Frost Death Knight Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stats will always vary and change based on your gear situation, as stats can lose a lot of value once you reach certain thresholds. The best way to ensure you are using the best gear is to use Raidbots and check via the Top Gear option. You can learn how to sim your character by going to the ‘How to Sim Your Character’ section at the end of this guide.

Stat Ranking

Single Target: Strength > Mastery > Crit > Haste > Versatility

Multi-Target: Strength > Mastery > Crit > Haste > Versatility

Stat Summary

Strength - Primary stat is typically always the best. It's a simple, straightforward throughput increase to every aspect of Frost Death Knight in both single and multi-target scenarios.

Crit - Auto-attack critical strikes trigger Killing Machine, Icy Death Torrent and The Long Winter, all of which are very important for your overall damage. Crit is a stat which is the best for both single and multi-target scenarios because of this.

Mastery - Most of your damage as Frost is Frost damage, so naturally increasing your Frost damage done via Mastery: Frozen Heart is going to be good. Mastery scales exceptionally well in multi-target, so it will pull ahead of Haste in these scenarios.

Haste - Haste gives a lot of benefits to Frost, including auto-attack speed (attacking more often increases chances to proc Killing Machine, Icy Death Torrent and The Long Winter), rune regeneration and generally giving you more globals during your Pillar of Frost windows.

Versatility - Versatility is a very simple stat that does what it says on the tin, it just gives you a flat damage & healing increase and some mitigation. It’s not a very valuable stat early on, but once you start hitting diminishing return thresholds on your other stats, Versatility will start to gain value. This is something that happens towards the latter half of an expansion.

The races are not a massive throughput gain; sometimes they are, but generally, the gain is not that big for playing "the best race". For the most part, play whatever Race you want; but for the players that want the best possible throughput, here are the best Races and the throughput ability they provide listed here:

Best Horde Races for Frost DK:

• Mag’har Orc - Ancestral Call (On use ability)
• Tauren - Brawn (Passive)
• Panderan - Epicurean (Passive)

Best Alliance Races for Frost DK:

• Dwarf - Might of the Mountain (Passive)
• Human - The Human Spirit (Passive)
• Panderan - Epicurean (Passive)

Head: Empowered Blessing of Speed

Shoulder: Flight of the Eagle

Chest: Mark of the Worldsoul

Boots: Farstrider’s Hunt

Legs: Forest Hunter’s Armor Kit

Rings: Nature’s Fury / Zul’jin’s Mastery

Weapon: Rune of the Fallen Crusader / Rune of Razorice / Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle

Diamond Gem:

• Powerful Eversong Diamond: +23 Primary Stat + 0.15% Critical Effect per unique Midnight Gem color
• Indecipherable Eversong Diamond: +32 Primary Stat

The DPS difference between these two gems is marginal at best. Depending on your current gear, it could be better to run either one. So, as usual, simulate your character to see which is best for you.

All gems are colored based on the stats they give:

• Peridot (Green) = Haste
• Garnet (Red) = Crit
• Amethyst (Purple) = Mastery
• Lapis (Blue) = Versatility

You will always want to use the dual stat gems as they give you more stats overall (example: Flawless Deadly Amethyst). The best way to find out the best gems for your character make sure to sim multiple gem combinations!

Food: Harandar Celebration (Feast) / Royal Roast

Flasks: Flask of the Shattered Sun

Potions: Potion of Recklessness

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil

Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune