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Death Knight UH Pve guide for MOP expansion

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well, I have been wanting to post a unholy DK guide for a while now and seems like i finally found the time to do so in detail,

so to get things started, here is the stat priority as i play : str (gems) > haste(55-60%)>mastery , 

the unholy abilities consist of a few phases you need to follow : melee dps and skills, DOT uptime and pet usage.

DOT uptime: your highest priority is to get your diseases up time as much as you can with as high damage disease as possible. 

your 2 diseases are http://www.wowhead.com/spell=55078 and http://www.wowhead.com/spell=55095. these 2 diseases are affected by your attack power and mastery as follows:

your direct main stat is Str which affects the attack power of your character at a ratio of 1:2, this stat is affecting both your diseases.

your secondary stat for this category is mastery which affect your shadow damage, this stat is affecting your http://www.wowhead.com/spell=55078 .

your target is to refresh the most strong disease you can on your target while all of your attributes proc (all your cooldown str bonuses activate). this action of refreshing a strong disease with procs is called "Snapshoting" diseases. the term Snapshot can be refereed to other spells on the game. 

for applying new disease and Snapshoting you can use either http://www.wowhead.com/spell=45462 or http://www.wowhead.com/spell=77575 in case of rune shortage.

a strong and high disease uptime can result in a major boost of dps and damage done.

melee skills and normal rotation: your normal rotation is build with 2 main dps spells and 1 spell which increase your diseases uptime.

as a dk your main source of skill and spells are runes, hence the faster your rune generation = the more functions are available for you in any given time.

for that reason an unholy dk must have an insane amount of haste, the difference from 50% and 60% is highly noticeable. 

your normal rotation consists of http://www.wowhead.com/spell=47541 , http://www.wowhead.com/spell=55090 and http://www.wowhead.com/spell=85948.

those skills are used to maximize your dps and your disease uptime, read and understand them. there are other spells which you can benefit of and you can use either ability on different situations.

Death Knight Burst is mainly a haste boost by http://www.wowhead.com/spell=58616 (i know its the glyph linked but i didnt find a link of the actual spell :P) and http://www.wowhead.com/spell=49206 ability, which you want to use when your procs are up (the Gargoyle is not a Snapshoting ability).

pet control is mainly keep http://www.wowhead.com/spell=63560 up when you can and use claw on use, dk pet doesn't require much maintenance aside from leap and gnaw which can be useful in different situations.

regarding talents, there is really nothing set on stone there, mainly use whatever your like and what suit you best, I personally use http://www.wowhead.com/spell=48743 , http://www.wowhead.com/spell=45529 , http://www.wowhead.com/spell=50041 and http://www.wowhead.com/spell=114556, the rest dont have much affect to pve content. 

Aside from what i listen above, the UHdk has many other abilities which you can go and explore for yourself, I hope this guide will help you figure out your way about the UHdk,

best of luck and have a nice day,

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If the cake is a lie, they muffin must be o hoax ^^  Nono, jokin, aside from that gj. Will personally blame you for any dk outdpssing me now :P

Nah, actually I whished more people would make indepth guides on classes especially how the relate on this server. Like you can tube alot of guides from retail, but basically only half the stuff there applies. Nice to having this here. keep it up Muffin :)

 

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