[PvP] Frost DK PvP DPS Guide for 5.4.7 - Rotation, Talents, Tips, Gearing & More!

Hey what is going on guys! Today I'm bringing you my Frost DK PvP Guide for 5.4.7! In here I'm going to teach you guys everything that you need to know to do well in PvP! If you guys have any questions or would like to leave a request for the next video please mention it in the comment section below! If you enjoyed the video make sure to comment, like, and subscribe! Thanks for watching!
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Become A Legend - / theinstrumentalcore
Chaos In The Heavens - / theinstrumentalcore
Dubchestral - / theinstrumentalcore
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[@Mrroguify]

Seriously, your excitement is so obvious throughout the guide and I love it. The expression "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" comes to mind. being excited and energetic about the topics you discuss will make other people more interested. I love the guide, I learned a lot, and I hope you keep making these instructional pieces for the community. Thanks, so much!

[@pajopatak4266]

One of the best DK guides I have ever saw

[@skarmex3439]

Hey all that tip he said at the end about gripping people into rings and blade storms... DO IT! I was just in a 3's match with a warrior and mage and the mage puts up a ring while the warrior bursts and blade storms everyone scatters and i use gorefiends grasp and pulled em all back into ring and the warrior rapped em with his storm... it was kinda funny :D thx man for the tip! :D

[@Venoch_]

Been playing blood for ages and I've got into pvp a bit more lately so I wanted to focus on learning frost for that - This guide helps a lot, thanks!

[@ValentinJrOKC]

Thank you a looooot for this guide ! I'm french and I don't finding any recent guide for Frost Dk in french, so i'll search and I find your guide ! It will really help me :), so thanks again !

[@TheLostDojo]

Best guide ever. Really man great job you just taught me frost Dk in a matter of 20 minutes. I applaud you.

[@vincentlewisvl92]

Loved this vid, helped me a lot with my dk that just hit 90 this week. He is my first pvp to on and this is working like a charm

[@cursed_ascension]

thx for the guide, helped me transition from pve into pvp really smoothly!

[@OGBastard1337]

Great video. Thanks for the updated guide for patch 5.4.7 keep up the great work

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Thanks bud!

[@MrVladoko]

Thanks for the guide, it's very clear and informative (it took me time to realise why Conversion macro heals double lol)

[@Compton2952]

Great video, I subbed. Been playing a fdk for about 3 years now and I must say I really enjoyed the content in this video. Keep up the great work, hey me having 5 piece prideful + weapon man I am getting like 400-450 k crits once Ob procs. Insane damage and boy do healers hate my guts lol : /

[@joedraper2183]

Best guide I have seen. Really has helped me improve on my frost dk keep the videos coming

[@Motivationlottery]

Fantastic guide,well latest out and beautifully explained. I just started wow and just unlocked DK and this guide makes it easy to understand, Ty! Subbed.

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Great to hear welcome back!

[@RaffaelisEmo]

Really cool stuff, best guide video i´ve seen for dk

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Thank You!

[@uGUnicorns]

dude you have increased my damge by so much ty!

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Glad to hear! :D

[@uGUnicorns]

ShankopotamusXD yo people told me I was the best frost dk now its not even a question

[@xStapleheadx]

Brilliant guide dude, thanks!

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Thanks for Watching!

[@Mozaiq83]

Thanks for your video and information, though i've switched over from frost to unholy, there was still a good deal to learn from this. It's unfortunate that we lost necrotic strike in WoD. Was such a good spell.

[@imbaddkarma6957]

Love DW I'm top damage 95% of the time, and with my synapse springs from engineering just adds to the madness. I'm like a plate wearing rogue!

[@ezpickin23]

Great Video. I will try this out! Thanks for the tips!

[@henkvananvers7990]

awesome guide man! very usefull and clear.

[@TheJDoig]

Such a helpful guide thanks a lot man, really going to help me. You've got a new sub haha

[@stanc938]

Perfect thank you you have one more subscriber I stoped playing FDK for warrior but i am going to get back to it :)

[@x3995GKL]

your awsome i will sub all the other guides is just too mmuch talking your straight to the point thanks im def going to become a better dk

[@marcodrummen4074]

awesome guide!!!!!! thx a lot give me just few tips i needed to really optimize. macros i love the most

[@Warwiz]

Fantastic guide ! Thanks alot for that mate :)

[@kaldriss3]

thank you so much for this guide

[@catalyzt9]

I think a positioning guide would be great

[@GrizzlyGaming]

You are awesome man ! keep up the content!

