Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Frost Death Knight in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.7
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Frost Death Knight in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Frost Death Knight in Dragonflight.
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Frost Death Knight Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents. Those will depend on the situation and the comp you are playing. The Core talents will be the ones you pick almost all the time either because they are that good on their own, or simply better than all other options.
Death Knight Class Talents
Some of the core picks are quite obvious. For example, you are never going to pass up Mind Freeze, so that is an easy pickup.
For the first time ever Blinding Sleet is available to all three DK specs, not just Frost. This talent is very strong and fun to play with, so there is no reason not to take it.
Will of the Necropolis is up next. Although it received a 50% nerf in PvP, it is still incredibly strong. First of all, it is still a 17.5% damage reduction whenever you drop low, which you don’t have to press or even think about. It just happens automatically. But what’s really insane is that it kicks in even if you are above 30% HP. Let’s say you take a massive Elemental Blast from a Shaman and you are at 50% HP. That will almost certainly drop you under 30%, but Will of the Necropolis will reduce that incoming damage regardless. We highly recommend picking this talent to prevent yourself from being put in someone’s oneshot montage.
Lastly, we have Empower Rune Weapon. It will make your cooldowns even more deadly and it will provide two charges when paired with Empower Rune Weapon in the Frost tree. We will go over how to properly use it with your kit in our Damage Course, so make sure to check it out.
Your three flexible talent points are Anti-Magic Barrier, Anti-Magic Zone and Improved Death Strike. The first two anti-magic talents only get value if there is magic damage on the enemy team. In the case you are playing against purely physical specs, you can safely drop these. Improved Death Strike is more neutral, but can even be dropped if you are not worried about being the kill target.
These three points can be distributed elsewhere, like picking up Wraith Walk, which gives you extra mobility against Mages and Hunters. You could also put one of these points into Unholy Endurance, giving your Lichborne some added damage reduction.
Frost Spec Talents
The build we have above is centered around Pillar of Frost. This is your one-minute go which is the staple of Frost Death Knight. The Frost Talents are fairly static but there are two flexible points.
Icebreaker is a solid pick and adds a passive damage increase to your Rime procs and your overall burst. However, you can drop a point in this talent for Piercing Chill which adds more damage to your cleave at the cost of some single target.
If you are playing with the Remorseless Winter stun then Gathering Storm is another option for this talent. This extends the duration of your Remorseless Winter allowing for it to last long enough to stun three times during its duration.
Frost Death Knight PvP Talents
There is only one PvP talents that is mandatory and you shouldn’t really be dropping it under any circumstances.
Strangulate will be your standard pick and used in most match-ups. This aligns with your Pillar of Frost allowing for a stronger one-minute go.
From here you have some situational talents.
Bloodforged Armor is excellent into any team which has one pure physical damage dealer, like Windwalker Monks, Feral Druid, BM Hunter, and Warrior.
Delirium is a solid pick into any high mobility classes such as Monk and Demon Hunter. Given that Frost generally wants to kite inbetween goes, this makes it hard for the enemy to catch-up and they may not have mobility going into your burst cooldowns.
Dead of Winter is a great option when you do not have an AoE stun available or you won’t gain any additional benefit from Delirium and Boneforged Armor.
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