Welcome to Skill-Capped’s Unholy Death Knight PvP Guide for 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 a brief overview of Unholy Death Knight in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Why Unholy Death Knight?
Unholy Death Knight offers excellent utility, an amazing toolkit for burst damage and consistent pressure, as well as additional slows and gap closers that empower this Death Knight specialization.
Starting with their utility, these cooldowns allow for powerful survivability and to maintain pressure on a target using Anti-Magic Shield, Icebound Fortitude, Chains of Ice, and Anti-Magic Zone. Anti-Magic Zone’s magic damage reduction can help teammates recover from incoming spells, making this a powerful class when focusing on team oriented play.
Unholy Death Knight has consistent dot damage with Frost Fever and Blood Plague, while having a massive portion of your damage come from your pets. Their ghoul pet can create pressure through Dark Transformation, as well as Summon Gargoyle being a significant cooldown for creating substantial pressure to overwhelm their opponents. Combining their dot and pet damage with Unholy Death Knight’s direct damage from Scourge Strike, Festering Strike, Necrotic Strike, and Death Coil with a Sudden Doom proc or maximum runic power, make this specialization extremely powerful when creating pressure.
Their slows and gap closers further portray the strengths given from the Unholy Death Knight toolkit. Having Death Grip as a gap closer, as well as Chains of Ice to connect quicker to a target make Death Knights difficult to kite from. Additionally, Gnaw allows for stunning casts from a distance, and can be used in combination with Strangulate on healers as an interrupt to lock down on a target when Death Grip is on cooldown.
For compositions, Unholy Death Knights have a variety of classes that work well with them in Cataclysm, making them a great versatile option to choose from out of most specializations in the game. The best specializations to play with are Arms Warriors, Retribution Paladins, Feral Druids, Shadow Priests, and Affliction Warlocks in 3v3, preferably with a Holy Paladin or Restoration Shaman.
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