Frost Death Knight DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.1.7
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 10.1.7.
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.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
The build above is your generic single target talent tree. Each boss below will note if it uses this build or a different one and if you should tweak anything. Running the same talent build for every single boss is not optimal.
Generally, we do not change our talents much at all between bosses.
Blinding Sleet provides some nice utility in certain fights and
Death's Reach gives some nice grip range when it is needed.
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Kazzara, the Hellforged
Talents
Suggested Talent Build
A pure single-target fight where our standard build works best.
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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 and to generate Runic Power.
Rays of Anguish is a relatively dangerous mechanic; make sure to use defensives if you do get targeted.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Talents
A tricky fight for Frost to execute well due to the heavy movement. Still, the default build works best!
Suggested Talent Build
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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 build fits well into both scenarios since it does really well on both Single Target and two-target cleave!
Suggested Talent Build - Single Target
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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.
Assault of the Zaqali
Talents
This fight consists of periods of pure Single Target with intermittent heavy
add cleave. Our standard build is great for both the cleave and for sending
off those huge Frostwyrm's Furys on the adds!
Suggested Talent Build - Single Target
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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.
Rashok, the Elder
A pure single target encounter where the default raid build is best.
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. 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.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Talents
Zskarn is primarily a Single Target encounter with some intermittent spread add cleave. I recommend the default raid build again.
Suggested Talent Build
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Tips
- Use
Chains of Ice and
Death Grip 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.
Magmorax
Talents
Pure Single Target fight -> default raid build is best.
Suggested Talent Build
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Tips
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.
Echo of Neltharion
Talents
Primarily Single Target but with some opportunity for 2-target cleave. Again, the default build will be best!
Suggested Talent Build
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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.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Talents
Suggested Talent Build
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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
- 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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