Unholy Death Knight
Rider of the Apocalypse
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse) deals 78% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 36 of 51) and 81% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 28 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 13.9% more than SimulationCraft's.
At a glance
4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept
| Fight | Manual DPS | SBA + cooldown | SBA alone | Assisted Highlight | Rank (SBA + cooldown) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M+ dungeon | 327,890 | 78.4%−21.62% | 67.3%−32.68% | 87.2%−12.80% | 36 of 51 |
| Raid boss | 239,961 | 81.1%−18.94% | 70.5%−29.53% | 88.6%−11.39% | 28 of 51 |
Against real +15 players
Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC
- Manual354.0Kreference
- SBA + cooldown292.7K83% of manual
- SBA alone251.1K71% of manual
- Assisted Highlight335.8K95% of manual
Best Mythic+ talents for the button
For one-button play in M+, import this build: +13.9% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's build.
Best of 8 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-03: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from the build of the #1 M+ player on murlok.io.
One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece
- Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended292,724+13.9%
- SimulationCraft's build257,014
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Best raid talents for the button
For one-button play on a raid boss, import this build: +1.2% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's raid build.
Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-11): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.
Talents changed: it drops Soul Reaper and takes Ghoulish Frenzy. Defensive talents stay: no build that drops one is offered. The search only counts damage, so check you can do without what it drops (a utility spell, for example).
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC
Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.
| Ability | Manual | SBA + cooldown | SBA + cooldown vs manual |
|---|---|---|---|
 Necrotic Bolt | 82.3K27.5% · 221.7 casts | 58.1K23.5% · 192.4 casts | −24.1K |
 Putrefy (AoE) | 23.9K8.0% · 67.8 casts | 15.9K6.4% · 59.8 casts | −7,998 |
 Scourge Strike | 13.3K4.4% · 106.9 casts | 16.6K6.7% · 108.4 casts | +3,377 |
 Graveyard (AoE) | 16.6K5.5% · 89.5 casts | 10.6K4.3% · 60.4 casts | −5,979 |
 Sweeping Claws (AoE) | 12.6K4.2% · 123.5 casts | 10.3K4.1% · 98.2 casts | −2,314 |
| Putrefy (ST) | 10.7K3.6% · 67.8 casts | 8,5163.4% · 59.8 casts | −2,172 |
 Perfected Guillotine | 10.7K3.6% · 24 casts | 10.4K4.2% · 23.7 casts | −296 |
| Sweeping Claws | 9,2203.1% · 123.5 casts | 7,1642.9% · 98.2 casts | −2,056 |
 Disease Cloud | 8,6092.9% · 65.1 casts | 8,2783.3% · 65.1 casts | −331 |
 Pestilence | 8,2832.8% · 830.3 casts | 8,4433.4% · 869 casts | +160 |
 Epidemic Order | 7,6822.6% · 143.9 casts | 8,3303.4% · 157.6 casts | +648 |
 Death Order | 7,7572.6% · 345.2 casts | 5,9832.4% · 287.7 casts | −1,774 |
 Virulent Plague | 7,1592.4% · 34.1 casts | 6,2852.5% · 25.2 casts | −874 |
 Undeath | 4,0021.3% · 27.6 casts | 6,5242.6% · 27.9 casts | +2,522 |
 Epidemic (AoE) | 6,3282.1% · 140.2 casts | 3,7351.5% · 82.1 casts | −2,593 |
| Graveyard (Main) | 6,2782.1% · 89.5 casts | 3,9141.6% · 60.4 casts | −2,364 |
 Trollbane's Icy Fury | 4,6251.5% · 29.2 casts | 5,9852.4% · 32 casts | +1,360 |
 Dread Plague | 5,8352.0% · 20.1 casts | 5,3422.2% · 19.8 casts | −493 |
 Necrotic Coil (Shadowstrike) | 4,6021.5% · 29.6 casts | 4,2151.7% · 26.3 casts | −387 |
| Ruptured Viscera | 4,0271.3% · 128.7 casts | 4,3341.8% · 126.7 casts | +307 |
