Frost Death Knight Torghast Guide and Best Anima Powers — Shadowlands 9.0.5

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 pages 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 very strong since it gives you high priority damage and single target burst. Inexorable Assault is also a strong option.

✔ 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. Avalanche is a very strong passive option that is very easy to play with and adds a good amount of damage.

? Permafrost

? Wraith Walk

? Death Pact

All talents on this row have fantastic utility and are viable, however Wraith Walk has great mobility benefits especially since you cannot use your mounts in Torghast.

✔ Gathering Storm

✘ Hypothermic Presence

✘ Glacial Advance

Gathering Storm offers the highest DPS output for both single-target and AoE.

✘ 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
• 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)
• Lich Robes (When paired with Undertaker's Crown)
• Monstrous Concoction
• Undertaker's Crown
• Unbreakable Cuffs
• Boundless Fortitude (When paired with Ancient Drake Breath)

• Chains of Anguish
• Deathlord's Invocation (Allows you to have Avalanche and Frostscythe)
• Deathlord's Mythos (Allows you to have Gathering Storm and Hypothermic Presence
• Darkreaver's Lens
• The Horsemen's Call
• Rune Hunter
• Tome of Swordplay
• Hateforged Cilice (Kyrian)
• Eyes of the Unceasing (Kyrian)
• Death's Deliverance (Venthyr)
• Swarm Host (Venthyr)
• Engorged Limb (Necrolord)
• Corrupted Sapwood (Night Fae)
• Darkreaver's Ward
• Entropic Pool
• Bone Borrower
• Desolate Chitin (Necrolord)
• Frigid Wildseed (Night Fae)

• Bone Harvester
• Blightstone
• Occult Emitter
• Creeping Decay
• Force Pull
• Phearomones
• Plaguebringer
• Slick Ice
• Darkhelm of Nuren (Kyrian)
• Twisted Hellchoker (Kyrian)
• Reinforced Manacle (Kyrian)
• Formless Executioner (Venthyr)
• Prosthetic Grabber (Necrolord)
• Nightmare Tendrils (Night Fae)
• Toxic Accumulator (Night Fae)
• Ethereal Wildseed (Night Fae)

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.
• Certain powers pair up very well with each other. For example: Ancient Drake Breath and Boundless Fortitude or Undertaker's Crown and Lich Robes.