Frost Death Knight DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.0)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Frost Death Knight for The War Within Season 2. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Frost Death Knight, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

We have three BiS lists below, each detailing the best gear you can obtain from a specific source. We have the overall list, a raid-only one, and, finally, a mythic+-only list. They are all optimised to give you the highest single target DPS. The various builds we run do we have somewhat different stat priorities, meaning that the BiS list will be slightly different. What is shown below corresponds to the DW Shattering Blade build.

Cyrce's Circlet is included in these lists as it currently is a very powerful ring. Blizzard is likely to nerf it however so make sure to check back if they do so for an updated lis.

When it comes to weapon choice, Dual-wield is better than 2-handed in pretty much all scenarios. There are edge cases where a large ilvl difference can make 2-handed better but this is not relevant for the BiS list.

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BiS Gear for Frost Death Knight

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

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Overall BiS List for Frost Death Knight

Below, you will find the theoretical BiS set of gear for The War Within Season 2.

Slot	Item	Boss/ Dungeon/ Source
Helm	Fullthrottle Facerig	Vexie and the Geargrinders
Neck	Semi-Charmed Amulet	Rik Reverb
Shoulder	Cauldron Champion's Screamplate	Rik Reverb
Cloak	Consecrated Cloak (Crit Haste) with Writhing Armor Banding	Tailoring
Chest	Cauldron Champion's Ribcage	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Bracers	Revved-Up Vambraces	Vexie and the Geargrinders
Gloves	Cauldron Champion's Fistguards	Cauldron of Carnage
Belt	Venture Contractor's Floodlight	Operation: Floodgate
Legs	Cauldron Champion's Tattered Cuisses	Stix Bunkjunker
Boots	Sabatons of Rampaging Elements	The MOTHERLODE!!/td>
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
Ring #2	Cyrce's Circlet	Siren Isle
Trinket #1	House of Cards	One-Armed Bandit
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan	Chrome King Gallywix
Mainhand Weapon	Wiseguy's Refused Offer	Mug'Zee
Offhand Weapon	Charged Slicer (Crit Mastery) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension	Blacksmithing

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Frost Death Knight

This list contains the highest DPS setup, with farmable gear from Mythic+ Dungeons. This is a great place to start on a relatively new character, as you can infinitely grind out these items from Mythic+.

Slot	Item	Boss/ Dungeon/ Source
Helm	Monstrosity's Gaze	The Rookery
Neck	Strapped Rescue-Keg	Cinderbrew Meadery
Shoulder	Unyielding Combatant's Pauldrons	Theater of Pain
Cloak	Cloak of Questionable Intent	The MOTHERLODE!!
Chest	Abdominal Securing Chestguard	Cinderbrew Meadery
Bracers	Flameforged Armguard	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Gloves	Caliginous Claspers	Darkflame Cleft
Belt	Automatic Waist Tightener	Operation: Mechagon
Legs	Leadplate Legguards	The MOTHERLODE!!
Boots	Sabatons of Rampaging Elements	The MOTHERLODE!!
Ring #1	Hoop of the Blighted	The Rookery
Ring #2	Bloodoath Signet	Theater of Pain
Trinket #1	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Operation: Floodgate
Trinket #2	Viscera of Coalesced Hatred	Theater of Pain
Mainhand Weapon	Rail Rider's Bisector	Darkflame Cleft
Offhand Weapon	Gorestained Cleaver	Theater of Pain

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Raid Gear BiS List for Frost Death Knight

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Liberation of Undermine Raid.

This list is mostly useful for informing your organized guild of what loot is optimal for you for loot distribution purposes.

Slot	Item	Boss/ Dungeon/ Source
Helm	Fullthrottle Facerig	Vexie and the Geargrinders
Neck	Semi-Charmed Amulet	Rik Reverb
Shoulder	Cauldron Champion's Screamplate	Rik Reverb
Cloak	Undercircuit Racing Flag	Vexie and the Geargrinders
Chest	Cauldron Champion's Ribcage	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Bracers	Revved-Up Vambraces	Vexie and the Geargrinders
Gloves	Cauldron Champion's Fistguards	Cauldron of Carnage
Belt	Heaviestweight Title Belt	Liberation of Undermine
Legs	Cauldron Champion's Tattered Cuisses	Stix Bunkjunker
Boots	Rik's Walkin' Boots	Rik Reverb/td>
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
Ring #2	Faded Championship Ring	Siren Isle
Trinket #1	House of Cards	One-Armed Bandit
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan	Chrome King Gallywix
Mainhand Weapon	Wiseguy's Refused Offer	Mug'Zee
Offhand Weapon	Wiseguy's Refused Offer	Mug'Zee

The Cyrce's Circlet continues to be BIS in 11.1, even when at an ilvl disadvantage to other rings. As a general rule, you want to play the following:

• Windsinger's Runed Citrine, Stormbringer's Runed Citrine and Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine for both raid and Mythic+.

