Frost Death Knight DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Frost Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Aberrus. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible guides.
On this page, you will find Frost Death Knight specific information to deal with each boss in the Aberrus raid. These are not complete encounter guides but specific tips for doing the bosses as a Frost Death Knight.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Frost Death Knight and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
Best Talents for Frost Death Knight
2H Obliteration Raid Build
DW Obliteration Raid Talents
Breath Raid Talents
The main choice you need to make as a Frost Death Knight is which of the three main builds you go for. 2H Obliteration, DW Obliteration or Breath. It is primarily a personal preference as all builds are competitive. Still, we recommend 2H Obliteration on all bosses. You also choose either Unholy Ground on AoE encounters or Enfeeble for pure Single Target.
Kazzara, the Hellforged
Talents
Suggested Talent Builds
A pure single-target fight where our standard builds works best. We pick up enfeeble due to the fight being pure Single Target.
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Tips
- Wings of Extinction pushback can be avoided using Death's Advance.
- Wings of Extinction DoT can be immuned by pre-using Anti-Magic Shell.
- You can use Anti-Magic Zone when Wings of Extinction comes in to help mitigate the damage.
- Rays of Anguish is a relatively dangerous mechanic; make sure to use defensives if you do get targeted.
For more information, please refer to our Kazzara guide.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Talents
A tricky fight for Frost to execute well due to the heavy movement. Still, the default builds works best! Enfeeble is also useful here due to not needing Unholy Ground.
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Fiery Meteor is a great opportunity to leverage Anti-Magic Zone to help mitigate the damage.
- Blazing Heat/ Corrupting Shadow leaves a DoT when cleared. You can use Anti-Magic Shell to avoid this DoT and help your healers manage.
For more information, please refer to our Amalgamation Chamber guide.
The Forgotten Experiments
Talents
This fight is primarily a Single Target fight on Heroic and easier difficulties. For Mythic, we do get extended periods of two-target cleave. The default builds fits well into both scenarios since they do really well on both Single Target and two-target cleave!
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Use Death and Decay to help cleave the Erratic Remnant adds.
- Use Death and Decay to increase your cleave when you fight two bosses on Mythic.
- Leverage Anti-Magic Shell aggressively to generate Runic Power when running Breath.
For more information, please refer to our Forgotten Experiments guide.
Assault of the Zaqali
Talents
This fight consists of periods of pure Single Target with intermittent heavy add cleave. The default build works well in both Single Target and AoE!
Suggested Talent Build
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Tips
- Use Frostwyrm's Furys on as many adds as possible.
- Use Anti-Magic Shell to help mitigate the damage from the fire circles that spawn around everyone in the final phase.
For more information, please refer to our Assault of the Zaqali guide.
Rashok, the Elder
A pure single target encounter where the default raid builds are best. Enfeeble is also useful here due to not needing Unholy Ground.
Talents
Suggested Talent Build
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Tips
- Anti-Magic Zone works well for the Charged Smash soak.
- Anti-Magic Shell will be very useful in this fight due to the large amount of incoming magic damage. We recommend using it for the Searing Slams.
- For Mythic, use Anti-Magic Shell at the start of each Charged Smash cast. This will immune the healing absorb as well as the debuff that is applied from the smash itself. This is a large amount of prevented damage to the raid!
For more information, please refer to our Rashok the Elder guide.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Talents
Zskarn is primarily a Single Target encounter with some intermittent spread add cleave. We recommend the default raid builds again with Unholy Ground.
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Use Chains of Ice, Death Grip and Abomination Limb to control the adds that spawn.
- Make sure you have Death's Advance for when heavy movement is required during the big Breaths.
- Anti-Magic Shell can be used to immune the DoT from Blast Wave. Furthermore, Death's Advance can immune the knockback and Anti-Magic Zone is solid for helping the raid to mitigate the damage.
- Leverage Death and Decay to cleave on the adds that spawn.
For more information, please refer to our Zskarn guide.
Magmorax
Talents
Pure Single Target fight -> default raid builds are best. Enfeeble as well due to no need for Unholy Ground.
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Anti-Magic Zone is great to help mitigate the damage the raid takes when soaking the meteor.
- Use Death's Advance for the knockback in the fight.
For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.
Echo of Neltharion
Talents
Primarily Single Target but with some opportunity for 2-target cleave. The final phase has big AoE burst, making Frostwyrm's Fury gain value. We recommend picking it up.
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Use Anti-Magic Shell when the boss targets you with the knockback ray.
- Maximise your Frostwyrm's Fury damage in the final phase by using it on as many adds as possible.
For more information, please refer to our Neltharion guide.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Talents
Primarily Single Target with some intermittent add cleave in P2 and P3. Not sufficient to run Frostwyrm's Fury so we recommend default builds instead.
Suggested Talent Builds
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Tips
- Use Death's Advance to avoid the knockback from the player getting dispelled.
- Use Death and Decay to cleave on the adds that spawn in P2 and P3.
For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated builds for Season 4.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 25 May 2023: Added more tips.
- 09 May 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player raiding with Pescorus on Kazzak. He is heavily involved in the DK DPS theorycrafting community, testing hyoptheses and investigating the correct priority to use. He is also a moderator in the Acherus Death Knight Discord, frequently answering questions and discussing optimisations (do not hesitate to reach out). He produces guide content on YouTube and frequently streams on Twitch.
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