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Frost Death Knight Macros & Addons - Battle for Azeroth 8.3
By Bicepspump
Last updated
2020/01/13 at 10:49 PM
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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 World of Warcraft: , 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.
For details on specific community tools and addons, please visit our
Macro and Addon Guide Section
.
Overview
NEW Pre-Patch
Beginners
Azerite
Essences
BFA Corruption
Talent Builds
Rotation, Priority, and Abilities
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Gear
Consumables
Simulations
Correcting Mistakes
BFA Mythic+
BFA Ny'alotha Tips
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
About the Author
I'm Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player currently playing on Kazzak. You can often find me on the
Death Knight discord
discussing rotations and builds, on my stream (
B1cepspump
), running some juicy Mythic +, or on my
youtube channel
where I've started doing video guides. Big shoutout to everyone on the Acherus discord that have given me valuable insight through numerous discussions. I take part in writing and optimizing the action priority list for SimulationCraft and continuously test different hypotheses using the SimulationCraft program. Furthermore, I work with the WoWAnalyzer website where I develop modules for the Death Knight specs. Please feel free to contact me on
Discord
as Bicepspump#6318, I'm always happy to have a healthy discussion! Outside of playing WoW, I work as a quantitative analyst and enjoy playing other games such as Dota 2!
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
.
There are a couple of useful Macros that a Frost DK can utilise. These help us to use spells and abilities in different ways, or with added functionality. Big shoutout to Chewie at the Acherus discord for providing input for all these macros!
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
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
Talent Switching
Switching between talents can sometimes be annoying when you have to switch out spells on your actionbars as well. Here are two Macros that automatically uses the talent that you have selected in the specific row, allowing you to use a single key bind for both situations:
#showtooltip
/cast Wraith Walk
/cast Death Pact
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
PvP and Open-World Macros
When running
Lichborne
, you sometimes want to use the ability as a pvp trinket. This macro enables you to double press it, to get out of CC and then remove the slow.
#showtooltip icebound fortitude
/cancelaura Lichborne
/cast icebound fortitude
/cancelaura Primal Rage
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 can effectively be divided into two categories: cosmetic ones that are used to display your action bars and various trackers, and functional ones which have a specific functionality built into them. Let's have a look at the two different categories and which addons can be found in them.
Cosmetic Addons
The cosmetic addons are personal from player to player and are decided by what you like the look of. These include
ElvUI
,
Bartender
,
Moveanything
, WeakAuras and many more. The goal for these addons is the create a pleasant and compact interface that allows you to focus both on the fight but also on your various abilities, cooldowns and buffs. It's extremely important that you properly track the crucial things in a fight!
Functional Addons
These addons can be viewed as additional elements that help your gameplay. They can tell you what to do during a fight (
Deadly Boss Mods
or
Bigwigs
), they can track a large variety of raid events such as deaths, interrupts and damage (
Details
,
Recount
or
Skada
) and they can be highly customized to do more things than what you can imagine (WeakAuras). I recommend getting at least one addon from each of these categories. I personally use DBM, Details, and WeakAuras.
More Recommendations
User Interface
ElvUI
- Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
Azerite Tooltip
-Shows Azerite Powers available to your specialization on gear tooltips.
Bartender4
- Highly customizable action bars which can be moved and organized however you like.
Chatter
- Replacement chatbox addon, with custom themes, fonts, and functions.
Deja Character Stats
- Adds more stats to the character panel, with customizable filters.
Elkano's Buff Bars
- Replaces the standard buff/debuff icons with ordered lists, including names and bar graph-style durations.
Mapster
- World map enhancement which adds coordinates, icons, and more.
Move Anything
- Allows any part of the default UI to be moved around.
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.
Sexy Map
- Makes your minimap sexy!
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
ThreatPlates
- 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.
Omen
- Threat meter
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
or
WoWInterface
to find the right one for you.
Our Frost Death Knight guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs; make sure to check our changelog to this page, by clicking on
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