Frost Death Knight Gearing Guide

Season 3 has a unique approach to tier sets this time around, as the tier set bonuses are based on your hero talent specialization.

Midnight pre patch comes with a lot of new talents and builds for all classes and specs, so Blizzard have decided to make the tier set bonuses just passive damage increases. This does not affect your gameplay in any way, but you will still want to acquire a 4 set bonus so you have the best potential throughput.

The tables below aim to give you a general list of gear that is good for Frost Death Knight, these lists are not a perfect replacement for simming your character.

• Raiding
• Mythic+

This section will cover the most notable and strong items that you will want to acquire in this season, as well as alternative trinket options you can use if you don’t have the best ones yet.

Best Frost DK Trinkets:

• Cursed Stone Idol (On use)
• Araz’s Ritual Forge (On use)
• Astral Antenna (Passive)

Good/Decent Trinkets:

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (Passive)
• Unyielding Netherprism (On use)

Other Notable/Strong Items:

• Interloper’s Plated Sabatons

Everforged Vambracers & Everforged Greatbelt (with Dawnthread Lining).

In Season 3 Frost is currently tuned to perform best using 2 handed weapons. Due to this and the additional weapon ilvls you can gain from using weapons like Maw of the Void instead of a crafted weapon, Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is not as worthwhile as Dawnthread Lining.

So, as we are not using Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension or Writhing Armor Banding (as it loses all of its value if it’s not buffing a Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension weapon), double Dawnthread Lining is the best option. Dawnthread Lining gives your best secondary stat (Crit), and Death Knight in general is a very strong class defensively, so your uptime on Dawnthread Lining is going to be pretty decent as well.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

With turbo boost coming midway through the season, we will have access to Puzzling Cartel Chips which can be used to purchase key items from Manaforge Omega and the Season 3 Mythic Plus dungeon pool.

To unlock the ability to purchase the Mythic version of these items, you will need to have defeated the boss which it drops from on Mythic for raid items, or time all keystones on a +12 for the dungeon items.Here is a shopping list for the items (and their sources) you will want to get with your Puzzling Cartel Chips!

• Unyielding Netherprism (Fractillus)
• Astral Antenna (Loom’ithar)
• Interloper’s Plated Sabatons (The Soul Hunters)

Reshii Wraps

Patch 11.2 takes you through a campaign in the new zone K’aresh. After completing Chapter 4 of the campaign you will unlock a new Artifact cloak called the Reshii Wraps. You will upgrade this cloak as you progress through the season and this will be the only cloak you use as no other cloaks are dropping from season 3 content. You can upgrade the cloak by turning in Ethereal Strands which are earned by doing World Content, Raid Bosses, Delves and Mythic Plus.

The Reshii Wraps have a passive damage effect which does not impact your rotation so there’s not much you can do with it other than upgrade and slot a Fibre into the socket slot to allocate a specific secondary stat to it. These Fibres come in two different qualities, with the best versions (Pure Fibers) requiring a Tailor to craft them for you via a Work Order.

It is always best to sim which Fiber is best for you in your current gear setup, but generally Frost will want to use Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery).

Pure Fiber Stats:

• Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste)
• Pure Precise Fiber (Crit)
• Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery)
• Pure Dexterous Fiber (Versatility)