Powerful Magicka Dragonknight Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents:

• Magicka Dragonknight Build Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• Maelstrom Arena & Vateshran Hollows
• Dragonknight Subclassing
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Magicka Dragonknight Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The Magicka Dragonknight DPS build is optimized for maximum damage. The build works best in a group but with some minor adjustments can also be played as a solo setup if necessary.

The ESO Dragonknight DPS Build has 3 different gear setups. Tier 1 with the best gear, Tier 2 with advanced gear and Tier 3 for beginners. If you are a new player I do recommend reading the Magicka Dragonknight Beginners Guide. If you are looking for a solo build then I recommend checking out the Solo Magicka Dragonknight Build.

• Double Destruction Staff Setup
• Amazing Single Target (ST) Damage
• Amazing Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Good Sustain
• Easy Survivability due to Magicka Shield
• Optimized for Trials, Dungeons & Arenas

More Dragonknight Builds can be found in the Dragonknight class category.

ESO Magicka Dragonknight Build Setup

Here, we are going to take a look at how you can recreate the Magicka Dragonknight Setup for ESO.

5x Perf. Null Arca, 5x Tide-Born Wildstalker, 1x Slimecaw, 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet on a High Elf with Ghastly Eye Bowl buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active
• Buffed: Raid Target Dummy buffs, buff food, Spell Power Potion, Weapon Damage Enchantment active.

Gear – Magicka Dragonknight Build

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People who do not have all the gear yet can use Setup 2, which is easier to obtain, and beginners can use Setup 3.

• Setup 1 is the primary Gear setup
• Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
• Setup 3 is for Beginners

Gear Setup 1

• 5x Tide-Born Wildstalker: This set boosts direct damage against monsters by a lot; most of our damage is direct damage.
• 5x Perf. Null Arca: Strongest proc damage set. Sometimes unreliable, though, when not only a boss is present, because it targets random enemies.
• 1x Slimecraw: For the extra crit.
• 1x Crushing Wall: is slotted on the backbar to boost the damage of our Unstable Blockade.
• 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet: Powerful Mythic, which boosts damage against monsters tremendously but reduces LA/HA damage. We don’t do LA/HA often, because we are busy with our casting Engulfing Dragonfire.
• No Mythic? If you don’t have access to the Mythic item, replace the Mythic and the Slimecraw piece with 2x Maw of the Infernal Monster set.
• Dual Wield? You can also use a Dual Wield setup with this spec, as we are playing in melee range anyway.

Advanced – Gear Setup 2

The Gear setup 2 for the Magicka Dragonknight Build is made for players who don’t have access to trial gear.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

The beginner setup for the ESO Dragonknight Build is made for players that just started out, you can join a guild and ask someone to craft you Law of Julianos and Magnus’ Gift. Willpower can be bought in Guildstores for very little money.

Where can I get the gear?

Tide-Born Wildstalker: Craftable
Perf. Null Arca: Lucent Citadel Trial (vet)
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet (Mythic): Antiquities
Perfected Crushing Wall: vMaelstrom Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1
Maw of the Infernal: The Banished Cells 2
Mother’s Sorrow: Deshaan, Guildstores
Perf. Ansuul’s Torment: vSanity’s Edge Trial

Law of Julianos: Craftable
Willpower: Guildstore
Magnus’ Gift: Craftable

Skills ESO Dragonknight DPS Build

Here is our skill setup. We place longer-duration skills on our backbar and short-duration skills on our frontbar. This makes it easier to manage.

• Magical Banner: This is a scribing skill. View our Ultimate Scribing Guide if you haven’t unlocked this yet.
  • If you don’t have the skill yet, use Inner Light and Resolving Vigor instead.

