Monday, April 16, 2012

Frost Death Knight Notes From Convert to Raid: Preach On

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Weapons

  • Two one handers
  • Slower = Better: More procs
  • Strength weapons
  • Enchants
    • Main Hand: Rune of Razorice
    • Off Hand: Rune of the Falen Crusader
    • Third Off Hand Weapon: Rune of Cinderglacier (for AOE)

Rotation

  • Priority based
    • Balance downtime: rune cooldowns with runic power
    • Keep up diseases - Makes Obliterate and Howling Blast better
      • Blood Plague
      • Frost Fevor
      • Outbreak puts on both - Blood Plague & Frost Fevor
      • If Outbreak is on cool down:
        • Plague Strike - Blood Plague
        • Icy Touch - Frost Fevor
      • Howling Blast can apply Frost Fevor
      • Pestilence to spread it around
    • Obliterate if runes available (two runes)
    • Frost strike to dump runic power
    • Howling Blast for AOE once procs
    • Horn of Winter if nothing else
    • Frost Pillar for extra buff
  • Do not cap runic power: wastes frost strike/dps
  • Keep runic power at 60 points
  • Use rune reset thingy if absolutely nothing else

Cooldowns

  • Pillar of Frost: Adds strength - Should use Blood Tap
  • Rune Weapon: When runes are on cooldown and no runic power
  • Army of Dead: Before the pull

Talents

  • Chilblains - slows everything

Statistics

  • Strength
  • Hit to 8%
  • Haste
  • Expertise
  • Mastery

Glyphs

  • Glyph of Howling Blast
  • Glyph of Frost Strike
  • Glyph of Obliterate
  • Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell

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