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General Information
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for yourFrost Death Knight in World of Warcraft The War Within (Season 1).
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BiS Gear Guide for Frost Death Knight
Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Frost Death Knight forThe War Within Season 1. Check this page to learn everythingyou need to know about gearing a Frost Death Knight, including theBiS Gear from allsources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, andmuch more.
We have three BiS lists below, each detailing the best gear you can obtainfrom a specific source. We have the overall list, a raid-only one, and, finally, a mythic+-only list. They are all optimised to give you the highest single targetDPS. The various builds we run have very similar stat and trinket priorities andwill run the same set of gear. The real change is 2H builds running a differentweapon, of course; we include that as well in the lists..
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BiS Gear for Frost Death Knight
Overall BiS ListMythic+ Gear BiS ListRaid Gear BiS List
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Overall BiS List for Frost Death Knight
Below, you will find the theoretical BiS set of gear for The War Within Season 1.
Slot | Item | Boss/ Dungeon/ Source |
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Helm | ![]() | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Neck | ![]() | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Shoulder | ![]() | Rasha'nan |
Cloak | ![]() | Rasha'nan |
Chest | ![]() | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
Bracers | ![]() ![]() | Blacksmithing |
Gloves | ![]() | Sikran |
Belt | ![]() | The Stonevault |
Legs | ![]() | Nexus Princess Ky'veza |
Boots | ![]() | Siege of Boralus |
Ring #1 | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
Ring #2 | ![]() | Siege of Boralus |
Trinket #1 | ![]() | Grim Batol |
Trinket #2 | ![]() ![]() | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Mainhand Weapon | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
Offhand Weapon | ![]() ![]() | Blacksmithing |
2H Weapon | ![]() ![]() | Blacksmithing |
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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Frost Death Knight
This list contains the highest DPS setup, with farmable gear from Mythic+ Dungeons.This is a great place to start on a relatively new character, as you can infinitelygrind out these items from Mythic+.
Slot | Item | Boss/ Dungeon/ Source |
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Helm | ![]() | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Neck | ![]() | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Shoulder | ![]() | The Necrotic Wake |
Cloak | ![]() | Grim Batol |
Chest | ![]() | The Dawnbreaker |
Bracers | ![]() | Grim Batol |
Gloves | ![]() | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Belt | ![]() | The Stonevault |
Legs | ![]() | The Necrotic Wake |
Boots | ![]() | City of Threads |
Ring #1 | ![]() | The Dawnbreaker |
Ring #2 | ![]() | Grim Batol |
Trinket #1 | ![]() | Grim Batol |
Trinket #2 | ![]() ![]() | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Mainhand Weapon | ![]() | Siege of Boralus |
Offhand Weapon | ![]() | The Dawnbreaker |
2H Weapon | ![]() | City of Threads |
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Raid Gear BiS List for Frost Death Knight
This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Nerub-ar Palace Raid.
This list is mostly useful for informing your organized guild of what loot is optimal for you for loot distribution purposes.
Slot | Item | Boss/ Dungeon/ Source |
---|---|---|
Helm | ![]() | Sikran |
Neck | ![]() | Rasha'nan |
Shoulder | ![]() | Rasha'nan |
Cloak | ![]() | Ulgrax the Devourer |
Chest | ![]() | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
Bracers | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
Gloves | ![]() | Sikran |
Belt | ![]() | Nexus Princess Ky'veza |
Legs | ![]() | Nexus Princess Ky'veza |
Boots | ![]() | Silken Court |
Ring #1 | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
Ring #2 | ![]() | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
Trinket #1 | ![]() | Rasha'nan |
Trinket #2 | ![]() | Nexus Princess Ky'veza |
Mainhand Weapon | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
Offhand Weapon | ![]() | Queen Ansurek |
2H Weapon | ![]() | The Silken Court |
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Gearing a Frost Death Knight
If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice,you can find everything on our dedicated page below.
Frost DK Enchants and Gems
While gearing up, item level will be your primary target. Strength isour best stat, and you shouldn't focus too much on your secondaries at first.Once you start to receive gear pieces with the same ilvl but different stats,that is when you want to start optimizing your stat distribution. Generally,Frost Death Knights want to prioritize Crit and Mastery! We recommendsimming your character to determine what upgrade is best for you! For a moredetailed explanation, you can read the Simulations page.
