Stamina Dragonknight 2H Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

“Serpent”

Table of Contents

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

Introduction

Welcome to the Stamina Dragonknight 2H Build PvE “Serpent” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Stamina Dragonknight DPS 2H Build “Serpent” is optimized for Dungeons, Arenas & Trials. You can also find plenty of other Stamina Dragonknight content on the website such as:

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

This build is made for a Dragonknight Two Hander setup. Dragonknights have nice passives and abilities that fit well into a Two Hander setup. Like always we run a pretty standard Stamina setup with the addition of skills like Venomous Claw, Noxious Breath, Flames of Oblivion and Standard of Might. I will present you three different gear setups. The Tier 1 will be with trial gear, Tier 2 with Dungeon gear and the Tier 3 will be the beginners gear setup. Like always, Two Handers have a lot of AoE damage if you play them correctly and the shield you gain from Brawler makes you almost invincible during such fights.

• Two Hander & Bow setup
• High single target (ST) damage
• High area of effect (AoE) damage
• Crazy splash damage
• Shield on trash fights
• Dungeon, Arena  & Trial Build

Changes to the previous Version

Changed the frontbar weapon trait to precise from sharpened because it is easier to reach the penetration cap now. No other changes in U28 Markarth DLC.

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

Dungeons & Trial Setup

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

Gear Setup 2

If you struggle with sustain I recommend running Dubious Camoran Throne with this setup. Make sure to use 1 Health Glyph otherwise your overall Health will be very low.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

This setup is for new players. You want to craft 5x Hundings Rage with the weapon that you can later on use again, 4x Night Mother’s because it has nice stats and then Agility set for more max stamina and weapon damage, all of those are either craftable or cheap to find in the guildstores.

Where can I get the gear?

Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
Perfect Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Velidreth: vCradle of Shadows
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion
Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
Hunding's Rage: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Night Mother's Gaze: Craftable
Leviathan: Crypts of Hearts 1 & 2
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena
Master's Greatsword: Dragonstar Arena
Caustic Arrow (Master's Bow): Dragonstar Arena

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

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 Stamina Dragonknight Build PvE 2H

Buff-food

As a Redguard/ Woodelf you can use the blue food, for all other races I would recommend the Artaeum Takeaway Brooth to get better sustain.

Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables (Max Health, Max Stamina)
or
Artaeum Takeaway Brooth Food (Max Health, Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Shadow (Increased Critical Damage)

Race

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

Potions

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

Poisons

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, Scaled Armor
• Earthen Heart: Battle Roar, Eternal Mountain, 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
• Vampire: Optional
• Psijic Order (AoE Setup): Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Stamina

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

The AoE setup is more straight forward. Trash packs don’t live for a very long time, anything that provides super burst damage will be useful!

Master's Greatsword: Dragonstar Arena
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable

Update Log