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Thank you!

[@Windkiller13]

Great Job man! going to use these to get more dmg and kill in :)

[@pixel78995]

5s with a DK, Healer and 3 warriors. Run DnD glyph and Gorefiend's Grasp, DnD and grasp while all 3 warriors bladestorm, if they have a class that can leap out like druid, just grip them back in. Win :)

[@Jay-hp7km]

mind blown O.o

[@blakerenfro]

4 mages and an hpally. Ice blocks, Divine shield an then quadruple deep freeze/frozen orbx4

[@trevonmaddox4266]

Wow! So fucking helpful lol thanks so much dude! Definitely have my subscribe...keep making those awesome vids and gl to you

[@haydenboyd3521]

Thanks bro very helpful

[@adrianmartinez-kp5ix]

Just wanted 2 answer youre question bout why even have crit in your sockets when you have procs: 1) you do have procs and they have 100% crit chance(obliterate proc) so if youre criting every chance you get then thts youre main power. 2) if you crit every second or 2 and you do good damage then why not increase it with crit sockets 2 make it even better K this is what I had in mind I have a frost dk and I have crit and strenght in sockets but overall I have more crit and so far its worked wonders

[@Thomahawk12]

Would you be able to go more in depth on the stats and reforging? I see different priorities all the time so I'm looking for something more definite on the subject . Great guide btw!

[@MrSneakywitchthief]

great video I subed

[@oronbz]

Thanks for the great video man, can you please share some addons that are shown in the videos? Like the health bars with alliance flags and the big percentage on the boars and the big action bar in the middle.

[@lordsauron8292]

Frost Death Knight's, are pretty cute when you are UH/Blood. :')

[@ShankopotamusXD]

hah

[@lordsauron8292]

ShankopotamusXD I studied a video of WoD footage that I posted on MMO - Champion Forum. (Mainly Blood). Death Strike (Blood Only) Now deals 196% Weapon Damage. From 259%. Heals you 30% of the damage received in the last 5 seconds from non - player sources of at least 5% of your maximum health. Would heal about 2% in PvP instead of 3% (like it is now). (Heal has been reduced). Horn of Winter No change, as much as I can see. But it seems to have NO CD. Just a global CD. (Not sure if it still generates Runic Power). Rune Strike Same as before, except now does 155% Weapon Damage. From 200%. Plague Strike Now does 75% Weapon Damage. From 100% Rune Tap No longer heals. Instead placed an absorb which scales with Attack Power AND Vengeance. Also, diseases will no longer grant bonus damage for certain abilities, like Blood Strike, Scourge Strike. Opinions for the Blood changes so far?

[@nemekalichpale7221]

Ha, just my luck! I thought to start my Frost-DK again and relearn the spec and all I find on the internet is contradictory information. On Arena Junkies they have a guide up that recommends gemming haste not only over mastery, but over strength as well.

[@kapryiath]

your burst macro is wrong you should be using your trinket before you use pillar because the trinket adds a static amount of strength, then pillar buffs your total strength by 20% instead of buffing by 20% then adding a static amount

[@hadouke2050]

when you do @player for the macro does he mean i enter my name there so @hadoo or just leave @player

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Just keep as @player

[@akshaysehgal]

Can i ask something? How do u select the various items/ action buttons without a mouse .. are u using a gamepad? is this a setting that i dont know about .. anyways nice guide!

[@grza5546]

awasome video

[@RaymarnGaming]

mastery>haste for bg rbg but for arena i prefer haste>mastery maybe even haste>crit for some huge soulreaper crits the reason i go haste>mastery is because you can sit in blood presence without any lack on runic generation on the other hand is mastery>haste nice against heavy armor classes plate, shadowpriest! in arena most of the time your in blood presence and losing 20% rune generation and frost strike cost 15 more runic power thats why i prefer haste over mastery for arena

[@alsian.camilleri]

Hey. Your a great Pvp Guy. I Didn't understand which are the dot's abilites. I only saw Outbreak and Blight. So please if u feel free comment me below. Thank You.

