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Easy Magicka Dragonknight Healer Build for ESO

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Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Dragonknight Builds, Healer Builds

This Powerful Magicka Dragonknight Healer Build is a fantastic help to both dungeon and trials groups, granting tons of bonus protection and healing for the entire team!

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What you will learn in this healer build guide:

  • The best item sets to use with the Dragonknight Healer Build, and why they are important.
  • How the skills work, synergies with the gear, 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.

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.

When it comes to Healing, typically DK are not chosen. However, with Subclassing, you can grab other important skill lines from different classes and compliment to DK. Therefore, consider using this build and class if you enjoy it in PvE content.

Dragonknight Healer Build Primary Sets

Our primary healing set on this build, Perfected Vestment of Olorime, found in the Veteran Cloudrest Trial, is a must-have to give massive damage buffs to your allies by granting Major Courage. You can grant this buff by applying a ground area of effect skill while in combat to anyone who is standing in the ability.

Next, Inventor’s Guard, found in the Halls of Fabrications Trial, is a powerful healing set that grants Major Aegis for all group members for a maximum of 50 seconds, which is just enough time to get this buff back on everyone again by using an ultimate. Major Aegis is a huge buff that decreases the amount of damage you take from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena monsters by 10%.

Force Overflow is a 2-piece set found in Vateshran Hollows, that also has a perfected version to add extra Magicka, excellent for healers. Casting Force Siphon on an enemy restores resources to you and anyone standing on the effect that it gives.

Lastly, Nazaray is one of the best support monster sets currently. That’s because it puts all Major and Minor debuffs on enemies closest to you whenever you use an ultimate ability. Make sure to use your ultimate at the right time to maximize its potential. It lasts for a maximum of 25 seconds with a downtime of 5 seconds, so you can easily reapply it whenever you get your ultimate back.

eso vestments of olorime

Perfected Vestment Of Olorime

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(5 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka, Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground in combat will create a circle of might for 5 seconds. You and your group members in the circle gain Major Courage for 20 seconds, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 430 for 20 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Inventor’s Guard

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 4% Healing Done
(5 items) When you use an Ultimate ability while in combat, you and the closest 5 group members within 28 meters of you gain Major Aegis for 1 second per 10 Ultimate spent, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 10%.

Force Overflow

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Casting Force Siphon on a target within 15 meters of you causes a surge of magical energy to tether between you for 10 seconds. While the tether persists and you remain in range, you and allies in the tether restore 175 Magicka and Stamina every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

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Nazaray

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
(2 items) When you use an Ultimate ability, the closest 6 enemies within 12 meters have Major Debuffs, and Minor Debuffs applied to them extended by 1 second per 20 Ultimate spent. This effect will not apply to Damage Beams or Damage Tethers. This effect can occur once every 30 seconds per target.

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Dragonknight Healer Alternate Sets

For alternatives, and if you’re not quite ready for trials yet, you’ll want Spell Power Cure, found in White Gold Tower. This set also applies the powerful Major Courage buff just to less players at once.

This combines well with Jorvuld’s Guidance which increases the duration of all our Major Buffs, Minor Buffs and Damage Shields.

Finally, Chokethorn is a powerful option for healers that will work great on this build as an alternate set.

eso spell power cure

Spell Power Cure

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) When you overheal yourself or an ally, you give the target Major Courage for 5 seconds which increases their Weapon and Spell Damage by 430.

eso jorvulds guidance

Jorvuld’s Guidance

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(4 items) Adds 4% Healing Done
(5 items) While in combat, increases the duration of all Major buffs, Minor buffs, and damage shields you apply to yourself and allies by 40%.

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Chokethorn

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(2 items) When you use a heal ability, you have a 33% chance to summon a strangler sapling that heals you or an ally for 6986 Health over 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.

