Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Races 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 explain the best Unholy Death Knight races for each faction in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Best Unholy Death Knight PvP Races
Alliance
Human
If you plan to choose Alliance as your faction for Unholy Death Knight in Cataclysm PvP, Human is your best option out of both factions. Will to Survive is used as a trinket players can use instead of using the original PvP trinket purchased from the PvP vendors for Season 9.
Substitute Trinket
Will to Survive as a racial ability has identical effects as the current Season 9 PvP trinket, Vicious Gladiator’s Medallion of Accuracy, which removes your character from any Crowd Control you are in. Having this racial be your substitute PvP trinket offers the opportunity to use multiple PvP On-Use Trinkets, Vicious Gladiator’s Badge of Victory, to provide additional throughout during your burst windows to your enemy targets.
Horde
Orc
If you plan to choose Horde as your faction for Unholy Death Knight in Cataclysm PvP, Orc is your best option to choose from. Hardiness, Command, and Blood Fury provide strong survivability and throughput when in PvP combat, and is a strong competitor with the human racial.
Hardiness Racial
Hardiness‘s ability grants a player passive 15% stun reduction. Stuns used on you being a shorter duration as well as the use of a PvP trinket allow for players to slip away from danger quicker, and allow for players to be more active during a PvP game.
Command Racial
Command‘s ability grants the Death Knight’s pet a 5% passive damage increase. Your ghoul pet will have more damage throughout the game, which will help secure kills in burst windows, especially when using cooldowns like Dark Transformation.
Blood Fury Racial
Orc is provided with an On-Use racial, Blood Fury, which grants Attack Power to you for a short amount of time. This can be paired with your burst cooldowns to provide additional damage throughput to your enemy targets.
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Alternative Unholy Death Knight PvP Races
Alliance
Dwarf
If you want an alternative race while playing as an Unholy Death Knight in Cataclysm PvP, Dwarf is a solid pick to choose. The racial ability, Stoneform, allows for more survivability when facing classes like Ferals and Rogues, but is overall worse since this racial ability is more inconsistent than Will to Survive due to the variance of compositions in arena matches.
Stoneform Racial
Stoneform as a racial ability has the ability to clear all Poison, Disease, and Bleed effects off of your player, as well as a 10% damage reduction from players for 8 seconds. This racial will make your survivability a bit stronger when facing classes that require bleed damage, and can be used preemptively or reactively, paired with Vicious Gladiator’s Medallion of Accuracy, to mitigate any incoming burst damage.