Blizzard's Midnight API restricts addon access to your personal buffs and cooldowns during M+ and raid — the exact content where aura tracking matters most. The addons listed here work within these restrictions and cover what WeakAuras used to handle.

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Unholy Death Knight · Mythic+

Curated for Mythic+ — Epidemic spreading Virulent Plague across grouped packs, Scourge Strike popping wound stacks before Apocalypse for maximum minion summoning, Abomination Limb pulling displaced targets back into Death and Decay, and Anti-Magic Zone covering group magic spikes without disrupting the Festering Wound cycle. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.

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Talent Builds

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Rider of the Apocalypse Mythic+

Rider of the Apocalypse

Recommended M+ build — Rider of the Apocalypse with Epidemic AoE and Abomination Limb for strong multi-target damage across consecutive pulls. Festering Wounds spread quickly and Scourge Strike cleave pressure is sustained between Apocalypse windows.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

San'layn Mythic+ (Minion)

San'layn

Alternative M+ build — San'layn focusing on minion summoning synergies and enhanced Vampiric Blood for sustained self-healing across chain pulls. Stronger where Ghoul and Army minion uptime is the priority over burst AoE.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Custom build

Record your own talent build alongside your addons — it's included when you share your setup. Get a talent string from the Wowhead talent calculator or export directly from the in-game talent tree (press N → share icon). Paste the URL or the raw string — both work.

Addons

Why no WeakAuras? Midnight's API blocks WeakAuras from reading your buffs and cooldowns. The addons here cover what it used to handle.

Boss encounters 2

BigWigs Bossmods

Boss timers

194.0M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 20 May 2026

For Unholy DK, precise timer accuracy means you can pre-position Anti-Magic Zone before a dangerous magic cast rather than reacting after it lands, and time Apocalypse to avoid wasting minion uptime on a mandatory movement or mechanic phase. LittleWigs is required for dungeon boss modules — install both.

Tracks: Boss timers · AMZ pre-positioning · Apocalypse timing · Dungeon modules
Requires: Requires LittleWigs for dungeon boss modules · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

GTFO

Advanced Ground effect alerts

95.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

For Unholy DK in melee range, you're inside hitboxes and ground effects are directly underfoot — the audio alarm fires passively without requiring you to shift attention away from Festering Wound management and proc state. Install knowing it's significantly more limited than pre-Midnight — it covers specific tracked boss mechanics only, not general ground effects.

Tracks: Ground effect alerts · Audible alarms · Boss hazards
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Meters & logs 1

Details! Damage Meter

DPS meter

345.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

Per-spell breakdown showing your direct damage split versus pet damage from your Ghoul and Army of the Dead minions. Low pet damage as a proportion of total suggests Festering Wounds aren't stacking consistently for Apocalypse, or Dark Transformation timing is off.

Tracks: DPS meter · Scourge Strike efficiency · Pet damage · Festering Wounds · Epidemic AoE
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Nameplates & targeting 2

TargetedSpells

Targeted casts

743.8K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 2 May 2026

Visual and audio alert when an enemy targets you with a dangerous cast, giving you time to pop Anti-Magic Shell for the absorb and Runic Power generation, or Icebound Fortitude for a physical hit. Especially useful during Festering Wound management when your attention is on proc state and wound counts rather than watching boss emotes.

Tracks: Targeted casts · Audio + visual alerts · AMS timing · Icebound Fortitude
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Platynator

Enemy nameplates

9.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 19 May 2026

Shows Virulent Plague timers and Festering Wound stack counts on enemy nameplates so you can scan the room at a glance without a separate tracker widget. In M+, seeing which targets have 4+ wounds ready for Scourge Strike is the key information for maximising Apocalypse minion summoning value.

Tracks: Enemy nameplates · Virulent Plague · Festering Wounds · Disease uptime · Cast bars
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Cooldowns & tracking 2

OmniCD

AMZ coordination

33.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 27 Feb 2026

Tracks group cooldowns from the combat log — shows when Anti-Magic Zone is available so you can coordinate the drop with your group and space it across consecutive dangerous magic casts. Also covers kick cooldowns for Mind Freeze coordination.

