Method Frost Death Knight Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stats will always vary and change based on your gear situation, as stats can lose a lot of value once you reach certain thresholds. The best way to ensure you are using the best gear is to use Raidbots and check via the Top Gear option. You can learn how to sim your character by going to the ‘How to Sim Your Character’ section at the end of this guide.

Stat Ranking

Single Target: Strength > Crit > Mastery = Haste > Versatility

Multi-Target: Strength > Crit > Mastery > Haste > Versatility

Stat Summary

Strength - Primary stat is typically always the best. It's a simple, straightforward throughput increase to every aspect of Frost Death Knight in both single and multi-target scenarios.

Crit - Auto-attack critical strikes trigger Killing Machine, Icy Death Torrent and The Long Winter, all of which are very important for your overall damage. Crit is a stat which is the best for both single and multi-target scenarios because of this.

Mastery - Most of your damage as Frost is Frost damage, so naturally increasing your Frost damage done via Mastery: Frozen Heart is going to be good. Mastery scales exceptionally well in multi-target, so it will pull ahead of Haste in these scenarios.

Haste - Haste gives a lot of benefits to Frost, including auto-attack speed (attacking more often increases chances to proc Killing Machine, Icy Death Torrent and The Long Winter), rune regeneration and generally giving you more globals during your Pillar of Frost / Breath of Sindragosa windows.

Versatility - Versatility is a very simple stat that does what it says on the tin, it just gives you a flat damage & healing increase and some mitigation. It’s not a very valuable stat early on, but once you start hitting diminishing return thresholds on your other stats, Versatility will start to gain value but this is something that happens towards the later half of an expansion.

Races

The races are not a massive throughput gain, sometimes they are, but generally, the gain is not that big for playing ‘the best race.’ For the most part, play whatever Race you want; however, the Races listed here are the best if you want the best possible throughput.

Horde - Mag'har Orc

Alliance - Mechagnome

Mag'har Orc: As of patch 11.0.7, Mag’har Orc has had its racial ability Ancestral Call buffed and will now give you one of your two best secondary stats (Crit / Mastery, as they should be your highest if you’re gear/enchants are optimized) for 15 seconds. This is a really solid racial as it has a 2 minute cooldown (which lines up perfectly with Breath of Sindragosa) and lasts for 15 seconds which will cover your whole Pillar of Frost window, even when playing with The Long Winter.

Mechagnome: Primary stat (Strength) is the best stat for Frost Death Knight, so gaining +1532 strength after the first 50 seconds of a fight with Combat Analysis is very strong (this strength is also amplified by Pillar of Frost and Rune of the Fallen Crusader, which makes it scale really well with Frost Death Knight in general. So, Mechagnome is the best race overall and will offer the most overall throughput.

Enchants

Gems and Ring enchants heavily depend on your current stat weights and will often fluctuate depending on your current gear. I will list the enchants and gems you will generally want to use, but you should always check on Raidbots to see which are currently the most valuable for you.