Frost Death Knight Pre-Patch Guide for WotLK Classic

The Pre-Patch period of Wrath of the Lich King Classic is a time to allow players to level or gear up characters while experiencing some of the class changes of the coming expansion before its official launch. Here you will find recommended talents, gear, and some rotation tips for a Frost Death Knight when you can only reach a maximum level of 70.

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

Overview

Death Knights are able to be made and playable in the Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch and while the general play style is quite similar to what you will be doing at Level 80, this page will go over how to play your Death Knight, Gear you should seek out during the pre-patch, how you should spend your talent points, and what consumables you should use if you are considering tackling some of the Burning Crusade raid content while waiting for Wrath to officially start!

Talent Build

Blood

Butchery

Whenever you kill an enemy that grants experience or honor, you generate up to 10 runic power. In addition, you generate 1 runic power per 5 seconds while in combat.

0/ 2
Subversion

Increases the critical strike chance of Blood Strike, Scourge Strike, Heart Strike and Obliterate by 3%, and reduces threat generated while in Blood or Unholy Presence by 8%.

0/ 3
Blade Barrier

Whenever your Blood Runes are on cooldown, you gain the Blade Barrier effect, which decreases damage taken by 1% for the next 10 seconds.

0/ 5
Bladed Armor

Increases your attack power by 1 for every 180 armor value you have.

Requires:

5 points in Blood

0/ 5
Scent of Blood

You have a 15% chance after dodging, parrying or taking direct damage to gain the Scent of Blood effect, causing your next melee hit to generate 10 runic power.

Requires:

5 points in Blood

0/ 3
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization

Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 2%.

Requires:

5 points in Blood

0/ 2
Rune Tap

Converts 1 Blood Rune into 10% of your maximum health.

Requires:

10 points in Blood

0/ 1
Dark Conviction

Increases your chance to critically hit with weapons, spells and abilities by 1%.

Requires:

10 points in Blood

0/ 5
Death Rune Mastery

Whenever you hit with Death Strike or Obliterate there is a 33% chance that the Frost and Unholy Runes will become Death Runes when they activate. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost or Unholy Rune.

Requires:

10 points in Blood

0/ 3
Improved Rune Tap

Increases the health provided by Rune Tap by 33% and lowers its cooldown by 10 seconds.

Requires:

15 points in Blood

1 point(s) in Rune Tap

0/ 3
Spell Deflection

You have a chance equal to your Parry chance of taking 15% less damage from a direct damage spell.

Requires:

15 points in Blood

0/ 3
Vendetta

Heals you for up to 2% of your maximum health whenever you kill a target that yields experience or honor.

Requires:

15 points in Blood

0/ 3
Bloody Strikes

Increases the damage of Blood Strike by 5% and Heart Strike by 15%, and increases the damage of Blood Boil by 10%.

Requires:

20 points in Blood

0/ 3
Veteran of the Third War

Increases your total Strength by 2%, your Stamina by 1%, and your expertise by 2.

Requires:

20 points in Blood

0/ 3
Mark of Blood

Place a Mark of Blood on an enemy. Whenever the marked enemy deals damage to a target, that target is healed for 4% of its maximum health. Lasts for 20 seconds or up to 20 hits.

Requires:

20 points in Blood

0/ 1
Bloody Vengeance

Gives you a 1% bonus to physical damage you deal for 30 seconds after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability. This effect stacks up to 3 times.

Requires:

25 points in Blood

5 point(s) in Dark Conviction

0/ 3
Abomination's Might

Increases the attack power by 5% of party and raid members within 100 yards. Also increases your total Strength by 1%.

Requires:

25 points in Blood

0/ 2
Bloodworms

Your weapon hits have a 3% chance to cause the target to spawn 2-4 Bloodworms. Bloodworms attack your enemies, healing you as they do damage for 20 seconds or until killed.

Requires:

30 points in Blood

0/ 3
Unholy Frenzy

Induces a friendly unit into a killing frenzy for 30 seconds. The target is Enraged, which increases their physical damage by 20%, but causes them to lose health equal to 1% of their maximum health every second.

Requires:

30 points in Blood

0/ 1
Improved Blood Presence

While in Frost Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 2% healing from Blood Presence, and healing done to you is increased by 5% in Blood Presence.

