty Resilience for more survivability and tankiness.
If you chose Tailoring as your profession for Death Knight, make sure to use Swordguard as your cloak enchant, since it provides an immense amount of Attack Power. If you don’t have Tailoring, choose Greater Critical Strike.
Any additional enchants can be purchased on the Auction House. Although Ebonsteel Belt Buckle is not technically an enchant, it give you one extra gem slot for minmaxxing secondary stats.
Best Unholy Death Knight Gems
Meta Gems: Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond
Red Gems: Bold Inferno Ruby, or Resplendent Ember Topaz
Blue Gems: Stormy Ocean Sapphire or Rigid Ocean Sapphire
Yellow Gems: Mystic Amberjewel
For meta gems, we recommend that you use Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond to have more Strength, as well as increasing the amount of damage that your Critical Strikes deal.
There are multiple Red gems you can choose from, and should be chosen based on the current gear set and secondaries you have on your character. If your character needs to obtain additional Resilience for extra tankiness, choose Resplendent Ember Topaz. If not, prioritize using the rest of your red gems on Bold Inferno Ruby.
Make sure to consider your secondary stats before deciding on what Blue gem you plan on using for your character. Focus on prioritizing Stormy Ocean Sapphire first to reach our Spell Penetration cap of 195. If you need additional Hit for the 5% Hit Cap, make sure to use Rigid Ocean Sapphire for any additional blue gem sockets. Yellow Gems only use Mystic Amberjewel for any additional Resilience that you want to add on to your character.
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