Best ESO Stamina Dragonknight Build – FIREBRAND

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Dragonknight Builds, Solo Builds

The FIREBRAND build is a unique class build for The Elder Scrolls Online, which combines the Dragonknight’s Fiery class skills with powerful melee abilities from the Two-Handed skill line. If you’ve ever wanted to carry a giant, flaming sword into battle then this is the build for you!

This build is updated for ESO Update 49, highlighting the new Dragonknight Class Refresh.

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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.

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Primary Sets

Our primary set for this build is Order’s Wrath, a powerful crafted set with bonuses to Critical Chance and Critical Damage. This gives us a strong baseline bonus to all of our damaging skills whether they be DOT or direct damage.

Next, we want a proc set that can go into effect while we are on our backbar, freeing up additional gear spaces. Briarheart is an excellent choice for this as its effect gives us bonus damage and passive healing – great for solo builds!

Zaan will be the ideal monster set for this build, giving us another source of Fire Damage and also boosting our Critical Chance.

Finally, with our extra slots we can run a mythic such as the Ring Of The Pale Order which is outstanding for solo content, giving us a huge flood of self-healing. Combine this with a heavy Armor of the Trainee chest for even more protection and you have an insanely powerful build!

Order’s Wrath

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 943 Critical Chance, Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 8%.

Zaan

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(2 items) When you damage a nearby enemy with a Light or Heavy Attack, you have a 33% chance to create a beam of fire that will connect you to your enemy. The beam deals 2010 Flame Damage every 1 second to your enemy for 6 seconds. Every second, this damage increases by 100%. The beam is broken if the enemy moves 8 meters away from you. This effect can occur every 18 seconds.

Ring of The Pale Order

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Restore 20% of the damage you deal as Health. This value is decreased by 4% per ally you are grouped with. You cannot be healed by anyone but yourself, your pets, or your Companions.

Bleak heraldry covers the surface of this knightly signet. Those who place it on their finger feel a cold rush of power … and a deep, nagging paranoia.

Armor Of The Trainee

LVL 50 – CP 160

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

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Alternate Sets

Hexos Ward is a fantastic Medium Armor set for any Solo Build in ESO due to its powerful damage shield proc. Use this as an alternate set if you need more passive shielding and protection (great for beginners).

Another good medium armor option that fits the fire theme of this build would be Shadow Of The Red Mountain.

Both of these are overland sets so they are fairly easy to obtain.

Burning Spellwave also fits the theme of this build quite well and gives us a huge buff to weapon damage as well as some extra DOT damage and sustain via the Burning Status Effect.

Finally, you can consider Grothdar as a monster set if you’d like an easier option to get that doesn’t require a DLC dungeon.

Hexos Ward

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Dealing direct Critical Damage grants you a damage shield that absorbs up to 12305 damage for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds.

Burning Spellweave

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Flame Damage ability, you apply the Burning status effect to the enemy and increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 490 for 8 seconds. These effects can occur once every 12 seconds.

Grothdarr

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance to create lava pools that swirl around you, dealing 1800 Flame Damage to all enemies within 8 meters of you every 1 second for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Ring Of The Pale Order Lead Locations

The Ring Of The Pale Order is the perfect Mythic for Solo Builds in ESO! Check out our full Ring Of The Pale Order Guide for ALL Lead Locations!

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Gear Setup

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Order’s Wrath Maul	Precise	NA	Absorb Magicka
Backup	Briarheart Greatsword	Infused	NA	Weapon/Spell Damage
Head	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Shoulder	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Chest	Armor Of The Trainee	Divines	Heavy	Stamina
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Waist	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Light	Stamina
Legs	Briarheart	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Feet	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Necklace	Briarheart	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Briarheart	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Ring Of The Pale Order	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage

Best Solo Dragonknight Race

The best race for this build is Khajiit, thanks to its increased Max Stamina, Max Magicka, and Max Health, along with improved recoveries and boosted Critical Damage and Critical Healing.

Another great race choice is going to be Dark Elf, due to their passive weapon and spell damage as well as magicka and stamina bonuses. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

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Best Solo Dragonknight Mundus

The Thief

Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

Where To Get The Thief Mundus in ESO

Best Solo Dragonknight Food/Drink Buff

The best food/drink buff for this Solo Stamina Dragonknight build is Artaeum Takeaway Broth due to its increased Max Health, Max Stamina, Health Recovery and Stamina Recovery.