Tracks: AMZ coordination · Mind Freeze coverage · Group cooldowns · Bloodlust tracking
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

BetterCooldownManager

Personal cooldowns

938.2K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 22 Apr 2026

Configurable timers for your major cooldowns on screen. Surfaces Unholy Assault (45-sec), Dark Transformation (1-min), and Apocalypse (90-sec) as your rotation anchors, with audio cues when Dark Transformation comes back to prevent leaving your Ghoul untransformed between cooldown cycles.

Tracks: Personal cooldowns · Audio cues · Dark Transformation · Apocalypse · Army of the Dead
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Rotation helper 1

TrufiGCD

Advanced GCD timeline

1.3M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 Mar 2026

Scrolling timeline of your recent cast history with GCD gaps visible. Shows Sudden Doom procs expiring unused and Runic Power over-capping as dead gaps or sub-optimal casts — useful for correlating waste with specific encounter phases.

Tracks: GCD timeline · Sudden Doom efficiency · Runic Power over-cap · Cast history
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Frames & Action Bars 3

BetterBlizzFrames

Unit frames

4.8M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

BetterBlizzFrames enhances the default Blizzard unit frames rather than replacing them. For Unholy DK, the value is keeping rune count and Runic Power visible at a consistent position alongside your target frame castbar for interrupt timing.

Tracks: Unit frames · Castbars · Rune tracking · Focus frame
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Dominos

Action bars

22.2M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 May 2026

Dominos gives you full control over action bar layout. For Unholy DK, a dedicated cooldown bar keeps Apocalypse, Unholy Assault, Army of the Dead, and Dark Transformation at consistent visible positions, separate from the main rotation bar of Festering Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, and Epidemic.

Tracks: Action bars · Bar positioning · Burst cooldown layout · Fade out of combat
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

ElvUI

Advanced Unit frames

Tukui.org addon

Works in Midnight Updated 15 May 2026

Most of what ElvUI covers for Unholy DK is better handled by BetterBlizzFrames (frames), Dominos (action bars), and Platynator (nameplates). Only install if you want a fully unified UI aesthetic and are prepared for the configuration overhead.

Tracks: Unit frames · Action bars · Nameplates · Full UI replacement
Requires: Full UI replacement · tukui.org — not on CurseForge

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Utility & QoL 3

Mythic Dungeon Tools

Dungeon maps

93.8M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 20 May 2026

MDT shows the full dungeon map with enemy positions, patrol routes, and force percentages. For Unholy DK, the value is in planning how Abomination Limb pulls stray targets into your Epidemic and Scourge Strike AoE, identifying caster-heavy packs where Death Grip interrupt pulls need pre-coordination, and sizing pulls around Apocalypse and Anti-Magic Zone cooldown availability so you're not entering a large pull with major CDs on cooldown.

Tracks: Dungeon maps · Abomination Limb positioning · Force % · AMZ planning · Route sharing
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Raider.IO

Player scores

431.7M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 25 May 2026

Adds every player's Mythic+ score and raid progression to their tooltip. Unholy DK is valued for Anti-Magic Zone — a visible high score signals experience with when to drop AMZ and coordinate it with the group's cooldown plan, which is harder to communicate than raw DPS.

Tracks: Player scores · Raid progression · Player tooltips · LFG integration
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Astral Keys

Keystone tracking

17.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 20 Mar 2026

Astral Keys adds a tooltip to players in your guild and friends list showing their current keystone dungeon and level. Lets you find a key that matches your level without posting in LFG chat.

Tracks: Keystone tracking · Guild key levels · LFG utility
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Macros Coming soon

Epidemic AoE, Abomination Limb pull + Death and Decay snap-tag, Gnaw Ghoul interrupt mouseover, Anti-Magic Zone placement macro

Stat Priority Coming soon

Haste › Mastery (Dreadblade) › Crit — Haste gives more Festering Strikes and Scourge Strike casts per pull; Mastery scales with minion count and peaks during Apocalypse windows on multi-target

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