Frost Death Knight DPS Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.1.5)

• #showtooltip Raise Ally
• /cast [@mouseover,help][@target]Raise Ally

This macro casts Raise Ally on your mouseover target, if they are a friendly player. Otherwise, it casts Raise Ally on your current target.

• #showtooltip Mind Freeze
• /cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Mind Freeze

This macro allows you to interrupt your focus target, if you have one, and if not to simply interrupt your current target.

• #showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast !Breath of Sindragosa
• /cast Reaper's Mark
• /cast Empower Rune Weapon
• /cast Raise Dead

This macro bakes in a ton of off-gcd spells and abilities into a single button. Replace the "trinket" here with whichever trinket you want to use. The "!" before Breath is added to prevent unintentionally canceling its effect by double-tapping the macro. When using this in the opener, press it twice to trigger the Reaper's Mark. The 2 Runes from Breath don't come quickly enough to be used on the Mark straight away, but can be used an instance later (double-press the macro).

Maximising the value of Obliteration means fully utilising all the available GCDs you have during the window. Since Pillar of Frost is off the GCD, we want to macro it with a GCD-button to start using your abilities ASAP in the window. When playing Deathbringer, this means always using your Pillar with Reaper's Mark as they have the same Cooldown (with the standard talents). The macro looks like the one below:

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Reaper's Mark
• /cast Raise Dead
• /cast Empower Rune Weapon
• /use trinket

If you are not playing Deathbringer, you will need more Macros. Essentially, you want to create separate ones for Frostwyrm's Fury, Frost Strike, Glacial Advance, Obliterate, Howling Blast and Soul Reaper. Each macro represents a specific scenario where the corresponding ability is your "initiator" ability:

• Frostwyrm's Fury (when playing Rider of the Apocalypse) whenever it is available.
• Obliterate if you have a Killing Machine proc.
• Howling Blast if you have a proc of Rime.
• Soul Reaper if you have 3+ Runes and the boss is below 35% health.
• Frost Strike (Single Target), Glacial Advance (AoE) otherwise.

• #showtooltip Death Grip
• /cast [target=mouseover,exists] Death Grip; Death Grip

This macro will cast Death Grip on your mouseover target.

• #showtooltip Anti-Magic Zone
• /cast [@cursor] Anti-Magic Zone

This macro instantly casts Anti-Magic Zone at your cursor's location. It is useful for activating the Zone a tiny bit more quickly by spamming this macro button. It also generally helps in placing it effectively.

Controlling an Undead creature in dungeons is a nice way to add some minor extra damage, as well as control a specific mob for however long you want. It does need re-controlling every 2 minutes, and this macro is perfect for that! It will target your pet, dismiss it, and then instantly control it again.

• #showtooltip Control Undead
• /target pet
• /script PetDismiss()
• /cast Control Undead

ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.

Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.

GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.

Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.

Recount is a well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS (Healing Per Second). This add-on is not really lightweight, and provides a very high amount of information (and it can sometimes cause issues with performance). It is generally a good option to use Recount for checking what you take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.

An alternative to Recount (similar in function, so the choice is personal preference) is Details!.

A lightweight alternative to Recount and Details! is Skada Damage Meter.

Omen Threat Meter is the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on your target. We recommend you to use it to avoid taking aggro when the tank is still building up threat on an enemy.

ElvUI comes with decent raid frames. The only real reason for using Grid and GridClickSets is if you want to be able to mouseover dead raid or party members to resurrect them with Raise Ally. If you choose to go with Grid, then you might want to also use GridStatusRaidDebuff.

Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.