POWERFUL Stamina Dragonknight PVE DPS Build

This powerful DPS build for the Stamina Dragonknight utilizes Wrecking Blow combined with Molten Whip for two great spammable options!

Primary Sets

Our primary damage set on this build is Perfected Arms Of Relequen. This is a Trials set that can be obtained from Cloudrest and provides plenty of extra damage as long as you can maintain your light attacks consistently.

The second set, Pillar Of Nirn is an amazing proc set that offers very high damage with an easy-to-maintain proc condition and fairly long duration.

The Harpooner’s Wading Kilt is recommended to maximize Critical Chance and Critical damage.

The recommended Monster Set for this build to increase our total DPS as well as Burning Status Effect uptime will be Zaan.

Perfected 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) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina, 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.

Pillar Of Nirn

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) When you deal damage, you create a fissure underneath the enemy after 1 second, dealing 623 Bleed Damage to all enemies within 2.5 meters and causing them to bleed for an additional 3132 Bleed Damage over 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Harpooner’s Wading Kilt

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Dealing direct damage grants you a stack of Hunter’s Focus for 20 seconds, up to 10 stacks max. You can only gain 1 stack of Hunter’s Focus per second. Each stack of Hunter’s Focus increases your Critical Chance by 110 and your Critical Damage by 1%. Taking direct damage removes 5 stacks of Hunter’s Focus, up to once per second. Removing Harpooner’s Wading Kilt removes all stacks of Hunter’s Focus.

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.

Main DPS Setup

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Perfected Relequen Greatsword	Precise	NA	Poison Damage
Backup	Pillar Of Nirn Daggers	Infused / Infused	Flame Damage / Weapon Damage
Head	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Shoulder	Zaan	Divines	Light	Stamina
Chest	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Waist	Pillar Of Nirn	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Gloves	Pillar Of Nirn	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Legs	Harpooner’s Wading Kilt	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Feet	Pillar Of Nirn	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Necklace	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage

Trash Fight Setup

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Asylum Perfected Daggers	Nirnhoned / Precise	NA	Flame Damage / Poison Damage
Backup	Burning Spellweave Inferno Staff	Infused	NA	Weapon/Spell Damage
Head	Slimecraw	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Shoulder	Perfected Sul Xan’s Torment	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Chest	Perfected Sul Xan’s Torment	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Waist	Perfected Sul Xan’s Torment	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Gloves	Perfected Sul Xan’s Torment	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Legs	Harpooner’s Wading Kilt	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Feet	Perfected Sul Xan’s Torment	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Necklace	Burning Spellweave	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Burning Spellweave	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Burning Spellweave	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage

Consumables, Race, Mundus

Race

The optimal DPS race for this build will be Dark Elf due to their bonus Weapon and Spell Damage, Max Stamina and Max Magicka. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Mundus

The Thief

The Thief

Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

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

Food/Drink Buff

Parse Food: Green max. Stamina Food (Hearty Garlic Corn Chowder). In Dungeons/Raids go with max. HP/Stamina or Lava Foot Soup

Potions

Heroism

Skills

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

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

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Pre-buffs

Prebuff with 3x Flames of Oblivion to gain 3x Seething Fury Stacks (more wp/sp dmg + empowered Whip) + Deadly Cloak, keep Distance to not immediately hit the Target with Deadly Cloak!

Rotation

Barbed Trap – Degeneration – Eruption – Barswap Wrecking Blow – Engulfing – Claw – Barswap Standard of Might – Barswap – Molten Whip (3x Stacks) followed by Wrecking Blow Spams.

Then reapply DOTs as soon as they run out (except for Carve, keep this stacked at all times) and use Wrecking Blow in between with Molten Whip as Semi Spammable. Use Whip immediately with 3x Stacks!

Apart from that only if you need to Barswap and none of your Frontbar Dots are close to expire. Do not Barswap with Wrecking Blow (too clunky). Flames of Oblivion shortly after it expires, simply because it always hits before it ends, like this we don´t waste the last guaranteed hit! Similar with Venomous Claw, let it expire the last dot ticks are the most powerful ones!

Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

All Racial Passives

Other

Medicinal Use

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

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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