Introduction to the Frost Death Knight

The Frost specialisation provides reasonable single target and AoE DPS.

Frost Death Knights have amazing burst AoE and cleave, making them incredibly powerful on fights with short add bursts and two boss targets. They also have strong survivability, but lack strong mobility, making positioning very important on most encounters.

The Frost Death Knight is easy to learn and it’s rotation is straight forward.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Frost Death Knight

Talents

Level	Choices
56	Inexorable Assault	Icy Talons	Cold Heart ✅
57	Runic Attenuation ✅	Murderous Efficiency	Horn of Winter
58	Death’s Reach ✅	Asphyxiate	Blinding Sleet
60	Avalanche	Frozen Pulse	Frostscythe ✅
75	Permafrost	Wraith Walk ✅	Death Pact
90	Gathering Storm	Glacial Advance	Frostwyrm’s Fury ✅
100	Icecap	Obliteration	Breath of Sindragosa ✅

Rotation for the Frost Death Knight

The basic rotation for the Frost Death Knight is as follows:

• Cast  Chains of Ice, if you have 20 stacks

• Use  Frostwyrm’s Fury at the end of  Pillar of Frost 

• Cast  Remorseless Winter on cooldown

• Use  Howling Blast, only if you have a  Rime proc.

• Use  Obliterate with a  Killing Machine proc.

• Click  Empower Rune Weapon, if nothing else is available.

• Use  Horn of Winter, if you are using this talent.

Cooldowns

•  Pillar of Frost should be used on cooldown, stacking it with potions or any on-use trinkets you have.

•  Empower Rune Weapon should be used as many times as possible throughout the encounter.

•  Frostwyrm’s Fury should be used as many times as possible throughout an encounter.

Stat Priority

The stat priority for Frost Death Knights is:

1. Critical Strike
2. Mastery
3. Versatility
4. Haste

Usually a higher item level piece of gear will be a bigger upgrade. It is highly recommended you sim your character to find the stat weights that work best for you.

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