Avalanche
Casting Howling Blast with Rime active causes jagged icicles to fall on enemies nearby your target, applying Razorice and dealing (22.5% of Attack Power) Frost damage.
Tree position
In the Frost Death Knight talent tree, Avalanche sits in the Frost specialization talents, row 8 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Frost Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Avalanche from Everfrost, Frozen Dominion and Frostwyrm's Fury.
EverfrostRime empowered Howling Blast deals 50% increased damage to secondary targets.
Frozen DominionPillar of Frost now summons a Remorseless Winter that lasts longer. Each enemy Remorseless Winter damages grants you Mastery, for 15 sec.
Frostwyrm's FurySummons a frostwyrm who breathes on all enemies within 40 yd in front of you, dealing (296.6% of Attack Power) Frost damage, stunning enemies for 3 sec, and slowing movement speed by 50% for 10 sec.
Connected below
Avalanche leads on to Shattering Blade.
Shattering BladeFrostbane consumes the Razorice on your main target to deal an additional 300% damage.
Same row
Also on this row: Bonegrinder, Smothering Offense and Icebreaker.
Bonegrinder2 ranksAt your next Killing Machine consumes the stacks and grants you 10% increased Frost damage for 10 sec.
Smothering OffenseYour auto attack damage is increased by 10%. This amount is increased for each stack of Icy Talons you have and it can stack up to 2 additional times.
Icebreaker2 ranksWhen empowered by Rime, Howling Blast deals 30% increased damage to your primary target.
Talent trees
Avalanche is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Death Knight: Blood (Tank), Frost (DPS), Unholy (DPS).
Avalanche Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)