Frost Death Knight Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Each time Remorseless Winter damages at least 1 enemy, gain Freezing Tempest which grants 2% attack speed and 4% increased Icy Death Torrent damage for 5 sec, stacking.
• (4) Set Bonus: Remorseless Winter deals damage 25% more frequently, and Freezing Tempest lasts 5 sec longer.

Tier Set Discussion:

Frost Death Knight’s Season 2 tier set has little rotational impact, aside from encouraging you to press Remorseless Winter asap after it comes off cooldown. The major impact of this tier set though, ends up being in talents, with it encouraging us to play the Remorseless Winter talents, even in single target.

Another knock-on effect of this tier set is massively increasing the value of haste from gear. Due to Gathering Storm allowing us to extend Remorseless Winter, which increases attack speed, which then triggers Killing Machine more frequently, which further extends Remorseless Winter. This snowballs the set bonus into something that makes the gameplay feel a bit more rapid and reactive.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Frost Death Knight, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

For Frost Death Knights, there are 5 prominent trinkets to consider:

1. Voracious Heart of Ula’tek - Easily the most powerful trinket we have access to in Season 2 of Midnight. Being a 1.5m cooldown, and providing strength makes this trinket our highest priority to get.
2. Zul’jin’s Guillotine Technique - A very powerful passive damage proc trinket, with a set bonus with our best weapon. This trinket excels in 1-2 target scenarios, though falls off in mass aoe.
3. Twisted Horror’s Tendril - The most powerful passive stat proc trinket we have access to. Outperforms Core, and Gebbos for Mythic+, and its on first hit effect synergizes with Mythic+ pulls incredibly to make this trinket a must have.
4. Keeper's Seething Core - Another passive stat proc trinket, this one being haste focused. While not our most powerful trinket, is a very solid alternative to Gebbo’s and Zul’jins.
5. Gebbo’s Bottmless Bag - A passive stat proc trinket that holds its own. This trinket is very potent as a replacement for Zul’jin’s in AoE scenarios where the guillotine just doesn't hold up.

When it comes to Crafted Gear for Frost Death Knights, there are a few choices for endgame embellishments:

• Loa Worshiper’s Band
• Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier
• Arcanoweave Lining

Between these 3, theres very little DPS difference when we consider the group benefit of Arcanoweave. But, for personal DPS, Loa Worshipper + Bandolier is the endgame winner. If you prefer to support your group with Arcanoweave instead, total group DPS isnt likely to be any different.

Early in the Season, one thing to consider is potentially crafting a Weapon. As Weapons are going to be your highest damage upgrade item slot without question. If you don't get one early on in the season (before your first craft essentially), consider waiting and crafting a weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.

While Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt isn't our best embellishment, it is still quite potent when fighting the right enemies. Here is a list of which enemy types provide which stat buff to help you out along the way:

• Elemental/Abberation/Demon - Haste Buff
• Mechanical/Beast - Crit Buff
• Humanoid/Dragonkin - Mastery Buff
• Undead/Giant/Not Specified - Versatility Buff

Most Raid encounters in Season 2 will provide either Crit or Mastery due to the bosses present.

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Ascendant Venomcores

The Voidforge will allow you to upgrade any fully upgraded Hero/Myth track Weapons, or Trinkets to a new stage called Venomforged.

Venomforged items gain +6 item levels over their previous max item level, meaning Myth track items will be upgraded to 340, Hero track items will be upgraded to 328. Crafted items (with Myth Crests) are unique, gaining +7 item levels, and will be upgraded to 338.

When upgrading our items with the Voidforge, we will follow a priority system to be sure we get the most DPS possible out of each of our upgrades. That priority is:

1. Weapon
2. Trinkets
3. Necklace

Aside from this priority, we won't have unlimited upgrades, so it can/will be worth waiting until you have killed a boss with a high-value weapon/trinket you do not yet have first before deciding what to upgrade

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Frost Death Knight:

• Row 1: Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes
• Row 3: Rune of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune of Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.