Frost Death Knight DPS Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.2)

• #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.

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, you can use Pillar of Frost with Reaper's Mark to simplify you rotation. In AoE, it is recommend to use Reaper's Mark before pillar. Furthermore, you can add in Breath of Sindragosa in this macro to further cut down on the button requirement.

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

For Rider of the Apocalypse, we end up in a more complicated situation as the on-GCD ability we use with our Pillar of Frost changes depending on situation. We have on macro for Frost Strike, Glacial Advance, Obliterate, Frostscythe and Howling Blast. We use use the macros in the following priority (use the checkbox below to toggle between Single Target and AoE):

• AoE

1. Frostscythe if you have a proc of Killing Machine
2. Obliterate if you have a proc of Killing Machine
3. Howling Blast if you have a proc of Rime
4. Glacial Advance
5. Frost Strike

The exact macros to use are the written out below. Important to note, you also use the Frostscythe macro and Obliterate macro with Deathbringer when you do the early Reaper's Mark tech.

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Frost Strike
• /cast Raise Dead

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Glacial Advance
• /cast Raise Dead

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Obliterate
• /cast Raise Dead

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Frostscythe
• /cast Raise Dead

• #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
• /use trinket
• /cast Pillar of Frost
• /cast Howling Blast
• /cast Raise Dead

• #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 5 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.

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