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Unholy Death Knight Macros & Addons - Dragonflight 10.1.7
By Bicepspump
Last Updated:
2023/09/06
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Macros and Addons provide many quality-of-life improvements in WoW, allowing players to improve how information is displayed in-game or automate decision-making to optimize performance.
In this guide, we will go over useful Unholy Death Knight macros for , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Unholy Death Knight addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Unholy Death Knight macros to help you gain a competitive edge, or creating a custom user interface to expand your view of the game world, this page will help get you started with some of the most popular choices within the Unholy Death Knight community.
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10.1.7 Support Buffs
10.1.7 Gear
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Overview
Abilities & Talents
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Consumables
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
Mythic+
Common Questions
Leveling
Simulations
Hotfixes
PvP Overview
PvP Builds
Mage Tower
About the Author
I'm Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player currently playing in Pescorus on Kazzak. You can often find me on the
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discussing rotations and builds, on my stream (
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), running some juicy Mythic +, or on my
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where I do video guides. Big shoutout to everyone on the Acherus discord that have given me valuable insight through numerous discussions. I take part in writing and optimizing the action priority list for SimulationCraft and continuously test different hypotheses using the SimulationCraft program. Please feel free to contact me on Discord as Bicepspump#6318, I'm always happy to have a healthy discussion! Outside of playing WoW, I work as a quant and enjoy playing other games such as Dota 2!
Macros
Macros are simple, in-game tools which allow you to sequence spells together, create custom names and icons, cast different abilities depending on whether the target is friendly or hostile, define targeting conditions, and much, much more. While the amount of options can be complex, making them is easy, so in this section we'll go over how to set them up yourself.
To open the in-game Macro interface, type "/macro" or "/m".
Choose between the General and Character-specific macro tabs. Then click the "New" button on the macro window.
Choose a Name and an Icon so you can easily recognize your macro, then click "Okay."
Select your new macro and use the text editor below to tell it what to do. If copying ours below, you can simply copy/paste the text in.
Click the "Save" button, and drag your macro icon onto your bars, which will allow it to be used just like any other spell from your spellbook.
To close the window, click "Exit", or just press Escape.
For more information on creating macros, including full lists of conditionals, modifiers, and other command customizations you can use, check out our full
Macros guide
.
There are a couple of useful Macros that an Unholy DK can utilize. These help us to use spells and abilities in different ways, or with added functionality. Big shoutout to Chewie at the Acherus discord for giving input on all these macros.
The Unholy opener contains a ton of different abilities you need to press, making the use of macros a good way of simplifying it. This is especially important when running
Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
(yes even in season 2) where you want to make sure to use it in an empty GCD. Here's the macro I use where I attach it to my
Unholy Assault
:
/use Unholy Assault
/use Empower Rune Weapon
/use 13
The drawback with this macro is that you have to use it outside of a GCD so that Puzzle box doesn't trigger first, blocking your other spells. To get around that, you can also do the following:
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 Unholy Assault, Empower Rune Weapon, Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
You simply need to spam this until your puzzle box is used. It's up to you if which macro you feel works best, as well as what ability to tie it to. It's also viable to put it on
Apocalypse
!
Pet Control
Target swap
Making your ghoul switch targets quickly is a useful thing to do, here is a macro that both makes it cast its
Leap
ability on the target, as well as attacking that target. Be careful to not use this macro when you don't want to interrupt your target!
Leap
also interrupts!
#showtooltip
/cast Leap
/petattack
/startattack
Movement
For when you want to have the little ghoulish friend to move to a specific spot:
#showtooltip dark transformation
/petmoveto
Follow
Or when you want him to just follow you like the devout servant he is, so cute as well:
/petfollow
Resummon
Finally, if you want to resummon your pet, the following macro is useful. However,
be aware
, if you have any Army of Apocalypse pets up, dismissing and resummoning will not bring them back!
Do not dismiss your pets if you have used
Apocalypse
or
Army of the Dead
recently!
/script PetDismiss()
/cast Raise Dead
It dismisses your pet if you have one, and resummons if you don't have one.
Death and Decay
Another useful macro is the one that automatically casts
Death and Decay
at the position of your mouse cursor. This behaves similarly to "quickcast" that exists in other games (like Dota2).
#showtooltip Death and Decay
/cast Death and Decay
Casting on your cursor isn't always what you want to do. Here is a macro that casts it right underneath you!
