Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Frost Death Knights in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Frost Death Knight PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Frost Death Knights in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Frost Death Knight Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Frost Death Knight Stat Priority

With 2-Hander: Versatility > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike
With 1-Hander: Versatility > Haste > (13%) Critical Strike > Mastery

Versatility will be our most important stat. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 20%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

Beyond this stat, you’ll want to acquire a solid amount of Haste. Haste by itself is a great stat to have; it makes us feel a bit less global-capped, and allows us to throw out more globals during our burst windows. This also increases our DoT ticks from Frost Fever.

Aside from Haste, you’ll want to gain some Mastery or Critical Strike, depending on what type of weapon you are using. With 2-Handers, we recommend Mastery over Critical Strike. Mastery is important to increase your damage profile, as it buffs your core damaging spells.

Otherwise, we recommend using Critical Strike over Mastery with two 1-hander weapons. This makes The Long Winter more impactful as we can almost always increase the duration of Pillar of Frost from our Critical Strike auto-attacks.

BiS Frost Death Knight PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Exhumed Centurion’s Galea
Shoulders: Exhumed Centurion’s Spikes
Chest: Algari Competitor’s Plate Breastplate with Haste / Versatility
Gloves: Exhumed Centurion’s Gauntlets
Legs: Exhumed Centurion’s Chausses

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Shawl if 2-hander is played, otherwise Forged Gladiator’s Cloak.
Belt: Forged Gladiator’s Plate Girdle or Algari Competitor’s Plate Waistguard with Haste / Versatility
Bracers: Forged Gladiator’s Plate Vambraces or Algari Competitor’s Plate Armguards with Haste / Versatility
Boots: Forged Gladiator’s Plate Warboots or Algari Competitor’s Plate Sabatons with (Mastery / Versatility) or (Critical Strike / Versatility) with 1-hander.

Jewelry

Neck: Algari Competitor’s Amulet with Haste / Versatility
Ring 1: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Mastery or (Haste / Critical Strike) with 1-hander.
Ring 2: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Mastery or (Haste / Critical Strike) with 1-hander.

Weapons

2-Hander: Forged Gladiator’s Greataxe
1-Hander: x2 Forged Gladiator’s Sword

You can select either a 2-hander or two 1-hander weapons, as both are viable and can be picked according to your own preference.

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, the offensive option is the Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. This is an excellent choice for your sustain damage, as it grants us some static Haste which benefits our stat priority, and its frequent procs allow us to deal higher consistent damage.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

Humans then have the option to drop the Forged Gladiator’s Medallion for Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. This is due to Human having access to Will to Survive for breaking out of crowd control. However, the Medallion can still be a solid pick for Human into teams where you want more frequent access to a CC removal, as you will be able to rotate through the Forged Gladiator’s Medallion and Will to Survive every 90 seconds.

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Best Frost Death Knight Embellishments

Item 1: Duskthread Lining on any crafted armor piece.
Item 2: Duskthread Lining on any crafted armor piece.

Best Frost Death Knight Gems

Core Gems: Enduring Bloodstone + Versatile Emerald

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Versatility and Haste are your best secondary stats, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible. Enduring Bloodstone will be our newly introduced PvP gem that can only be attributed once onto your character’s gem slots. This will give you some additional damage reduction when affected by Crowd Control.

For all gem slots, we will use Versatile Emerald, as this assists us the best with our stat priority.