Powerful Magicka Dragonknight Build for ESO – Damage Dealer

Table of Contents

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

Welcome to the Magicka Dragonknight Build for ESO. 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.

Magicka Dragonknights unleash their maximum damage potential in melee range with abilities like Molten Whip, Burning Embers, Engulfing Flames. Dragonknights also have useful passives such as World in Ruin, Scaled Armor, Combustion and Battle Roar and plenty more!

The Magicka Dragonknight 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.

Magicka Dragonknight Build Setup

5x Mother’s Sorrow, 5x Medusa, 2x Zaan on a High Elf with Clockwork Citrus Fillet 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. For people that do not have all the gear yet can use the 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

False God’s Devotion, Siroria and many more sets can also be used for this build.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Where can I get the gear?

Perfected False God’s Devotion: vSunspire
Zaan: vScalecaller Peak
Law of Julianos: Craftable
Mother’s Sorrow: Deshaan
Medusa: Arx Corinium
Valkyn Skoria: vCity of Ash 2
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1
Perfected Crushing Wall (Maelstrom Staff): vMaelstrom Arena
Crushing Wall (Maelstrom Staff): Maelstrom Arena
Iceheart: vDirefrost Keep
Willpower: Guildstore
Magnus’ Gift: Craftable
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

More sets:

Diamond’s Victory: Craftable
Bahsei’s Mania: Rockgrove Trial
Perfected Bahsei’s Mania: vRockgrove Trial

Skills Magicka Dragonknight Build

Champion Points – Magicka Necromancer 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.

Buff-food

Mundus Stone

The Shadow Mundus Stone increases our overall Spell Critical Damage which boosts our damage. You can learn more about all the other Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Shadow Mundus Stone (Increased Spell Critical Damage)

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

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

Passives

• Ardent Flame: Combustion, Warmth, Searing Heat, World in Ruin
• Draconic Power: Iron Skin, Burning Heart, Elder Dragon, Scaled Armor
• Earthen Heart: Eternal Mountain, Battle Roar, Mountain’s Blessing, Helping Hands
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• 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.

• Battle Roar & Combustion
• Orb Synergy
• Potions
• Heavy Attack

Battle Roar returns resources every time we activate an Ultimate.

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

In case you don’t know what weaving light attacks is, make sure to check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

Rotation

Activate Flames of Oblivion and Eruption every 2nd rotation.

Unstable Wall of Elements > Flames of Oblivion (every 2nd rota) LA > Eruption/ Barbed trap (changes each rota)  Weapon Swap

LA > Burning Embers > LA > Engulfing Flames > LA > Mystic Orb > Molten Whip until Unstable Wall of Elements falls off and then restart the rotation.

Area of Effect Setup

Here you can find an optimized AoE setup for your build. This will help increase your damage on trash packs during dungeons & trials. You can choose any magicka based Monster Set, I prefer Iceheart because it provides so much damage mitigation.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Perfected False God’s Devotion	Light	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Perfected False God’s Devotion	Light	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Head	Iceheart	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Iceheart	Light	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Perfected False God’s Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Perfected False God’s Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Perfected False God’s Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Weapon 1	Mechanical Acuity	Fire	Nirnhoned	Fire Enchant
Weapon 2	Perfected Crushing Wall	Fire	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchant

 

Skills

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