Frost Death Knight DPS Stat Priority — Dragonflight 10.0.7

The stat priority for a Frost Death Knight is not heavily weighted towards certain stats. In fact, what you will notice when simming your character is that your stat weights will be very close together. Because of this, item level is generally considered the most important decider in a piece of gear. It is still recommended that you sim an item to determine if it is an upgrade or not. However, here is the stat priority you will normally find when simming your character:

1. Critical Strike;
2. Mastery;
3. Haste;
4. Versatility.

Usually a higher item level piece of gear will be a bigger upgrade than a lower item level piece of gear even with better stats. We highly recommend you sim your character to find the stat weights that work best for you.

There is a slight difference in priority between Breath of Sindragosa and Obliteration. Breath generally doesn't like a lot of Haste. Obliteration instead likes to have almost equal levels of Crit, Mastery and Haste.

Strength is your primary statistic. You should look for it in all of your upgrades. It provides you with Attack Power, which determines the damage your abilities do.

Haste increases your attack speed and your Rune regeneration rate while decreasing the global cooldown. It increases the number of Killing Machine procs via the increased attack speed.

Critical Strike increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and abilities.

Crit also increases the number of Killing Machine procs since it increases the number of critical auto attacks you do!

Mastery, through Mastery: Frozen Heart, increases your Frost damage. Frost damage makes up a great part of your total damage.

Versatility increases all your damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.

The gems, enchants, and consumables that you choose are directly affected by your stat priority. To find the best mix of these, we do recommend that you simulate yourself using a program like Raidbots or Simulationcraft, however, we have a page linked below that will give you advice on this topic.