Frost Death Knight DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Frost Death Knight in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities most optimally.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our Midnight Mythic+ page below, or check out our Mythic+ Tier List if you're curious about the current Mythic+ Meta!

Frost Death Knight is a solid Mythic+ spec with a lot of talent diversity and options. We bring good burst on a 45 seconds cadence with every other one being more powerful. We are incredibly tanky but generally do not bring much group utility.

For a more general overview of Talents for Frost Death Knight, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

Frost Death Knight has a large number of different possible talent builds in Midnight Season 1. We have the recommended 2H Breath of Sindragosa build that sacrifices very little Single Target to do solid AoE. We then have the "Breathbane" build that combines Breath of Sindragosa and Frostbane to deal significantly more AoE damage at the heavy cost of Single Target. Finally, we have two pure Frostbane builds that either run with or without the Remorseless Winter talents.

Our recommendation is to run the 2H Breath of Sindragosa build to not sacrifice too much Single Target. It has the benefit of running a 2H weapon, just like our best Raid build as well. We also recommend Deathbringer with this build, even if Rider of the Apocalypse is 100% viable as well.

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Talent Builds for Frost Death Knight in Midnight

2H Deathbringer Breath of Sindragosa Rider of the Apocalypse Breathbane DW Rider of the Apocalypse Frostbane-Winter DW Rider of the Apocalypse Frostbane-Summer

Our recommended Mythic+ build runs 2H Breath of Sindragosa which is only 3% behind our Raid setup. It does not have a huge focus on Single Target but still brings in a good balance that we believe works best in Mythic+.

This build can run Rider of the Apocalypse with no changes. We recommend running A Feast of Souls in the one choice node.

The "Breathbane" build picks up both Frostbane and Breath of Sindragosa, sacrificing Single Target but providing a significant increase to AoE burst. It works both with 2H and Dual-Wield builds. With Dual-Wield, Rune of Razorice brings more Single Target whereas Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle brings more AoE.

The Frostbane-Winter build runs a more "pure" Frostbane build without Breath of Sindragosa. It runs a Dual-Wield setup with Rune of Razorice and Rune of the Fallen Crusader. This will in general be your max AoE build which is something like 18% behind the recommended Mythic+ build in a 3 minute encounter.

The Frostbane-Summer build runs Frostbane without picking up any talents that empower Remorseless Winter. This brings 2.5% more Single Target DPS for about the same AoE loss. You can run the Breathbane build in the same manner if you want slightly more Single Target wit it.

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Death Knight Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

This guide mostly has Death-Knight-specific tips for Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

Midnight Season 1 offers four unique affixes that we can deal with to different degrees with our kit. They rotate weekly with only one being active at a time. They are also the only affixes that are active and require you to specifically handle them.

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant: Three waves of orbs will spawn that need to be interrupted or disrupted. Blinding Sleet is your most effective tool here to handle these orbs, with Mind Freeze and Death Grip handling any stray ones left.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound: A Void Emissary add will spawn that needs to be focus-targeted and interrupted. Simply swap to the new add and focus it down. If you know it is spawning soon, considering holding your Cooldowns to deal with it quickly.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar: Orbs will spawn around players and circle around them. You have 15 seconds to soak all of these to buff your group. Use your movement abilities like Wraith Walk and Death's Advance to quickly soak these up.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour: All party members will be affected by a healing absorb. You can pre-immune this with Anti-Magic Shell. However, this does mean that you miss out on the buff received when the shield is removed. Alternatively, help your healer to remove the shield by using Death Strike and Health Potions/ Healthstones if required.

MDT Sim is the best way to sim Mythic+ for Frost Death Knight. It allows you to sim an entire dungeon, pull-by-pull, with appropriate HP amounts and so on. In this way, you get a full picture within a single sim, of various target counts and durations. I have created a route that I feel is a good "average" of all dungeons that you can use. Drop the contents of the Pastebin into your Raidbots > SimC Expert Mode at the bottom > 'Footer'. Detailed instructions and more info on MDT Sim can be found on the MDT Sim Wago page.

On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Frost Death Knight that also apply to Mythic+.