Requires:

30 points in Blood

0/ 2
Improved Death Strike

Increases the damage of your Death Strike by 15%, increases its critical strike chance by 3%, and increases the healing granted by 25%.

Requires:

35 points in Blood

0/ 2
Sudden Doom

Your Blood Strikes and Heart Strikes have a 5% chance to launch a free Death Coil at your target.

Requires:

35 points in Blood

0/ 3
Vampiric Blood

Temporarily grants the Death Knight 15% of maximum health and increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects by 35% for 10 seconds. After the effect expires, the health is lost.

Requires:

35 points in Blood

0/ 1
Will of the Necropolis

Damage that would take you below 35% health or taken while you are at 35% health is reduced by 5%.

Requires:

40 points in Blood

0/ 3
Heart Strike

Instantly strike the target and his nearest ally, causing 50% weapon damage plus 125 on the primary target, and 25% weapon damage plus 62.5 on the secondary target. Each target takes 10% additional damage for each of your diseases active on that target.

Requires:

40 points in Blood

0/ 1
Might of Mograine

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Blood Boil, Blood Strike, Death Strike, and Heart Strike abilities by 15%.

Requires:

40 points in Blood

0/ 3
Blood Gorged

When you are above 75% health, you deal 2% more damage. In addition, your attacks ignore up to 2% of your opponent's armor at all times.

Requires:

45 points in Blood

0/ 5
Dancing Rune Weapon

Summons a second rune weapon that fights on its own for 12 seconds, doing the same attacks as the Death Knight but for 50% reduced damage and healing.

Requires:

50 points in Blood

0/ 1

Frost

Improved Icy Touch

Rank 3

Your Icy Touch does an additional 15% damage and your Frost Fever reduces melee and ranged attack speed by an additional 6%.

3/ 3
Runic Power Mastery

Rank 2

Increases your maximum Runic Power by 30.

2/ 2
Toughness

Increases your armor value from items by 2% and reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 6%.

0/ 5
Icy Reach

Increases the range of your Icy Touch, Chains of Ice and Howling Blast by 5 yards.

Requires:

5 points in Frost

0/ 2
Black Ice

Rank 5

Increases your Frost and Shadow damage by 10%.

Requires:

5 points in Frost

5/ 5
Nerves of Cold Steel

Rank 3

Increases your chance to hit with one-handed melee weapons by 3% and increases the damage done by your offhand weapon by 25%.

Requires:

5 points in Frost

3/ 3
Icy Talons

Rank 5

You leech heat from victims of your Frost Fever, so that when their melee attack speed is reduced, yours increases by 20% for the next 20 seconds.

Requires:

10 points in Frost

3 point(s) in Improved Icy Touch

5/ 5
Lichborne

Draw upon unholy energy to become undead for 10 seconds. While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects.

Requires:

10 points in Frost

0/ 1
Annihilation

Rank 3

Increases the critical strike chance of your melee special abilities by 3%. In addition, there is a 100% chance that your Obliterate will do its damage without consuming diseases.

Requires:

10 points in Frost

3/ 3
Killing Machine

Rank 5

Your melee attacks have a chance to make your next Icy Touch, Howling Blast or Frost Strike a critical strike. Effect occurs more often than Killing Machine (Rank 4).

Requires:

15 points in Frost

5/ 5
Chill of the Grave

Your Chains of Ice, Howling Blast, Icy Touch and Obliterate generate 2.5 additional runic power.

Requires:

15 points in Frost

0/ 2
Endless Winter

Rank 2

Your strength is increased by 4% and your Mind Freeze no longer costs runic power.

Requires:

15 points in Frost

2/ 2
Frigid Dreadplate

Reduces the chance melee attacks will hit you by 1%.

Requires:

20 points in Frost

0/ 3
Glacier Rot

Rank 3

Diseased enemies take 20% more damage from your Icy Touch, Howling Blast and Frost Strike.

Requires:

20 points in Frost

3/ 3
Deathchill

When activated, makes your next Icy Touch, Howling Blast, Frost Strike or Obliterate a critical hit if used within 30 seconds.

Requires:

20 points in Frost

0/ 1
Improved Icy Talons

Rank 1

Increases the melee haste of all party and raid members within 100 yds by 20% and your haste by an additional 5%.

Requires:

25 points in Frost

5 point(s) in Icy Talons

1/ 1
Merciless Combat

Rank 2

Your Icy Touch, Howling Blast, Obliterate and Frost Strike do an additional 12% damage when striking targets with less than 35% health.

