Frost Death Knight Torghast Guide and Best Anima Powers — Shadowlands 9.0.2

This page will help you perform the best with your Frost Death Knight in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. For more information about Torghast in general, check out our dedicated page below.

Level	Choices
15	? Inexorable Assault	✗ Icy Talons	✓ Cold Heart
25	✓ Runic Attenuation	✓ Murderous Efficiency	✗ Horn of Winter
30	? Death's Reach	? Asphyxiate	? Blinding Sleet
35	✓ Avalanche	? Frozen Pulse	✓ Frostscythe
40	? Permafrost	? Wraith Walk	? Death Pact
45	✓ Gathering Storm	? Hypothermic Presence	✗ Glacial Advance
50	✗ Icecap	✓ Obliteration	✓ Breath of Sindragosa

? Inexorable Assault

✘ Icy Talons

✔ Cold Heart

Cold Heart is far and above the best talent in this row.

✔ Runic Attenuation

✔ Murderous Efficiency

✘ Horn of Winter

If you are using Obliteration, then take Murderous Efficiency, and if you are using Breath of Sindragosa, then Runic Attenuation is the better option.

? Death's Reach

? Asphyxiate

? Blinding Sleet

All talents on this row have fantastic utility and are viable.

✔ Avalanche

? Frozen Pulse

✔ Frostscythe

Frostscythe will allow you to spread Rune of Razorice to all targets in your range, significantly increasing the damage of all your Frost damaging abilities.

? Permafrost

? Wraith Walk

? Death Pact

All talents on this row have fantastic utility and are viable, however Wraith Walk has great mobility benefits.

✔ Gathering Storm

? Hypothermic Presence

✘ Glacial Advance

Gathering Storm offers the highest DPS output for both single-target and AoE, however Hypothermic Presence can be paired well with Breath of Sindragosa.

✘ Icecap

✔ Obliteration

✔ Breath of Sindragosa

Obliteration and Breath of Sindragosa are both viable options for both single-target and AoE.

This section ranks desirable Anima Powers from Great to Average. Before reading further, you might want to check out our complete lists of Anima Powers (both Death Knight-specific and class-agnostic).

• Ancient Drake Breath
• Blood-tinged Poker
• Deathlord's Cypher (Allows you to have Inexorable Assault and Cold Heart)
• Necromantic Bile
• Deathlord's Gift (Allows you to have Runic Attenuation and Murderous Efficiency)
• Deathlord's Ultimatum (Allows you to have Icecap and Obliteration or Breath of Sindragosa)
• Blood-tinged Poker
• Bone Growing Juice
• Death Turf
• Skull Bloomer
• Oppressor's Chain
• Fatal Grasp (Necrolord)

• Deathlord's Invocation (Allows you to have Avalanche and Frostscythe)
• Deathlord's Mythos (Allows you to have Gathering Storm and Hypothermic Presence
• Animate Armaments
• Darkreaver's Lens
• The Horsemen's Call
• Rune Hunter
• Tome of Swordplay
• Undertaker's Crown
• Hateforged Cilice (Kyrian)
• Eyes of the Unceasing (Kyrian)
• Death's Deliverance (Venthyr)
• Swarm Host (Venthyr)
• Engorged Limb (Necrolord)
• Corrupted Sapwood (Night Fae)

• Bone Harvester
• Blightstone
• Occult Emitter
• Chains of Anguish
• Creeping Decay
• Darkreaver's Ward
• Force Pull
• Lich Robes
• Monstrous Concoction
• Phearomones
• Plaguebringer
• Slick Ice
• Unbreakable Cuffs
• Deathlord's Legacy (Allows you to have Spell Eater and Wraith Walk or Death Pact
• Deathlord's Lesson (Allows you to have Grip of the Dead and Death's Reach or Asphyxiate
• Darkhelm of Nuren (Kyrian)
• Twisted Hellchoker (Kyrian)
• Reinforced Manacle (Kyrian)
• Formless Executioner (Venthyr)
• Prosthetic Grabber (Necrolord)
• Nightmare Tendrils (Night Fae)
• Toxic Accumulator (Night Fae)

If an Anima Power is not in the Tier List above, it is either because we have been unable to test it or find information about its tuning. It will be populated over time as we learn more about them.

Occasionally, you will be offered the ability to get Phantasma instead of an Anima Power, or increases to your Phantasma generation. It is hard to evaluate these, but they are generally better than the "Average" Anima powers.

• Use Anti-Magic Shell before a magic debuff is cast on you, in order to prevent the application of the debuff.
• If a mob is able to be Death Gripped then you can use that to also interrupt that mob, acting as another interrupt utility.