 Dread Plague (Death) | 4,1431.4% · 11 casts | 3,8071.5% · 11.1 casts | −336 |
 Withering Grasp | 3,5501.2% · 95.1 casts | 3,7391.5% · 102.3 casts | +189 |
| Virulent Plague (Erupt) | 3,4301.1% · 383.8 casts | 2,8291.1% · 402.2 casts | −601 |
 Infected Claws | 3,2871.1% · 536.3 casts | 3,1431.3% · 536.8 casts | −144 |
| Epidemic (Main) | 3,1541.1% · 140.2 casts | 1,7660.7% · 82.1 casts | −1,388 |
| Dread Plague (Erupt) | 3,0131.0% · 159.5 casts | 2,5981.0% · 164.1 casts | −415 |
 Venomfang Burst | 2,3580.8% · 71.6 casts | 2,3390.9% · 70.9 casts | −19 |
 Devour Morsel | 2,1440.7% · 41.2 casts | 2,0650.8% · 39.9 casts | −79 |
 Heart Strike | 1,9820.7% · 49.8 casts | 1,9390.8% · 49.4 casts | −43 |
 Death Coil | 1,9200.6% · 39.6 casts | 1,8910.8% · 39.6 casts | −29 |
| Death Coil (Let Terror Reign) | 1,8550.6% · 37.5 casts | 1,5820.6% · 30.7 casts | −273 |
| Venomfang | 1,7590.6% · 75.1 casts | 1,7320.7% · 74 casts | −27 |
 Death and Decay (Damage) | 1,6690.6% | – | −1,669 |
 Festering Scythe | 1,6430.5% · 15.3 casts | 9020.4% · 9.6 casts | −741 |
| Necrotic Coil (Shadow) | 1,4200.5% · 29.6 casts | 1,3090.5% · 26.3 casts | −111 |
 Obliterate | 1,4150.5% · 25.4 casts | 1,3460.5% · 24.7 casts | −69 |
 Rune of Unleashed Fire | 9710.3% · 54.4 casts | 9570.4% · 53.7 casts | −14 |
| Claw | 8030.3% · 349 casts | 9150.4% · 361.3 casts | +112 |
| Death and Decay | 8970.3% · 105.2 casts | 8730.4% · 103.4 casts | −24 |
| Scourge Strike (Shadow) | 7760.3% | 7580.3% | −18 |
 Auto Attack (Off-Hand) | 7060.2% · 104.8 casts | 6830.3% · 103.2 casts | −23 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) | 6880.2% · 101 casts | 6600.3% · 99.6 casts | −28 |
 Festering Strike | 4280.1% · 15.4 casts | 3120.1% · 11.1 casts | −116 |
 Rune of Lingering | 2830.1% · 54.4 casts | 2820.1% · 53.7 casts | −1 |
 Blood Draw | 1690.1% · 3.5 casts | 1710.1% · 3.5 casts | +2 |
 Gnaw | 10.0% · 4.5 casts | 10.0% · 4.5 casts | +0 |
| Total | 298.8K | 247.5K | −51.2K |
A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.
Questions about Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse)
What are the best Mythic+ talents for Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse) with the one-button rotation?
The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 13.9% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 8 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.
What are the best raid talents for Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse) with the one-button rotation?
The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant on a raid boss deals 1.2% more damage with the button than the raid build we used before. It comes from a talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import.
How much DPS does Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Unholy Death Knight (Rider of the Apocalypse) deals 78% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 36 of 51) and 81% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 28 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 13.9% more than SimulationCraft's.
Related builds
Other hero talents of Unholy Death Knight
DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking
How it's measured, and its limits
- SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
- Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
- Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
- The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
- Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
- SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
- SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.
Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.