For more information on how to get the ring, as well as acquiring all of the different gems that you can possibly socket into it, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below!

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

While gearing up, item level will be your primary target. Strength is our best stat, and you shouldn't focus too much on your secondaries at first. Once you start to receive gear pieces with the same ilvl but different stats, that is when you want to start optimizing your stat distribution. Generally, Frost Death Knights want to prioritize Crit, Haste and Mastery! We recommend simming your character to determine what upgrade is best for you! For a more detailed explanation, you can read the Simulations page.

Simming your character is far and beyond the best way to determine if a piece of gear is, in fact, an upgrade. The trick is knowing how to do it in a way that produces reliable results. If you follow the Simulations guide page, you can use this to have a more practical gearing guide than simply following a BiS list.

Out 11.1 tier set focuses heavily on increasing our Frost Strike and Glacial Advance damage, as well as firing off free Frostscythes. It has good synergy with Shattering Blade builds due to this reason, making them better than Breath of Sindragosa builds once we obtain the 4-set.

The 11.1 tier set is a really good set for the Frost Death Knight, seeing a 15% gain with the 4-set but only 3% with the 2-set. This means that it is worthwhile to swap out your previous tier set once you gain the new 4-set, almost regardless of ilvl on the new pieces.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. We recommend you get all items except for the Head, due to the Head having Versatility which we ideally want to avoid. Check out the BiS List for more information.

The War Within has a powerful upgrade system for your gear where you use Valorstones and Crests to upgrade your gear. These are obtainable from practically all forms of content in the game.

For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.

There are three primary items to upgrade as a Frost Death Knight:

1. Weapon
2. Trinket
3. Head/ Chest/ Legs

With how the upgrade system works with Crests being the limited currency, you want to upgrade the most powerful slots you can. For Frost Death Knights, this will be your weapon (Attack Power scales with weapon ilvl). You ideally want to use your crests to craft a weapon ASAP since it is also part of our BiS list. Start out with it in your Mainhand slot and only swap when your non-crafted weapon ends up a higher ilvl. After you have crafted your weapon, and upgraded your other one, move on to trinkets and high-stat slot items like Legs, Helm, Chest, etc.

Frost wants to run Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a Charged Slicer (Crit Mastery) as well as Writhing Armor Banding on a Consecrated Cloak (Haste Crit) as our crafted items in the BiS set. For Mythic+, swap to Blessed Weapon Grip on the weapon and Dawnthread Lining on the cloak.

When it comes to your other crafted slots, we are only wearing two crafted items in our BiS setup (due to the ilvl loss). Use crafting as a way of "filling in the gaps" in your gear, trying to find the best value upgrade in a slot where you already do not have a good piece. Sim yourself to find the best option for you!

Frost aims to use one on-use Trinket as well as one passive one. In The War Within Season 2, our best on-use is House of Cards followed by Funhouse Lens and Signet of the Priory. Funhouse Lens here is a drop from Delves and can be obtained at max 665 ilvl. Still, it is only 1% behind House of Cards. For our passive trinket, Eye of Kezan is our best option. Again, this is a scaling trinket which gains power the longer the encounter is. For alternatives, we have Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker, which also ends up being better on fights shorter than 4 minutes. Finally, running double passive trinkets are not that bad. The lack of good on-use trinkets mean that setups such as Eye of Kezan + Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker lags the BiS setup by only 0.8%.

You will notice a significant amount of Delve trinkets high up in this list. They can be obtained at 665 ilvl via vault drops and perform very well compared to higher ilvl options.

Many people overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is usually better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item-level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item-level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. For more information on stats, please refer to our dedicated page.

For Frost specifically, we aim for a good balance between Crit, Mastery and Haste. For a closer look at stats, please see the below article./p>

For neck and ring pieces, you can generally afford to drop 5-10 ilevels in most cases to avoid our worst stat: Versatility. That said, you should always sim yourself to see what is better as the secondary stat diminishing returns can still change your ideal setup. It can be useful to wear crafted jewelry due to how you can control the stats; just remember that you cannot craft the maximum ilvl possible!