Frost Death Knight DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Season 4

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.

The main choice you need to make as a Frost Death Knight is whether or not you are playing Breath of Sindragosa or Obliteration. Both builds are competitive on pretty much every single boss (both in top 10 DPS) so it is down to personal preference what you play. I will recommend one Breath of Sindragosa build and one Obliteration build for each boss.

Some other choices involve picking up Abomination Limb for both builds, or Frostwhelp's Aid for Breath of Sindragosa.

A pure single-target fight where our standard builds works best.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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 and to generate Runic Power.
• 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.

A tricky fight for Frost to execute well due to the heavy movement. Still, the default builds works best!

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.

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!

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.

For more information, please refer to our Forgotten Experiments guide.

This fight consists of periods of pure Single Target with intermittent heavy add cleave. We opt to pick up Absolute Zero in both builds to provide beter burst add cleave. Furthermore, Abomination Limb has good value when grouping up adds and Frostwhelp's Aid is good for Breath..

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAISSCJiERISSIkIJRECIEJJJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAICASkkQiIREikECJSSEJkgcASSEJJJJpkEAAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.

A pure single target encounter where the default raid builds are best.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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. I 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.

Zskarn is primarily a Single Target encounter with some intermittent spread add cleave. I recommend the default raid builds again but with Abomination Limb picked up.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAISSCJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIRSCJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.

For more information, please refer to our Zskarn guide.

Pure Single Target fight -> default raid builds are best.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• Anti-Magic Zone is great to help mitigate the damage the raid takes when soaking the meteor. It also gives a solid amount of Runic Power.
• Use Death's Advance for the knockback in the fight.

For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.

Primarily Single Target but with some opportunity for 2-target cleave. The final phase has big AoE burst, making Frostwyrm's Fury gain value. I recommend it for both builds.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJREigERikkkkkkWOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAICASIJRiIREikECJSSEJIIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.

Primarily Single Target with some intermittent add cleave in P2 and P3. Not sufficient to run Frostwyrm's Fury so I recommend default builds instead.

• Breath: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkIAIikEJiERISSIkIJRECIRkIJJJJJplAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Obliteration: BsPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcgIAIhkEJiERISSIkIJRkAIhkERSSSSKJBAAAAAAAAAAAA

• 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.