Any recommended skills for a DK in PVP

Tylersoh

Im Vet 6 and I'm new to pvp. So far i suck at it lol

Zvblade

There are 3 main ways to tackle Dragonknight builds, 1. Bloody butcher which runs off stamina 2. Make a custom build with skills you like and have tried out. Resetting skills and attributes can easily be done if you go to a shrine, on AD it is in eldenroot, not sure where for other alliances. Lastly the build that I tend to run for PvE which is the Yoloknight, here is a link to the build. http://eso-skills.com/skill/index.html?z=AD8ElKom@TuoeF9%DSgWp0E@T3ABGb&p=916291729182919210131022103210421052906290729082909292629272928292920352036203720382039231623172318231923063307330813252326250135023503321422151216221712181&a=620000&c=Deltia&b=Yoloknight&j=t&q=205&w=33&m=8 For secondary bar either run a staff or a bow and build your abilities on that bar for ranged dps or team healing/buffs.

d3nbark3r

Zvblade wrote: »

There are 3 main ways to tackle Dragonknight builds, 1. Bloody butcher which runs off stamina 2. Make a custom build with skills you like and have tried out. Resetting skills and attributes can easily be done if you go to a shrine, on AD it is in eldenroot, not sure where for other alliances. Lastly the build that I tend to run for PvE which is the Yoloknight, here is a link to the build. http://eso-skills.com/skill/index.html?z=AD8ElKom@TuoeF9%DSgWp0E@T3ABGb&p=916291729182919210131022103210421052906290729082909292629272928292920352036203720382039231623172318231923063307330813252326250135023503321422151216221712181&a=620000&c=Deltia&b=Yoloknight&j=t&q=205&w=33&m=8 For secondary bar either run a staff or a bow and build your abilities on that bar for ranged dps or team healing/buffs.

I love how everyone rips off other people's builds.

3 main ways....lol... based level amateur stuff right there. Its all personal preference. Its also based on stamina based character or magika based. Trying to hybrid the two is often a new player to pvp's downfall. If you even try to engage in a decent player with stacked abilities of your level the even attributed player would lose a lot. Quite a lot is based on recourses especially on a DK.

Also set gear is also a massive advantage in pvp. Try mix up different sets in combinations. If magika based 5 light 2 heavy with chest and legs being in heavy. If stamina based 5 medium 2 heavy, or visa versa, always having the heavy chest and legs as it's obviously the 2 items with best physical resistance. If you want flat out dps stamina, full sets medium, flat out dps magika, full sets light. But I've found combo sets are the best to get the most from passives.

All I can say is work a damage shield into your build. A self heal. 2 or 3 abilities you can use to combination to cause burst dps, and some kind of stun, and build the rest from there.

Decide whether you feel you mainly use magika abilities, or stamina, put attributes mainly into which ever one you use most. Same goes with Champion Points. If stamina try to get set armour with stamina regeneration and weapon damage/weapon critical. If magika based you want magika regeneration, spell damage and spell critical.

Also make sure you are using the best provisions you can get. Magika, Health and Stamina regeneration drinks/teas are the best option. Don't be tempted to go for let's say a 5k overall magika boost, the regeneration option is much more efficient at making sure you have hefty resources constantly at your disposal. No point having a massive pool of resources if once it's all used up it takes forever and a day to go up.

Pick your mundus stone well. Mundus stone traits are very good for armour in my opinion especially on a DK. You stack all those 7% mundus stone traits on a magika based dark elf vampire dk with astronach mundus stone.... his magika will be virtually unlimited, he wouldn't be able to use it quicker than its regenerating.

Your shields and resources are your best friend.

Hope this helps. And good luck.

Rylana

The current Rylana Special (which is on Dannika, my DC magicka DK) involves much nirnhoned armor, as much spell power as i could pack into a mixed armor set (not all light, not all medium, not all heavy) and runs on high pools with vampire

Actually why not, ill go into the meat of it below (everything is at gold v14 quality or at the highest VR/quality possible otherwise, such as the neck being purple v12 with a gold enchant)

Head - Blood Spawn infused HA
Shoulder - Blood Spawn Divines MA
Chest - Magnus Nirnhoned HA
Legs - Magnus Nirnhoned HA
Hands - Magnus Nirnhoned HA
Feet - Torugs Nirnhoned HA
Waist - Adroitness well fitted LA

All magicka enchants

Main hand SnB

Torugs Sword Sharpened Diseased, Magnus Shield Nirnhoned Magicka

Offhand Destro

Torugs Inferno Sharpened Diseased

Adroit Neck (cost redux)
Cyro Light Ring (Spell Damage)
Cyro Light Ring (Spell Damage)

Build runs 25k Health, 29k Magicka, 15k Stamina using purple tristat food, 1500 magicka regen, 200 health regen lolvampire, 1100 stam regen

50k Spell resist, 22k Armor (buffable to 56k/29k or so)

302 champion points mostly dedicated to cost reductions and regen rates. Some in bastion and thermaturge/elemental damage as well

My proxdets can hit in five digit territory, and the high spell resistance makes me mostly immune to spell damage while blocking. CC can be a problem due to low stamina pool but the build survives most high burst by active recovery via GDB and battle roar. Note - the only hard counter for this build is broken dual wield sharpened coupled with a block dropper like fear, and even then it is very hard to burst through 25k health + 8k shields instagib style. Put the toon with a stacked bombgroup and it hits like a truck, pushes through first and holds the line well.

