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Comment by frmorrison

This is very useful for PvP, since you attack faster (more burst), less GCD (so you can use your abilities quickly) and some amount of run speed (so you don't get kited as much).

Comment by asktgm

Does not seem to affect your speed while mounted.

Comment by Rattja

This is the one you will want to use in a pvp situation, where you want to dish out all you got, as fast as you can, and chase them down if they try to run. For pve I would have to say that blood is the thing to use =) And then frost for tank (duh) =p

Comment by thundagard

I find this presence great for grinding and levelling - for longer fights, of course, I'd go with Blood Presence, but in short fights being able to disease them really fast, let off my Heart Strikes and finish them with Obliterate - well, it's very GCD heavy, because I'm not really bothering that much with refreshed runes. Oh, and it can be an increase in DPS with Death Coil.

Comment by 3465

What most people have failed to realize about this spell is the travel-time between mobs, and killing mobs on a single-rotation gain a lot of benefit from this presence.

.5 seconds off of a 1.5 sec GCD is a 33% increase in damage. (roughly)
15% run speed causing travel-time while walking between mobs to be reduced.
vs 15% from Blood Presence

Unless your doing aoe, every time, all of the time, unholy presence is really nice for those single-target, single-kill scenarios while grinding. If you can kill your target in a single rotation, it's perfect.

This presence also may benefit frost more than other talent builds since frost seems to be "designed" for dual-wielding (I never said it was a good design, but it seems like the higher-up talents are 'made' for it), and frost is based a lot on using runic power and generating lots of runic power and being able to dump it. Unholy presence may allow you to slip in more buttons before you start using runes, instead of runic power again.

Comment by vexis58

Unholy Aura does not increase your own movement speed if you are already in Unholy Presence. It merely extends the movement speed benefit of Unholy Presence to your party/raid members, and also, allows you to move at Unholy Presence speed while in a non-Unholy presence.

Comment by 321609

Amazing presence for PvP, especially in arenas. Improved move speed helps against those casters who kite you around (Damn Druids), and the .5 seconds off the GCD means you can get a lot more attacks on a target just before they get out of range.

Comment by 206242

I recently went back to play my DK and noticed the different wording. It used to say that the movement speed buff did not stack with other similar effects (I'm speaking of the increased "movement speed by 15%"). Now it no longer mentions this.

Has this changed? Do similar effects (such as the enchant Tuskar's Vitality) stack with this buff now?

Edit: I was just in Forge of Souls, we wiped once at last boss and as we came back in a hunter in the group used Aspect of the Pack. I noticed that when the Hunter was near me and I was in reach of the Pack aura, I *DID* move faster. It was funny because I would speed up to the point of moving ahead of the aura's reach, then I'd slow down until the aura caught up to me then I'd speed back up, run ahead of the aura's reach and slow back down.

This, to me, proves that yes, the speed increasing effect of Unholy Presence and Improved Unholy Presence does stack with other movement increasing effects. I'll be getting speed enchant for boots to help catch strays while tanking.

Comment by 627671

For the people talking about GCD And not having Rune's Up, This will make your 4p (Tier10) DPS Set bonus Proc alot more and more uptime for more % of damage.

Comment by Meldoron

I tried frost presence (the new blood for cata) and unholy presence in an unholy spec and noticed a dps increase using unholy presence since there is no time that i don't have some ability to use.

I did this test with just a premade dk w/o gems glyphs, or enchants, so it may vary a bit, but i wanted to just test a basic setup.

Comment by RickWolford

Unholy Presence is allot better in Cataclysm.
But even in WotLK, it was always good for brust DPS
In WotLK my DPS was duel spec-ed and both were unholy.
I had a single target and AoE DPS build and it worked amazingly
Normal Mobs I was in my AoE DPS spec and was always in Unholy Presence
But when fighting bosses I went Single Target DPS and switched to Blood Presence
All that aside, Unholy has always been burst DPS and isn't meant for boss fights
PvP, soloing, and normal mobs, go Unholy. Boss fights, go Frost.

Comment by rodalpho

DKs have a 1.0 sec GCD baseline as of the 5.0.1 patch. This applies to all three presences. Unholy Presence was not nerfed.

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Unholy Presence

Unholy Presence
Instant

You are infused with unholy fury, increasing attack speed and rune regeneration by 10%, and movement speed by 15%, and reducing the global cooldown on your abilities by 0.5 sec. Only one Presence may be active at a time, and assuming a new Presence will consume any stored Runic Power.

Buff

Unholy Presence

Attack speed and rune regeneration increased 10%.
Movement speed increased by 15%.
Global cooldown reduced by 0.5 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Melee Attack Speed - %
Value: 11%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Increase Run Speed % (21)
Value: 16%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Army of the Dead	Death and Decay	Plague Strike
	Icy Touch	Chains of Ice	Blood Tap
	Blood Strike	Raise Dead	Strangulate
	Mind Freeze	Death Coil	Empower Rune Weapon
	Blood Presence	Unholy Presence	Frost Presence
	Anti-Magic Shell	Blood Boil	Death Pact
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	Acherus Deathcharger	Icebound Fortitude	Obliterate
	Death Grip	Death Strike	Pestilence
	Horn of Winter	Obliterate Off-Hand	Rune Tap
	Improved Rune Tap	Unholy Frenzy	Dancing Rune Weapon
	Lichborne	Frost Strike	Howling Blast
	Unholy Blight	Hungering Cold	Summon Gargoyle
	Bone Shield	Improved Rune Tap	Improved Rune Tap
	Blood Rites	Anti-Magic Zone	Heart Strike
	Scourge Strike	Dark Transformation

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Global Cooldown (21)
Value: -499 milliseconds
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Army of the Dead	Death and Decay	Plague Strike
	Icy Touch	Chains of Ice	Blood Tap
	Blood Strike	Raise Dead	Strangulate
	Death Coil	Empower Rune Weapon	Anti-Magic Shell
	Blood Boil	Death Pact	Icebound Fortitude
	Obliterate	Death Grip	Death Strike
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	Pestilence	Dark Command	Rune Strike
	Horn of Winter	Raise Ally	Obliterate Off-Hand
	Necrotic Strike	Outbreak	Dark Simulacrum
	Festering Strike	Festering Strike Off-Hand	Rune Tap
	Improved Rune Tap	Unholy Frenzy	Dancing Rune Weapon
	Lichborne	Frost Strike	Howling Blast
	Hungering Cold	Summon Gargoyle	Bone Shield
	Improved Rune Tap	Improved Rune Tap	Blood Rites
	Anti-Magic Zone	Pillar of Frost	Heart Strike
	Scourge Strike	Vampiric Blood	Dark Transformation

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Can be used while mounted
Can be used while sitting
Unaffected by invulnerability
Aura cannot be cancelled
Generates no threat
Allow Dead Target
Use Shapeshift Bar
Include in Advanced Combat Log
Suppress Caster Procs
Persists through death
Allow Entering Arena
Allow While Riding Vehicle
Aura Points On Client

Unholy Presence

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