Artaeum Takeaway Broth

Increase Max Health by 3326 and Health Recovery by 406 and Max Stamina by 3080 and Stamina Recovery by 338 for 2 hours.

These effects are scaled based on your level.

Best Solo Dragonknight Potions

Tri-Stat Potions

Best Solo Dragonknight Skills

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

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

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Skills Explanation

Flame Lash: This ability provides huge damage and healing once you activate Power Lash. Requires an enemy to be off-balance (use Dizzy Swing for this).
Brawler or Carve: Use Carve for stronger DPS thanks to its powerful DOT, or use Brawler for better defense.
Disintegrating Dragonfire: Massive AOE DOT and armor reduction thanks to Major Breach debuff.
Dizzying Swing: Your main single-target DPS skill. Use this to set enemies off-balance easily and proc Flame Lash when you have extra magicka.
Burning Embers: strong single-target DOT and heal. Can be recast early for a quick burst heal if needed.
Stampede: use this to set up AOE damage over time on your backbar, while also proccing your backbar enchant for extra weapon and spell damage.
Incinerate: This is a useful AOE flame damage spell which also buffs our Critical Chance passively.
Barbed Trap: a powerful single-target DOT which also gives us Minor Force, increasing our Critical Damage.
Molten Armaments: You must maintain this buff to increase your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage at all times.
Earthshield Mantle: Your main armor buff which increases your defenses and provides a small damage shield.
Temporal Guard: This is a passive ultimate which grants Minor Protection, increasing your defense.
Take Flight: Take Flight is your best offensive ultimate with a small ultimate cost, big damage, and scales your overall damage higher. Use this to maximize your DPS in easier content.
Ferocious Leap: A better defensive ultimate pick. This still deals AOE damage but also creates a massive damage shield which is helpful in protecting your healthbar in more challenging content.

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Buffs

Keep up Earthshield Mantle and Molten Armaments.

Rotation

Start with Backbar DOTs: Stampede, Incinerate and Barbed Trap -> Bar Swap -> Then apply Carve, Disintegrating Dragonfire and Burning Embers. Spam Dizzying Swing on a single target, or use it to set an enemy off-balance, then cast Flame Lash to proc Power Lash.

Important Passives

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

All Racial Passives

Other

Medicinal Use

Companions

If you like playing Solo, this build can benefit greatly from using Companions! This Solo build will benefit the most from the additional healing and buff options a healer-focused Companion can offer, so if you are going to use a Companion I would suggest a full healer build for them. I recommend Mirri Elendis for Companion on this build with the setup below. More information on Companions Builds and Skills can be found in our detailed Companion Guides section.

Recommended Gear

All Light Armor – Quickened Traits
Restoration Staff

Recommended Skills

Additional Skills

The skills below may also be helpful in other situations such as trash pulls.

Full Companion Build

Featured: INFUSOR

The INFUSOR Build is an easy Healing Set Up for Mirri Elendis, one of the new Companions available to ESO players starting in the Blackwood Chapter. The theme of this build is focused around Blood Magic Healing, as Mirri’s own class skills are very similar to that of a Nightblade.

Champion Points

Below you will find the recommended Active and Passive Champion Point Stars for this build, broken down into 300, 600, 900, and 1200 CP ranges.

For more information on Champion Points click on a Star name below or browse our detailed Champion Points Guides.

Constellation Descriptions:

Craft TREE

The Green Craft Constellation is focused on crafting and utility-centered upgrades.

Warfare TREE

The Blue Warfare Constellation focuses primarily on increasing player damage, healing and defenses

Fitness TREE

The Red Fitness Constellation is focused on character survival and sustain.

– 300 Champion Points –

GREEN

50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
50 Gilded Fingers

BLUE

RED

– 600 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 900 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 1200 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

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Best ESO Stamina Dragonknight Build – FIREBRAND

Dragonknight Class Overview

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Primary Sets

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Alternate Sets

Ring Of The Pale Order Lead Locations

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Gear Setup

Best Solo Dragonknight Race

Best Solo Dragonknight Mundus

Best Solo Dragonknight Food/Drink Buff

Artaeum Takeaway Broth

Best Solo Dragonknight Potions

Tri-Stat Potions

Best Solo Dragonknight Skills

Solo Stamina Dragonknight Skills Explanation

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Important Passives

Companions

Champion Points

Constellation Descriptions:

Craft TREE

Warfare TREE

Fitness TREE

– 300 Champion Points –

– 600 Champion Points –

– 900 Champion Points –

– 1200 Champion Points –

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