Frost Death Knight Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Empower Rune Weapon increases the damage of your next Obliterate or Frostscythe by 20%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Empower Rune Weapon recharges 20% faster and Pillar of Frost grants 1 additional charge.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Season 1 tier set is incredibly basic, focusing almost entirely on Empower Rune Weapon. Being as basic as it is, it doesn’t have any impact on the rotation of the spec, as we are generally trying to use Empower Rune Weapon as often as possible already. All this really does is let you hit it more often.

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. Gaze of the Alnseer - This trinket is far and away the best trinket Frost DKs can use currently. The amount of Strength it gives is unrivaled leading to being the best trinket you can get. An ideal scenario is to get this and one of the following trinkets.
2. Light Company Guidon - The only 1.5m cooldown on use trinket strength users have access to in season 1 of Midnight. Frost being a 1.5 minute burst focused spec, this trinket is a no brainer.
3. Umbreal Plume / Radiant Plume - Generally incredibly close to Heart of Ancient Hunger, it's hard to go wrong between these two trinkets. If you have one, you're set for the season.
4. Heart of Ancient Hunger - This trinket is an incredibly consistent Critical Strike buff trinket. Works well with Frost's general stat priority, and competes for the 2nd-best passive trinket.
5. Algethar Puzzle Box - While no longer a 3-minute cooldown, instead a 2-minute cooldown, this potent Mastery on-use trinket is still one of the best. Its odd cooldown means it's generally best used with Pillar of Frost every 2:15, and not worth saving for the 3-minute window.

When it comes to Crafted Gear for Frost Death Knights, there's just one obvious choice for endgame: Arcanoweave Lining - Easily the best embellishment available to Frost Death Knights

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 2h 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 will provide either Haste or Mastery due to the bosses present in Season 1 of Midnight. Though Midnight Falls will give a Versatility buff when fighting L’ura.