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It's listed as blackcleave chopper there but the tooltip is obsidium cleaver.

Based on what has been found on the PTR, and depending on whether or not Blizzard goes through with heroic upgrades of Avengers of Hyjal reputation items, this should be what the no-restrictions BiS list looks like for 2H frost in 4.2. I came up with this a while ago, so let me know if anything seems off. Also, note that EJ doesn't allow linking of PTR items on wowhead, and tooltips will either be not found, or incorrect. Clicking the link will take you to the wowhead page with the correct stats.

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Only passive stats are included, primarily to calculate caps for hit and expertise.

Slot	Name	Gem 1	Gem 2	Reforging	Strength	Hit	Expertise	Haste	Mastery	Crit
Head	Elementium Deathplate Helmet	Reverberating SSD	Bold Inferno Ruby	Hit to Mastery	400 (+124)	144	0	311	95	0
Neck	Necklace of Fetishes	None	None	Crit to Haste	256	142	0	75	0	113
Shoulders	Elementium Deathplate Pauldrons	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	Mastery to Expertise	322 (+40)	0	76	238	115	0
Back	Bladed Flamewrath Cover	None	None	None	256	0	130	195	0	0
Chest	Breastplate of Shifting Visions	Bold Inferno Ruby	Etched Demonseye	Mastery to Hit	420 (+80)	120 (+20)	0	266	181	0
Wrists	Gigantiform Bracers	None	None	Hit to Haste	256	78	0	52	195	0
Hands	Elementium Deathplate Gauntlets	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	Hit to Haste	322 (+50)	144	0	95	191	0
Waist	Cinch of the Flaming Ember	Bold Inferno Ruby	Bold Inferno Ruby	Hit to Haste	322 (+80)	92	0	61	0	260
Legs	Elementium Deathplate Greaves	Bold Inferno Ruby	Etched Demonseye	Expertise to Mastery	420 (+80)	(+20)	194	236	128	0
Feet	Arachnaflame Treads	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	Crit to Hit	322 (+50)	91	0	208	0	137
Ring 1	Alysrazor's Band	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	None	256 (+50)	0	171	124	0	0
Ring 2	Obsidian Signet of the Avengers	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	Crit to Haste	236 (+50)	110	0	78	0	117
Trinket 1	Heart of Rage	None	None	Expertise to Haste	0	0	218	145	0	0
Trinket 2	Vessel of Acceleration	None	None	None	458	0	0	0	0	0
Weapon	Sulfuras, the Extinguished Hand	Bold Inferno Ruby	Bold Inferno Ruby	Crit to Haste	446 (+100)	0	0	133	262	200
Relic	Relic of the Elemental Lords	Bold Inferno Ruby	None	Crit to Mastery	145 (+40)	0	0	98	37	57
					5581	961	789	2315	1204	884

Heroic heart of rage is better than heroic Apparatus of Khaz'Goroth.

Apparatus:
345*5*(15/120) = 216 haste
433 str

Heart of Rage:
145 haste (reforged)
2178/(90/20) = 484 str

Heart of rage gains 51 str and loses 71 haste, well worth it. Otherwise your list is pretty similar to mine, though I opted for the earthcrack bracers instead.

Assuming you're considering that heroic version of Hyjal's items should exits, an essence heroix version would also be better that the apparatus heroic, as soon as you take into account the many strengh modifier that we benefit, in particular PoF witch would allow a permanent +20% of the strengh-use's value.

Any statsweight application should take these strengh modifier into account to be accurate, imo. Am i right?

This is true, and I have experienced what you're talking about with a poor chance to proc. However, heart of rage has the advantage of granting more passive haste which is arguably more useful than on-use haste for a frost DK, though the same argument could be made for passive strength. 2148 str is pretty useless if it procs during a particularly bad lapse of RNG, but the ICD does tend to line up somewhat with every other PoF, and the ghoul. 145 haste from direct reforging, and additional potential haste from the remaining expertise allowing more haste to be reforged on other gear where expertise otherwise would have been needed. The mathematical breakpoint for heart of rage being worse than apparatus is around a 94 second ICD which, given its sometimes poor proc rate, could very well be exceeded. Frost in general is very RNG heavy, so just as you can't really plan around having awesome RNG, you shouldn't necessarily plan around terrible RNG either. I try to maximize average output, since that's about all I can really control.

You have a roughly 3.8% of not proccing Heart of Rage as 2H and a 0.7% chance of not proccing it as DW in the first 20 seconds of uptime on a boss.

Not exactly.

Beth'tilac and her adds are beasts.
Shannox's adds are beasts.
Staghelm's spends the majority of the encounter shape shifted.

Also Rhyolith is erroneously labeled as beast on WoWHead, but needless to say he's not. That probably had something to do with deandrez's conclusion. Regardless, Beast Slaying will be great for anyone who's already a Troll, but I don't think anyone is going to be race changing over it.

Majordomo is a humanoid. Even if he was shapeshifted it wouldn't matter because it's the same reason why Druids don't take extra damage in PvP.

Good post had no idea the adds on Beth'tilac got changed. Thanks.

I wasn't even aware that was a mob type considering every other spider in the game is a beast. Not sure why they wouldn't just change her to an elemental or something.

That are vulnerable to Scare Beast and Hibernate and show up via Beast Tracking. They're still beasts, if the racial doesn't work it's some sort of recent arena related shenanigan because it definitely used to work. Unless you're saying his shapeshift forms are humanoid and not beast, I'm inclined to believe the racial would work, same as it has on beast mobs in the past. I tried looking at some Majordomo videos and couldn't find any that had a tooltip of him during a shapeshift.

Stat Weights, BiS and trinkets have been updated for 4.2. Hopefully, all those items will be found tomorrow...