Wrathsecrets brings you the latest 4.0.6 build spec guide for unholy DK DeathKnight in world of warcraft Cataclysm.  We will update this guide with the newest builds when they come out so bookmark this page!  This build uses Gargoyle so if you are looking for an alternate build without gargoyle try this no Gargoyle Spell Unholy Build

Remember, there is no such thing as a perfect build.  The prefect build is one in which fits YOUR PLAYSTYLE!  These are recommendations based on the popular choices for patch 4.0.6 unholy Death Knights!

These are the most popular pvp talents points to go along great with the best leveling route guide: Zygor’s Leveling Guide

Level 85 Death Knight (0/8/33) (Link)

Unholy (33 Points)

Unholy Command – Rank 2/2
Reduces the cooldown of your Death Grip ability by 10 sec, and gives you a 100% chance to refresh its cooldown when dealing a killing blow to a target that grants experience or honor.

Epidemic – Rank 3/3
Increases the duration of Blood Plague and Frost Fever by 12 sec.

Desecration – Rank 2/2
Your Plague, Scourge, and Necrotic Strikes defile the ground within 7 yards of your target. Enemies in the area are slowed by 50% while standing on the unholy ground. Lasts 20 sec.

Morbidity – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage and healing of Death Coil by 15% and Death and Decay by 30%.

Runic Corruption – Rank 2/2
Reduces the cost of your Death Coil by 6, and causes your Runic Empowerment ability to no longer refresh a depleted rune, but instead to increase your rune regeneration rate by 100% for 3 sec.

Unholy Frenzy – Rank 1/1
Induces a friendly unit into a killing frenzy for 30 sec. The target is Enraged, which increases their melee and ranged haste by 20%, but causes them to lose health equal to 2% of their maximum health every 3 sec.

Shadow Infusion – Rank 3/3
When you cast Death Coil, you have a 100% chance to empower your active Ghoul, increasing its damage dealt by 8% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

Death’s Advance – Rank 2/2
While your Unholy Runes are both depleted, movement-impairing effects may not reduce you below 100% of normal movement speed.

Magic Suppression – Rank 3/3
Increases the spell damage absorption of your Anti-Magic Shell by an additional 25%, and increases the runic power generated when damage is absorbed by Anti-Magic Shell.

Rage of Rivendare – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage of your Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, and Festering Strike abilities by 36%.

Unholy Blight – Rank 1/1
Causes the victims of your Death Coil to be surrounded by a vile swarm of unholy insects, taking 10% of the damage done by the Death Coil over 10 sec, and preventing any diseases on the victim from being dispelled.

Anti-Magic Zone – Rank 1/1
Places a large, stationary Anti-Magic Zone that reduces spell damage done to party or raid members inside it by 75%. The Anti-Magic Zone lasts for 10 sec or until it absorbs (10000 + 2 * AP) spell damage.

Dark Transformation – Rank 1/1
Consume 5 charges of Shadow Infusion on your Ghoul to transform it into a powerful undead monstrosity for 30 sec. The Ghoul’s abilities are empowered and take on new functions while the transformation is active.

Ebon Plaguebringer – Rank 2/2
Your Plague Strike, Icy Touch, Chains of Ice, and Outbreak abilities also infect their target with Ebon Plague, which increases damage taken from your diseases by 30% and all magic damage taken by an additional 8%.

Sudden Doom – Rank 3/3
Your main-hand auto attacks have a chance (higher than rank 2) to make your next Death Coil cost no runic power.

Summon Gargoyle – Rank 1/1
A Gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight’s attack power. Persists for 30 sec.

Frost (8 Points)

Runic Power Mastery – Rank 3/3
Increases your maximum Runic Power by 30.

Icy Reach – Rank 2/2
Increases the range of your Icy Touch, Chains of Ice and Howling Blast by 10 yards.

Lichborne – Rank 1/1
Draw upon unholy energy to become undead for 10 sec. While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects.

Endless Winter – Rank 2/2
Your Mind Freeze no longer costs runic power.

Glyphs

Glyph of Scourge Strike (Prime Glyph)
Increases the Shadow damage portion of your Scourge Strike by 30%.

Glyph of Death Coil (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage or healing done by Death Coil by 15%.

Glyph of Raise Dead (Prime Glyph)
Your Ghoul receives an additional 40% of your Strength and 40% of your Stamina.

Glyph of Dark Succor (Major Glyph)
Causes your Death Strike ability to always restore at least 15% of your maximum health when used while in Frost or Unholy Presence.

