The Best Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build For ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Dragonknight Builds, Leveling Builds

This Leveling Build for the Stamina Dragonknight class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Dual Wield and Two Handed skills providing lots of damage potential for easy leveling from 1 to 50!

What you will learn in this Leveling Build guide:

• The best item sets to use while leveling a Stamina Dragonknight Build in ESO, and why they are important.
• How the skills work, important passives, and your rotation.
• The best consumables, race, and mundus, and most importantly, why you should select them.

This guide has been updated for The Elder Scrolls Online Update 50.

Table Of Contents

1. Dragonknight Class Overview
2. Leveling Sets
3. Alternate Leveling Sets
4. Gear Setup
5. Attributes
6. Race
7. Mundus Stone
8. Food/Drink Buff
9. Potions
10. Recommended Skills
11. Skills Explained
12. Important Passives
13. More Dragonknight Builds For ESO

Dragonknight Class Overview

The Dragonknight Class is an extremely powerful way to play in The Elder Scrolls Online. Dragonknights have many similarities with other classes in ESO such as dedicated Class Skill lines for DPS, for Healing, and for Tanking. Dragonknights are known for their sturdy nature as melee combat specialists but also have many powerful magic abilities. For a more detailed guide be sure to review our ESO Dragonknight Class Guide.

Best Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Sets

First, Spriggan’s Thorns is one of the best beginner sets in the game for Stamina builds as it helps increase Offensive Penetration and Maximum Stamina to bring your build more damage.

The Shadow Of The Red Mountain set is also fairly easy to get and very to use as it procs bonus damage based on your weapon attacks.

For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.

Spriggan’s Thorns

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration

Shadow Of The Red Mountain

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal damage with a weapon, you spawn a volcano that erupts after 1 second, launching liquid hot lava at the closest enemy dealing 1800 Flame damage. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Armor Of The Trainee

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina

Alternate Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Sets

For alternate sets, I recommend Venomous Smite, a medium armor set from the Greymoor Chapter. This set is fairly easy to get and does an insane amount of Damage Over Time when it procs, adding to the DOT focus of this build.

I also recommend Eternal Vigor or Gryphon’s Ferocity as another set for survivability and increased damage. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Bow, Prophet’s Dagger, etc.) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.

Venomous Smite

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Dealing Critical Damage inflicts Hunter’s Venom on your enemy for 10 seconds, dealing 2241 Poison Damage to your target and enemies within 6 meters of them every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

Eternal Vigor

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
(4 items) Adds 129 Health Recovery
(5 items) Adds 337 Stamina and Magicka Recovery while your Health is above 50%. Adds 1011 Health Recovery while your Health is 50% or less.

Gryphon’s Ferocity

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 450 for 10 seconds. While this effect is active your Critical Strikes heal you for 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Gear Setup

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Attributes

Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into the Stamina stat will be the most effective.

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Race

Orc or Dark Elf will be a strong choice for this set up if you want as much damage as possible. If you are considering doing some PVP I also recommend Nord for the extra resistances and ultimate generation. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Mundus Stone

The best Mundus Stone for leveling in the Elder Scrolls Online is the Lover Mundus because this increases your Offensive Penetration, allowing all of your skills to do more damage. Offensive Penetration can usually only be obtained through Light Armor Passives and rarely on gear sets, so boosting this stat early through your Mundus Stone will make the biggest impact, helping you kill enemies faster and thus level up faster! Review our complete Mundus Stone guide for more information.

The Lover

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Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744

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With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Food/Drink Buff

Dubious Cameron Throne is the best food or drink buff available when leveling up a Stamina build in ESO because it provides Maximum Stamina which boosts your Damage, Stamina Recovery which helps you sustain your skills and Maximum Health which improves your survivability. This drink scales with your level and can be crafted or purchased from Guild Traders.

Dubious Camoran Throne

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Increase Stamina Recovery by 315, Max Stamina by 2856 and Max Health by 3094 for 2 hours.

These effects are scaled based on your level.

A dessert cocktail of jagga, rotmeth, and sweetbread puree. Definitely Green Pact compliant.

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Potions

Basic Stamina Potions are fine for leveling up as a Stamina build in ESO. Keep these on hand to restore your Stamina and increase your Stamina recovery when running low on resources.

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Basic Stamina Potions

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Recommended Skills

Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Burning Embers
2. Blood Craze
3. Magma Fist
4. Heart Of Flame
5. Steel Tornado
6. ULT: Ferocious Leap

Backup Weapon: TWO HANDED – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Disintegrating Dragonfire
2. Stampede
3. Cauterize or Incinerate
4. Igneous Weapons
5. Earthshield Mantle
6. ULT: Magma Shell or Corrosive Armor

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Skills Explained

Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Burning Embers: this costs Magicka to cast, but its well worth it due to the upfront healing and heal over time effect. Note: You can recast this BEFORE the DOT runs out to get the burst heal again!
2. Blood Craze: Use this to apply a damage over time along with self-healing
3. Magma Fist: This is your first single target Stamina-based Attack (better than Whip for a pure Stamina build).
4. Heart of Flame: Use this mainly as a sustain tool to restore Health, Magicka, and Stamina.
5. Steel Tornado: this skill works best when enemies are low health, as it deals increases execute damage that increases the lower health your enemies are.
6. ULT: Ferocious Leap: This is a powerful and cheap ultimate skill that deals AOE damage, stuns, and creates a massive damage shield for your character, helping greatly with survival!

Backup Weapon: TWO HANDED – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Disintegrating Dragonfire: AOE damage over time that also debuffs enemies with Major Breach, increasing their damage taken from all abilities.
2. Stampede: a two-handed skill that closes the distance between you and a target. It also deals AOE damage at the closing location and can proc your backup weapon enchantment.
3. Cauterize: heal over time ability that can heal you or other targets and also increases your Critical Chance via the Major Savagery and Major Prophecy buffs. Morph this to Incinerate if you don’t need the extra healing.
4. Igneous Weapons: a powerful damage buff that increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage and lasts for a full 1 minute, saving your resources on recasting.
5. Earthshield Mantle: This is your defensive armor skill that provides the Major Resolve buff, increasing your Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance, plus an extra damage shield.
6. ULT: Magma Shell: best defensive ultimate morph, which helps you and your group survive.
7. ULT: Corrosive Armor: massively reduces your incoming damage while increasing your damage versus targets.

Stamina Dragonknight Leveling Build Important Passives

As you level up, your skill points will be limited, meaning you can’t unlock every single passive. The passives below offer you the best benefits, so take these first:

1. Combustion
2. Traumatic Burns
3. World In Ruin
4. Controlled Fury
5. Twin Blade and Blunt
6. Dexterity
7. Wind Walker
8. The Storm Voice
9. Agility

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More Dragonknight Builds For ESO

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