DK Mentor

DK Mentor is a World of Warcraft Retail addon built specifically for Blood, Frost, and Unholy Death Knights.

It combines Blizzard's native Assisted Combat highlighting with survival guidance, contextual talent and gear profiles, compact configurable HUDs, DK resource tracking, important buff/proc tracking, a DK Ready Check, beginner guidance, and optional immersive Lich King commentary.

Features

• Automatic Death Knight specialization detection.
• World, Delve, Dungeon, Raid, and PvP context detection.
• Blizzard Assisted Combat offensive highlight.
• Survival Coach with contextual defensive and recovery priorities.
• Existing WoW talent loadout mapping per specialization and content type.
• Existing WoW Equipment Set mapping per specialization and content type.
• Optional automatic talent and gear switching when WoW allows it.
• Build HUD with specialization, context, loadout, and gear status.
• DK Ready Check for talents, equipment, Runeforge coverage, and the Unholy ghoul when applicable.
• Runeforge Guard for equipped Death Knight weapons.
• Ghoul Guard for Unholy Death Knights.
• DK Buff Bar for important class buffs and procs.
• External Buff Bar for positive effects applied by other players or NPCs.
• Player Debuff Bar for negative effects affecting your character.
• Ability Availability Bar for cooldowns, charges, and temporary availability.
• Configurable DK Resources HUD with:
  • Six Rune indicators.
  • Runic Power tracking.
  • Classic resource-bar layout.
  • Optional DK Arcs layout with Health, Runic Power, and Runes around the character.
• Adjustable HUD size, opacity, arc spacing, and icons per row.
• Movable and lockable HUDs.
• HUD Preview mode for easy positioning.
• Optional combat-only visibility.
• Beginner Guide tab for Blood, Frost, and Unholy.
• English and Brazilian Portuguese interface.
• Automatic language detection based on the WoW client, with manual language override.
• Optional Lich King commentary using sound resources already installed by WoW. No Blizzard audio files are bundled.

Midnight 12.1 compatibility

DK Mentor respects World of Warcraft's protected and secret combat-value restrictions.

The addon never casts abilities automatically and does not attempt to bypass protected combat information.

Dynamic aura HUDs use Blizzard's native Retail aura systems whenever possible, while Rune and Runic Power tracking are designed around the restrictions introduced in Midnight.

Philosophy

DK Mentor is designed to provide useful Death Knight information without trying to play the game for you.

The goal is to keep important information close to the character, reduce unnecessary UI clutter, and make Blood, Frost, and Unholy easier to understand and monitor.

Commands

• /dkm - Open DK Mentor.
• /dkm ready - Run the DK Ready Check.
• /dkm help - Show the complete command list.

License

MIT License.

DK Mentor is an independent community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment, Wowhead, Icy Veins, or IceHUD.

☕ Support the Project

DK Mentor is free and open source.

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