Frost Death Knight DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)

Last updated on Feb 20, 2025 at 12:00 by Bicepspump 54 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Frost Death Knight for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).

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Introduction

Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.

On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Frost Death Knights and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.

All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.

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Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Frost Death Knight

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Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Frost Death Knight

Vexie Fullthrottle Cauldron of Carnage Rik Reverb Stix Bunkjunker Sprocketmonger Lockenstock One-Armed Bandit Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
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Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Frost Death Knight

2.1.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell before running through Oil Slick Icon Oil Slick to completely ignore the damage.
2.2.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Death and Decay Icon Death and Decay to increase your cleave when the adds spawn.
  • The boss takes 100% increased damage in the intermission, make sure that you have all your cooldowns available for this part. This generally happens after 1.5 minutes but make sure to hold your second Frostwyrm's Fury Icon Frostwyrm's Fury if it gets delayed.
2.3.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death Grip Icon Death Grip and Abomination Limb Icon Abomination Limb to help group up the adds in the intermission.
2.4.

Best Talents

We recommend Rider of the Apocalypse with Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade here due to the 100% damage increase phase.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Frost Death Knight

2.5.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone during Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash to help mitigate the damage dealt to the raid.
  • You can use Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by Static Charge Icon Static Charge.
2.6.

Cooldown Usage

  • There are two options for how to handle Cooldowns on this fight. Either send everything ASAP or hold your second set until the first Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash. There is not a clear winner between these two approaches so do what feels best for yourself.
2.7.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Chains of Ice Icon Chains of Ice, Death Grip Icon Death Grip and Blinding Sleet Icon Blinding Sleet to help control the Voltaic Image Icon Voltaic Image adds.
2.8.

Best Talents

There are periods of stacked two-target cleave but also a lot of movement. We therefore recommend Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade for this encounter.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Rik Reverb for Frost Death Knight

2.9.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone during the intermission to help mitigate the raid damage.
2.10.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Death and Decay Icon Death and Decay to help cleave on Pyrotechnics adds.
  • Try and hit as many Pyrotechnics as possible with your Frostwyrm's Fury Icon Frostwyrm's Fury abiliy.
2.11.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Lichborne Icon Lichborne to break the charm from Resonant Echoes Icon Resonant Echoes.
2.12.

Best Talents

Rik spawns spread add that need to be cleaved down. We recommend Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade for this encounter.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Frost Death Knight

2.13.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone if one of the bombs explode.
2.14.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on Cooldown.
2.15.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death Grip Icon Death Grip and Abomination Limb Icon Abomination Limb to help group up the adds that spawn. Remember that only certain adds can be gripped!
2.16.

Best Talents

A heavy cleave fight with periods of forced downtime (when you are running with the ball). This has a negative impact on Breath of Sindragosa Icon Breath of Sindragosa as you might get cancelled at the start of a Breath. We therefore recommend Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade. Breath is viable still on the fight due to the heavy cleave.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Frost Death Knight

2.17.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone either during Bleeding Edge Icon Bleeding Edge or for one of the tank explosions.
2.18.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on Cooldown.
2.19.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Death's Advance Icon Death's Advance to immune the conveyor belt push effect.
  • Position yourself to get knocked to the location that the boss jumps to for the first big knockback.
2.20.

Best Talents

A pure Single Target fight with relatively large amount of movement. This favours Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade which is more flexible when it comes to downtime.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Frost Death Knight

2.21.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell before running through the electric AoE on the ground to completely avoid taking damage. This is useful if the tank leaves the electricity on the spot where the boss jumps to!
2.22.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on Cooldown.
2.23.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude if you get stunned by the Coin. This is great since it means that you can aim for the High Roller! Icon High Roller! buff more aggressively.
2.24.

Best Talents

We recommend Rider of the Apocalypse with Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade on this fight!

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Mug'Zee for Frost Death Knight

2.25.

Defensive Tips

  • You can use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell to immune the DoT from blowing up bombs.
2.26.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on Cooldown but make sure you have Frostwyrm's Fury Icon Frostwyrm's Fury for Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust in the final phase.
2.27.

Mechanical Tips

  • You cannot cleave to the Goons that spawn when they are in their stone prisons. However, when the prisons are broken, you can cleave again.
2.28.

Best Talents

We recommend Shattering Blade Icon Shattering Blade with Rider of the Apocalypse due to its superior Single Target damage.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Frost Death Knight

2.29.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell for the fall-off AoE in the final phase.
2.30.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on cooldown.
2.31.

Mechanical Tips

  • When the adds spawn, always make sure to cleave off one of them to the boss. With how hitboxes work, your Obliterate Icon Obliterate will not hit the adds if your primary target is the boss. However, if you target an add it will cleave properly!
2.32.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

2.33.

General Offensive Cooldown Usage

Frost Death Knight has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:

  • Pillar of Frost Icon Pillar of Frost - Our 45 seconds cooldown window.
  • Frostwyrm's Fury Icon Frostwyrm's Fury - Either 1.5min or 3min cooldown used for big AoE burst with Deathbringer or with Pillar of Frost Icon Pillar of Frost when playing Rider of the Apocalypse.
  • Breath of Sindragosa Icon Breath of Sindragosa - When picked, huge cleave Cooldown generally used every 2min15sec.
  • Empower Rune Weapon Icon Empower Rune Weapon - 2 minute cooldown that is timed with Pillar of Frost Icon Pillar of Frost at the 2min15sec mark.

Make sure to use your cooldowns as much as possible unless certain adds or DPS phases allow you to get more value out of them. This is typically something you will want to discuss with your Raidleader or the rest of the raid in static groups, while PUGs are more freeform than that.

2.34.

General Defensive Cooldown Usage

Anti-Magic Shell Icon Anti-Magic Shell, Icebound Fortitude Icon Icebound Fortitude and Lichborne Icon Lichborne are your main personal defensive spells. Use these when you are targeted by mechanics, or when the raid is taking damage to help mitigate it. Anti-Magic Zone Icon Anti-Magic Zone is our raid defensive cooldown that you should coordinate with your group for when to use it. Finally, Death Grip Icon Death Grip can be used as a defensive since the boss takes less damage when you grip it through Subduing Grasp Icon Subduing Grasp.

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Changelog

  • 16 Mar. 2025: Updated builds and tips.
  • 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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