Unholy Death Knight talent data from rated PvP ladder players

Most-used loadout string among the top 50 tracked Unholy players: CwPAkXBWxkyfx9CbGaHonEAhLBYmhZMGDz2MzMTjZmxMzYAAAAAAAAYegxwAglZwsZmxMzYgBmxmGLLA2mYDDYGAzMzMjZwMDGzYA (3 / 50 (6%)). Open in the talent calculator

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Talent variation: 48 distinct loadout strings in a sample of 50.

Most-taken talent nodes among decoded loadouts. Granted-free nodes are excluded so the table is not a list of the whole tree.

Talent	Tree	Taken	What it does (client tooltip)
Runic Attenuation	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Auto attacks have a chance to generate 3 Runic Power.
Anti-Magic Barrier	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 sec and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40%.
Gloom Ward	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Absorbs are 15% more effective on you.
Will of the Necropolis	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Damage taken below 30% Health is reduced by 20%.
Brittle	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Your diseases have a chance to weaken your enemy causing your attacks against them to deal 6% increased damage for 5 sec.
Asphyxiate	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Lifts the enemy target off the ground, crushing their throat with dark energy and stunning them for 5 sec.
Improved Death Strike	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Death Strike's cost is reduced by 5, and its healing is increased by 15%.
Veteran of the Third War	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Stamina increased by 20%. Damage taken reduced.
Unholy Momentum	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Increases Haste by 2%.
Death Strike	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Focuses dark power into a strike with both weapons, that deals a total of Physical damage and heals you for 20.2% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 7.1% of maximum health.
Cleaving Strikes	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Frostscythe deals 20% increased damage during Remorseless Winter.Heart Strike hits up to 3Scourge Strike and Festering Strike deal 10% increased damage. additional enemies while you remain in Death and Decay. When leaving your Death and Decay you retain its bonus effects for 4 sec.
Unholy Bond	class	50 / 50 (100%)	Increases the effectiveness of your Runeforge effects by 20%.

Hero talent trees in this cohort

• San'layn: 38 / 50 (76%)
• Rider of the Apocalypse: 12 / 50 (24%)

Granted by the specialization, in the client's order. Tooltip text from the current build; damage and healing numbers that scale with gear are left out.

• Mastery: DreadbladeMastery
• Plate Specialization

  Increases your Strength by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.

• Dark Succor

  When you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, your next Death Strike within 20 sec is free and heals for of maximum health.

• Frost Fever

  Grants the Death Knight 5 runic power.

• Dark Transformation

  Dark Transformation grants your ghoul 100% energy.

• Runic Corruption

  Each Runic Power you spend has a chance to increase your Rune regeneration rate for 3 sec.

• Epidemic

  Causes each of your Virulent Plagues to flare up, dealing Shadow damage to the infected enemy and Shadow damage to foes nearby.

• Single-Button Assistant

  Casts damaging abilities for use in combat, rotating through them based on priority. The global cooldown of abilities used through the Single-Button Assistant is 25% longer.

• Raise Dead
• Festering Strike

  Slash the enemy for Physical damage and corrupt your weapon with blight, causing your next 2-3 Scourge Strikes to summon a Lesser Ghoul. Lesser Ghoul A mindless servant of the Scourge, raised to obey its master's commands for 8 sec.

• Lesser Ghoul

Median secondary stats among the top 50 tracked Unholy players with a statistics payload.

Most common trinkets among the top 50 tracked Unholy players with equipment stored.

Trinket	Equipped
Voracious Heart of Ula'tek	24 / 50 (48%)
Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique	20 / 50 (40%)
Resonant Bellowstone	14 / 50 (28%)
Tattered Amani War Banner	10 / 50 (20%)
Gebbo's Bottomless Bag	6 / 50 (12%)
Keeper's Seething Core	5 / 50 (10%)
Seed of the Devouring Wild	3 / 50 (6%)
Vile Vial of Volatile Venom	3 / 50 (6%)

Most common enchant display strings on stored gear.

Most common gem display strings on stored gear.

Most common item in each other slot (one winner per slot, count shown).

Slot	Item	Equipped
Back	Speakeasy Shroud	12 / 50 (24%)
Chest	Baleful Grave-Knight's Breastplate	45 / 50 (90%)
Feet	Spellbreaker's March	30 / 50 (60%)
Finger 1	Signet of Snarling Servitude	13 / 50 (26%)
Finger 2	Charged Sandstone Band	9 / 50 (18%)
Hands	Baleful Grave-Knight's Deathgrips	46 / 50 (92%)
Head	Baleful Grave-Knight's Casque	47 / 50 (94%)
Legs	Baleful Grave-Knight's Greaves	34 / 50 (68%)
Main Hand	Blood Knight's Warblade	19 / 50 (38%)
Neck	Aqirbane Reliquary	19 / 50 (38%)
Off Hand	Jaw of the Shackled Goddess	3 / 50 (6%)
Shirt	Blinky's Collar	10 / 50 (20%)
Shoulder	Baleful Grave-Knight's Gibbets	45 / 50 (90%)
Tabard	Galactic Gladiator's Tabard	6 / 50 (12%)
Waist	Girdle of Toxic Regret	13 / 50 (26%)
Wrist	Spellbreaker's Bracers	40 / 50 (80%)

1. This page aggregates TheWoWDB-tracked Unholy Death Knight characters. It is not a rotation guide and it is not a world-first raid note.
2. Cohort: the highest item level characters among US players we crawl from the rated PvP ladders. The character profiles behind this page come from our crawl of the US rated PvP ladders, so players who never queue rated PvP are not in it.
3. The talent, gear, and stat tables describe the top 50 tracked players (cap 50) after requiring a stored talent loadout. Characters without a loadout do not count.
4. A page is published only when at least 30 such players exist. Below that, the URL 404s so a thin sample cannot rank.
5. Most-used means the highest count in this cohort. It is not a verdict that the choice is correct.
6. Embellishments are omitted: the Armory equipment payload we store lists slot, item, enchants, and gems, and does not flag embellishments.
7. PvP talent names come from the character profile when present. Mythic+ pages rank the cohort by stored mythic rating; PvP pages rank by the current US leaderboard rating; builds pages rank by item level.
8. Client build for talent-tree labels: 12.1.5.70448.