Requires:

25 points in Frost

2/ 2
Rime

Rank 3

Increases the critical strike chance of your Icy Touch and Obliterate by 15% and casting Obliterate has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on Howling Blast and cause your next Howling Blast to consume no runes.

Requires:

25 points in Frost

3/ 3
Chilblains

Victims of your Frost Fever disease are Chilled, reducing movement speed by 15% for 10 seconds.

Requires:

30 points in Frost

0/ 3
Hungering Cold

Purges the earth around the Death Knight of all heat. Enemies within 10 yards are trapped in ice, preventing them from performing any action for 10 seconds and infecting them with Frost Fever. Enemies are considered Frozen, but any damage other than diseases will break the ice.

Requires:

30 points in Frost

0/ 1
Improved Frost Presence

While in Blood Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 4% stamina from Frost Presence, and damage done to you is decreased by an additional 1% in Frost Presence.

Requires:

30 points in Frost

0/ 2
Threat of Thassarian

Rank 3

When dual-wielding, your Death Strikes, Obliterates, Plague Strikes, Rune Strikes, Blood Strikes and Frost Strikes have a 100% chance to also deal damage with your offhand weapon.

Requires:

35 points in Frost

3/ 3
Blood of the North

Rank 3

Increases Blood Strike and Frost Strike damage by 10%. In addition, whenever you hit with Blood Strike or Pestilence there is a 100% chance that the Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost or Unholy Rune.

Requires:

35 points in Frost

3/ 3
Unbreakable Armor

Rank 1

Reinforces your armor with a thick coat of ice, increasing your armor by 25% and increasing your Strength by 20% for 20 seconds.

Requires:

35 points in Frost

1/ 1
Acclimation

When you are hit by a spell, you have a 10% chance to boost your resistance to that type of magic for 18 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.

Requires:

40 points in Frost

0/ 3
Frost Strike

Rank 1

Instantly strike the enemy, causing 55% weapon damage plus 47.85 as Frost damage.

Requires:

40 points in Frost

1/ 1
Guile of Gorefiend

Rank 3

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Blood Strike, Frost Strike, Howling Blast and Obliterate abilities by 45%, and increases the duration of your Icebound Fortitude by 6 seconds.

Requires:

40 points in Frost

3/ 3
Tundra Stalker

Rank 5

Your spells and abilities deal 15% more damage to targets infected with Frost Fever. Also increases your expertise by 5.

Requires:

45 points in Frost

5/ 5
Howling Blast

Rank 1

Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing 198 to 214 Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards.

Requires:

50 points in Frost

1/ 1

Unholy

Vicious Strikes

Rank 2

Increases the critical strike chance by 6% and critical strike damage bonus by 30% of your Plague Strike and Scourge Strike.

2/ 2
Virulence

Rank 3

Increases your chance to hit with your spells by 3% and reduces the chance that your damage over time diseases can be cured by 30%.

3/ 3
Anticipation

Increases your Dodge chance by 1%.

0/ 5
Epidemic

Increases the duration of Blood Plague and Frost Fever by 3 seconds.

Requires:

5 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Morbidity

Increases the damage and healing of Death Coil by 5% and reduces the cooldown on Death and Decay by 5 seconds.

Requires:

5 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Unholy Command

Reduces the cooldown of your Death Grip ability by 5 seconds.

Requires:

5 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Ravenous Dead

Rank 2

Increases your total Strength by 2% and the contribution your Ghouls get from your Strength and Stamina by 40%.

Requires:

5 points in Unholy

2/ 3
Outbreak

Increases the damage of Plague Strike by 10% and Scourge Strike by 7%.

Requires:

10 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Necrosis

Your auto attacks deal an additional 4% Shadow damage.

Requires:

10 points in Unholy

0/ 5
Corpse Explosion

Cause a corpse or your ghoul to explode for 166 Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Will use a nearby corpse if the target is not a corpse. Does not affect mechanical or elemental corpses.

Requires:

10 points in Unholy

0/ 1
On a Pale Horse

You become as hard to stop as death itself. The duration of all Stun and Fear effects used against you is reduced by 10%, and your mounted speed is increased by 10%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.

Requires:

15 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Blood-Caked Blade

Your auto attacks have a 10% chance to cause a Blood-Caked Strike, which hits for 25% weapon damage plus 12.5% for each of your diseases on the target.

