Burn - Magicka Dragonknight PVE Build

This Magicka Dragonknight is for ALL players and for ALL content, YES even the hardest modes and content in the game! There are several different options for gear regardless of where you are personally in the game and EACH of them holds as much “viability” as the next in every piece of content you are in.

Even the crafted setup can STILL hit very high numbers with solid sustainability IF you know what you are doing! Practice will of course be required with any build you ever use but this is designed to be both simple and effective at the same time! 

The rotation is designed to be 100% static so you never have to change a thing! Both bars stay the same every single rotation apart from one skill which you fire every two. The simplicity of the rotation allows for great results at the same time as allowing for continuous muscle memory. With a little bit of practice, the muscle memory will do the work for you, meaning you have more time and brainpower to focus on mechanics.

Constantly doing nothing but looking at your bars and timers INSIDE mechanics can be problematic because it is very easy to obsess too much over minor gaps in your skills while constantly bar swapping every skill or so to keep up individual dots. BUT since this is 100% static you never have to worry about tracking anything really and can keep the focus on the important stuff. Get the rotation order correct, get that rhythm/timing just right and the rest is done for you!

This build IS of course taking advantage of engulfing flames! This is a HUGE group buff allowing your team to do 10% more damage to all targets affected by it (you included) Lots of people do preference flame damage in their builds, monster sets, or at least have something (maybe even one skill) that takes advantage of fire, so you can bring a very strong double-edged skill where you do high damage with it but everyone else benefits.

Note: This buff is already on the target dummy hence why fire builds LOOK like they do more on the dummy. For yourself you will not see an increase to your overall because it is already present so is just as if you were firing it anyway.

We have our own survival built into one of the cheapest damage-over-time abilities in the game! Burning embers is a single target damage over time skill, applying an automatic burning status effect and can be placed on multiple targets if you decide to…however, if the skill runs out OR you recast it on the same target, you HEAL! So while restarting damage over time way before time is normally bad efficiency-wise, you CAN actually benefit from it!

And finally, we have a FREE spammable IF you decide to use it which helps your tanks, helps your sustainability, and also helps BOOST your damage from your whips!

Molten whip while on the bar stacks a 75 weapon/spell damage bonus per cast from an Ardent Flame ability stacking up to 3 times. At max stacks, your Molten Whip turns into a VERY strong backflip whip. Casting 3 Ardent Flame skills then Whip on repeat is actually quite inefficient because MOST of the skills are damage over time with very long durations and you don’t want to keep overlapping them too early. However! Unrelenting Grip, the chain pulling ability is ALSO in the Ardent Flame skill line.

This skill will allow you to pull adds to your feet. This is very helpful for the tank so long as you can coordinate with them in order for them to then be rooted and taunted, is used both close range and long-range, and the biggest bonus…IF you chain something that is CC immune (as pulled targets are for a short while) OR a boss (always CC immune)…then the skill is FREE! You have a FREE fire-based, fire single target hit which also stacks Molten Whip stacks!

The above means you can spam chains as a spammable 3x then take a backflip whip and this is repeatable without lessening the efficiency of your damage over time AND saving you resources. In fact, with flat food, you can sustain indefinitely with this method. This is of course a choice but it is VERY effective.

Also do not panic about the misinformation on the internet about a “soft taunt”. Firstly the term is ridiculous, secondly, the term is “aggro” aka “aggression”.
Aggression is a term used for an enemy focusing their attention on a player. In mmorpgs in the last 21+ years, aggression is something that happens if an enemy doesn’t like you (you get to close and they are no longer idle if you are considered kill on sight) OR if you do DAMAGE something or HEAL someone and get their attention.

ANYONE can get aggro from ANY skill at any time either if they are first to use the skills, OR if the enemy just feels like it (yes sometimes it is random).

In MOST mmorpgs you have what is known as an “aggro counter” where the person with the highest aggression gains the attention of the enemy and you quite literally have to fight for if you want it with high aggression skills OR calm down with your skills to prevent it. In this game ALL you need to do to 100% control the target is a “TAUNT”…So long as your tank taunts, you will be safe. And the same goes for ALL builds and ALL content in the Elder Scrolls Online excluding the planar Inhibitor where you must pick up a collectible to CONTROL the aggression (however passive aggro can still work the same on this boss). The TANK is in control of the AGGRO, you cannot STEAL it with a fake “soft taunt” cool word… you can simply get aggression if the target is NOT taunted (which now is the tank’s fault ;).

For those on PC you can use ESO LOGS to actually confirm that your skill is NOT applying a taunt (you don’t just have to take MY word for it) because it TRACKS aggro.

Dragonknights have been chaining adds as DPS since the Thieves Guild DLC (Maw Of Lorkhaj twins fight). It’s utility and for US a spammable…it’s NOT a taunt, in ANY shape or form. You may have just hit FIRST 🙂

• 100% uptime on our fire dots with long durations.
  

• Free Spamable IF you decide to use it vs CC immune targets!
  

• Ultimate gives back a HUGE amount of resources so sustainability is determined at base by you simply USING your ultimates!
  

• Healing from doing damage with Burning Embers!
  

• Increase the fire damage of your entire group by 10%, YES that includes proc and monster sets!
  

• Simple rotation that never really needs to change so you can focus more on mechanics letting muscle memory do the work rather than having your brain on multitasking overdrive!
  

• Designed for ALL players with a CRAFTED version of the main sets allowing to STILL hit way harder than necessary for ALL content!

• Suitable for beginners AND extremely advanced players regardless of how many champion points you currently have!