Glyph of Strangulate (Major Glyph)
Increases the Silence duration of your Strangulate ability by 2 sec when used on a target who is casting a spell.

Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell (Major Glyph)
Increases the duration of your Anti-Magic Shell by 2 sec.

Glyph of Resilient Grip (Minor Glyph)
When your Death Grip ability fails because its target is immune, its cooldown is reset.

Glyph of Horn of Winter (Minor Glyph)
Increases the duration of your Horn of Winter ability by 1 min.

Glyph of Death’s Embrace (Minor Glyph)
Your Death Coil refunds 20 runic power when used to heal an allied minion.

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A balance druid is a great way for leveling your druid in WoW Cataclysm to level 85.  This Balance Spec tree leveling build guide is updated for Cataclysm 4.0.6.

Stats

Intellect:
Intellect provides 1 spellpower and 0.006% to crit per point. With Mark of the Wild, Heart of the Wild, and Astral Leather Specialization, it provides 1.169 spellpower and 0.0070% crit (142 points per 1% crit, a bit under 1/3 of a crit rating).
Similarly, with these talents, one point of Intellect increases your maximum mana by 17.53, and your regen from Replenishment, Euphoria, and Innervate correspondingly.
These things together make Int the best stat for both DPS and mana.

Spellpower:
Intellect, without the talent bonuses, crit bonus, or mana gains. Basically a weaker form of Intellect that only appears on weapons, but is still good.

Hit rating/Spirit:
26.23 hit rating gives 1% to hit with spells. If you are under hit cap (see below), hit is a solid DPS stat. Beyond the cap, additional hit rating adds nothing and is wasted. With Balance of Power, 1 Spirit and 1 hit rating are identical for gear selection purposes.

Haste rating:
32.79 haste rating gives 1% spell haste. Again a solid DPS stat. Once you’re at the hit cap, haste will be your best secondary (i.e. non-Int) stat.

Critical strike rating:
45.9 crit rating gives 1% to crit. With Moonfury and a Chaotic Skyflare Diamond, crits with most of our our main spells do 2.09 times the damage of non crits. Because crit gives a lower rating conversion than haste, and we no longer have a meaningful haste cap, crit is substantially weaker than haste.

Mastery rating:
45.9 mastery rating adds 1.5% to our Eclipse bonus. Because only about half our spells are cast during Eclipse, this makes it even weaker than crit rating, and our worst secondary stat.

Reforging

Always pick an Intellect item over anything else.  For reforging purposes these are the stats you want in order of importance.

1) Spirit (technically better than Hit since it can occasionally give you mana).
2) Hit rating (until cap).
3) Haste rating.
4) Crit rating.
5) Mastery rating.

Gems

In general, gem [Brilliant Cardinal Ruby] in red sockets, [Purified Dreadstone] (if under the hit cap) in blue sockets, and [Reckless Ametrine] in yellow sockets. Exception: if the socket bonus is something other than spellpower or Int, ignore it and put Brilliant in all sockets. (At level 85: no color-matching–Brilliant in all items).

Use one [Nightmare Tear] in a blue or yellow socket, and make sure you also have at least one [Purified Dreadstone] somewhere to meet your meta requirement.

In your meta socket (only use hats with meta sockets), use [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond].

Skill Rotation

• Start by applying Moonfire and Insect Swarm, and casting Starsurge. Whenever either DoT falls off the target, or Starsurge comes off cooldown, recast it.
• Cast Starfire until until a Solar (Wrath) Eclipse procs, then switch to Wrath. Cast Wrath until a Lunar (Starfire) Eclipse procs, then switch back to Starfire.
• Repeat this Eclipse cycle, always keeping your two DoT’s on the target and using Starsurge, Starfall and Force of Nature on cooldown.

Cataclysm 1-85 Druid Balance Spec Tree Leveling Build Guide

Level 85 Druid (31/5/5)

Balance (31 Points)

Nature’s Grace – Rank 3/3
You gain 15% spell haste after you cast Moonfire, Regrowth, or Insect Swarm, lasting 15 sec. This effect has a 1 minute cooldown. When you gain Lunar or Solar Eclipse, the cooldown of Nature’s Grace is instantly reset.

Starlight Wrath – Rank 3/3
Reduces the cast time of your Wrath and Starfire spells by 0.5 sec.

Nature’s Majesty – Rank 2/2
Increases the critical strike chance with spells by 4%.

Genesis – Rank 3/3
Increases the healing done by your periodic spells and by Swiftmend by 6%, and increases the duration of your Moonfire and Insect Swarm by 6 sec.