#showtooltip Death and Decay
/cast Death and Decay
Death Grip
Controlling
Death Grip
is can be very useful in many situations. More specifically, when it can be difficult to select your target, or when you don't want to switch back and forth to just cast
Death Grip
.
This macro casts
Death Grip
at the target you have your mouse over.
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
If you want to cast it on your focus target:
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
Mouseover Macros
I've already recommended one of these Macros but they are all useful. Excellent for when you don't want to switch the selected target, but still use an ability on something else. These macros are so smart that they will use it on your main target if you don't mouseover a different one.
Mind Freeze
#showtooltip Mind Freeze
/cast Mind Freeze; Mind Freeze
Asphyxiate
#showtooltip Asphyxiate
/cast Asphyxiate; Asphyxiate
Outbreak
#showtooltip Outbreak
/cast Outbreak
Raise Ally
#showtooltip Raise Ally
/cast Raise Ally
This final one has an interesting property (Thanks to Georgetakei for this one). It uses
Outbreak
on your current mouseover, if you have one, or on your current target otherwise. If you hold shift, it does the same thing but with
Chains of Ice
(Useful in PvP).
#showtooltip
/cast Outbreak;
/cast Chains of Ice
/cancelaura Primal Rage
Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can be used to both customize your gameplay experience, ranging from graphical overlays, replacement action bars, and unit/raid frames, to performance enhancements such as rotation helping spell reminders, buff/debuff tracking, popup reminders, and boss warnings. Here are some of the highly recommended and commonly used Unholy DK addons, which are certainly not required to play, but can go a long way toward increasing the information available to you in combat or simply make for a more pleasant viewing experience.
Unlike Macros, managing Addons is done outside of the game, but our
How to Install and Maintain Addons Guide
will take you step-by-step through the process.
Cosmetic Addons
Cosmetic addons are personal from player to player. These include ElvUI,
Bartender
,
Moveanything
, WeakAuras and many more. The goal for these addons is the create a pleasant and compact interface that allows you to focus both on the fight but also on your various abilities, cool downs, and buffs. It's extremely important that you properly track the crucial things in a fight!
Functional Addons
These addons can be viewed as additional elements that help your gameplay. They can tell you what to do during a fight (
Deadly Boss Mods
or
Bigwigs
), they can track a large variety of raid events such as deaths, interrupts and damage (Details,
Recount
or
Skada
) and they can be highly customized to do more things than what you can imagine (WeakAuras). I recommend getting at least one addon from each of these categories. I personally use DBM, Details, and WeakAuras.
More Recommendations
User Interface
ElvUI - Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
Azerite Tooltip
-Shows Azerite Powers available to your specialization on gear tooltips.
Bartender4
- Highly customizable action bars which can be moved and organized however you like.
Chatter
- Replacement chatbox addon, with custom themes, fonts, and functions.
Deja Character Stats
- Adds more stats to the character panel, with customizable filters.
Elkano's Buff Bars
- Replaces the standard buff/debuff icons with ordered lists, including names and bar graph-style durations.
Mapster
- World map enhancement which adds coordinates, icons, and more.
Move Anything
- Allows any part of the default UI to be moved around.
OPie
- A specialized radial menu style actionbar, very useful for condensing less frequently used spells that don't always need to be on your main bars.
Sexy Map
- Makes your minimap sexy!
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
ThreatPlates
- Customize nameplates styles and add various information including buffs, debuffs and casting indicators
World Quest List
- Attaches a sortable list of active world quest lists, filtered by zone, to the edge of your map.
Combat and informational
BigWigs Bossmods - A lightweight, open source raid encounter addon.
Deadly Boss Mods - A more robust encounter addon for dungeons, raids, PvP, and more.
Details - A highly customizable damage and healing meter
Exorsus Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
Omen
- Threat meter
SimulationCraft - Simplifies simming your character by generating an in-game script to paste into SimCraft or Raidbots
WeakAuras2 - A very powerful addon that can display a massive variety of information including procs, casting indicators and raid boss warnings.
Of course, these recommendations are not the only useful addons out there; there are hundreds to choose from, of every type imaginable. If you're looking for something a little different, search through
Curseforge
or
WoWInterface
to find the right one for you.
Our Unholy DK guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs; make sure to check our changelog to this page, by clicking on
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