Frost DK Simulations
Simming your character is far and beyond the best way to determine if apiece of gear is, in fact, an upgrade. The trick is knowing how to do it in away that produces reliable results. If you follow the Simulations guide page,you can use this to have a more practical gearing guide than simply followinga BiS list.
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Frost Death Knight Gear Upgrades in The War Within
The War Within has a powerful upgrade system for your gear where you use Valorstonesand Crests to upgrade your gear. These are obtainable from practicallyall forms of content in the game.
For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.
The War Within Gear Upgrade System
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Season 1 Tier Set for Frost Death Knight
You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. We recommend youget all items except for the Head, due to its Versatility.Check out the BiS List for more information.
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Notable Crafted Gear
Frost wants to run one Charged Slicer in your offhand with
Darkmoon Sigil: Ascensionembellishment. You then combine this with
Writhing Armor Banding on yourcrafted
Everforged Vambraces for your two embellishments. Your weaponis a great choice to craft at a high ilvl early. You can start off with it onyour mainhand slot before you manage to obtain another weapon at a higher ilvl, atwhich point you move the crafted weapon to the offhand. For 2H builds, craft
Charged Claymoreas your first craft. Notably, it does not matter which type the weapon is; axe,sword, polearm, mace, etc all work! Simply make sure you select the right type(1-hand or 2-hand) and that the weapon has strength. You get an earlyheroic crest upgrade early that you can use for free for the weapon, which is greatvalue.
If your focus is purely on Mythic+, we recommend crafting one Dawnthread Lining (cloak or wrist) and one
Blessed Weapon Grip for your crafted weapon.If you want more early power, choose higher stat items like your non-tier piece or bootsfor your Dawnthread Lining.
Crafting double Charged Slicer with
Darkmoon Sigil: Ascensionis a viable alternative for progression. It gives a strong early power spike thatcan be useful if you clear the raid rather quickly.
When it comes to your other crafted slots, we are only wearing two crafteditems in our BiS setup (due to the ilvl loss). Use crafting as a wayof "filling in the gaps" in your gear, trying to find the best value upgradein a slot where you already do not have a good piece. Sim yourself to findthe best option for you!
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Best Items to Upgrade for Frost Death Knight in The War Within
There are three primary items to upgrade as a Frost Death Knight:
- Weapon
- Trinket
- Head/ Chest/ Legs
With how the upgrade system works with Crests being the limited currency,you want to upgrade the most powerful slots you can. For Frost Death Knights, this will be your weapon of choice. The weapon is already great crest value, as wellas providing one of our embellishments in the BiS setup. After you have crafted yourweapon, upgrade your second one (if dual-wielding) or move on to trinkets and high-statslot items like Legs, Helm, Chest, etc.
Your second crafted item will be a cloak with Writhing Armor Banding.These are generally not worth spending crests on to upgrade since the embellishmenteffect does not scale with ilvl, and the cloak is the worst stat piece in general.
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Overall Top Trinkets
Frost aims to use one on-use Trinket as well as one passive one. In The War Within Season 1,our best on-use is Mark of Khardros, closely tied with
Treacherous Transmitter.We recommend Mark of Khardros since it does not require the extra effort of makingTransmitter work by playing the little minigame when you use the Trinket. DW
Obliterationcan run double on-use builds with Mark of Khardros and Treacherous Transmitter (or
Skarmorak Shard) beingthe best combination. In this situation, use the Transmitter on pull and delay your secondTrinket by one pillar window, using it at 45 seconds and 2min 15 seconds.For passives,
Ara-Kara Sacbrood is the best followed by
Skyterror's Corrosive Organ.
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Best Trinkets for Frost Death Knight in The War Within Season 1
Raiding Trinket Tier ListMythic+ Trinket Tier List
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Raiding Trinket Tier List for Frost Death Knight
This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the mostimportant aspect of Raiding. Other aspects of the trinkets are also baked into therankings, such as their ease of use.
7.1.
S-Tier
Mark of Khardros — Great 1.5min trinket that ends up being thebest Trinket when considering ease of use. Use every 1.5min with DW
Obliterationbuilds, every 2min 15sec with
Breath of Sindragosa builds.
Treacherous Transmitter — Technically best on-use trinket but withan extra minigame attached to it.