Balance of Power – Rank 2/2
Increases your Nature and Arcane spell damage by 2% and increases your spell hit rating by an additional amount equal to 100% of your Spirit.

Euphoria – Rank 2/2
While not in an Eclipse state, you have a 24% chance to double the Solar or Lunar energy generated by your Wrath or Starfire when they deal damage.

When you reach a Solar or Lunar eclipse, you instantly are restored 16% of your total mana.

Moonkin Form – Rank 1/1
Shapeshift into Moonkin Form. While in this form your Arcane and Nature spell damage is increased by 10%, the armor contribution from items is increased by 120%, and grants 5% spell haste to all nearby friendly and raid targets within 100 yards. The Moonkin can not cast healing or resurrection spells while shapeshifted.

The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Movement Impairing effects.

Typhoon – Rank 1/1
You summon a violent Typhoon that does 1298 Nature damage to targets within 30 yards when in contact with hostile targets, knocking them back and dazing them for 6 sec.

Shooting Stars – Rank 2/2
You have a 4% chance when you deal damage with your Moonfire or Insect Swarm to instantly reset the cooldown of your Starsurge and reduce its cast time by 100%. Lasts 8 sec.

Solar Beam – Rank 1/1
You summon a beam of solar light over the enemy target’s location, interrupting the enemy target and silencing all enemy targets under the beam within 5 yards while it is active. Solar Beam lasts for 10 sec.

Dreamstate – Rank 2/2
When you cast your Innervate on yourself, you regain an additional 30% of your total mana over its duration.

Force of Nature – Rank 1/1
Summons 3 treants to attack enemy targets for 30 sec.

Sunfire – Rank 1/1
While in Solar Eclipse, your Moonfire spell will morph into Sunfire.

Earth and Moon – Rank 1/1
Your Wrath and Starfire spells apply the Earth and Moon effect, which increases spell damage taken by 8% for 12 sec. Also increases your spell damage by 2%.

Fungal Growth – Rank 2/2
When your Treants die or your Wild Mushrooms are triggered, you spawn a Fungal Growth at its wake covering the area within 8 yards, slowing all enemy targets by 50%. Lasts 10 sec.

Lunar Shower – Rank 3/3
When you cast Moonfire, you gain Lunar Shower. Lunar Shower increases the direct damage done by your Moonfire by 45%, and reduces the mana cost by 30%. This effect is refreshed and amplified when you move, stacking up to 3 times. Effect lasts for 3 sec.

Starfall – Rank 1/1
You summon a flurry of stars from the sky on all targets within 40 yards of the caster, each dealing 369 to 427 Arcane damage. Maximum 20 stars. Lasts 10 sec.

Shapeshifting into an animal form or mounting cancels the effect. Any effect which causes you to lose control of your character will suppress the starfall effect.

Feral Combat (5 Points)

Feral Swiftness – Rank 2/2
Increases your movement speed by 30% in Cat Form and increases your chance to dodge while in Cat Form or Bear Form by 4%.

Furor – Rank 3/3
Grants you a 100% chance to gain 10 Rage when you shapeshift into Bear Form, allows you to keep up to 100 of your Energy when you shapeshift into Cat Form, and increases your maximum mana by 15%.

Restoration (5 Points)

Natural Shapeshifter – Rank 2/2
Reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifting by 20% and increases the duration of Tree of Life Form by 10 sec.

Heart of the Wild – Rank 3/3
Increases your Intellect by 6%. In addition, while in Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 6% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 10%.

Glyphs

Glyph of Insect Swarm (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage of your Insect Swarm ability by 30%.

Glyph of Starfire (Prime Glyph)
Your Starfire ability increases the duration of your Moonfire effect on the target by 3 sec, up to a maximum of 9 additional seconds.

Glyph of Wrath (Prime Glyph)
Your Wrath does 10% additional damage to targets afflicted by your Insect Swarm.

Do You Want To Level Faster Like The Pros?

If you are having trouble leveling or need to level faster in WoW Cataclysm I highly suggest you check out Zygor’s Leveling Guide. It has the perfect leveling path that gets you to 85 faster and easier than any other way. No matter what level you are, you load the guide and it points with an arrow to the direction of each monster, quest giver, trainer etc. Its pretty crazy. It also has an in game box that tells you exactly what to do, like kill 5 boars, run west 10 miles, etc. If you dont have this in game add on guide, honestly, you are missing out. You can find out more here or check out the Zygor Cataclysm Leveling Guide Review.

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