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Unholy Talents Death Knight Talents

Vicious Strikes

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required:0
  • Description:Increases the critical strike chance by 3% and the critical strike damage bonus by 15% of your Plague Strike, Death Strike, and Scourge Strike.

Morbidity

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 0
  • Description: Increases the damage and healing of Death Coil by 5% and reduces the cooldown on Death and Decay by 5 sec.

Anticipation

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 0
  • Description: Increases your chance to dodge by 1%

Epidemic

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 5
  • Description: Increases the duration of Blood Plague and Frost Fever by 3 sec.

Virulence

  • Ranks:3
  • Unholy talent points required: 5
  • Description: Increases your chance to hit with your spells by 1% and reduces the chance that your spells and diseases you cause can be cured by 10%.

Unholy Command

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 5
  • Description: Reduces the cooldown of your Death Grip ability by 5 sec and the cooldown of your Demand ability by 1 sec.

Ravenous Dead

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 5
  • Description: Increases the total Strength of you and your Ghouls by 1% and reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 30 sec.

Outbreak

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 10
  • Description: Increases the damage of Plague Strike, Pestilence and Blood Boil by 10%.

Necrosis

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 10
  • Description: You auto attacks deal an additional 5% Shadow damage.

Corpse Explosion

On a Pale Horse

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 15
  • Description: The duration of all Stun and Fear effects used against you is reduced by 10%, and your mounted speed is increased by 10%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasesing effects.

Blood-Caked Blade

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 15
  • Description: Your auto attacks have a 5% chance to cause a Blood-Caked Strike, which hits for 50% weapon damage for each of your diseases on the target.

Shadow of Death

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 15
  • Description: Increases your total Strength and Stamina by 2%. In addition, whenever you die, you return to keep fighting as a Ghoul for 45 sec.

Summon Gargoyle

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 20
  • Description: A Gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight's attack power. Persists for 1 sec per 8 runic power up to 1 min.

Impurity

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 20
  • Description: Your spells receive an additional 5% benefit from your attack power.

Dirge

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 20
  • Description: Your Plague Strike, Scourge Strike and Death Strike generate 25% additional runic power.

Magic Suppression

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 25
  • Description: You take 1% less damage from all magic. In addition your Anti-Magic Shell absorbs an addational 5% of spell damage.

Reaping

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 25
  • Description: Whenever you use Pestilence or Blood Boil there is a 30% chance that the Blood Rune becomes a Death Rune when it activates.

Master of Ghouls

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 25, 1 point in Shadow of Death
  • Description: Ghouls summoned by your Raise Dead spell are considered pets and are under your control.

Desecration

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 30
  • Description: Your Plague Strikes have a 20% chance to cause the Desecrated Ground effect for 7 yards around the target. Targets in the area are slowed by 50% by the grasping arms of the dead while you cause 10% additional damage

Anti-Magic Zone

  • Ranks:5
  • Unholy talent points required: 30, and 5 in Magic Suppression
  • Description: Places a large, stationary Anti-Magic Zone that reduces spell damage done to party memebers inside it by 75%. The Anti-Magic Zone lasts for 30 sec. or until it absorbs 10,000 spell damage.

Unholy Aura

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 30
  • Description: All party or raid members withing 45 yards of the Death Knigth move 8% faster. This effect does not stack with other movement improving effects.

Night of the Dead

  • Ranks: 2
  • Unholy talent points required: 35
  • Description: Your next 10 Plague Strikes and Scourage Strikes lower the cooldown of Raise Dead by 15 sec and Army of the Dead by 30 sec per strike.

Crypt Fever

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 35
  • Description: Your diseases also cause Crypt Fever, which increases the damage of other diseases on the target by 20%.

Bone Shield

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 35
  • Description: The Death Knight is surrounded by 4 whirling bones. While at least 1 bone remains, he takes 40% less damage from all sources and deals 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Each damaging attack that lands conumes 1 bone. Lasts 5 min.

Wandering Plague

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 40
  • Description: When your diseases damage an enemy, there is a chance equal to your melee critical strike chance that they will cause 33% additional damage to the target and all enemies within 8 yards. Ignores any target under the effect of a spell that is cancelled by taking damage.

Ebon Plaguebringer

  • Ranks: 3
  • Unholy talent points required: 40, and 3 points in crypt Fever.
  • Description: Your Crypt Fever morphs into Ebon Plague, which increases vulnerabillity to magic by 4% in addition to increase the damage done diseases.

Scourge Strike

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 40
  • Description: An unholy strike that deals 100% weapon damage as Shadow damage plus 333 and 50% additional damage for each of the Death Knights diseases on the target.

Rage of Rivendare

  • Ranks: 5
  • Unholy talent points required: 45
  • Description: Your spells and ablities deal 2% more damage to targets infected with Blood Plague.

Unholy Blight

  • Ranks: 1
  • Unholy talent points required: 50
  • Description: Theaches the Death Knight spell Unholy Blight.