Ara-Kara Sacbrood — Best passive trinket.
7.1.
A-Tier
Skyterror's Corrosive Organ — Raw damage trinket that works wellas a passive option. Simply desync with your on-use stat trinket.
Skarmorak Shard — Very similar to Mark of Khadros in pure SingleTarget but with an added bonus of gaining Mastery when enemies die. Works reallywell on any AoE fight.
Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — A passive trinket with an attached minigame,allowing you to control whether or not you gain primary stat or your highest secondarystat. Works well in situations where you can maximise the stat gain by sitting on20 main stat stacks and 10 secondary stacks. Does lose some power in real scenarios.
7.1.
B-Tier
Spare Meat Hook — Solid raw damage on-use working well as a passivetrinket.
Void Pactstone — Raw damage trinket that does not quite doenough to beat out our good stat passive trinkets.
Sikran's Endless Arsenal — Primarily a tank trinket that stilldoes okay damage for us.
Mad Queen's Mandate — Raw damage on-use that does okay damage.
7.1.
C-Tier
Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
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Mythic+ Trinket Tier List for Frost Death Knight
This Trinket Tier List is more AoE focused as Mythic+ values AoE damage significantlymore. We still look for a good balance between Single Target and AoE though! Youcan either choose to run one active and one passive or run double active tohave a trinket up for every Pillar of Frost window!
7.1.
S-Tier
Skarmorak Shard — Paired with every second pillar (or thirdwith Breath), this Trinket gains extra value in Mythic+ due to the Mastery gainedon enemy death.
Ara-Kara Sacbrood — Best passive trinket.
7.1.
A-Tier
Mark of Khardros — Great 1.5min trinket trinketwhich is easy to use. Use every 1.5min with DW
Obliterationbuilds, every 2min 15sec with
Breath of Sindragosa builds. Can be combinedwith
Skarmorak Shard to gain an on-use trinket every single Pillar window.
Treacherous Transmitter — Really powerful on-use Trinket whichunfortunately has a minigame, making it difficult to use in real scenarios..
Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — A passive trinket with an attached minigame,allowing you to control whether or not you gain primary stat or your highest secondarystat. Works well in situations where you can maximise the stat gain by sitting on20 main stat stacks and 10 secondary stacks. Does lose some power in real scenarios.
7.1.
B-Tier
Skyterror's Corrosive Organ — Raw damage trinket that works wellas a passive option. Simply desync with your on-use stat trinket.
Spare Meat Hook — Solid raw damage on-use working well as a passivetrinket.
Void Pactstone — Raw damage trinket that does not quite doenough to beat out our good stat passive trinkets.
Sikran's Endless Arsenal — Primarily a tank trinket that stilldoes okay damage for us.
Mad Queen's Mandate — Raw damage on-use that does okay damage.
7.1.
C-Tier
Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
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Stats
Many people overthink the distribution of their secondarystats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of statsis usually better than a better quality of stats. Because of this,wearing higher item-level gear with worse stats tends to be better than loweritem-level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. Formore information on stats, please refer to our dedicated page.
For Frost specifically, aim to have Crit as our top stat by raw amount,followed by Mastery. For a closer look at stats, please see the below article./p>
Frost Death Knight Stats
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Jewelry
For neck and ring pieces, you can generally afford to drop 5-10 ilevels in most cases toget our preferred stats: Crit and Mastery. That said, you should always simyourself to see what is better as the secondary stat diminishing returnscan still change your ideal setup. It can be useful to wear craftedjewelry due to how you can control the stats; just remember that you cannot craftthe maximum ilvl possible!
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Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated all gear for Season 4.
- 22 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 29 Nov. 2023: Added Legendary with proper link to bis.
- 22 Nov. 2023: Updated drop location from dawn upper and lower and changed Breath m+ bis trinkets to mirror and porcelain.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Updated BiS Lists and Embellishment recommendations after Sporecloak nerfs.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for patch 10.2. Added new bis lists, trinkets and embellishment.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Added 10.1.5 dungeon recommendation.
- 01 Jun. 2023: Added m+ embellishment recommendation.
- 31 May 2023: Added neltharion trinket as new bis for frost 2H oblit.
- 08 May 2023: Updated after trinket tuning.
- 01 May 2023: Updated all gear for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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