Dragonknight Healer Primary Set Load Out

Weapon/ArmorSetTraitWeightGlyph
Main HandPerfected Force OverflowPoweredNAWeapon/Spell Damage
BackupPerfected Vestment Of Olorime Restoration StaffInfusedNACrusher
HeadNazarayDivinesLightMagicka
ShoulderNazarayDivinesLightMagicka
ChestInventor’s GuardDivinesLightMagicka
WaistInventor’s GuardDivinesLightMagicka
GlovesInventor’s GuardDivinesLightMagicka
LegsInventor’s GuardDivinesLightMagicka
FeetInventor’s GuardDivinesLightMagicka
NecklacePerfected Vestment Of OlorimeInfusedNAMagicka Recovery
Ring 1Perfected Vestment Of OlorimeInfusedNAMagicka Recovery
Ring 2Perfected Vestment Of OlorimeInfusedNASpell Damage

Dragonknight Healer Alternate Load Out

Weapon/ArmorSetTraitWeightGlyph
Main HandSpell Power Cure Restoration StaffPreciseNAWeapon/Spell Damage
BackupSpell Power Cure Restoration StaffChargedNAShock Damage
HeadChokethornDivinesLightMagicka
ShoulderChokethornDivinesLightMagicka
ChestJorvuld’s GuidanceDivinesLightMagicka
WaistJorvuld’s GuidanceDivinesLightMagicka
GlovesJorvuld’s GuidanceDivinesLightMagicka
LegsJorvuld’s GuidanceDivinesLightMagicka
FeetJorvuld’s GuidanceDivinesLightMagicka
NecklaceSpell Power CureInfusedNASpell Damage
Ring 1Spell Power CureInfusedNAMagicka Recovery
Ring 2Spell Power CureInfusedNAMagicka Recovery

Best Dragonknight Healer Attributes

The most important attribute for a Dragonknight Healer is Magicka. Players want to stack as much magicka as possible to help with the power of your spells, increase size of damage shield, and gives you more resources until you run out of magicka. Most players should be at least 18,000 health if not 22,000 health in Veteran Dungeons or Trials. Therefore, you may need to adjust attributes or a health glyph as you progress and do more hardcore PvE content. Until then, use 64 attributes into magicka, 0 for health, and 0 for stamina.

64 Magicka

0 Health

0 Stamina

Best Dragonknight Healer Race

The best race for this build will be Dark Elf, with their great passives for Magicka and Stamina as well as Spell Damage. Argonian which will increase your raw healing done by a further 6%, your Maximum Health, and Maximum Magicka is another fantastic option as is Khajiit due to their increased Critical Healing.

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 Dragonknight Healer Mundus

The best Mundus Stone for a healer is the Thief due to the increase in critical chance. This helps you in all aspects of gameplay including damage! Some other choices are below:

  • Atronach: increase magicka recovery per. Use this if you still struggle with resource sustain.
  • Ritual: increase healing effectiveness. Can use if you’re purely healing doing no damage.
  • Mage: increases your max magicka pool. Use this if an item set scales off of max magicka.
The Thief

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 Dragonknight Healer Food & Drink Buff

The best consumable buff for the Dragonknight Healer build is Clockwork Citrus Filet. This buff grants max health, health recovery, max magicka, and magicka recovery. It gives you everything you need to resource sustain with extra health for survival. An alternative is Witchmother’s Potent Brew. This is a cheaper and easy to find on Guild Traders version of Clockwork Citrus Filet. Not as powerful, but affordable!

Clockwork Citrus Filet

Clockwork Citrus Filet

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

Ingredients: Red Meat, Lemon, Frost Mirriam, Perfect Roe

Witchmother’s potent brew

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

These effects are scaled based on your level.

Ingredients: Nightshade, Bervez Juice, Rice, Small Game

Best Dragonknight Healer Potions

The best potions for the Dragonknight Healer build are Spell Power Potions. These potions grant you spell power, and spell critical buff. That helps free up skills on your bar and consume potions on cooldown to keep 100% uptime on these buffs. With the Medicinal Use passive in the alchemy skill tree, you can increase the duration of your potions effects. Essentially, the duration last 47.5 seconds with a cooldown of 45 seconds. Therefore, this passive becomes critical to obtain to keep higher uptime on buffs.