Requires:

15 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Night of the Dead

Reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 45 seconds and the cooldown on Army of the Dead by 2 minutes. Also reduces the damage your pet takes from creature area of effect attacks by 45%.

Requires:

15 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Unholy Blight

Causes the victims of your Death Coil to be surrounded by a vile swarm of unholy insects, taking 10% of the damage done by the Death Coil over 10 seconds, and preventing any diseases on the victim from being dispelled.

Requires:

20 points in Unholy

0/ 1
Impurity

The attack power bonus of your spells is increased by 4%.

Requires:

20 points in Unholy

0/ 5
Dirge

Your Death Strike, Plague Strike and Scourge Strike generate 2.5 additional runic power.

Requires:

20 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Desecration

Your Plague Strikes and Scourge Strikes cause the Desecrated Ground effect. Targets in the area are slowed by 25% by the grasping arms of the dead while standing on the unholy ground. Lasts 20 seconds.

Requires:

25 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Magic Suppression

You take 2% less damage from all magic. In addition, your Anti-Magic Shell absorbs an additional 8% of spell damage.

Requires:

25 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Reaping

Whenever you hit with Blood Strike or Pestilence there is a 33% chance that the Blood Rune becomes a Death Rune when it activates. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost or Unholy Rune.

Requires:

25 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Master of Ghouls

Reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 60 seconds, and the Ghoul summoned by your Raise Dead spell is considered a pet under your control. Unlike normal Death Knight Ghouls, your pet does not have a limited duration.

Requires:

25 points in Unholy

2 point(s) in Night of the Dead

0/ 1
Desolation

Your Blood Strikes cause you to deal 1% additional damage with all attacks for the next 20 seconds.

Requires:

30 points in Unholy

0/ 5
Anti-Magic Zone

Places a large, stationary Anti-Magic Zone that reduces spell damage done to party or raid members inside it by 75%. The Anti-Magic Zone lasts for 10 seconds or until it absorbs (10000 + 2*Attack Power) spell damage.

Requires:

30 points in Unholy

3 point(s) in Magic Suppression

0/ 1
Improved Unholy Presence

While in Blood Presence or Frost Presence, you retain 8% increased movement speed from Unholy Presence, and your runes finish their cooldowns 5% faster in Unholy Presence.

Requires:

30 points in Unholy

0/ 2
Ghoul Frenzy

Grants your pet 25% haste for 30 seconds and heals it for 60% of its health over the duration.

Requires:

30 points in Unholy

1 point(s) in Master of Ghouls

0/ 1
Crypt Fever

Your diseases also cause Crypt Fever, which increases disease damage taken by the target by 10%.

Requires:

35 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Bone Shield

The Death Knight is surrounded by 3 whirling bones. While at least 1 bone remains, they takes 20% less damage from all sources and deals 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Each damaging attack that lands consumes 1 bone. Lasts 5 minutes.

Requires:

35 points in Unholy

0/ 1
Wandering Plague

When your diseases damage an enemy, there is a chance equal to your melee critical strike chance that they will cause 33% additional damage to the target and all enemies within 8 yards. Ignores any target under the effect of a spell that is cancelled by taking damage.

Requires:

40 points in Unholy

0/ 3
Ebon Plaguebringer

Your Crypt Fever morphs into Ebon Plague, which increases magic damage taken by 4% in addition to increasing disease damage taken. Improves your critical strike chance with weapons and spells by 1% at all times.

Requires:

40 points in Unholy

3 point(s) in Crypt Fever

0/ 3
Scourge Strike

An unholy strike that deals 70% of weapon damage as Physical damage plus 238. In addition, for each of your diseases on your target, you deal an additional 12% of the Physical damage done as Shadow damage.

Requires:

40 points in Unholy

0/ 1
Rage of Rivendare

Your spells and abilities deal 2% more damage to targets infected with Blood Plague. Also increases your expertise by 1.

Requires:

45 points in Unholy

0/ 5
Summon Gargoyle

A Gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight's attack power. Persists for 30 seconds.

