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STONE DRAGON

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Stamina Dragonknight Easy PVE DPS Build

The STONE DRAGON Build is an EASY DPS build for the Stamina Dragonknight class in The Elder Scrolls Online. This build only does massive damage over time as well as direct damage, has a simple rotation, and does not require ANY Trials gear.

Primary Sets

Our main damage set on this build is the Deadly Strike set. This buffs most of our Dragonknight abilities since they are Damage Over Time skills by a whopping 20 percent! This set is also fairly easy to get as you can purchase the set pieces you need from Guild Traders.

Leviathan is another strong set to use on Stamina DPS characters due to its focus on Critical Chance. This means that more often than not our damage will be a critical strike.

Finally, Velidreth as the monster set boosts our Weapon Damage even higher and gives us a very nice and consistent damage proc that increases the overall damage of this build even further.

Leviathan

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 1528 Critical Chance

Deadly Strike

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Increase the damage your Damage Over Time and Channeled Abilities do by 15%.

Velidreth

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 20% chance to spawn 3 disease spores in front of you after 1 second that deal 10752 Disease Damage to the first enemy they hit. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds.

Alternative Sets

For alternatives, Leviathan can be replaced with any Stamina damage set that has a good amount of weapon critical. I would recommend either Tzogvin’s Warband or Hunding’s Rage for this. If you have access to Trials gear you could also use Arms Of Relequen in place of Leviathan. Velidreth can be replaced with other Monster Sets such as Stormfist or even Valkyn Skoria since we have so many DOT effects active.

Tzogvin’s Warband

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you gain a stack of Precision, increasing your Critical Chance by 177 for 5 seconds, up to 10 stacks max. At max stacks, you also gain Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage done by 10%. This effect can occur once every half second.

Hunding’s Rage

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 300 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage

Arms Of Relequen

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Your Light and Heavy attacks apply a stack of harmful winds to your target for 5 seconds. Harmful winds deal 52 Physical Damage per stack every 1 second. This effect can stack once every half second, up to 10 times and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Valkyn Skoria

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(2 items) When you deal damage with a damage over time effect, you have a 8% chance to summon a meteor that deals 9000 Flame Damage to the target and 3535 Flame Damage to all other enemies within 5 meters. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

Gear Setup

Weapon/ArmorSetTraitWeightGlyph
Main HandLeviathan Battle AxePreciseNADouble Damage Poisons
BackupThe Maelstrom BowInfusedNAWeapon Damage
HeadVelidrethDivinesMediumStamina
ShoulderVelidrethDivinesMediumStamina
ChestDeadly StrikeDivinesMediumStamina
WaistDeadly StrikeDivinesMediumStamina
GlovesDeadly StrikeDivinesMediumStamina
LegsDeadly StrikeDivinesMediumStamina
FeetDeadly StrikeDivinesMediumStamina
NecklaceLeviathanBloodthirstyNAWeapon Damage
Ring 1LeviathanBloodthirstyNAWeapon Damage
Ring 2LeviathanBloodthirstyNAWeapon Damage

Consumables, Race, Mundus

Race

For the most damage possible on this build, go with Orc, Dark Elf or Khajiit. For an easier time sustaining your abilities, Redguard and Wood Elf will be the best option. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Mundus

The Shadow

Food/Drink Buff

Braised Rabbit With Spring Vegetables

Potions

Weapon Power Potions

Skills

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

  1. Venomous Claw
  2. Noxious Breath
  3. Stone Giant
  4. Flames Of Oblivion
  5. Executioner
  6. ULT: Standard Of Might

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

  1. Barbed Trap
  2. Endless Hail
  3. Poison Injection
  4. Ring Of Preservation or Echoing Vigor
  5. Camouflaged Hunter
  6. ULT: Flawless Dawnbreaker

Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

Other

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Buff with your Potion, Then:

Backbar: Poison Injection -> Endless Hail -> Barbed Trap -> Bar Swap

Frontbar -> Venomous Claw -> Noxious Breath -> Flames Of Oblivion – > Stone Giant x 4

Note: Light Attack Between each skill. Replace Stone Giant with Executioner when enemy is below 30% health

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

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

Warfare

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

Fitness

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

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