Kim's Unholy Sequence

Death Knight Midnight Unholy
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Hey everyone,

This is my first post here so go easy on me — I’ve been working on a 2-button Unholy DK (Rider of the Apocalypse – Midnight) setup for M+/cleave and wanted to share what’s been working really well for me.

I was having a lot of issues with other macros (errors, stuttering, bad cooldown usage), so I ended up building this to be:

  • smooth to spam

  • low error/no lockups

  • still actually hits hard

What this setup is

It’s a 2-button GSE setup:

Button 1 = Main Spam

This handles:

  • builders (Festering + Scourge Strike)

  • RP dump (Death Coil)

  • light AoE (Epidemic)

  • auto targeting + pet attack

Basically you just spam this most of the time.

Button 2 = Burst / Cooldowns

This fires:

  • Army of the Dead

  • Dark Transformation

  • Death and Decay (auto drops at your feet)

  • Soul Reaper + Putrefy

  • extra Death Coils

Use this for:

  • pull

  • big packs

  • boss burn

Why I made it this way

I originally tried a 1-button setup, but it had a bunch of issues:

  • “wrong zone” errors (trinkets/army)

  • “no valid target”

  • “you can’t do that yet” spam

  • cooldowns getting wasted at bad times

Splitting it into 2 buttons fixed all of that and honestly just feels way better to play.

Important tip (highly recommend)

If you use this:

Get a cooldown tracker / manager addon.

Something that shows when:

  • Army is ready

  • Dark Transformation is up

  • Death and Decay charges are ready

Because this setup is a lot stronger when you:

  • line up your burst properly

  • don’t just mash it randomly

Macros + Talent Tree

Main Spam Sequence

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Burst / Cooldown Sequence

!GSE3!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

Talent Tree Import

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Final Thoughts

I’m still tweaking things and learning the spec, so if anyone has suggestions or improvements I’m all ears.

If you try it out, let me know how it feels for you.

Thanks!

Note: You will need to manually press your own trinkets if you have some that are use items, I recommend making a in game macro. these are the commands to use for said macro: /use 13 /use 14. In separate lines of course. this will use both trinkets at the same time however so if you want to use trinkets separate just press them manually. Ok bye :waving_hand:

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ill give ot a go when i get home!

good write up and i hope it performs as the write up does

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Thats Great thank you! Please let me know how it works for you. Give me all the criticism you have of it, I’m still learning so anything helps!

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ok its is working smoothly

Impressed as some of old skool gse makers struggles with UHDK

The one area I see probably Needs to change is that you are using

DEATH COIL AND EPIDEMIC together, so they are competing for runic power

For a AE build take out Death Coil and for ST take out Epidemic

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I main RET who is 274 atm

my DK is 252 with a 259 weapon

as is– its doing 93k on the 5 dummies

replacing death coil with another epidiemic has increased it to 103k

there still looks to be room for more epidemic/graveyard spam as well

Im unsure if replacing the death coil with epidemic int hat block is optimal vs having the block below repeat 6x or something else.

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Thank you for the feedback much appreciated, and I’m glad it is at least working smoothish. I’m going to try and fix that runic power issue probably with a shift mod, so that when you are unshifted you are only using epidemic for AOE but when you press shift it will use death coil for ST. not sure if it will fix it but its worth a try lol. Would love some feed back if you think that’s a good idea or not.

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Ok so I made the shift modified version of sequence, when I tested it I had a much better AOE damage value just like you said! The only thing is when you do single target you need to press shift while pressing your rotation key to have death coil used other wise it will not fire no matter what. i know it was a quicker fix but i hope this version works better, please give it a try and let me know because if its a better version i will change the current codes to the new one.

Main Spam Sequence V1.1

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Burst / Cooldown Sequence V1.1

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hope this fixed the issue and boost the damage you get! let me know :smiley:

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i havent looked at it yet, but SHIFT is for Death Coil?

What I did is jsut made another sequence with no epidemic, only Death Coil as configuration 2

so config 1 i named AE and config 2 I named ST

so i switch there

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how is the dps compared to sims?

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i havnet simmed yet— as even on my ret– I dont htink the sims work properly

whichis hte reason the devs are all over the place with tuning becasue when they were tuning off sims they were really wrong

that being said the damage looks fine so far

By fine i dont mean you can play the game casually, as i do prgression and mplus

My ret is 3111 at 274 so far and parsing purple to orange in keys and the same in raids

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With all respect, but single button assist works better. Where is putrefy, scourge strike?