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Unholy Spec Death Knight PvP Build

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Unholy (33 Points)

1. Unholy Command – Rank 2/2 – Reduces the cooldown of your Death Grip ability by 10 sec, and gives you a 100% chance to refresh its cooldown when dealing a killing blow to a target that grants experience or honor.
2. Virulence – Rank 3/3 – Increases the damage done by your diseases by 30%.
3. Desecration – Rank 2/2 – Your Plague, Scourge, and Necrotic Strikes defile the ground within 7 yards of your target. Enemies in the area are slowed by 50% while standing on the unholy ground. Does not trigger against targets that are immune to movement-slowing effects. Lasts 20 sec.
4. Morbidity – Rank 3/3 – Increases the damage and healing of Death Coil by 15% and Death and Decay by 30%.
5. Runic Corruption – Rank 2/2 – Reduces the cost of your Death Coil by 6, and causes your Runic Empowerment ability to no longer refresh a depleted rune, but instead to increase your rune regeneration rate by 100% for 3 sec.
6. Unholy Frenzy – Rank 1/1 – Incites a friendly party or raid member into a killing frenzy for 30 sec. The target is Enraged, increasing their melee and ranged haste by 20%, but causes them to lose health equal to 2% of their maximum health every 3 sec.
7. Shadow Infusion – Rank 3/3 – Grants your successful Death Coils a 100% chance to empower your active Ghoul, increasing its damage dealt by 6% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
8. Death’s Advance – Rank 2/2 – While your Unholy Runes are both depleted, movement-impairing effects may not reduce you below 75% of normal movement speed.
9. Magic Suppression – Rank 3/3 – Increases the spell damage absorption of your Anti-Magic Shell by an additional 25%, and increases the Runic Power generated when damage is absorbed by Anti-Magic Shell.
10. Rage of Rivendare – Rank 3/3 – Increases the damage of your Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, and Festering Strike abilities by 45%.
11. Unholy Blight – Rank 1/1 – Causes the victims of your Death Coil to be surrounded by a vile swarm of unholy insects, taking 10% of the damage done by the Death Coil over 10 sec, and preventing any diseases on the victim from being dispelled.
12. Anti-Magic Zone – Rank 1/1 – Places a large, stationary Anti-Magic Zone that reduces spell damage done to party or raid members inside it by 75%. The Anti-Magic Zone lasts for 10 sec or until it absorbs (10000 + 2 * AP) spell damage.
13. Improved Unholy Presence – Rank 2/2 – Grants you an additional 5% haste while in Unholy Presence. In addition, while in Blood Presence or Frost Presence, you retain 15% increased movement speed from Unholy Presence.
14. Dark Transformation – Rank 1/1 – Consume 5 charges of Shadow Infusion on your Ghoul to transform it into a powerful undead monstrosity for 30 sec. The Ghoul’s abilities are empowered and take on new functions while the transformation is active.
15. Ebon Plaguebringer – Rank 1/2 – Your Plague Strike, Icy Touch, Chains of Ice, and Outbreak abilities also infect their target with Ebon Plague, which increases damage taken from your diseases by 15% and all magic damage taken by an additional 8%.
16. Sudden Doom – Rank 2/3 – Your main-hand autoattacks have a chance (higher than rank 1) to make your next Death Coil cost no Runic Power.
17. Summon Gargoyle – Rank 1/1 – A Gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight’s attack power. Persists for 30 sec.

Frost (8 Points)

1. Runic Power Mastery – Rank 3/3 – Increases your maximum Runic Power by 30.
2. Icy Reach – Rank 2/2 – Increases the range of your Icy Touch, Chains of Ice and Howling Blast by 10 yards.
3. Lichborne – Rank 1/1 – Draw upon unholy energy to become undead for 10 sec. While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects.
4. Endless Winter – Rank 2/2 – Your Mind Freeze no longer costs Runic Power.

Blood (0 Points)

Glyphs

1. Prime: Glyph of Raise Dead – Your Ghoul receives an additional 40% of your Strength and 40% of your Stamina.
2. Prime: Glyph of Death Coil – Increases the damage or healing done by Death Coil by 15%.
3. Prime: Glyph of Icy Touch – Your Frost Fever disease deals 20% additional damage.
4. Major: Glyph of Death Grip – Increases the range of your Death Grip ability by 5 yards.
5. Major: Glyph of Strangulate – Increases the Silence duration of your Strangulate ability by 2 sec when used on a target who is casting a spell.
6. Major: Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell – Increases the duration of your Anti-Magic Shell by 2 sec.
7. Minor: Glyph of Horn of Winter – Increases the duration of your Horn of Winter ability by 1 min.
8. Minor: Glyph of Resilient Grip – When your Death Grip ability fails because its target is immune, its cooldown is reset.
9. Minor: Glyph of Blood Tap – Your Blood Tap no longer causes damage to you.

 
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