Frost Death Knight DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Frost Death Knight Gear Page for Midnight Pre-Season. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing an Frost Death Knight, including the BiS Gear from Dungeons in the pre-season.

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BiS Gear for Frost Death Knight

Pre-Season Best in Slot

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Pre-Season BiS List for Frost Death Knight

Below, you will find the theoretical Pre-Season BiS set of gear for Midnight Pre-Season including all gear before Season 1 is released.

Slot	Item	Boss/ Dungeon/ Source
Helm	Greathelm of Temptation	Murder Row
Neck	Graft of the Domanaar	Voidscar Arena
Shoulder	Amalgamation's Harness	Maisara Caverns
Cloak	Speakeasy Shroud	Murder Row
Chest	Sentinel Challenger's Prize	Den of Nalorakk
Bracers	Trollhunter's Bands	Maisara Caverns
Gloves	Thornspike Gauntlets	The Blinding Vale
Belt	Autumn's Boon Belt	Den of Nalorakk
Legs	Legplates of Lingering Dusk	Magister's Terrace
Boots	Sabatons of Furious Revenge	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Signet of Snarling Servitude	Murder Row
Ring #2	Lightwarden's Bind	The Blinding Vale
Trinket #1	Vessel of Tortured Souls	Maisara Caverns
Trinket #2	Seed of the Devouring Wild	The Blinding Vale
2H Weapon	Liferipper's Cutlass	Maisara Caverns

Midnight has a powerful upgrade system for your gear where you use Crests to upgrade your gear. These are obtainable from practically all forms of content in the game.

For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.

There are three primary items to upgrade as an Frost Death Knight:

1. Weapon
2. Trinket
3. Head/ Chest/ Legs

With how the upgrade system works with Crests being the limited currency, you want to upgrade the most powerful slots you can. For Frost Death Knights, this will be your weapon (Attack Power scales with weapon ilvl). After you have upgraded your weapon, move on to trinkets and high-stat slot items like Legs, Helm, Chest, etc.

Many people overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is usually better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item-level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item-level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. For more information on stats, please refer to our dedicated page.

For neck and ring pieces, you can generally afford to drop 5-10 ilevels in most cases to get our preferred stats. That said, you should always sim yourself to see what is better as the secondary stat diminishing returns can still change your ideal setup. It can be useful to wear crafted jewelry due to how you can control the stats; just remember that you cannot craft the maximum ilvl possible!

Gearing up can sometimes be a daunting task, especially with multiple different sources of gear. Take a look at our Midnight Hub to get a better overview!

Professions play a key role to effectively gearing you character, please take a look at our profession overview to get a better understanding of how it works!

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

While gearing up, item level will be your primary target. Strength is our best stat, and you shouldn't focus too much on your secondaries at first. Once you start to receive gear pieces with the same ilvl but different stats, that is when you want to start optimizing your stat distribution. We recommend simming your character to determine what upgrade is best for you! For a more detailed explanation, you can read the Simulations page.