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Here are all the best Frost Death Knight Talent Tree builds in the Patch 11.2 for raids and Mythic+

Frost Death Knight Talent Import Codes

Impact of Hero Talents on Talent Builds Rider of the Apocalypse

Frostwyrm’s Fury is mandatory to unlock Apocalypse Now, but since it’s positioned in a part of the tree with plenty of free points, it’s never a burden to take.

Offensive choice: Fury of the Horsemen is generally the strongest pick, while A Feast of Souls is only worth considering if the rest of the tree is stacked with Frost Strike / Glacial Advance buffs.

Defensive choice: Pact of the Apocalypse is the best option for all content. Horsemen’s Aid can give a random Anti-Magic Shell, but in practice it often triggers at unhelpful moments.

Deathbringer

Offers more talent flexibility and fits naturally with all builds.

Offensive choice node options:

Reaper of Souls – buffs Soul Reaper, but the ability doesn’t interact with the rest of the spec and isn’t strong enough to justify the trade-off.

Reaper’s Onslaught – not recommended, as it desynchronizes Reaper’s Mark from Pillar of Frost.

Defensive choice nodes Pact of the Deathbringer and Expelling Shield are both too weak to be worth taking in any content.

Best Frost Death Knight Raid Talent Builds

Utility Talent Flexibility
There’s no shortage of points in the Class tree to pick up all offensive throughput talents, so you can freely adapt your utility talents to suit the encounter. If there’s nothing to interrupt, you can drop Mind Freeze for Blood Scent.
Think Twice Before Taking Unyielding Will
The self-dispel effect can be very strong if the encounter calls for it, but the increased cooldown on Anti-Magic Shell is a significant drawback. If you can pre-cast Anti-Magic Shell to block the application of a debuff, it’s usually better to skip Unyielding Will and keep the shorter cooldown.
Soul Reaper Is DPS-Neutral at Best
Even though it deals 250% AP for a single Rune, Frost is often pressed for GCDs, making it difficult to use Soul Reaper without potentially wasting a Killing Machine proc.
Weapon Choice: Two-Handed or Dual-Wield
All of these builds work equally well with either a two-handed weapon or dual-wield. You should sim yourself with both to determine which performs better for your gear and situation.

Rider of the Apocalypse

Single-Target

This build maximizes single-target performance by skipping Frostscythe. In practice, it performs only slightly better than the cleave build.
There is a variant that swaps Breath of Sindragosa and Fury of the Horsemen for Shattering Blade and A Feast of Souls to focus on Frost Strike damage, but this setup is unlikely to see much use.

Cleave

This build is designed for any multi-target raid encounters. By taking the full set of Remorseless Winter buffs, it offsets most of the single-target loss from skipping boss-focused talents, making room for Frostscythe without significantly hurting single-target damage.

Deathbringer

Single-Target

This build focuses entirely on single-target damage by avoiding AoE talents. Unlocking three capstones leaves very little flexibility. Inexorable Assault is the easiest talent to swap, though viable alternatives are limited. The most likely adjustment would be taking Frostwyrm’s Fury for its AoE stun if the encounter requires it.

Cleave

This build is tailored for multi-target raid encounters. The full set of Remorseless Winter buffs offsets most of the loss from dropping single-target-focused talents, allowing Frostscythe to be included without a significant hit to boss damage. Picking up cleave talents results in only about a 1% DPS loss compared to the single-target setup.

Best Frost Death Knight Mythic+ Talent Builds

Rider of the Apocalypse

Frostbane

Frostbane invites some smart swaps for Mythic+ content. Although Rider of the Apocalypse has no Howling Blast buffs in its tree, it gains a Frost Strike buff that applies to Frostbane. This build still casts Howling Blast with Rime as often as possible (thanks to Frostbound Will) but focuses on optimizing Frostbane damage.
It invests two points in Runic Overflow, even though it already has ample points to clear the gate—because Frostbane is worth the minor redundancy.
Frostbane dominates large AoE pulls by gaining Shattering Blade’s passive once you hit a target with five stacks of Razorice. However, it’s weaker on single targets since Shattering Blade doesn’t scale well alone.
Unlike other builds, the Frostbane setup must use dual-wield, because two-handed weapons don’t generate Razorice stacks fast enough.
The exact behavior of Frostbane procs is still not fully understood—it closely ties to how many enemies have five Razorice stacks, but its performance on targets still gaining stacks is poorly modeled at this time.

Breath of Sindragosa

This build uses the same talent setup as the raid version. It doesn’t have the continuous mass AoE potential of Frostbane, but it deals significantly better boss damage.
A Feast of Souls can apply to Breath of Sindragosa, but it’s usually better to take Fury of the Horsemen instead—since Breath doesn’t carry enough damage to justify sacrificing uptime with the Horsemen.

Deathbringer

Breath of Sindragosa

Uses the same talent setup as the raid version.
Lacks the continuous large-scale AoE potential of Frostbane, but delivers much stronger boss damage.
Ideal for dungeons or keys where priority damage on bosses and tough elites is more valuable than pure AoE output.

Frostbane (Shattering)

This setup is weaker than the Rider of the Apocalypse version but is included here for completeness.
Frostbane shines on large AoE pulls by inheriting Shattering Blade’s passive once a target reaches five stacks of Razorice.
Falls behind on single-target damage, as Shattering Blade alone isn’t strong enough to carry boss fights.
Must be played with dual-wield—two-handed weapons cannot generate Razorice stacks quickly enough to make Frostbane viable.
Frostbane’s exact proc behavior is still not fully understood. It appears to scale with the number of targets at five Razorice stacks, but its performance on enemies still gaining stacks remains poorly modeled.

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Here are all the best Frost Death Knight Talent Tree builds in the Patch 11.2 for raids and Mythic+

Frost Death Knight Talent Import Codes

Impact of Hero Talents on Talent Builds Rider of the Apocalypse

Deathbringer

Best Frost Death Knight Raid Talent Builds

Rider of the Apocalypse

Single-Target

Cleave

Deathbringer

Single-Target

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Best Frost Death Knight Mythic+ Talent Builds

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