Best Frost Death Knight PVP Resistance Dps Talent Spec 24/47/0

Blood

This is a cool build that makes all casters cry. While you are stacked to the max on spell mitigation, you still have big burst with frost strike and howling blast. You also have some self healing thrown in to make it even harder to kill you. This is a fun build that is mostly a pvp battleground build. Just go in and run toward casters and laugh.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 2/2 Butchery. (Whenever you kill an enemy that grants experience or honor, you generate up to 20 runic power.  In addition, you generate 2 runic power per 5 sec while in combat.)

PVE* In pve this talent is ok. I would say this is a great grinding talent, and offers a little for long boss fights. This offers about .4% dps up per point.

PVP*In pvp this talent is very lack luster. Not many fights last long enough to give 2 runic power per 5 seconds much of an advantage. And if you kill something in pvp, the 20 runic power isn't a big deal because you killed who you were trying to kill.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Subversion. (Increases the critical strike chance of Blood Strike, Heart Strike and Obliterate by 9%, and reduces threat generated while in Blood or Unholy Presence by 25%.)

PVE*In pve this is a must have talent. The reduced threat will give you the ability to dish out max damage for however long you want. The increased critical strike is really nice especially for deep blood builds. For other builds the blood strike crit is nice and obliterate crit is just awesome. This ranges from a .7% dps up to 1.8% dps up per point depending on your build.

PVP*This is a great blood death knight talent and really not anything else. If blood is your off spec then i would say get blade barrier unless you are doing a build that uses blood strike a lot. This is just a minimal up to unholy and frost death kinghts.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 5/5 bladed armor. (Increases your attack power by 5 for every 180 armor value you have.)

PVE*In pve this is both a good tanking talent for making threat and a great pve dps talent. All death knights should have this dps or tank. A tank can expect 700+ attack power from this and a dpser can expect 400 attack power. This is around a 1.3% dps per point.

PVP*In pvp it is as good as pve. This is a talent that isnt hurt by resilience. Attack power is great in pvp. You will also find yourself in frost presence a lot in pvp, this will give you 600+ attack power in a defensive form. It is a great talent and i would say one of the must haves in almost every build.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 2/2 Two-Handed Weapon Specialization. (Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 4%.)

PVE*In pve this is a great talent. This is about a 1.7% dps up per point. This is great for all builds but is a little less useful for a deep frost build. I would say that this is on par point for point with bladed armor.

PVP*In pvp this is a great talent for burst. This is a pure damage up and is slightly worse that bladed armor. I would say this is a must for all builds in blood. Frost and unholy should stick to bladed armor.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 1/1 rune tap. (Converts 1 Blood Rune into 10% of your maximum health.)

PVE*In pve this really isnt something you need. As a tank you will have a devoted healer and as a dps you need the blood runes to do damage.

PVP*In pvp this is one of you top talents. This little one point talent is amazing. The survivability it gives you makes you so hard to kill, you will not believe. Every talent spec that can, should have this talent.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 5/5 dark conviction. (Increases your chance to critically hit with weapons, spells and abilities by 5%.)

PVE*There isn't a ton of synergy with death knights and crit besides you see some crazy numbers. This talent will give you about 1.1% dps up per point. I would say this is almost below average for death knight talents, but still good to invest in. Go with BA or 2H Special over this tho.

PVP*In pvp this talent loses value even more. This just isn't as good as it looks. You still need to pick it up if you have the points, but don't bother if you are stretching just for it.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Improved Rune Tap. (Increases the health provided by Rune Tap by 100% and lowers its cooldown by 30 sec.)

PVE*In pve you won't have rune tap so you won't need improved rune tap.

PVP*In pvp this makes rune tap twice as good. Now you have a 20% heal every 30 seconds that can crit. There is no reason that every build shouldn't have this if possible.

The next blood death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Spell Deflection. (You have a chance equal to your Parry chance of taking 30% less damage from a direct damage spell.)

PVE*This is a good tanking talent. Death knights are already good tanks. This just makes them a little better caster tanks. When tanking this will equal about 5% less spell damage for 3 points. That is not a bad deal, but it is RNG and tanking with RNG isn't that smart either. For other pve this does nothing.

PVP*This looks good on paper for pvp but in practice it is almost useless. Just skip it and believe me when i say "spend points in other places".

