Welcome to Skill Capped’s Frost Death Knight PvP Guide for 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 provides a brief overview of Frost Death Knights in The War Within.
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What’s New for Frost Death Knights in The War Within?
Frost Death Knight has retained a majority of its talents and abilities that make this spec unique, however there are some slight variances in terms of the talents we receive in our class and spec trees.
For our first new addition in our class tree, we have Vestigial Shell. This works based on who is affected by your Anti-Magic Shell, applying two additional shells to nearby friendly targets at reduced effectiveness. Although this may sound quite overpowered, especially if it applies to your teammates, a majority of the time this will be applying to your pets whenever you choose to use on yourself. Meaning that if you use Anti-Magic Shell on your allies to break up Crowd Control, you’re more likely to apply the effect of Vestigial Shell to nearby teammates.
Remaining on the topic of Anti-Magic Shell, we may see uses of our next newly added talent in the class tree, Unyielding Will, when paired with Spellwarden to free our teammate from magic based Crowd Control, adding onto the defensive utility we can produce as this class. We also receive more talents that further reduce the amount of magic damage we take, as we now gain Null Magic and Runic Protection to completely boost our survivability.
Shifting over to our spec tree, the most noticeable change here is Icecap, which reduces the cooldown on Pillar of Frost by 15 seconds. This is super valuable to our win conditions, especially in Solo Shuffle where it’s difficult to create a telegraphed Blinding Sleet setup.
Now, instead of going too in depth about the class and spec talent trees, it’s important to know the focal point, and where most of the new stuff really comes from. This is from a newly added tree known as Hero Talents, with Frost Death Knights receiving the option to pick between Rider of the Apocalypse and Deathbringer.
Frost Death Knight Playstyle
The playstyle of Frost remains identical to Dragonflight counterpart. We are constantly setting up every 1 minute with Blinding Sleet to pre-emptively keep our opponents controlled before releasing our massive burst with Pillar of Frost. With Icecap reducing this to a 45 second cooldown, we can occasionally sneak in more setups with Frostwyrm’s Fury and Remorseless Winter without being solely reliant on Blinding Sleet to set up.
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