Skills explanation:

• Searing Claw: Powerful single target damage over time effect.
• Barbed Trap: Deals good ST damage and applies Minor Force.
• Engulfing Dragonfire: Powerful single target and area of effect damage over time effect. The attack is considered direct damage.
• Burning Talons: Deals AOE damage, roots enemies and provides a synergy to allies that can be activated to deal more damage. Only used on trash packs.
• Magical Banner: Can be activated once and it will stay active until you turn it off. It does constantly drain resources, but provides us with insane buffs.
• Shooting Star: We use this ultimate for trash packs, deals great AoE damage and also returns ultimate per enemy it.
• Unstable Wall of Elements: Powerful single target and area of effect damage ability. Also procs our back bar enchantment even when we are on the front bar.
• Molten Whip: Your spammable (Alternatively you can also use other spammables such as Elemental Weapon or Force Pulse).
• Shatterspike Mantle: Deals good ST and AOE damage over time. Also increases your defense.
• Incinerate: Deals flame damage to enemies in its range. Has a chance to apply Burning. Gives you Major Prophecy/Savagery on both bars.
• Shifting Standard: Your main ultimate, while the banner is active you will take less damage and do more damage.

Champion Points – Magicka Dragonknight Build

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Magicka Dragonknight Build PvE

In this section of the Magicka Dragonknight Build we are going to take a look at buff-food, mundus stone, race, potions, passives and attributes. These things are very important for the Magicka Dragonknight Build as they help with damage and sustain.

Mundus Stone

The Thief Mundus Stone increases our overall Spell Critical chance by a lot, which will result in more overall damage. You can learn more about all the other Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Spell Critical Chance)

Race

Any race with magicka-based passives will work with this setup. You can find out more about all the racial passives in the Racial Overview page.

• High Elf
• Breton
• Darkelf
• Khajiit
• Orc

Potions

In case you run a slightly different setup that already provides one of the buffs below, you can swap out the potion with something else.

• If you are using Incinerate, this will provide you with Major Savagery/Prophecy.
• If you are using Igneous Weapons, this will provide you with Major Brutality/Sorcery.

If you run both of the skills above, you could use Tri-Stat/Crown Tri-Stat potions instead of the Weapon Power. But you need to make sure they’re up all the time.

Spell-Power Potions
(Spell-crit, Spell Damage, Magicka)
(Cornflower, Ladys Smock, Water Hyacinth)

Passives

• Ardent Flame: Combustion, Traumatic Burns, Fan the Flames, A Soul Ablaze
• Draconic Power: Burnished Scales, World in Ruin, Elder Dragon, The Storm Voice
• Earthen Heart: Heart of Stone, Landslide, Blessing at the Peak, Mountain Giant
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Psijic Order: (Only if you use Channeled Acceleration) Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Magicka

Resource Management – Magicka Dragonknight Build

For our Magicka Dragonknight Build we are using a mix of self sustain and sustain through group members such as the healer and thank.

• The Storm Voice & Combustion
• Orb Synergy
• Potions
• Heavy Attack

The Storm Voice activates whenever we use either one of our Ultimates and returns resources.

Combustion returns Magicka every time we apply the Burning Status effect.

Energy Orb will always be present in a good group. When you get close to the Orb you can activate its synergy to regain resources.

Potions should always be used on cooldown to gain the maximum benefit from them.

Heavy Attacks help you restore Magicka, if you drop low on resources do a few Heavy Attacks between skills to refill your Magicka.

Rotation for the Magicka Dragonknight Build

Here is a quick explanation of what you have to do with all the skills on your bar.

• Your main spammable is the channeled skill Engulfing Dragonfire.
• Activate Magical Banner before the combat and keep it always running.
• Reapply DoTs (damage over time) effects after they run out: Searing Claw, Barbed Trap, Unstable Wall of Elements, Incinerate, Shatterspike Mantle.
• Activate the Shifting Standard Ultimate whenever it is ready. Only use Shooting Star when fighting against many enemies in trash fights.
• Always light attack between each ability.
• Molten Whip is just passively slotted for the extra damage.

ESO Dragonknight Subclassing Build Options

ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.

More Magicka Dragonknight Builds & Guides:

• PVE Magicka Dragonknight Beginner Guide
• PVE Magicka Dragonknight Beginner Build (160CP)
• PVE Solo Magicka Dragonknight Build
• PVE Magicka Dragonknight EXP Grind Build
• PVP Magicka Dragonknight Build

Other Magicka DPS Builds:

• Magicka Arcanist
• Magicka Sorcerer
• Magicka Nightblade
• Magicka Templar
• Magicka Necromancer
• Magicka Warden