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Unholy Death Knight WeakAuras, Macros & Addons - The War Within 11.0.2
By Taeznak
Last Updated:
2024/09/10
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WeakAuras, 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.
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible WoW addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of modifying or replacing nearly any part of the user interface.
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Recommended Unholy Death Knight WeakAuras
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of replicating or replacing nearly any part of the user interface. While designed as a simple way to create alerts to remind you of buffs, debuff, or encounter mechanics, it has become an integral part of World of Warcraft user interface customization, allowing players to replace their traditional action bars, create and share complex raid information, track other players spell casts, and much, much more. In this section, we've highlighted some of the best WeakAuras for Unholy Death Knight, although there are so many different options available that we
highly
recommend visiting
wago.io
to find one that best suits your needs.
Weak Aura Links
Remember that no Weakauras are ever mandatory to play with, but they can help condense a lot of information into a small, easy-to-track package. These are some sample sets that cover the Unholy basics which are plug-and-play, or can be used for some inspiration when setting up your own set:
Name & Link
Example
Description
Luxthos’ Death Knight Package
A dynamic package that will cover all of the main things you need to track for Death Knight abilities and rotation in a lightweight group. Luxthos also creates similar packages for all other classes, so this is recommended for beginners and experienced players who play many different characters.
Publik's Unholy Death Knight Package
A fully featured package that contains just about every aura you could possibly want for an Unholy Death Knight. From defensives, to consumables, this has it all.
Taeznak’s WeakAuras
My own WeakAura package, built with the goal of being a rotation helper and a good starting point for many learning the spec.
Recommended Unholy Death Knight 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.
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.
Opener 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. Most trinkets have a 20-second buff duration, meaning that they fit in nicely with
Unholy Assault
in the opener:
Use this for Trinket slot 1.
/use Unholy Assault
/use 13
Or this for Trinket slot 2.
/use Unholy Assault
/use 14
Many builds in The War Within Pre-patch don't utilize
Summon Gargoyle
, so we can utilize our potion a little bit earlier alongside
Raise Abomination
/cast Raise Abomination
/use Tempered Potion
If you talent
Summon Gargoyle
, we will want to use our
Dark Transformation
and
Summon Gargoyle
together, combined with your potion (this macro prioritizes the potions depending on their power.) Utilize this macro for that:
/cast Summon Gargoyle
/cast Dark Transformation
/use Tempered Potion
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 attack 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
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 mouse over 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
Death's Advance
Prevent yourself from using both charges of
Death's Advance
or
Death Charge
.
#showtooltip Death's Advance
/castsequence reset=2 Death's Advance,null
Anti-Magic Zone
#showtooltip
/cast Anti-Magic Zone
And an alternate at player position version
#showtooltip
/cast Anti-Magic Zone
Recommended Unholy Death Knight Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can 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 Death Knight 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.
Hekili
For players who are looking for a rotation helper,
Hekili
can provide a powerful tool using imported SimulationCraft profiles to generate a guideline for your next button presses in the priority sequence. This is useful for new and experienced players alike to give some assistance grasping the rotation and is well maintained.
BossMods
: BossMods are add-ons that show you a timer of upcoming boss abilities and make noises if you stand in fire. You can choose between
Deadly Boss Mods
and
BigWigs
. I would recommend BigWigs.
Damage meter
:
Skada
or Details are the perfect add-ons to let you check the damage you and your raid member do. These add-ons are also useful to track interrupts, dispels, or deaths.
Download UI
: If you don't want to make your own UI you can also download UI packages. The most common recommendation is to use ElvUI. ElvUI is a replacement for the standard Blizzard UI that is very easy to configure and a lot of high-end raiders use it. Check wago.io for profiles, or check out streamers on Twitch.
More Recommendations
User Interface
ElvUI - Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
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.
OmniCD
- A specialized addon to track your group members' cooldowns.
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
Method Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
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 Unholy Death Knight addons for you.
About the Author
Taeznak is a long time Unholy player, theorycrafter and moderator on the
Death Knight Discord server, Acherus
. I also help maintain Simulationcraft, supporting both Death Knights as a whole, as well as implementing many of the special effect items you run sims for. If you have any questions about the guide or the content, feel free to reach out to me on discord.
Our Unholy Death Knight 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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