Frost Death Knight PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.0)

PvP Talents are very situational with their usage. They tend to fill certain niche roles in your own comp or counters to other comps. Therefore, instead of a cookie-cutter PvP talent setup, you will change them in the gates before a match starts, depending on the enemy classes.

Strangulate is a very impactful crowd control effect. It costs no resources, has no cast time, and lasts 4 seconds on a short 45-second cooldown. Because of this, you can use it every time you use Pillar of Frost on the healer and make the damage much more difficult for them to deal with. The healer's trinket will have a longer cooldown than your Strangulate, meaning one of your setups will not have an answer. This can also be used against certain classes to prevent them from using certain abilities, such as a Priest's Greater Fade. This talent is very powerful in any composition as a result.

Death's Cold Embrace is a new addition. This talent makes your Remorseless Winter hit 400% harder, have a 150% bigger radius but at the cost of increasing the cooldown of Pillar of Frost by 15 seconds and reducing your movement speed to a walk. This is good for raw output and can be a solid default pick into every matchup.

Delirium is a unique and powerful anti-movement effect that works against abilities that will move a player's character; namely, Mage's Blink, Monk's Roll and Transcendence, and Demon Hunter's Fel Rush. Because of this, this talent is generally taken against any of those classes to shut down their mobility.

Deathchill can be a good option to keep targets in your Remorseless Winter when playing Death's Cold Embrace. This makes your Remorseless Winter apply a root which does not immediately break on damage. This is not that great into classes like Mages or Druids that can immediately get out of the root but it can be effective into low mobility classes and melee.

Bitter Chill is a powerful disruption tool. Every spec and every class in the game gets some benefit from Haste in the forms of faster casts, resource generation, and global cooldown reduction. This means reducing it by a whopping 8% can severely throw off the enemy's momentum and the power of their burst windows. The ability to reset this effect and chains by using Frost Strike just makes it even more consistent. This talent is key if you are having trouble surviving a burst-heavy team.

Bloodforged Armor is a new addition to the Death Knight's toolkit. This ability provides a 25% physical damage reduction for 4 seconds after each Death Strike. This should be used in any class with heavy physical damage, such as feral and Warrior.

Dark Simulacrum is one of the more interesting spells in the game currently. It is extremely powerful against spammable CC effects, such as Polymorph, or Cyclone, as well as powerful healing cooldowns such as Life Cocoon. It is a neat addition to Death Knight's toolkit while having a high skill cap and awareness requirement.

Spellwarden is a remarkably powerful tool. This allows you to cast AMS on your teammates. This can be used to prevent crowd control from landing on your healer or to allow your teammate to stay aggressive in caster match-ups.

Shroud of Winter is a very niche PvP talent. It does not have a set composition that you play it into. If a certain crowd control setups have been too difficult to stop or swaps during burst windows are causing your team to lose, this talent prevents both of those things by limiting the range at which they can happen.