Requires:

50 points in Unholy

0/ 1

Major Glyphs

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Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell Increases the duration of your Anti-Magic Shell by 2 seconds. Lv. 55
Glyph of Blood Strike Your Blood Strike causes an additional 20% damage to snared targets. Lv. 55
Glyph of Bone Shield Adds 1 additional $Lcharge:charges; to your Bone Shield. Lv. 55
Glyph of Chains of Ice Your Chains of Ice also causes 144 to 156 Frost damage, increased by your attack power. Lv. 55
Glyph of Dark Command Increases the chance for your Dark Command ability to work successfully by 8%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Dark Death Increases the damage or healing done by Death Coil by 15%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Death and Decay Damage of your Death and Decay spell increased by 20%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Death Grip When you deal a killing blow that grants honor or experience, the cooldown of your Death Grip is refreshed. Lv. 55
Glyph of Death Strike Increases your Death Strike's damage by 1% for every 1 runic power you currently have (up to a maximum of 25%). The runic power is not consumed by this effect. Lv. 55
Glyph of Disease Your Pestilence ability now refreshes disease durations and secondary effects of diseases on your primary target back to their maximum duration. Lv. 55
Glyph of Frost Strike Reduces the cost of your Frost Strike by 8 Runic Power. Lv. 55
Glyph of Heart Strike Your Heart Strike also reduces the movement speed of your target by 50% for 10 seconds. Lv. 55
Glyph of Icebound Fortitude Your Icebound Fortitude now always grants at least 40% damage reduction, regardless of your defense skill. Lv. 55
Glyph of Icy Touch Your Frost Fever disease deals 20% additional damage. Lv. 55
Glyph of Obliterate Increases the damage of your Obliterate ability by 25%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Plague Strike Your Plague Strike does 20% additional damage. Lv. 55
Glyph of Rune Strike Increases the critical strike chance of your Rune Strike by 10%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Rune Tap Your Rune Tap now heals you for an additional 1% of your maximum health, and also heals your party for 10% of their maximum health. Lv. 55
Glyph of Scourge Strike Your Scourge Strike increases the duration of your diseases on the target by 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 9 additional seconds. Lv. 55
Glyph of Strangulate Reduces the cooldown of your Strangulate by 20 seconds. Lv. 55
Glyph of the Ghoul Your Ghoul receives an additional 40% of your Strength and 40% of your Stamina. Lv. 55
Glyph of Unbreakable Armor Increases the total armor granted by Unbreakable Armor to 30%. Lv. 55
Glyph of Vampiric Blood Increases the duration of your Vampiric Blood by 5 seconds. Lv. 55
Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon Increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 5 seconds. Lv. 60
Glyph of Howling Blast Your Howling Blast ability now infects your targets with Frost Fever. Lv. 60
Glyph of Hungering Cold Reduces the cost of Hungering Cold by 40 runic power. Lv. 60
Glyph of Unholy Blight Increases the damage done by Unholy Blight by 40%. Lv. 60

Glyph of Blood Tap Your Blood Tap no longer causes damage to you. Lv. 55
Glyph of Corpse Explosion Increases the radius of effect on Corpse Explosion by 5 yards. Lv. 55
Glyph of Death's Embrace Your Death Coil refunds 20 runic power when used to heal. Lv. 55
Glyph of Horn of Winter Increases the duration of your Horn of Winter ability by 1 minute. Lv. 55
Glyph of Pestilence Increases the radius of your Pestilence effect by 5 yards. Lv. 55
Glyph of Raise Dead Your Raise Dead spell no longer requires a reagent. Lv. 55

This talent tree is focused largely on getting all of the rotation-altering and stat-increasing talents from the Frost tree as you will likely be undergeared, so any static stat increases you can get are great and scale even better when you become more geared. Any Burning Crusade content you are doing in the pre-patch of Wrath of the Lich King will be significantly nerfed and you will likely be more focused on dealing as much damage as possible.

Stat Priority

Hit/Expertise to cap;
Strength;
Armor Penetration;
Critical Strike;
Haste.

Rotation

The single largest difference between playing Death Knight at 70 and 80 is the lack of Empower Rune Weapon Icon Empower Rune Weapon, which offers you a significantly more powerful opener on bosses as you have access to twice as many runes.

4.1.

AoE DPS

AOE DPSing as a Frost Death Knight is extremely simple. Your main focus is to maintain your Frost Fever Icon Frost Fever and Blood Plague Icon Blood Plague diseases on as many enemies as possible using Pestilence Icon Pestilence while spamming Howling Blast Icon Howling Blast.