For solo play/zerg diving it possesses plenty of options to engage and survive multiple opponents 1vX, as well as pin people down to disrupt respawn lanes back to contested keeps (one of my specialties, buying time by sitting right on a respawn line and just holding up 10-12 people for 30-60 seconds that are too stupid to just bypass me XD)

Foolish is the person that believes this build is just a tank, too. 2200 spell damage on almost 30k magicka = ouch.

Skills:


Invasion, GDB, Wings, Talons, Whip, Bats on main bar

Petrify (or mist form), igneousshield, entropy, impulse(or crushing shock), proximity detonation, Meteor (or dragon leap) on offbar


Much defense, much burst, much wow. Also a group build, not meant for duels but can be used for one if you swap out the bar 2 aoes for single targets (molten armaments and crushing shock probably for a nasty weaved heavy/shock onslaught)


Also a vampire DK does not need drinks, they can go food with no loss to sustain whatsoever because of the high return on batswarms via battle roar. Fill in any gaps with Tripotions and it becomes academic at that point. More resource = more damage output. Regen builds make killing your opponent much harder.

Winterpsy

I mostly played PvE dungeons, so most of my morphs and champ points are optimized for that, gear too.

And still I love to PvP, so here I had to make a compromize. My DK is more on the tanking side of life, with a 3/2 health / stamina ratio.
I had to realize that I wont be doing tons of damage, but I can still become a major annoyance on the battlefield and thus contributing to team play --> that's the CCs. I made my highest priority to disrupt enemy lines, locking down players and robbing them from resources through CC break-frees. I have to rely on my team mates to destroy enemy lines, I just help them to be able to do so.

Sword&board -->
Low slash for crippling & snaring
Invasion for gap closing and KD
Crippling talons --> for snare
Green dragon blood--> for more survivability
Immovable --> this is what I pop on first when about to charge and CC. It gives immunity against similar tactics.
Ferocious leap --> more KD

Also I love using the following ones: Fossilize, Cinder storm.
Practically anything that hinders the enemies and forces them to move, break-free.



When I feel like doing damage, I just go with two-hander, but in that I am never too successful.

r.jan_emailb16_ESO

For a magicka DK:

Damage: Flame Lash, Talons, maybe Draw Essence or Deep Breath. I don't like the dots.
Defense: Volatile Armor, Dragon Blood (either morph), Igneous Shield, Dragon Fire Scales
Misc: Structured Entropy, Fossilize

I suggest going vampire so you can slot mistform and bats. Other ultis are Dawnbreaker of Smiting, Ice Coment, Dragon Leap (the cheaper + more damage morph).

I prefer 5h/2l with dual 1h/shield, I think it's the strongest combination right now.

4x Magnus, 2x Torugs Pact, 2x Undaunted Set (Blood Spawn or Malubeth), 4x Healer (rings/necklace, 1x armor). If you can't get those sets, check what kind of bonus they have and get similar stuff. I have >1.6k spell damage and 30k magicka, 16k stamina and like 22k health. All magicka enchants, spell cost reduction on rings/necklace. Use the expensive tri-stat potions, purple food for all stats.

This is what works perfect for me. You might want to adapt it a bit to your playstyle (solo, small scale, groups). Also you need to gather experience; knowing what your enemy can do/what to expect is a great deal for your pvp skill. Maybe watch some recent youtube videos (pc or console) to see what other classes are capable of.

(lol at the yoloknight build, rather don't try it out ).

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Actually there are only two ways to build a DK, one that works and another one that does not

Rylana

haha at the above post, funny how almost all magicka DKs run the same core abilities and sets.

theres a reason

We all have our different tweaks (mines more spell damage, his is more recovery) but at the core they are both heavy tanks with more damage than you might suspect

r.jan_emailb16_ESO

Rylana wrote: »

haha at the above post, funny how almost all magicka DKs run the same core abilities and sets.

theres a reason

We all have our different tweaks (mines more spell damage, his is more recovery) but at the core they are both heavy tanks with more damage than you might suspect

Yep. 5 weapon and 3 class tress + a bunch of others look like you have tons of choices at your hand, but the truth is that most of those "choices" put you at a severe disadvantage in pvp.