Powerful 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Table of Contents

• Dungeon & Trial Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Dragonknight Subclassing

Welcome to the 2H Stamina 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 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 Relequen, 5x Pillar of Nirn, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet, on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active
• Buffed: In Combat, buff food, Raid Target Dummy buffs, Weapon damage enchantment, Weapon Power Potion 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 perfected and imperfect gear is viable for the build. The perfected versions are a lot harder to obtain though. So if you don’t have any aim for the normal version first.

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?

Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Spectral Cloak (Maelstrom 2H): vBlackrose Prison Arena
Spectral Cloak: nBlackrose Prison Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet (Mythic): Antiquities
Perf. Ansuul’s Torment: vSanity’s Edge Trial

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
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

• Carve: Great AoE (area of effect) damage and also applies a bleed on each esnemy.
• Stampede: Powerful ground DoT (damage over time effect)
• Stone Giant: Your main spammable, also applies Stagger, increasing overall group dps. (Altrernative spammables that you can use are Wrecking Blow or Crushing Weapon)
• Venomous Claw: Strong damage over time effect.
• Reverse Slice: Your execute ability after 30%.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: Passively grants more weapon damage. Your secondary ultimate, strong against undead and daedra.
• Deadly Cloak: Your main backbar damage over time area effect that procs enchants on the backbar and also sets.
• Anti-Cavalry Caltrops: Deals AOE damage over time.
• Noxious Breath: Strong damage over time effect for both Single Target and AoE damage.
• 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.
• Standard of Might: Your main ultimate, increases all your damage and also decreases incoming damage.

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System allows us to add modified new skills to our build. We have one good option for our two hander build called Bloody Smash. Bloody Smash deals good direct and damage over time damage. However it isn’t stronger than any of the other skills, therefore you can slot it but don’t have to.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing System.

Base Scribing Skill:

• Two Handed: Smash

Bloody Smash

Smash turns into Bloody Smash with our Scribing scripts.

• Focus Script
  • Bleed Damage
• Signature Script
  • Lingering Torment (Damage over time)
• Affix Script
  • Berserk (5% more damage)

You can You can also test more combinations out with the ESO Scribing Simulator.

Champion Points – 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

Buff-food

Any of the three foods below works well with the build. For a list of all buff food and drink consumables please visit the Buff Food and Drinks Overview Page.

Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
(Saltrice, Flour, Potato, Scrib Jelly)

Artaeum Takeaway Broth
(Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)

Dubious Camoran Throne
(2nd option if Artaeum is too expensive)

Mundus Stone

The Thief Mundus Stone increases our overall Weapon Critical Rating which boosts our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Weapon Critical)

Race

Any race with stamina based perks works for this setup. If you want a complete overview of all races and racial passives, then I recommend checking out the ESO Races Overview page.

Orc
Khajiit
Dark Elf
Nord
Redguard
Wood Elf
Imperial
High Elf

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)

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 stamina 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 or any other buff food listed
• 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.

• Your main spammable is Stone Giant. Use Reverse Slice after boss health is lower than 25%.
• Keep up your damage over time effects: Stampede, Carve, Endless Hail, Barbed Trap, Venomous Claws, Noxious Breath, Flames of Oblivion.
• activate Standard of Might ultimate whenever it is ready

Make sure to activate Ability Bar Tracking ingame via Settings > Combat > Ability Bar. More info in the Ability bar Timers Guide.

AoE Setup – 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build

Skills

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.

Take a look at our ESO Dragonknight Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Dragonknight build!

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

Update Log 2H Stamina Dragonknight Build for ESO

15.04.2019 Updated Build for the Elsweyr Chapter. Stamina Dragonknight 2H Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the Dragonhold DLC.
19.02.2020 Updated the Build for the Harrowstorm DLC.
17.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
20.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.09.2020 Updated the Champion Points 810, 600, 300.
26.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
25.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
12.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
02.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added tooltips to the buff food links, WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
21.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
10.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
20.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
10.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
26.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
13.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
31.05.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC U41, Gold Road Chapter.
31.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
28.10.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
27.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

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