Tincture or Sip of Magicka
Dram of Magicka
Potion of Magicka
Solution of Magicka
Elixir, Panacea, Distillate, or Essence of Magicka

Spell Power Potions

Dragonknight Healer Skills

Main Weapon: RESTORATION STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

  1. Combat Prayer
  2. Fragmented Shield
  3. Radiating Regeneration
  4. Cauterize
  5. Protect The Brood
  6. ULT: Magma Shell

Backup Weapon: RESTORATION STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

  1. Volcanic Ward
  2. Siphon Spirit
  3. Energy Orb
  4. Fire Keeper
  5. Illustrious Healing
  6. ULT: Aggressive Horn

Dragonknight Healer Skill Explanation

Front Bar Weapon – Restoration Staff

  1. Combat Prayer: buffs everyone it touches with minor berserk and minor resolve, position behind party to ensure you reach every.
  2. Fragmented Shield: Low cost group damage shield that also provides Major Mending, increasing all of your healing done by 16% for 6 seconds.
  3. Radiating Regeneration: healing over time, 5 seconds, can spam pre-pull to apply to multiple targets.
  4. Cauterize: while not exactly a burst heal, this can heal multiple targets, and when it crits, does a high amount of healing. Keep this up at all times so that you don’t fall behind.
  5. Protect The Brood: Niche skill that can be used to significantly lower damage taken from projectiles by 50% for you and 25% for the group. Reserve this for specific fights where you will take a lot of projectile damage.
  6. ULT: Magma Shell: your defensive ultimate that gives nearby allies a damage shield as well.

Back Bar Weapon – Restoration Staff

  1. Volcanic Ward: strong, single-target damage shield that reduces the damage of the next attack and heals. Use this versus hard hitting enemies once your heal over times are active.
  2. Siphon Spirit: casting on target triggers minor magickasteal and minor lifesteal, healing and giving resources to anyone attacking target.
  3. Energy Orb: a floating ball that heals allies as it travels through them and they can trigger synergy for more healing and resource sustain.
  4. Fire Keeper: AOE heal over time ability that heals every 1 second. Can add up to quite a lot of healing and heals for more when standing in the area, plus also provides Minor Fortitude and Minor Heroism for the entire group.
  5. Illustrious Healing: ground based AOE heal that you want to place on healer and or DPS in a large circle.
  6. ULT: Aggressive Horn: burst team ultimate, boost max stats and grants 20% more critical damage for 10 seconds.

Dragonknight Healer Skills Discussion & Rotation

Buffs

Your primary focus is to debuff the enemy and buff your group members by either increasing their resistances or damage done. You would enable these by using your ultimate as much as you can but always wait for 500 ultimate charge to ensure the maximum amount of time on those buffs and debuffs. As long as you use your abilities to the fullest by reapplying them once they run out you cannot go wrong.

Rotation

Backup Bar: Illustrious Healing -> Fire Keeper -> Siphon Spirit 

Main Bar: Combat Prayer -> Cauterize -> Radiating Regeneration -> Fragmented Shield

Use your Magma Shell ultimate for fights that are chaotic, if group members keep dying, or if a vital part of the group dies, like a tank. Protect The Brood and Volcanic Ward can be used as additional defensive tools when needed.

The Aggressive Horn ultimate should be reserved for a more controlled fight to amplify your group’s damage even further. Cast Energy Orb if anyone asks for resources, most commonly the tank.

Notes

This is a great healing build but requires a lot of ultimate gain. There aren’t any decisive traits to help that because you need to debuff your enemy with status effects more. And you’ll also need all that Spell Damage to increase your healing as much as possible.

Dragonknight Healer Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

Other

ESO Dragonknight Healer Class Mastery

Players that reach level 50 in ESO while also fully reaching Rank 50 for their class skill lines and not subclassing can use 2 Class Mastery passives to improve their build. For the Dragonknight Healer I recommend Lead from the Front which grants you and group members Major Berserk and Protection for 1 second per 15 Ultimate spent and Inexorable Descent which increases your healing done and damage shield strength.

eso dragonknight lead from the front

Lead from the Front

Let others be swept along in the wake of your flame.

Effect

Activating rank 2 of The Storm Voice grants you and group members within 28 meters of you Major Berserk and Protection for 1 second per 15 Ultimate spent, increasing damage done and reducing damage taken by 10%.

eso dragonknight inexorable descent

Inexorable Descent

Be as the landslide. Let nothing stop you.

Effect

Improves your Landslide passive to increase the potency of your damage done, healing done, and damage shield strength by 1% per stack.

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

BLUE

RED

– 600 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 900 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 1200 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

Update Log

  • June 8, 2026 – created Class Mastery passive section
  • May 6, 2026 – Updated Green Champion Points

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