[@Noxistent]

Hey I have a question how you can make a burst and then 3 times obliterate? I mean the burst costs 1 frost rune so you have to less frost runes for 3 time obliterate? And thanks for the guide its great helped me a lot :)

[@peternisbett7415]

in your macro why do you have pillar of frost first because it increases str by 20% would u not want to use your trink first?

[@Nuskori]

On the bottom of his screen where his abilities are from 1-12 what are they in order ShankopotamusXD

[@JJMetallicaFreak]

One problem in your guide, Rime doesn't proc from auto-attacks, it procs from your Obliterate hits. Just a heads up ^^ Your "Killing Machine", which is the 100% Obliterate crit proc, procs from auto-attacks.

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Ah I must have misspoke. True nonetheless.

[@JJMetallicaFreak]

ShankopotamusXD No problem :D Just in case you were misinformed, there's nothing better than enlightenment if you actually had it wrong in the first place ^^ Awesome guide nonetheless, keep it up :D I'd love to play with you some day x) [Bonus]: I have always been a frost DK at heart, there is nothing more I love to do than Frost PvP, but I feel so limited in many High-rat RBG's and Arena's, so I am forced to play UH. UH has superior Damage in many ways, and their cooldowns are longer term pressure - even though Frost has sick burst damage... Timing that burst with your team mates can be difficult, plus your opponents are afraid of you for that reason, they will kite a Frost DK should he pop his CD's. In my experience, as Frost DK I get Slow-CC'd a lot, or immobilized, which almost leaves me helpless, any tips on the matter?

[@Sahbazx1]

I am a Undead DK, What should i take instead of Lich Borne

[@ertrilpitcher95]

is it mean to say that this guy reminds me of cripkey from big bang theory?

[@xxtriplex95]

button smashing :D lol true, ex cata ilvl 382 frost dk here.

[@Seekeroftruth806]

Ya man, me too

[@MrRapperb]

Hay bro, I am a uh DK and i would love to try FDK now. I wanna check with you why you reforge to mastery > haste ( more for uh spec) shouldn't it be haste > mastery ? I am not sure. And what do you think of DW rather than going 2H. last thing is, does NS in FDK are as good as NS in UHDK? Thank bro. big fan.

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Ok sure, so yeah to answer your questions, basically you can keep your reforges from UH into frost. Its really not a damage loss at all, and saves you your gold. 2nd I recommend 2h over DW. I haven't seen any DKs really run DW mainly because obliterates hit for so hard right now. Lastly Necrotic Strikes are great in frost if used at the right time and with burst. Thanks for Watching!

[@marcelledeswardt1]

What's the add ons you are using at 2:10?

[@benjaminejemalm3045]

If my name is deathknight do i neeed to write: /cast [@deathknight] Death Coil . Or is /cast [@Player] Death Coil Enough? Thanks.

[@daronashcraft8872]

What tool tip addon do you use

[@bastien1037]

wich Addon are you using &

[@yvrytry5rc]

Pls make a video exactly like this but for unholy thanks

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Done. [PvP] Unholy DK PvP DPS Guide for 5.3 & 5.4 - Rotation, Talents, Tips, Gearing & More!

[@elaundjacky02030401]

What is the name of the rune addon ??

[@easybet2209]

whether this applies to 5.4.2 version ?

[@santosodenny4543]

very useful but I need more detail of rotation T_T

[@abc123rofllol]

what does 'use howling blast to SPIN FLAGS' mean? (english isn´t my mother tongue)

[@Seekeroftruth806]

Make to move slow the guy with the flag

[@davidresendez5625]

Where did u go? its been 6 months and no new vid :(

[@ShankopotamusXD]

I'll make a video soon explaining where I've been!

[@davidresendez4039]

ShankopotamusXD Bruh i need to see more dks! when is this video being uploaded?

