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Frost Death Knight Macros & Addons - Dragonflight 10.2.7
By khazakdk
Last Updated:
2024/05/09
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Macros and Addons provide many quality-of-life improvements in WoW, allowing players to improve how information is displayed in-game or automate decision-making to optimize performance.
In this guide, we will go over useful Frost Death Knight macros for , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Frost Death Knight addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Frost Death Knight macros to help you gain a competitive edge, or creating a custom user interface to expand your view of the game world, this page will help get you started with some of the most popular choices within the Frost Death Knight community.
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Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
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PvP Overview
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About the Author
This guide is written by Khazak, a Death Knight player since 5.4. Besides writing guides, I am active in
Acherus, the Death Knight class Discord
, and a maintainer on SimulationCraft, contributing code implementations and APLs for Frost Death Knights. I raid in Agency on Zul'jin-US and sometimes stream raids on
Twitch
. I am always happy to take questions or comments about the guide through Discord.
Macros
Macros are simple, in-game tools which allow you to sequence spells together, create custom names and icons, cast different abilities depending on whether the target is friendly or hostile, define targeting conditions, and much, much more. While the amount of options can be complex, making them is easy, so in this section we'll go over how to set them up yourself.
To open the in-game Macro interface, type "/macro" or "/m".
Choose between the General and Character-specific macro tabs. Then click the "New" button on the macro window.
Choose a Name and an Icon so you can easily recognize your macro, then click "Okay."
Select your new macro and use the text editor below to tell it what to do. If copying ours below, you can simply copy/paste the text in.
Click the "Save" button, and drag your macro icon onto your bars, which will allow it to be used just like any other spell from your spellbook.
To close the window, click "Exit", or just press Escape.
For more information on creating macros, including full lists of conditionals, modifiers, and other command customizations you can use, check out our full
Macros guide
.
Macros
When playing
Obliteration
, it's essential to be 100% GCD efficient within
Pillar of Frost
to maximize GCDs spent during the buff. To do this, we want to trigger the first proc of
Killing Machine
immediately after we use
Pillar of Frost
. Use the macros below to avoid delays between
Pillar of Frost
and the GCD ability. We can initiate our window with four different spells depending on the situation and thus use one macro for each.
Howling Blast
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Howling Blast
/cast Raise Dead
Frost Strike
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Frost Strike
/cast Raise Dead
Glacial Advance
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Glacial Advance
/cast Raise Dead
Soul Reaper
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Soul Reaper
/cast Raise Dead
Breath of Sindragosa
Breath of Sindragosa
is a central part of any build with the talent equipped. If you don't use it properly, you will lose out on a huge amount of DPS. It is therefore quite unfortunate how easy it is to cancel this ability accidentally! To help us prevent this, we use the following macro which makes it impossible to cancel the ability:
#showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
/cast !Breath of Sindragosa
It's also a good idea to bake in multiple off-gcd spells and abilities with this macro:
#showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Raise Dead
/use 13
/cast !Breath of Sindragosa
Death Grip
Controlling
Death Grip
is can be very useful in many situations. More specifically, when it can be difficult to select your target, or when you don't want to switch back and forth to just cast
Death Grip
. This Macro casts
Death Grip
at the target you have your mouse over.
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
If you want to cast it on your focus target:
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
Mouseover Macros
I've already recommended one of these Macros but they are all useful. Excellent for when you don't want to switch the selected target, but still use an ability on something else. These Macros are so smart that they will use it on your main target if you don't mouseover a different one.
Mind Freeze
#showtooltip Mind Freeze
/cast Mind Freeze; Mind Freeze
Asphyxiate
#showtooltip Asphyxiate
/cast Asphyxiate; Asphyxiate
Raise Ally
#showtooltip Raise Ally
/cast Raise Ally
Control Undead
Sometimes, you will keep a control undead mob for a long time in a dungeon. This macro makes it easy to dismiss the pet and instantly control it again!
#showtooltip Control Undead
/target pet
/script PetDismiss()
/cast Control Undead
Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can be used to both customize your gameplay experience, ranging from graphical overlays, replacement action bars, and unit/raid frames, to performance enhancements such as rotation helping spell reminders, buff/debuff tracking, popup reminders, and boss warnings. Here are some of the highly recommended and commonly used Frost DK addons, which are certainly not required to play, but can go a long way toward increasing the information available to you in combat or simply make for a more pleasant viewing experience.
Unlike Macros, managing Addons is done outside of the game, but our
How to Install and Maintain Addons Guide
will take you step-by-step through the process.
Addons
User Interface
OPie
- A specialized radial menu style actionbar, very useful for condensing less frequently used spells that don't always need to be on your main bars.
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
Plater
- Customize nameplates styles and add various information including buffs, debuffs and casting indicators
World Quest List
- Attaches a sortable list of active world quest lists, filtered by zone, to the edge of your map.
Combat and informational
BigWigs Bossmods - A lightweight, open source raid encounter addon.
Deadly Boss Mods - A more robust encounter addon for dungeons, raids, PvP, and more.
Details - A highly customizable damage and healing meter
Exorsus Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
SimulationCraft - Simplifies simming your character by generating an in-game script to paste into SimCraft or Raidbots
WeakAuras2 - A very powerful addon that can display a massive variety of information including procs, casting indicators and raid boss warnings.
Of course, these recommendations are not the only useful addons out there; there are hundreds to choose from, of every type imaginable. If you're looking for something a little different, search through
Curseforge
to find the right one for you.
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