Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Glyphs 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 give you the best PvP glyphs available for Unholy Death Knight in Cataclysm Season 9.
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Best Unholy Death Knight PvP Glyphs
The glyph system has changed quite a bit in Cataclysm as opposed to Wrath of the Lich King. All glyph scrolls that have been learned are now permanent glyphs that can be placed inside major and minor glyph slots, and there are 3 additional prime glyph slots included with the major and minor glyphs. Vanishing powder will be needed to swap out those glyphs. Those will be handy, since some glyphs may be swapped depending on a certain arena matchup.
Prime Glyphs
These three prime glyphs provided below are your primary glyphs within your prime glyph slots. If you plan to play the Necrotic Strike build, use Glyph of Icy Touch, otherwise use Glyph of Scourge Strike.
Glyph of Death Coil will provide an additional 15% damage and healing coming directly from Death Coil.
Glyph of Scourge Strike grants you an additional 30% Shadow damage on your Scourge Strike, making your direct damage from Scourge Strike more impactful.
Glyph of Icy Touch makes your Frost Fever disease do 20% additional damage, and since we aren’t using Scourge Strike much with our Necrotic Strike build, this provides more throughput.
Glyph of Raise Dead will increase the damage and tankiness of your ghoul pet. Using this glyph combined with Dark Transformation can make your ghoul do increased burst damage.
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Major Glyphs
These three major glyphs provided below are your primary glyphs within your major glyph slots. These glyphs never change.
Glyph of Strangulate is most likely your strongest major glyph, as it provides an additional 2 seconds to your Strangulate when silencing a target if used as an interrupt. Although 2 seconds does not sound like a lot, a 7 second silence can grant you more win conditions given the amount of burst damage provided by Death Knight’s toolkit.
Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell is essential for defensive and offensive play during an arena matchup. Having an additional 2 seconds applied to your Anti-Magic Shell prevents CCs from being applied to you, Fear, Polymorph, etc., which can help close out a game, or to prevent a kill opportunity from your opponent.
Glyph of Death Grip increases the range of your Death Grip by 5 yards, making it easier to grip in players for closing distance gaps, and to set up burst windows.
Minor Glyphs
Even though minor glyphs do not greatly enhance the performance for Unholy Death Knight, there are 3 minor glyphs provided below that can be used in your minor glyph slots to minmax. These glyphs never change.
Glyph of Resilient Grip allows your Death Grip cooldown to reset if you grip into an immune target, which gives players additional opportunities to grip if you end up using your ability into Deterrence or Ice Block.
Glyph of Death’s Embrace makes Death Coil refund 20 Runic Power when you heal your pets, and in most cases for your Ghoul or Gargoyle.
Glyph of Blood Tap is considerably more minor compared to the additional minor glyphs, but will reduce minor damage when using Blood Tap for rune conversion.