***In this instance, this talent is good to an extent. This build is made around spell mitigation.**

Frost

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Improved Icy Touch. (Your Icy Touch does an additional 30% damage and your Frost Fever reduces melee and ranged attack speed by an additional 6%.)

PVE*This is a good pve damage up for frost, and a below average up for other builds. Of course this is a good utility talent, but if there is more than one death knight then it may not be as good. As for tanking, i would say it just depends on your focus, this will help to get some threat and is a good pulling tool. This is about a .8% dps up per point for frost.

PVP*In pvp i personally love icy touch. I use icy touch glyph and i think icy touch is one of the best pvp utilities for death knights. In a deep frost build this is a must and every build in frost at all should consider it.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 2/2 Glacier Rot. (diseased enemies take 10% more damage from your Icy Touch, Howling Blast and Frost Strike.)

PVE*In pve this is built for deep frost. All other builds should skip this one. This will give a 1.2% dps up per point for a frost build with frost strike and howling blast.

PVP*In pvp this is an ok talent. You will usually have a disease up, but if you are going for any build that doesn't have frost strike, skip this.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 2/2 Icy Reach. (Increases the range of your Icy Touch, Chains of Ice and Howling Blast by 10 yards.)

PVE*In pve im not really an advocate of increased range over flat damage buffs. I would say this is not a pve talent.

PVP*In pvp this is a great talent. This gives you range to kite and to have anit-kite. As a frost build you will find you can do substantial damage at range with icy touch, howling blast, death coil, and blood boil. You can push 1200 to 1500 dps at 30 yards, and this is very helpful.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 5/5 Black Ice. (Increases your Frost damage by 30%)

PVE*In pve this is a huge damage increase for for frost builds. This will be almost 3% damage increase per point. For non frost specs, i would say it depends on how your rotations look.

PVP*In pvp this is as helpful as pve. 30% damage on spells that already scale good. This will give frost builds the burst that you are looking for. To bad it is getting nerfed next patch.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 1/1 Lichborne. (Draw upon unholy energy to become undead for 15 sec.  While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects, and your horrifying visage causes melee attacks to have an additional 25% chance to miss you.)

PVE*In pve this is a good tanking talent. Really, all dps builds should shy away from wasting a point here.

PVP*In pvp i cant tell you how good this is. If you  have the death coil glyph, you can lichborne and 5 deathcoils on yourself and you are full health. This is amazing vs rogues and fury warriors. Just get this and look up macros for lichborne.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Annihilation. (Increases the critical strike chance of your melee special abilities by 3%.  In addition, there is a 100% chance that your Obliterate will do its damage without consuming diseases.)

PVE*This is a huge pve talent. This is a great blood talent and should be in the best blood dps builds. Besides that, it isn't a great talent for unholy and frost specs.

PVP*In pvp this isn't really a great talent. You won't use this unless you are deep blood pvp spec. If you are blood this is huge tho.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 3/3 Runic Power Mastery. (Increases your maximum Runic Power by 30.)

PVE*In pve this talent will give you some use. I don't really love this talent for pve, but if you find yourself topping out runic power a lot this may be good.

PVP*In pvp this is a great talent. You can unload another frost strike with a full RP bar. This can be the difference between bursting that healer down or not.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 5/5 Killing Machine. (Your melee attacks have a chance to make your next Icy Touch, Howling Blast or Frost Strike a critical strike.  Effect occurs more often than Killing Machine (Rank 4).)

PVE*Killing machine is a  talent that makes frost competitive. It is a great dps talent for 2 handed and dual wield builds. This is a must have talent for any deep frost spec.

PVP*In pvp this makes frost amazing burst. The recent 2 handed buff to the talent makes it great for a burst down spec.

The next Frost death knight dps/pvp/arena/tanking talent you will get is 2/2 Chill of the Grave. (Your Chains of Ice, Howling Blast, Icy Touch and Obliterate generate 5 additional runic power.)

PVE*This is a great talent for frost strike builds. For everything else, i would say not to waste your time with this one. It is a 1.1% dps up per pointvwith a solid 10 second rotation.

PVP*In pvp this is outstanding. You need that RP for ranged death coils, frost strikes, and some killer combos. Get this and glyph of icy touch and prosper.

-Brandon C.  ; aka. Darksun22