Frost Death Knight PvP Rotation and Playstyle (Dragonflight 10.2.7) (2024)

Last updated on May 07, 2024 at 11:20by Keator6 comments

Frost Death Knights excel at sustained pressure, powerful AoE burst setups,and mobility & cooldown disruption. They are also difficult to peel because of Death's Advance, Anti-Magic Shell, Death Grip, and Icebound Fortitude all preventing CC or escapes from the enemy team.Therefore, your main job is to make sure you rotate these cooldownsintelligently to keep your pressure up. If your sustained damage is high enoughand it is difficult to peel you, enemy teams will run quickly out of cooldowns, which will allow you to win the game during one of your AoE setups with Chill Streak and Frostwyrm's Fury.

Make sure to communicate with your teammates the kill target and the griptarget. You will be pulling one player to another in order to set up AoE burston the two stacked targets. Generally, the grip target is the healer, butsometimes it has to be the other DPS, namely against caster cleaves. It isimportant that you get a setup every 1 minute as it is better to get moresetups with two DPS than it is to wait for the perfect setup with both DPS andthe healer.

The opener refers to your team's opening crowd control chain and damage doneas soon as you get out of the gates. The main goal in the opener is to forceyour enemies to use their cooldowns and/or trinket. To do this, Frost DeathKnights will set up an AoE burst window for them and their partner with Death Grip. Generally, your opener should be coordinated around theenemy's cooldowns. Frost DKs specialize in counter-setups with the use of Blinding Sleet. For example, if a Fire Mage uses Combustionyou can grip another target to the mage and use Blinding Sleet.This will not only stop their damage but allow you to set up your opener.

This is the rotation you should use on your target at the beginning of thegame.

1. Use Chains of Ice to keep your primary target slowed.
2. Use Howling Blast to apply Frost Fever.
3. Coordinate with your teammate to begin your burst rotation.

Your AoE setup is the defining strength of Frost Death Knight's damageoutput. This burst rotation should be done on cooldown to force the enemy teamto run out of answers.

1. Use Death Grip on the enemy healer to bring them to the enemy DPS.
2. You or your teammate must use either an AoE stun or coordinate singletarget stuns on the two stacked enemies.
3. Use Empower Rune Weapon.
4. Use Pillar of Frost.
5. Use Remorseless Winter.
6. Use Chill Streak if talented.
7. Alternate between Obliterate and Frost Strike OR Howling Blast if and only if you have a Rime proc.
8. When pillar is nearly out of duration, use Frostwyrm's Fury if talented,unless you used it to AoE stun the enemy in the beginning.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are notavailable.

1. Use Chains of Ice to keep your primary target slowed.
2. Use Howling Blast to apply Frost Fever.
   • It is important to maintain Frost Fever on as many targets as youcan as this has a chance to generate additional runic power.
   • Also use Howling Blast any time you have a Rime proc.
3. Use Remorseless Winter off cooldown.
4. Use Obliterate to generate Runic Power.
5. Use Frost Strike to spend runic power if you are not taking damage.
6. Use Death Strike to spend runic power if you are taking damage.

Anti-Magic Shell is your primary defensive ability. This is verystrong against caster classes. With a relatively short cooldown, use this ifyou are being focused and need to negate incoming spell damage.

Icebound Fortitude is another strong defensive ability. This willgive you immunity to all stuns and reduce all damage to you. Use this when youare in a stun and being focused.

Lichborne allows you to use Death Coil on yourself toprovide solid healing. This can be done even when you do not have a target nearbyand increases in value with Strength procs, unlike Death Strike.Therefore, it has great situational uses. It also gives you 10% leech, whichprovides additional healing when damage is done by you.

Death Strike is another defensive tool. If you are the primarytarget for the enemy team and have Runic Power, use Death Strike to healyourself for a percentage of the damage that was dealt to you.

Blinding Sleet can be used offensively or defensively. This can beused as an interrupt for enemy casting while a teammate is being focused. Thiscan also be used aggressively to setup stuns on the enemy team.

Anti-Magic Zone should be used when your team is stacked, and theenemy team is doing strong single-target or spread spell damage.

Death Strike is an ability that uses Runic Power and heals you for35% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds. This means that if you need to behealed and your healer is in crowd control, you should spend Runic Power on DeathStrike instead of Frost Strike.

Death's Advance, although not exactly a defensive ability, should beused when you need to get to an enemy or disruptive slows on you.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies withouthaving to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.