Welcome to our Frost Death Knight DPS guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Frost Death Knight in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Mendenbarr, a prominent theorycrafter who maintains Death Knight guides on Elitist Jerks.

The Frost specialisation currently performs similarly to Unholy, in both single target and AoE fights.

Compared to other classes' specialisations, Frost Death Knights perform relatively well, although there are several specialisations that over-take them in DPS.

The Two-Handed playstyle performs better than the Dual-Wielding one in single target fights, whereas in AoE or cleaving situations, Dual-Wielding is superior.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.