Frost Death Knight Legion: Remix Guide — The War Within (11.2.5)

Welcome to our Legion Remix Guide for Frost Death Knight! Here we will cover everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Frost Death Knight in the Patch 11.2.5 special feature, Legion: Remix.

This page is entirely dedicated to playing Frost Death Knight in the new event. If you want to know more about Legion Remix in general, for example how it works and what rewards you can earn, you can check out our dedicated Legion Remix page!

Legion remix allows you to pick up an Artifact Weapon just like the old days. However, this time around all spec share the same artifact talent tree (used to be specific for each spec) which you put points in using the Infinite Power currency (used to be adding points as you leveled up). There are five different paths that you can take within the tree, each corresponding to a distinct active ability.

Choosing what active ability and consequently which talent path to use comes down both optimal throughput as well as personal preference. Given the limited time of the event and the nature of the content, picking the "coolest" talents is completely valid

For Solo Players: Arcane or Nature trees provide a good amount of defensives and healing, making it easier for you as a solo player to survive in all content. If you are all about the big pull and AoE-down playstyle, Storm or Fel will likely provide you with more DPS, just make sure you are ready with your defensive abilities, or team up with someone else that can aid you in surviving.

For Duo-ing: When you play with someone else, they can often help you surviving by providing healing or tanking some of the damage. We therefore recommend either Fel or Storm.

For Group Play: For 5-man dungeons, Storm is likely the best option due to its solid AoE potential with Tempest Wrath being a nice AoE ability on its own!

Here's a quick overview of each of the trees:

• Nature: This tree offers strong damage procs, while the active ability Call of the Forest shields you as well as dealing moderate AoE damage to targets in front of you. The passives in the tree provide good damage and survivability, and are particularly powerful when teaming up with other players.
• Fel: This is a purely damage-focused tree, allowing you to summon a Dreadlord with Twisted Crusade that will summon a Rain of Fire to deal damage in an area. With the capstone you can re-use this ability to sacrifice the Dreadlord and deal a massive amount of AoE burst around its location.
• Arcane: This tree mixes survivability and DPS, but only if you can stand still in combat (something we melee do not tend to do...). It's active ability, Naran's Everdisc, deals massive AoE damage to targets in front of you, and you can benefit from this up to 3 times if you catch the orb as it returns to you.
• Storm: A powerful choice for casters due to enabling casting while moving through its talents. Still useful for us Death Knights as the active ability deals a ton of AoE damage around us, great for those big AoE pulls.
• Holy: A more healing-oriented tree that is still useful for us, especially when playing solo. We are already great self-healers but this will help improve our self-sustain even further!

Below you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Frost Death Knight in Legion Remix. The builds are different depending on the activities you choose as you level up, optimising different parts of your kit to synergise well with the given situations.

Please keep in mind that this Leveling section is specific to Legion Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Frost Death Knight, you can head to the page below.

Since Legion Remix is the perfect opportunity to level classes you haven't played before, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible for those learning the spec. Simply use the slider to select your level to learn a little bit more about how and when to use the abilities you just unlocked.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is due to the differences in the recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents ( Reaper's Mark should be used when running Deathbringer for instance!).

1. Pillar of Frost when you open on a pack.
2. Frostwyrm's Fury should be paired with Pillar of Frost and used on big packs, elites, or boss mobs.
3. Breath of Sindragosa when fighting difficult enemies or big packs!
4. Rune Strike is your main damaging ability and Rune spender.
5. Howling Blast to consume procs of Rime.
6. Empower Rune Weapon to generate Runic Power and procs of Killing Machine.
7. Obliterate is your main Single Target Rune spender and a big damage ability once you start generating Killing Machine procs at level 17.
8. Frostscythe over Obliterate when fighting 3+ enemies.
9. Use Death Coil when you have 80+ Runic Power or no available Runes. You won't use this ability once you pick up Frost Strike and Glacial Advance.
10. Raise Dead should be used off cooldown or for bosses/elite mobs.
11. Use Glacial Advance to consume your Runic Power whenever there are 3+ targets.
12. Use Frost Strike to consume your Runic Power.
13. Use Death Strike to heal yourself.
14. Remorseless Winter whenever there are 3+ targets or the target will last the duration.