Unholy Presence

Unholy Presence
	Unholy Presence; Level 70 death knight ability; Instant; You are infused with unholy fury, increasing haste by 10%, and movement speed by 15%.; ; Activating a new Presence will cancel this one and consume any stored Runic Power.;
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	70
Related buff
	; Unholy Presence ; Attack speed and rune regeneration increased 10%.; Movement speed increased by 15%. ;

"Embrace death, and the heavy burden of life will be lessened."
—Ahikara^[1]

Unholy Presence is a death knight Presence available at level 70. It increases the rate of the death knight's Runic Power regeneration, as well as their attack and movement speed.

Improvements

Abilities

[Improved Unholy Presence] (Unholy)

Glyphs

Glyph of Shifting Presences

Tips

Unholy Presence can be useful when running long distances on foot, such as when recovering from a wipe in an instance, as it increases the Death Knight's movement speed. For shorter distances, the rune cost of switching to Unholy Presence and then back to [Blood Presence] or [Frost Presence] again is generally not worth the brief speed boost.

Background

Unholy Presence is likely derived from the Haste ability used by the Death Knight unit in Warcraft II and the Unholy Aura ability used by the Death Knights of Warcraft III.

Patch changes

Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now grants a flat 10% Haste to all things, up from Haste for melee (attack speed and Rune regeneration) only. The movement speed buff remains unchanged.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer reduces the global cooldown on abilities.

References

^ Scourgewar, Unholy Presence

External links

[1] Scourgewar, Unholy Presence

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