First of all: Cooldowns. I actually think I need to make a swifty macro. There are SEVEN different offensive cooldowns, if I am not mistaken: raise abom, abom lim, empower rune wep, apocalypse, unholy blight, gargoyle and dark transformation.
I don’t even know where to start on when to pop these cooldowns and how much I should use at once or save for later… sigh. This isn’t even including the utility and defensive abilities. Clarity on this is appreciated.
Additionally, I just have a few short questions:
How do I stay alive or use my defensives as UH? Most do not run death pact, so I am basically always dying… All I have is IBF, Lichborne and deathstrike spam (which barely heals for anything).
Lastly, do I need set focus macro for pet stun? I have it for pet kick, mind freeze, death grip and asphyxiate. I figure set focus death grip is worth using.
Staying alive right now is a lot of chains kiting in-between your cooldowns. Use your disruption to keep your healer out of long CC chains while you keep the enemy team permanently slowed and force them to stand in a bad spot in order to hit you.
Ideally yeah you do want 123 macros for all of your utility buttons.
The amount of CDs is pretty overwhelming but think of it as DT-Apoc-stun is your bread and butter on 45s.
Everything else is extra.
Typically you’ll have a big go with all the extras
The normal at 45
Another big go
If you have more specific questions Amatox#8399 is my discord. I’m not the best uhdk but it’s all I play and I’m a nerd about the spec and love to talk about it
wait arena123 macros for all my utility buttons? I don’t have that many binds, I only use chains of ice123 since it was recommended to me, otherwise I’m using set focus macros for utility.
And, okay cool thanks - should I make a macro for DT-Apoc-stun?
And when you say normal at 45, you mean the dt-apoc-stun right.
And sure thing, I think I tried adding that tag a few days ago, but it did not work.
You can trade eathgrab for each dark transformation to take the ghoul out of the fight unless they trinket it. Dk will usually wraith themselves but will lose a lot a pet damage. Ghost wolf with chains on you is still faster than dk if you run laps around a pillar.
I’d practice those two things really. Watch for dark transformation root the pet and ghost wolf around LoS of grip while your partner peels
It’s going to be a tough matchup regardless unholy niche is to counter casters even if dk is bad because of tuning
Uh probably not it’s best to get in the habit of using them separately but if you insist on sequence macros I guess you can?
My DT key also functions as my manual pet claw since the ghoul will never auto cast a third claw but that’s really it. I macro ERW into limb but I also have it separated.
123 is the most optimal sometimes you need to quickly grip the third person that isn’t focus to stop a cast ect but really you can get by without this while you’re learning.
Get the damage part under control then work on your kiting and surviving and then work on using your utility/disruption effectively probably
Yeah appreciate the help, i’m trying to get into casters more. I usually can do well against DK on my DH/Warr but casters seem more fun atm and UDK is giving me my biggest trouble lol.
Do any casters have a high success rate on you or do you think you’re good enough to fight off most caster classes?
I never enjoyed wow and couldn’t play a full patch until I found unholy dk now I’ll probably be here till the servers turn off lmao it’s a fun spec I’d recommend trying it… we’re pretty at the mercy of numbers tuning though and as safe as wizards feel there’s comps that counter us just as hard.
Warriors ferals hunters ect will dunk on you and then next game you make a warlock miserable. Give and take
Mes And petkick streams are really good if you’re going to try uhdk
yeah, my 2 favorite classes are my lock and uhdk. unfortunately, our guild’s casual raid group’s been lacking healers since bfa, so here i am on my monk to help… =/
Idk if you tried WoTLK version of UDHK but it’s good against every single class, eventually Warrs do end up top dog due to ArP scaling but UHDK is an absolute monster of a spec even in that era.
I have Empower Rune Wep & Abomb limb macrod together as well as using a build so my Apoc is the same CD as Unholy Assault so I can always Assault for 4 wounds > Apoc to pop them. I use Dark Transformation off CD pretty much & always start with it since the new talents make it increase your damage as well.
Edit: forgot to mention Gargoyle is macrod with Abomb+Empower Rune Wep so they all go off together xD but I also have a seperate keybind for Gargoyle since its CD doesnt line up with the other 2
so only grip123 you think is needed? I can make room for that, but if there’s anything more than that I can’t. Like I said, I am only using chains123 and of course focus and target123 binds.
Also - I need to manually hit claw? I just have that set to auto, didn’t think to make it manual.
Put up your dots, summon your pets, and AFK while you do unhealable damage with half a dozen different immunities, magic barriers, and mitigation tools to shut down every caster in a 10 mile radius.
Oh but double melee will most likely kill you. You’ll deal twice their damage, but you’ll still die.
The ghouls energy bar allows 3 uses of claw but it will only ever auto cast 2 and it does a good bit of damage during dark transformation so it’s worth hitting that 3rd at the very least during ur cds