Magicka Dragonknight Build PvP for Elder Scrolls Online

“Flamebreaker”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Resource Management
• Cyrodiil Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Battlegrounds
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Magicka Dragonknight Build PvP “Flamebreaker” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The “Flamebreaker” Build is optimized for Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds, you can find both setups on this page, only small adjustments are needed!

This Magicka Dragonknight PvP Build focuses on high burst damage and high max resources. Having a lot of Health in Cyrodiil is a good strategy to stay alive, because the incoming damage can be huge and that way you won’t instantly die when you get attacked. Magicka DKs have a lot of healing power, therefore going light armor is possible but you have to learn to keep up all your heal over time abilities. The build uses the sets Shacklebreaker, Bright-Throat’s Boast and Valkyn Skoria. Valkyn Skoria synergizes well with a Magicka Dragonknight due to the focus on fire damage.

• Cyrodiil & Battlegrounds
• Light Armor Destro/ Resto Build
• Crazy Burst Damage
• Good Sustain
• Good Healing

Resource Management

With this build, a lot of sustain is already built in thanks to the Bright-Throat’s Boast set in combination with the Double Bloody Mara Drink. Dragonknights also have unique passives like the Battle Roar, that help a lot with sustain whenever you activate an ultimate. You can also do heavy attacks on the Resto Staff bar to regain a lot of magicka at once thanks to the Cycle of Life passive.

Potions are a very important aspect of every build, with our recommended Potions you will restore 7582 Magicka and Stamina on top of 8369 Health. This is very important and will increase your survivability and sustain a lot.

• Bright Throat’s Boast + Bloody Mara Drink
• Battle Roar
• Heavy Attacks
• Potion

If you still struggle with sustain, you could always replace the Spell Damage Glyph on the Infused Jewelry piece with a Spell Cost Reduction Glyph.

Cyrodiil Setup

5x Shacklebreaker, 5x Bright Throat Boast, 2x Valkyn with Bloody Mara buff food on an Altmer.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, Buff-food actibe
• Buffed: In combat, Buff-food, Tri-Stat potion, Major Resolve, Weapon Damage Enchantment and Major Sorcery were active.

Gear

• Bright Throat’s Boast in combination with Double Bloody Mara Drink is hands down one of the best combos in the game currently, it gives you so much sustain and max health which is basically the most important stat in Cyrodiil.
• If you can not transmute your jewelry, just run arcane, that will also do the job.
• If you have sustain issues, you can always run a Spell Cost Reduction Glyph on the infused Jewelry.

Where can I get the gear?

Shacklebreaker: Craftable
Bright-Throat’s Boast: Murkmire Overland, Blackrose Prison, Guildstore
Valkyn Skoria: vet City of Ash II, Glirion Undaunted Chest

Skills

Champion Points for Magicka Dragonknight Build PvP

If you need help distributing your Champion Points, make sure to check out the Champion Points Calculator!

Champion Points [810]

The Ritual
40 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
52 Master-at-Arms, 9 Shattering Blows, 11 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
49 Elemental Expert, 40 Elfborn, 46 Spell Erosion, 23 Blessed
The Shadow
56 Tumbling, 48 Shadow Ward
The Lover
49 Arcanist, 49 Mooncalf
The Tower
44 Warlord, 23 Sprinter, 1 Siphoner
The Lord
32 Quick Recovery
The Lady
43 Hardy, 37 Elemental Defender, 31 Thick Skinned, 19 Light Armor Focused
The Steed
61 Ironclad, 47 Resistant

Champion Points [600]

The Ritual
29 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
28 Master at Arms, 11 Staff Expert, 9 Shattering Blows
The Apprentice
49 Elemental Expert, 28 Elfborn, 23 Spell Erosion,
The Shadow
26 Tumbling, 25 Shadow Ward
The Lover
49 Arcanist, 49 Mooncalf
The Tower
27 Warlord, 1 Siphoner, 23 Sprinter
The Lord
32 Quick Recovery, 6 Expert Defender
The Lady
43 Hardy, 21 Elemental Defender, 31 Thick Skinned, 13 Light Armor Focused
The Steed
29 Ironclad, 25 Resistant

Champion Points [300]

The Ritual
13 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
11 Master at Arms, 9 Shattering Blows, 8 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
20 Elemental Expert, 11 Elfborn, 9 Spell Erosion, 19 Blessed
The Shadow
11 Tumbling, 11 Shadow Ward
The Lover
27 Arcanist, 24 Mooncalf
The Tower
13 Warlord, 1 Siphoner, 13 Sprinter
The Lord
23 Quick Recovery, 6 Expert Defender
The Lady
19 Hardy, 9 Elemental Defender, 13 Thick Skinned
The Steed
11 Ironclad, 9 Resistant

Important Info for Magicka Dragonknight Build PvP

Buff-food

You need to use Double Bloody Mara in combination with the Bright-Throat’s Boast set. That way we benefit from really high stats and extra magicka recovery.

You can buy this Drink in the guildstores, it is fairly cheap.

You can also use the advanced version which gives you additional very valuable health recovery on top. You can also find this in the guildstores.

Mundus Stone

We use “The Apprentice” Mundus Stone to boost our spell damage even further. You could also use “The Atronach” if you need extra sustain.

The Apprentice (Increased Spell Damage)

Race

With this build, you can actually pick any magicka based race. I prefer Breton because it makes sustain a lot easier due to the 7% spell cost reduction, 2000 Magicka, 100 Magicka Recovery and extra resistances on top of that. You can also check out my ESO Race Guide if you want to know the passives of each of the recommended races.

Breton
Altmer
Darkelf
Argonian

Potions

Tri Stat potions are important, they increase your sustain a lot can be critical when you are on low health due to the huge health boost that you will get.

Tri-Stat Potion
(Health, Stamina, Magicka)
(Bugloss, Columbine, Dragonthorn)

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
• Restoration Staff: Essence Drain, Restoration Expert, Cycle of Life, Absorb, Restoration Master
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Assault: Continuous Attack, Reach, Combat Frenzy
• Support: Magicka Aid, Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Magicka.

Battlegrounds Magicka Dragonknight PvP Build

We have to make small adjustments to the Battlegrounds setup for the Magicka Dragonknight PvP Build. We have to change buff food and the Mundus Stone. Because in Battlegrounds the Champion Points are deactivated, making it harder to sustain and our overall stats will drop a lot.

• If you can not transmute your jewelry, just run arcane, that will also do the job.

Buff Food

Instead of Double Bloody Mara we are going to use the Witchmother’s Potent Brew. This is also a drink and will work together with the Bright-Throat’s Boast set and will give us the needed extra magicka recovery.

Witchmother’s Brew (Max Health, Max Magicka, Magicka Recovery)

Mundus Stone

Instead of the Apprentice Mundus Stone you can use the Atronach Mundus Stone, this one gives you extra Magicka Recovery.

Update Log