Recommended BiS Waist Enchant: Eternal Belt Buckle If you are wearing Verdungo's Barbarian Cord, this slot is where you'll add your prismatic gem Enchanted Tear as its socket bonus is better than your helms. This is another slot where the best option is miles ahead of its competitors, there are unfortunately very few good strength belts.

Waist for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid Recommended BiS Glove Enchant: Hyperspeed AcceleratorsĮnchant Gloves - Crusher is your option if you're not an Engineer, but I can't stress enough how much you want to be an Engineer.

Hands for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid Recommended BiS Bracer Enchant: Enchant Bracers - Greater Assault I highly recommend getting these bracers crafted, even as a blue they are incredibly powerful because of that 53 strength. Wrist for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid Traded for Harness of Carnal Instinct and Sunmote Recommended BiS Chest Enchant: Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats It helps that the tier chest is just miles ahead of anything else you can get pre-raid. Remember that you want to rush to getting your two piece tier set, so the fact that we can just farm badges for it makes this your absolute priority. Recommended BiS Cloak Enchant: Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed > Enchant Cloak - Major AgilityĬhest for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid It's actually kind of silly how much better this cloak is than any other option, so much so that it readily competes with most raid and badge cloaks as well during phase 1. Traded for Pauldrons of Perseverance and Sunmote Recommended BiS Shoulder Enchant: Greater Inscription of the Axe from The Sons of Hodir > Greater Inscription of Vengeance / Lesser Inscription of the Axe Yes you're reading that right, with double sockets and a good amount of strength baseline, our pre-raid best in slot is from Sunwell, luckily our backup options are from Sons of Hodir, which we'll want to farm for enchants anyway. Shoulders for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid Recommended BiS Helm Enchant: Arcanum of Torment is our only real option for helm enchants in WotLK content, in a pinch either Arcanum of Triumph or TBC reputation helm enchants can be substituted until you're revered with Knights of the Ebon Blade. The Blacksmithing helm is by far the best option for this slot, but if you're not looking to spend that much gold on a BoE the Engineering goggles are another perfectly respectable choice, if you're only looking to farm dungeons before Naxxramas and not craft anything, you can't go wrong with either option from heroics. You'll want to rush your two pieces of tier from this vendor, as the two-set bonus of Heroes' Scourgeborne Battlegear is very strong for Frost.īody Armor for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid This is the general order you'll want to spend your badges in, with obvious exceptions made if you have a significantly weaker piece in another slot. This set will put us over the 'soft' cap for hit rating of 9%, but as a dual wield class that's ok, as we still value hit rating highly for our auto attacks.Įmblems of Heroism for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-RaidĮmblems of Heroism come from certain quests, as well as Heroic Dungeons in WotLK, and can be farmed with the daily lockout of these instances, you'll want to farm these extensively as part of your pre-bis set, as some of the pieces are incredibly powerful on your way into Naxxramas.

Expertise - Expertise has less of a gain for Death Knight's compared to most classes, as our special abilities don't charge us runes if they're dodged, but that strike will still be delayed the lost GCD, and you your white hits can be dodged.

Crit - is incredibly powerful because of the crit damage amplification of Guile of Gorefiend, making our already hard hitting Obliterate even more impressive.

Hit - to at least 5% - your talent Nerves of Cold Steel will give you 3% so you're capped on main hand specials, any point of hit after this will just increase howling blast hit, and auto attacks, but is still powerful.

Strength - is still the absolute best stat for Frost Death Knights, this will not change throughout the expansion.

That being said, there are a few stats we do look at a little more warmly than others. There's very little real choice you'll have when it comes to the best items for pre-raids in WotLK as a Frost Death Knight, with the general name of the game being pure density of stats, and what item has the highest amount of strength.

This guide will list the recommended gear for your class and role, containing gear sourced from dungeons, PvP, professions, BoE World drops, and reputations.īest in Slot Gear for Frost Death Knight DPS Pre-Raid Welcome to Wowhead's Pre-Raid Best in Slot Gear list for Frost Death Knight DPS in Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

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