2H Stamina Dragonknight Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

• Dungeon & Trial Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Related Content
• Update Log & Changes

Welcome to the 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build for ESO. This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The 2H Stamina Dragonknight 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.

Stamina Dragonknights are very powerful two-hander users which benefit a lot from Dragonknight passives and skills. Passives such as Battle Roar, World in Ruin and Combustion increase our sustain and skills such as Venomous Claws and Noxious Breath and Stone Fist are powerful damage abilities.

• Two Hander & Bow Setup
• Insane Single Target (ST) Damage
• Insane Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Crazy Splash Damage
• Dungeon, Trial & Arena Build

It is also recommended to read the Stamina Dragonknight Beginner Guide if you are a new player. You can find more Dragonknight Builds & Guides in the Dragonknight category of the website.

Group Setup – 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

5x Perf Relequen, 5x Berserking Warrior, 2x Selene on an Orc with Artaeum buff-food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff-food active.
• Buffed: In Combat, buff-food, raid target dummy buffs, Weapon Power Potion, Weapon Damage Enchant, Berserking Warrior active.

Gear

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 with Trial Gear
• Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
• Setup 3 is for Beginners

There are a lot of good Stamina Sets available, you can find more viable stamina dps sets in this Stamina DPS Sets Article. I also elaborate on specific sets that are often used in this article to give you a bit more insight as to why they are used.

Gear Setup 1

Perfected vs Imperfect Gear: Both the perfected and imperfect gear are viable for the build.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

This setup is for new players. You want to craft or ask someone to craft 5x Hunding’s Rage and 4x Night Mother’s Gaze. 3x Agility jewelry can be bought in the guildstores for little money.

Where can I get the gear?

Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion
Perfected Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): Maelstrom Arena
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Leviathan. Crypts of Hearts 1 & 2
Perfected Titanic Cleave (Master’s Two Hander): vDragonstar Arena
Titanic Cleave (Master’s Two Hander): Dragonstar Arena
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

• Barbed Trap: Deals damage and gives you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%.
• Venomous Claw: Strong damage over time effect.
• Stone Giant: Your main spammable, also applies Stagger, increasing overall group dps.
• Noxious Breath: Strong damage over time effect for both Single Target and AoE damage.
• Reverse Slice: Your execute ability after 30%.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: Only here for the passive from Fighters Guild. You could swap this out with another Ultimate if you want!
• Endless Hail: Your main backbar damage over time effect.
• Barbed Trap: Flex Spot, this is only here to get the passive bonus from Fighters Guild.
• Flames of Oblivion: Strong damage ability, we use this every rotation once. Prebuff with this before the fight to get extra Weapon damage from Seething Fury buff Molten Whip.
• Molten Whip: Just passively slotted, gives you Seething Fury buff when you activate Flames of Oblivion.
• Resolving Vigor: Your heal.
• Standard of Might: Your main Ultimate, increases all your damage and also decreases incoming damage.

Champion Points – 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

If you need optimized defensive Champion Points for a specific trial I recommend checking out my Maximize Damage Mitigation in Trials Article.

• Calculator: In case you need help distributing your Champion Points, make sure to check out the Champion Points Calculator!

Champion Points [810]

Please note that the Piercing perk in the Champion Points Ritual Tree depends on your group setup. Always ask your raid/group leader how much points you should place in Piercing. This depends on many factors such as debuffs and buffs, some raids may have more and therefore need less points in piercing, or the other way around.

Important Info for 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

Buff-food

I do recommend using the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or the Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food. Buff-food is very important because it boosts your overall resources by a lot.

Artaeum Takeaway Brooth
(Max Health, Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery, Health Recovery)

(or Dubious Camoran Throne Drink)
(Max Health, Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Shadow (Increased Critical Damage)

Race

If you want to learn more about the different racial passives that each race offers, check out the Race Guide which explains everything in detail. If you want a complete overview of all races and racial passives, then I recommend checking out the ESO Races Overview page.

Orc (with Artaeum Food)
Khajiit (with Artaeum Food)
Dark Elf (with Artaeum Food)
Nord (with Artaeum Food)
Redguard (with Blue Food)
Wood Elf (with Blue Food)
Imperial (with Artaeum Food)

Potions

Potions are an important part of the 2H Stamina Dragonknight build, they apply very powerful buffs and extra resources to your character. Potions benefit from the Alchemy passive Medicinal Use, make sure to always have that passive active.

Weapon Crit Potions 
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Poisons

Poisons increase your overall damage, therefore they are also an important part of the build. However, they are less important than potions.

Damage Health Poison
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)

Passives

• Ardent Flame: Combustion, 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
• Two Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Psijic Order (AoE Setup): Clairvoyance, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Stamina

Resource Management

Using the Artaeum Buff Food already gives us a lot of extra stamina recovery that we need. Battle Roar also helps a lot giving resources back every time you active an ultimate. During the fight healers or tanks will throw Energy Orb that you can synergize to get back resources, these are very important!

Other than that you have to use potions on cooldown to give you a huge amount of stramina back and you can always perform some heavy attacks throughout the fight to restore stamina. If you have all these things you should be fine with sustain, just don’t forget to do heavy attacks when you drop low on stamina.

• Artaeum Takeaway Brooth
• Battle Roar
• Orbs or Spears from Healers
• Heavy Attacks resource return (optional)
• Potions

Rotation

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.

Prebuff with: 3x Flames of Oblivion to proc Seething Fury (Molten Whip extra Weapon Damage)

Endless Hail > LA > Flames of Oblivion > Weapon Swap

LA > Noxious Breath > LA > Venomous Claw > LA > Barbed Trap > LA > 9x Stone Giant (with LA)

Restart

• LA = Light Attack
• At 30% Use Reverse Slice instead of Stone Giant. If you want to keep Stone Giant Stagger up, use it after every 3rd Reverse Slice cast.

There are skills on the backbar such as Barbed Trap and Molten Whip, we never use them, they are just there for the extra benefits that we get passively.

AoE Setup – 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

Skills

Related Content

Other Stamina Dragonknight Guides:

• Stamina Dragonknight Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Dragonknight Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Dragonknight Bow Build
• Stamina Dragonknight Dual Wield Build
• SOLO Stamina Dragonknight Build
• More viable Stamina DPS Sets Article for Endgame

Other 2H Stamina Builds:

• 2H Stamina Templar DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Sorcerer DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Warden DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Necromancer DPS Build

Update Log & Changes