Frost Death Knight Leveling Guide

11.0.2 - The War Within

Last Updated:August 26, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Frost Death Knight leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!

Talents

Patch 11.0.2 - The War Within

Frost Death Knight

Rider of the Apocalypse Level 70

Rider of the Apocalypse Frost Death Knight Leveling Talents

Spec Tree

Glacial Advance
- AoE Runic Power spender.
Frostscythe
- Big AoE ability with reduced cooldown based on the amount of Killing Machine consumed.
Arctic Assault
- Fires a Glacial Advance where you are facing when you consume Killing Machine.
Pillar of Frost
- Your main cooldown every 45 seconds.
Frostwyrm's Fury
- Deals massive AoE damage every 1m30s with Absolute Zero.

Class Tree

Abomination Limb
- Pulls mobs within 20 yards to you every second, this is useful for the casters that are pulled but jut don't want to come all the way in to melee.
Death's Echo
- Gives you an extra charge of Death's Advance or Death Charge allowing much better mobility.
- Death Grip also gets an extra charge allowing you to grip 2 mobs instead of just 1.er period.

Hero Talents

Rider of the Apocalypse performs better than Deathbringer] while leveling due to the fact that it allows you access to Death Charge immediately, enabling you to pull more mobs considerably quicker.
Your Runes have a chance to summon 1 of 4 Horsemen that all do good damage, helping you kill mobs faster.
Apocalypse Now causes Frostwyrm's Fury to summon all 4 Horsemen allowing you to kill any elite mob extremely quick.

Leveling Talent Points

Rotation

Patch 11.0.2 - The War Within

Frost Death Knight

Single-Target

Cast Remorseless Winter on cooldown.
Cast Obliterate if you have a Killing Machine.
Cast Howling Blast if you get a Rime proc.
Cast Frost Strike if you are out of Runes or if you are going to overcap on Runic Power.

AoE

Cast Frostscythe as much as possible.
Cast Remorseless Winter.
Cast Death and Decay if it is not down.
- This is exceptionally strong when paired with Pillar of Frost, but Death and Decay basically lasts 14 seconds now if you are standing in it when it expires so it can be cast beforehand while leveling.
Cast Obliterate if you have a Killing Machine.
Cast Howling Blast if you get a Rime proc.
Cast Glacial Advance if you are out of Runes or if you are going to overcap on Runic Power.

Using Cooldowns

Pillar of Frost
- Go gain the max value, this should be used on cooldown as it is only a 45 second cooldown.
Frostwyrm's Fury
- Pair this with Pillar of Frost for maximum damage before level 75, but after it summons the 4 Horsemen for massive burst and can be used at any point, especially on Elite or high health mobs.

Pulling Mobs

Howling Blast has a 30 yard range and hits all mobs within 10 yards of your target. This should be your main ability to pull from range with.
Death Grip is not able to be casted on mobs that are already tagged by someone else. Once you hit the tagged mob or if it is not yet in combat, you can Death Grip it.
Dark Command is an off global cooldown ability that is good to use if you are not able to cast Howling Blast because of Runes or Death Grip because it has already been tagged.
Death and Decay can be used to tag enemies in range as well if it is needed.

Shopping List

Patch 11.0.2 - The War Within

Frost Death Knight

Credits

Written by: Miniaug

Reviewed by: Xerwo