[@ShankopotamusXD]

David Resendez Right now it's safe to assume that most of the things I've stated in this guide are still relevant. Currently I'm taking a break from WoW to focus on schoolwork and the new series I'm producing called League 101. The downtime between expansions is rough, and in order to stay at the top of the ladders it would require me to play an excess of 4-8 hours/day. Simply put, I have a life outside of WoW, and I need to take a break. In a scenario where I get burnt out on the game like I am now, I want to still be able to make videos for you guys. I'll possibly be making a guide on the major changes coming into patch 6.0, however right now I'm really excited to share with you guys my new series, League 101. We've got an amazing team of high rated players, video editors, and graphic designers that are going to pump out some of the best content you've ever seen on this channel! Along with this I have picked up AMAZING internet at college, so I'm going to be streaming a lot more (My Channel is www.twitch.tv/ajthedk). You guys can also follow me on twitter @ShankopotamusXD for more information on what I'm up to as well. For the time being, I'd rather produce content featuring other games rather than no content at all. I love making videos, and that's exactly what I intend to do. I'm back guys, and I'm here to stay!

[@SupertoastGT]

I don't get the necrotic bit. It has no damage increase for targets at low health, and the heal absorb is so tiny, it's like it isn't even there. Why use it at all? Does (X) weapon damage and absorbs (x) healing is all the necrotic tooltip says more or less.

[@michaelhofby]

the answer is simple, spam it until it stacks so much on them that they cant heal up again.

[@marcodrummen4074]

yeah its awesome, especially when someone really low just to prevent that healing so you can finish them off also good on healers to slow their casting and preventing selfheal if you want to burn a healer down

[@itzchxos673]

can you write me a good burst makro ?

[@dsteffens]

Wouldnt it be better to put Pillar of frost after trinket in the dps macro? so that you get a higher bonus% with the strenght from trinket? Or doesn't it mather?

[@dsteffens]

#showtooltip Pillar of Frost ;) /cast 13(or 14) /cast Pillar of Frost thats what ive would have done tbc.

[@dsteffens]

Prob xD

[@lordsauron8292]

Daniel Aminyah Use if after the trinket. You will get 20% more from the trinket I believe.

[@dannyschutte29]

I want a dk but i really have no clue how the runes work :x :p

[@maryam_gamingroblox]

where is the macro ??

[@HamishHBC]

Good dk burst macro?

[@ValikSeamourn]

i dont under stand what showing the tool tip does in macros

[@philstavro]

What is Blood Fury O_o?

[@jakearcouette1455]

nice guide.. i play unholy but this is alot of great information.., i have one more macro for u.. saves me a bit of time in rbgs #showtooltip Gorefiend's Grasp /cast [nomod;@player] Gorefiend's Grasp /cast [mod=ctrl;@pet] Gorefiend's Grasp /cast [mod=alt;@] Gorefiend's Grasp this will let u get your gorefiends pull where and when u need it without having to lose your target. On your pet can be extraordinarily useful on maps like silvershard, move your pet to the back of the ring and give him a pull which will let u stay in the cart, or for pulling that meklee burst off your healer. And i personally like to have it macroed for a warrior on my rbg team so when he goes balls to the wall bladestorming i can drop that snare DnD and give hima pull to put out some serious hurt

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Yeah deff, if you can make it work then use it. I personally just use a gorefiends and the gorefiends to you macro. But hey thats smart.

[@santosodenny4543]

wow nice thx man

[@liamruss22]

How to play frost 1) Take Face 2) Roll on keyboard 3)Realize frost sucks 4) Go unholy

[@Jay-hp7km]

ive been playing UH since WotLK and i got to say its just been getting harder and harder to top the charts. now granted, i dont do much pvp but when i do its a tough situation to be in a lot of the time. hopefully WoD will finalyl fix the balance issues that have existed since blood became tank and frost became dps

[@MrWins11]

but in 2h it doesnt proc much

[@HypeDoWnTv]

Yo Des, Check out your inbox when you get the chance

[@dan7564]

Add /cast raise dead to burst macro?

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Yep, forgot to include that. Go for it.

[@wowlvl85]

where the hell is the macro section

[@wowlvl85]

nvm lol

[@helef723]

Haste>mastery More proc more dmg faster rune regeneretion

[@RonSwansonn]

is it better to play 2h or DW frost dk in 5.4.5 ?

[@ShankopotamusXD]

2h

[@trvislsly14]

What's the Rune display addon?

