Unholy Death Knight DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

We recommend going for Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your epic gem and then Flawless Deadly Amethyst or Flawless Masterful Garnet as your non-epic gems, prioritizing the stats that you have the least of on your gear. I.e. if you already have lots of Critical Strike on your gear, play the gem that provides more Mastery, and vice versa.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

You can consume a number of different temporary items to increase your power in Dungeons and Raids. Below is a comprehensive overview of everything you want to use!

You generally want to use either Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of the Magisters in all content. The choice depends on your current stats and is unfortunately not an obvious one. If you have lots of Mastery and not much Crit, Shattered Sun is likely best. If you have lots of Crit and not much Mastery, Magisters is better. You need to simulate yourself to get the most accurate result that fits your character, but the above guidelines will serve you well in 99% of cases.

There are some options for potions that we can use, but we recommend Light's Potential as your go-to potion for all content. Draught of Rampant Abandon provides slightly more DPS, but has a major negative drawback, occasionally dropping a void zone under your feet and silencing you.

You should also make sure to keep up a stock of Silvermoon Health Potion! These healing potions are great for when you need to quickly heal yourself, helping your healers, and ensuring that you stay alive.

You can either pick up main stat food or secondary stat food in Midnight. For Unholy Death Knights, main stat is the best option. This means that you either want to eat a feast such as Harandar Celebration or Silvermoon Parade. If your party or raid team does not supply a feast, you can eat Impossibly Royal Roast or Royal Roast as an alternative.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive and disappear on death, so use them wisely and sparingly!

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide has been written by Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player raiding with Pixelbased Lifeforms on Kazzak. He is heavily involved in the DK DPS theorycrafting community, testing hyoptheses and investigating the correct priority to use. He produces guide content on YouTube and frequently streams on Twitch.