Fire Mage

zabados · April 2014

Has anybody experimented with a making a pure Fire Mage? I started with a High Elf DK and have been putting points into all three skill lines, as well as Destruction Staff, Light and Heavy Armor, as well as the Mages Guild skill line. My focus is on skills that deal fire damage, restore Magicka or increase the damage of Fire/Flame Skills. I also have been pumping up any defensive skills I can and intend to keep a secondary Destruction Staff equipped so that my secondary skills can focus around defense while the primary weapon and skills will be for inflicting maximized fire damage. All of my attributes have been stacked into Magicka as well, and I have been doing pretty well, I only wanted to see how similar builds were working for others.

B_Mo · April 2014

I have a Dunmer DK that uses Firestaff and Resto Staff. It has been working out GREAT! Soooo much fire synergy! I don't really use the resto staff much at this point (because everything melts so fast), but I thought it might come in handy to get magicka back or toss out some heals.

*sorry that I don't remember the names of the skills*

For the most part, I open with the aoe fire skill that has increased radius, then I use the root skill, get off a power staff attack and rinse repeat. I also have a knockback that I use a lot on more power creatures when they get too close and the skill that increases your armor.

I started out putting all my points into magicka, but recently I have been putting some of my points into health to make myself a little less squishy.

I don't think many people have caught on to the DK Fire Mage yet, but once they try it I think it will be one of the most popular builds in the game.

Drekor · April 2014

I hope you name it Buffy.

KoooZ · April 2014

I'm doing the same, dark elf DK heavy armor and dest staff. Fire synergy where ever I can get it and I plan on meteorite from mage guild as my ultimate.

zabados · April 2014

yea I am doing the same thing, struggling to get my Mages Guild rank to 10 though, I think I'm at about 5 now. I still have all my points into Magicka, i think Im up to 23 now, and I seem to stay alive quite well, mostly dying when the lag starts acting up, but with only light armor and the few defensive spells I have Dragon Blood comes in super hady.

LucianDK · April 2014

OP, please post the skill names.

zabados · May 2014

Ok so originally I started my first three skill points with 1 point in each main tree: fiery grip, spiked armor, and Stonefist. Then I also went with searing strike, fiery breath, lava whip, inferno, and all the ardent flame passives, I also took Dragon blood, iron skin +2, scaled armor +2, and reflective scales from Draconic Power, then I took the ultimate Magma Armor, Ash cloud, Eternal Mountain +2, and Battle Roar +2 from Earthen Heart, then I maxed each passive for my radials, all the light armor passives, and for my Desto Staff i took Destructive Touch, Weakness to Elements, and maxed all of the passives. Then from the mages guild I took Mage light, Persuasive Will, and Meteor. I haven't morphed everything yet but the morphs you choose can be your own decision.

I am also working on a very similar build as a Khajiit but with a combo of light and medium armor. My high elf I had chosen heavy and light armor but ended up going entirely light. I also have put every attribute on both characters in Magicka.

alreadybaked · June 2014

I've played every class pretty extensively and got to say the dk fire mage is by far the best aoe dps in the game that ive come across. Single target they're pretty good as well