[@ShankopotamusXD]

That would be magic runes.

[@epicscoreCS2]

dks only have one button right?

[@patrickrempel8786]

No you must be confusing that with mage :D

[@SymplyOP]

Um, there are many things wrong in this video. Early on in the video you say "you get procs from your auto attacks which you can use your howling blasts on" which is entirely wrong. The procs you get from auto attacks are only used for obliterate and frost stike. The stat priority should also be haste>master=crit. Since your obliterate is the hardest hitting ability why wouldnt you want more of them with more haste? Also if you use your burst macro which would have Pillar of frost in it, you wont get 3 obliterates out since you will only have 2 frost runes to work with instead of 3. The spec you described is more of a DW spec which if your going to take Chillblains and go mastery why not just go dw pick up a razorice or cinderglacier rune as well as fallen crusader (dont take cinderglacier its proc rate is way too low) and howling blast the crap out of their team? You take out obliterate in that spec entirely since 2 howling blasts do more than 1 obliterate and your frost strike will do 50% more damage which is amplified by your mastery even further. The only bad thing is you have to be in blood presence to get the most out of the spec. The only thing i can see good about going mastery over haste is to kill plate wearers better since they are either constantly in blood presence or defensive stance.

[@michaelhofby]

Why?

[@tarkonis]

Do you need to hit plague strike at all in frost?

[@Premoguys]

Naturally, if your target is not infected, instantly use the plague strike before you start obliterating him.

[@viksholm00]

Premoguys Outbreak > plague strike

[@Premoguys]

yes of course, i meant in case you have already used outbreak on a target or you switch to another one who is too far away to be inflicted with pestilence. In that case, it is always needed to have both diseases applied before you start the normal 2handed rotation, where obliterate is the master.

[@michaelrene2551]

what presence do u use as frost?

[@kiawanjenkins8458]

Frost. Higher DPS

[@Fallenking43]

Kiawan jenkins Blood helps when you are getting focused.

[@samnil999]

Do a DW video. DW is different then 2h, you don't use Obliterate, you use necrotic strike and icy touch a lot more.Your preassure is more constant with less downtime and more sustained high damage, your damage is also unaffected by armor, and your frost strike and frost spells in general hits a lot more than 2h's frost strike and spells. DW > 2h

[@ShankopotamusXD]

Hm, I'll take a look at that. Sounds interesting.

[@samnil999]

***** then you're doing it wrong

[@mixadengitti]

Are you kidding? It's called "runic power", not "ruinic power" :P

[@owendelisle4253]

Chill man it's not a big deal

[@pwnColorQuixpwn]

Those macros... THANK YOU!! :DDDD

[@hristoborisov3713]

wtf there is no such a thing like blood fury is this some kind of a spell or glyph or wtf?I'm with 5.4.7 as well

[@hristoborisov3713]

oooohh its for orc ---....--- ( =,_.=)racism

[@ahmedmohammed-in9ms]

where is the macro

[@ahmedmohammed-in9ms]

can you post on my reply

[@ahmedmohammed-in9ms]

ahmed mohammed nvm i got it

[@anltekin9787]

who the hell wrote those subtitles O_o almost half of the sentences wrong :S

[@RealEast420]

soul reaper sucks as frost? better off obliterating??

[@beardeddragonsarecute1786]

You seriously need a macro for a racial ability and trinket? lol "burst".

[@itzhomestar]

what are procs

[@santosodenny4543]

procs is a chance when you use skill, frost DK has proc 100% crit, so you dont need crit anymore :D

[@twistedshapeshifter]

My realm on alliance side has almost no DK runes on auction.. GG blizzard.

[@Jay-hp7km]

you on mal'ganis? seeing as there is about 10 glyphs in total on the AH there most of the time this sounds about right

[@twistedshapeshifter]

Jacob Ziluck area 52

[@Jay-hp7km]

QueenEtna yup that'll do it lol

[@leonex606]

Haha , guys seriously frost dk doesn't need any rotation xD

[@ShankopotamusXD]

haha it is alot of button smashing

[@kalkeh1vai]

ruinic lol!! chill BLAINS lol harder

[@TheRyanzorz]

Your mic makes my ears bleed.