Cast Icy Touch and Plague Strike on a target that you will be able to spread diseases from using Pestilence.
Use Howling Blast as much as possible, making sure to utilize tools such as Blood Tap to maximize your casts.
Consider using Death and Decay if you know the mobs will be stationary for a long period of time.

4.2.

Single-Target DPS

Frost Death Knight single-target does use a rotation, but it is much more like a list of priorities as opposed to a strict rotation you must follow. There are many conditions to consider and below we will go over each of them and to optimally handle each situation. This rotation is assuming that you are using the talents recommended in the talents section of the Frost Death Knight DPS guide as the sub-spec you choose can greatly impact your Rune/Runic Power generation. You must always prioritize spending Runes over Runic Power; Frost and Unholy Runes should be spent on Obliterate Icon Obliterate — after Frost Fever Icon Frost Fever and Blood Plague Icon Blood Plague are applied — and it is crucial to always use both of your Blood Runes together to ensure they are synchronized.

Icy Touch needs to be used to apply Frost Fever
Plague Strike needs to be used to apply Blood Plague
Blood Strike is your main spender of Blood Runes.
Pestilence should be used to refresh your diseases so you can spend your Frost and Unholy Runes on Obliterate. Note that Glyph of Disease causes Pestilence to refresh the duration of diseases.
Obliterate will be your primary spender of Unholy and Frost Runes; thanks to Annihilation your diseases will be not be removed from the target when you cast Obliterate.
Frost Strike will be your spender of Runic Power.

Your priority list should be as follows:

Make sure Frost Fever and Blood Plague are active;
Cast Obliterateh;
Use Pestilence if your diseases need to be refreshed; if not, cast Blood Strike;
Cast Frost Strike if you have a Killing Machine proc;
Only cast Howling Blast in a single-target situation if you have a Rime proc;
Cast Frost Strike without a Killing Machine proc.

Early Upgrades

Listed below will be a list of some items that are very powerful and require a relatively low time investment to get to help you get a bit more powerful during the Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch as you prepare to head to Northrend and continue your journey through WoW classic.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Mayhem Projection Goggles	Engineering
Back	Dory's Embrace	Badge of Justice vendor
Wrist	Swiftsteel Bracers	Blacksmithing
Gloves	Hard Khorium Battlefists	Blacksmithing
Belt	Red Belt of Battle	Blacksmithing
Pants	Legplates of Unending Fury	Badge of Justice Vendor
Ring	Hard Khorium Band	Jewelcrafting
Ring	Angelista's Revenge	Badge of Justice Vendor
Trinket	Shard of Contempt	Priestess Delrissa — Magister's Terrace
Trinket	Bloodlust Brooch	Badge of Justice Vendor

Consumables

Spicy Hot Talbuk Icon Spicy Hot Talbuk is your best well-fed buff if you are not Hit-capped, or use Roasted Clefthoof Icon Roasted Clefthoof if you are Hit-capped as your goal is to maximize your Strength.

Flask of Relentless Assault Icon Flask of Relentless Assault is your typical go-to against most all mobs. The exception to this is that when fighting Demons, Elixir of Demonslaying Icon Elixir of Demonslaying by itself is stronger than any flask and can be paired with a Guardian Elixir of your choosing.

Haste Potion Icon Haste Potion is your best choice as the added Haste allows for more melee swings to maximize your damage.

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Frost Death Knight Pre-Patch Guide for WotLK Classic

Overview

Talent Build

Butchery

Subversion

Blade Barrier

Bladed Armor

Requires:

Scent of Blood

Requires:

Two-Handed Weapon Specialization

Requires:

Rune Tap

Requires:

Dark Conviction

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Death Rune Mastery

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Improved Rune Tap

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Spell Deflection

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Vendetta

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Bloody Strikes

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Veteran of the Third War

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Mark of Blood

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Bloody Vengeance

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Abomination's Might

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Bloodworms

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Unholy Frenzy

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Improved Blood Presence

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Improved Death Strike

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Sudden Doom

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Vampiric Blood

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Will of the Necropolis

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Heart Strike

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Might of Mograine

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Blood Gorged

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Dancing Rune Weapon

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Improved Icy Touch

Runic Power Mastery

Toughness

Icy Reach

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Black Ice

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Nerves of Cold Steel

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Icy Talons

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Lichborne

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Annihilation

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Killing Machine

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Chill of the Grave

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Endless Winter

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Frigid Dreadplate

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