ESO Magicka DK PvP Build

Introduction

The Dragonknight is one of the four original classes introduced in The Elder Scrolls Online at launch. The Dragonknight or “DK” for short has been known as the tanky class of the game. With that being said, the Dragonknight has always been able to produce some great DPS and clutch kills in PvP. Over the years with the direction of ESO going towards “Play any class any way you want” makes the decision of wanting to play a damage DK even easier. A lot of players will tell you playing a Dragonknight in PvP is their favorite way to play the game. So without further ado here is our ESO Magicka DK PvP Build.

• Introduction
• Overview
• Gear
  • Gear Information
  • Sets
  • Gear Weights and Traits
• Skills
• Rotation
• Corrosive Armor vs Ferocious Leap
• Champion Points
• Additional Information
• Video
  

Overview

Race: Breton, Dark Elf, High Elf
Food: Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch (Best in slot food but very expensive, use Jewels of Misrule if gold is a problem the difference is small)
Mundus Stone: The Apprentice (Increase spell damage)
Vampire Stage: Vampire Stage 3
Consumables: Essence of Immovability, Essence of Heroism, Tri-Stat Potions, Drain Health Poison IX
Attributes: 49 Magicka, 15 Health, 0 Stamina

Gear

The best in slot options for this build would be considered “meta” and it is advised to try and stay to the best option as best as possible. We are balancing the sets with the most damage you can obtain on the front bar while using a tanky back bar.

Gear Information:

• Armor in Reinforced and Impenetrable
• We wear 2 medium and 2 light armor pieces on our small armor (shoulder, hands, waist, helm/feet)
• We wear 3 heavy armor pieces on our larger pieces (chest, legs, helm/feet)
• Front bar weapon in ‘Nirnhoned’ trait to to buff damage
• Back Bar weapon in Defending
• 3 weapon damage gylphs on the jewelry (it makes our magic abilities hit stronger for some reason)
• Two Infused One Bloodthirsty Jewelry Traits
• All tri-stat armor glyphs
• The higher the quality gear the more damage you can deal

Gear Weights and Traits

Skills

Front Bar

Front Bar: Molten Whip, Shattering Rocks, Noxious Breath, Flames of Oblivion, Burning Embers, Ferocious Leap

Back Bar

Back Bar: Igneous Weapons, Volatile Armor, Resolving Vigor, Coagulating Blood, Race Against Time, Corrosive Armor

Rotation

Buff Rotation: The buff rotation is as follows. Start with Igneous Weapons to begin damage buffs. Then cast volatile armor for resistance buff (note this also applies a damage dot to nearby enemies.) Followed by Race Against Time for minor force before swapping to the front bar to begin damage. *note you can also quickly cast Resolving Vigor before swapping to front bar if needed.

Damage Rotation: The damage rotation is simple but has a few triggers to keep in mind to maximize potential. Once we are on our front bar start with Noxious Breath, this will apply major breach as well as a dot. Next Flames of Oblivion, another dot. Next, cast Burning Embers, yet another dot. Then pick a target and cc them with Shattering Rocks. Finish with Molten Whip spam. Remember to light attack and heavy attack to proc enchants.

(note some players also swap out Noxious Breath for another cc Burning Talons)

Try to build ultimate for Corrosive Armor and use Ferocious Leap as more of a emergency resource button. More information regarding the ultimates and when to use them below.

(rotations fully explained in build video)

Corrosive Armor vs Ferocious Leap

The two ultimates the build uses are Corrosive Armor and Ferocious Leap. Knowing when to use which is a huge part of the success of this build. The goal is to hold off on using ultimate until we have enough to use Corrosive Armor. Corrosive Armor is one of the strongest ultimates in the game giving 100% penetration, a damage dot, and huge damage mitigation. All this makes Corrosive Armor the number one choice when in PvP. But sometimes it is useful or needed to use Ferocious Leap instead.

When should you use Ferocious Leap? Sometimes Ferocious Leap will actually be the better option but it is usually very obvious when to use it. The only two scenarios in which Ferocious Leap should be used instead of Corrosive Armor are if it will guarantee the kill or you are about to die and out of resources to heal. Because Ferocious Leap deals a massive amount of damage and a gap closer it can be used to target a low health player if you believe it will secure the kill instantly. Secondly sometimes you may need to take advantage of the Dragonknights Battle Roar passive. This restores resources per the cost of the ultimate acting as a heal giving more of other resources. This would only be the case if you are about to die and have no other resources to save yourself.

Champion Points

Because everyone who is viewing this guide is at a different Champion Point level I will only be putting up the champion points I chose at the level I was at the time of making this guide, which is around 1075. Remember that Champion Point soft cap is around 1800 but you can easily achieve high value kills with low cp.

• 50 Ironclad (slot)
• 50 Exploiter (slot)
• 50 Focused Mending (slot)
• 50 Thaumaturge (slot)
• 20 Piercing
• 20 Precision
• 20 Eldritch Insight
• 10 Hardy
• 20 Blessed
• 20 Tireless Discipline
• 10 Elemental Aegis
• 40 Battle Mastery

• 50 Celerity (slot)
• 50 Pain’s Refuge (slot)
• 50 Sustained by Suffering (slot)
• 50 Survival Instincts (slot)
• 20 Sprinter
• 16 Hasty
• 50 Mystic Tenacity
• 20 Tireless Guardian
• 30 Tumbling
• 10 Defiance

• 50 Steed’s Blessing (slot)
• 50 Sustaining Shadow (slot)
• 75 Liquid Efficiency (slot)
• 30 Rationer (slot)
• 10 Steadfast Enchant
• 75 Wanderer
• 50 Breakfall

Additional Information

• 3 weapon damage gylphs on the jewelry (it makes our magic abilities hit stronger for some reason)

Video

(video guide coming soon!)

Thank You

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