Frost Death Knight DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Season 4

The Breath of Sindragosa build is a high-risk, high-reward build that requires you to stick to the boss for 90+ seconds to fully leverage its power. It is great whenever there is constant cleave or when you can safely maintain it for more than 75% of the encounter. Furthermore, you can greatly increase its potential by soaking magic damage spells with Anti-Magic Shell and Assimilation. This build always runs dual-wield weapons due to the increased Killing Machine proc rate and the ability to pick up Rune of Hysteria as a second Runeforge.

The primary choice in this build is whether or not you pick up Frostwyrm's Fury over the second point of Bonegrinder. It's a 1% Single Target loss but provides a ton of extra AoE burst. Something to consider on bosses with infrequent adds! You can also pick up Frostwhelp's Aid instead of Enduring Strength. This is better in prolonged cleave scenarios where you can get value from the extra Mastery. Council fights such as The Primal Council lend themselves well to this choice.

The choices in the class-specific tree are the following: We are generally locked in into Anti-Magic Barrier, Anti-Magic Zone and Assimilation due to the large amount of Runic Power you can generate from these abilities. However, Permafrost can be allocated to Coldthirst for potential Runic Power gain on interrupts in a fight, or Blinding Sleet if hard CC is required.

At the lower part of the tree, we can opt to exchange Blood Draw and Death's Echo for Will of the Necropolis and Insidious Chill. This brings a nice defensive buff to the tank, as well as making yourself significantly more tanky. This choice is generally just a loss of utility, but comes a DPS loss in AoE (the double charge on Death's Echo is valuable in AoE). If you end up making this change, you can also swap Unholy Ground for Wraith Walk to compensate some of the loss in mobility. Generally, make this swap in pure Single Target fights where you will not use Death and Decay.

Soul Reaper can be exchanged for Abomination Limb whenever you can get either grip value, or AoE value from the talent!

The Obliteration build is all about that Obliterate damage, seeing big burst windows every 30-40 seconds. If you do get a mechanic during these 12-second burst windows, you'll lose a lot of damage, but you can usually play around it to avoid the downsides. The build is prevalent in the rankings for all bosses and generally does good damage.

The Obliteration build has some minor choice in the spec specific tree. The single point in Icebreaker can be allocated to Frostwyrm's Fury for a 0.5% Single Target loss. This provides a ton of AoE burst potential that is really useful for some bosses. You can bring this further and sacrifice one point in Enduring Strength to pick up Absolute Zero as well. This is a further 2.5% Single Target DPS downgrade so should only be done if you really want that AoE burst!

Obliteration also has more choices in the class tree. We are not locked in to Assimilation in the same way as Breath, freeing up that point in all scenarios. Acclimation, March of Darkness and Improved Death Strike are all solid choices. Furthermore, Permafrost can be allocated to Coldthirst for quicker interrupts, or Blinding Sleet if hard CC is required.

At the bottom part of the tree, we can again make the choice of picking up Insidious Chill and Will of the Necropolis. This is a significant loss in AoE, though, due to how Obliteration synergizes with Death's Echo but a very realistic change in Single Target. Again, Wraith Walk can be picked up instead of Unholy Ground if you make the switch!

Soul Reaper can be exchanged for Abomination Limb whenever you can get either grip value, or AoE value from the talent!

This is our recommended build for Mythic+. It works really well for all weeks and all affixes!

It is centered around our Obliteration talent. Leveraging it in conjunction with Death and Decay and Cleaving Strikes to deal significant AoE damage.

When it comes to your spec talents, we do have some choices to make. We can opt to exchange Absolute Zero for a second point in Enduring Strength. This removes the stun utility from Frostwyrm's Fury and takes away some of our burst AoE. However, it brings more consistent AoE damage and improves our Single Target!

The class tree does not have much choice in Mythic+ either. We pick up so many defensive talents that there are not much choice left. Still, we again get the choice around Will of the Necropolis. It might seem overkill to pick this up, but it increases your effective max health by 16%! Not strictly needed with perfect play, but a really nice cushion to have. You do sacrifice 3-4% as you need to give up a point in Unholy Bond in the Mythic+ build. Sacrificing Death's Echo is not a good idea.

Breath of Sindragosa is a viable alternative in Mythic+, specifically in high keys (15+) with a tank that pulls around your cooldowns. You really need to chain-pull enemies to get the full value of your Breath of Sindragosa cooldown.

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