Frost Death Knight DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

This section covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Frost Death Knight, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

Frost Death Knights can utilize powerful Runeforges on their weapons instead of normal enchants. Choosing the right enchant is crucial for optimizing your DPS! Here are the best enchants for the different viable builds!

• Rune of the Fallen Crusader + Thalassian Phoenix Oil for 2H .
• Rune of Razorice + Thalassian Phoenix Oil for 2H Breathbane.
• Rune of Razorice MH + Rune of the Fallen Crusader + Thalassian Phoenix Oil for Dual-Wield Shattering Blade/ Frostbane Builds.
• Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle MH + Rune of the Fallen Crusader + Thalassian Phoenix Oil for Dual-Wield Breath of Sindragosa builds.
• Rune of Razorice MH + Rune of the Fallen Crusader + Thalassian Phoenix Oil for Dual-Wield Breathbane Builds.
• For leveling: Rune of the Fallen Crusader + Rune of Razorice if DW above level 53, Rune of Unending Thirst if below level 53.

If you do not want to bother with simulations, simply go for Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your epic gem and then Flawless Deadly Amethyst or Flawless Masterful Garnet as your non-epic gems. This is also the most likely to be your best setup anyway.

Midnight has two effects that synergise equipping specific/multiple different gem colours: Powerful Eversong Diamond (Epic Gem) as well as Signet of Azerothian Blessings and Loa Worshiper's Band (Jewelcrafting). Whether or not it is worth to maximise the gem colours depend on your exact gear and stats. The number of available sockets and the number of rings that benefit from the effect can flip the decision. Furthermore, with the Loa ring, you control the effect it provides with the gem colours you have equipped, and therefore might to stack a specific colour to only get a specific summon. It is a simulation question at the end of the day but will generally not have a huge impact on your DPS. If you do go for max mixed-colour value, pick the following gems:

• Flawless Masterful Garnet
• Flawless Masterful Peridot
• Flawless Deadly Amethyst
• Flawless Masterful Lapis

You can consume a number of different temporary items to increase your power in Dungeons and Raids. Below is a comprehensive overview of everything you want to use!

You generally want to use either Flask of the Shattered Sun or Flask of the Magisters in all content. The choice depends on your current stats and unfortunately and is not an obvious one. If you have lots of Mastery and not much Crit, Shattered Sun is likely best. If you have lots of Crit and not much mastery, Magisters is best. You need to simulate yourself to get the best recommendation.

There are three options for potion that we can use. We recommend Light's Potential as your go-to potion. Draught of Rampant Abandon can sometimes sim highest but has a negative drawback where it drops a void zone under your feet and silences you.

Potion of Recklessness can sometimes sim a bit higher as well, but this depends on a variety of different factors. The biggest of them being that you want the Recklessness potion to proc Mastery, unless you are using Algeth'ar Puzzle Box, where you'd want the potion to grant Crit instead. There are a few other considerations as well, i.e. whether you already have a lot of Mastery by default, at which point the potion buff would be heavily affected by stat diminishing returns. In essence, run Light's Potential, but if you want to minmax, simulate your character to see if Recklessness is ever-so-slightly better.

You should also make sure to keep up a stock of Silvermoon Health Potion! These healing potions are great for when you need to quickly heal yourself, helping your healers and ensuring that you stay alive.

You can either pick up main stat food or secondary stat food in Midnight. For Frost Death Knights, main stat is the best option. This means that you either want to eat a feast such as Harandar Celebration or Silvermoon Parade. If your party or raid team does not supply a feast, you can eat Impossibly Royal Roast or Royal Roast as an alternative.

• Rune of the Fallen Crusader: The staple Runeforge for Frost Death Knights, you will always see this Runeforge used in both Mythic+ and Raid content.
• Rune of Razorice: This Runeforge is used for some Dual-Wield builds. It allows you to gain a lot of benefit from Shattering Blade.
• Rune of Sanguination: Provides a small execute effect for Death Strike and a small cheat death mechanic. This Runeforge has more of a place in PvP as opposed to PvE content.
• Rune of Spellwarding: Provides small defense towards casters, making it more geared towards PvP situations.
• Rune of the Apocalypse: Currently very weak compared to other options, especially Rune of the Fallen Crusader.
• Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle: Solid amount of stats, works well with Dual-Wield builds.
• Rune of Unending Thirst: Commonly used for leveling since it provides movement speed, Haste, and heals when you kill an enemy.