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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.

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Unholy Presence

Unholy Presence
1 Unholy Rune

Instant cast	1 sec cooldown

Infuses the death knight with unholy fury, increasing attack speed by 15%, movement speed by 15% and reducing the global cooldown on all abilities by 0.5 sec. Only one Presence may be active at a time.

Buff

Unholy Presence

Attack speed increased 15%.
Movement speed increased by 15%.
Global cooldown on all abilities reduced by 0.5 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

1 Unholy Rune

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 second

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Melee Attack Speed - %
Value: 15%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Global Cooldown (21)
Value: -500 milliseconds
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

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

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Threat (127)
Value: -20
PVP Multiplier: 1

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

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