Frost Death Knight DPS Macros and Addons — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Frost Death Knight in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
Macros
Generic Macros for Death Knights
Raise Ally
- #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.
Mind Freeze
- #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.
Specific Macros for Frost Death Knights
Breath of Sindragosa Macro
- #showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
- /cast Pillar of Frost
- /cast !Breath of Sindragosa
- /cast Raise Dead
- /cast Empower Rune Weapon
- /use trinket
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. For optimal
play,
Empower Rune Weapon should be removed from the macro and used
independently
later in your Breath when you need the resources more.
The "!" before Breath is added to prevent unintentionally cancelling its effect
by double-tapping the macro.
Obliteration Opener Macro
- #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
- /cast Pillar of Frost
- /cast Howling Blast
- /cast Raise Dead
- /cast Empower Rune Weapon
- /use trinket
This macro is very useful when playing with the Obliteration talent.
By putting
Howling Blast in the macro, you will trigger the first proc
of
Killing Machine immediately. It also brings in multiple off-gcd
spells and abilities. You would generally use this macro straight after your
initial
Remorseless Winter.
Obliteration Trigger Macros
When playing Obliteration, it is crucial that you generate the
first proc of
Killing Machine as soon as possible within your
Obliteration window. The best way of doing this is to create a macro
that will use
Pillar of Frost and then immediately use one of
Howling Blast,
Frost Strike and
Glacial Advance. Thus,
we need three distinct macros to use depending on the situation when we enter
our burst window. To be fair, you can do this almost as well by just being quick
with your button presses, so the macros are not necessary at all!
- #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
- /cast Pillar of Frost
- /cast Howling Blast
- /cast Raise Dead
- /cast Empower Rune Weapon
- /use trinket
- #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
- /cast Pillar of Frost
- /cast Frost Strike
- /cast Raise Dead
- /cast Empower Rune Weapon
- /use trinket
- #showtooltip Pillar of Frost
- /cast Pillar of Frost
- /cast Glacial Advance
- /cast Raise Dead
- /cast Empower Rune Weapon
- /use trinket
Death Grip Mouseover Macro
- #showtooltip Death Grip
- /cast [target=mouseover,exists] Death Grip; Death Grip
This macro will cast Death Grip on your mouseover target.
Howling Blast
- #showtooltip Howling Blast
- /cast [target=mouseover] Howling Blast
This macro allows you to use Howling Blast on targets from which you
are out of melee range.
Anti-Magic Zone Cursor
- #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.
Control Undead
Controlling an Undead creature in dungeons is a great way to boost your DPS and help your group out. 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
Addons
Generic Addons for Death Knights
ElvUI
Here, at Icy Veins, we use ElvUI for all our characters. This addon is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, cooldown timers, proc display, etc.
We strongly recommend that you get this addon and our forum moderator Pandacho has written a quick configuration guide for it.
Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
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
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 or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
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.
Weak Auras
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 / Skada / Details!
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
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.
Grid and GridClickSets (Optional)
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.
Specific Addons for Frost Death Knights
Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.
Changelog
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed and Updated for Patch 10.1. Emphasised that oblit macros are not necessary.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player raiding with Pescorus on Kazzak. He is heavily involved in the DK DPS theorycrafting community, testing hyoptheses and investigating the correct priority to use. He is also a moderator in the Acherus Death Knight Discord, frequently answering questions and discussing optimisations (do not hesitate to reach out). He produces guide content on YouTube and frequently streams on Twitch.
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