Try heavy armor. Do the 'one of the undaunted' quest, it will unlock the undaunted skill line and you gain the blood altar skill. Use health regeneration enchants on jewelry (gather the runes, then ask in chat for someone to craft it for you if you cannot enchant yourself.). If possible, a set with health regen will help a lot.

In the 2h line, use the first skill, morphed into 'brawler'. It will give you a damage shield everytime you use it, and it will get more powerful the more enemies you hit at once. Alternate one heavy attack, one brawler. This will keep your stamina up. Stand in blood altar, and your health should be regenerating faster than the monster can damage you. Use razor armor as well, this lowers the damage you take, damages enemies that hit you, and is cheap enough to keep it up constantly.

Lord Xanhorn wrote: »

DKs are terrible at low levels. They are full of support and utility. Try a templar. For your first play through its a great class.

What are you talking about..? DKs are amazing to start up with so long as you go for stunlocking and dps. They're amazing at burst dps. But early on they suck at HP regen.

Most DKs tend to stick with 2h/Shield or shield/RS. I personally roll out 2h/RS for self heals and dps, though I've seen them run everything and be amazing.

madmax911 wrote: »

Hello everyone.

I just started playing ESO again and figured i would play dragonknight.
Now the first few levels went fine but atm im lvl 7 and i die ALOT. Some monsters i cant even kill.
There must be something im doing wrong.
I only have medium armor and im using a 2h sword.
im skilling up in ardent flame.

I had the same feeling in the beta. I spread my skillpoints thin between all 3 class trees and two weapon trees.
Now I concentrate them. On ardent flame and earthen heart, but much more on twohanded weapons and heavy armor.

I watched some youtube videos regarding tanking, which explained this was all about managing resources (HP, Stamina, Magicka). I get the feeling the same is true for damage dealers. Have skills relying on both stamina and magic, so you can use the opposite when on of your pools is drained.

Heavy armor gives nice stamina and HP regeneration, earthen heart ultimate magmararmour makes you practically unkillable during its duration and does firedamage (and refreshes your pools if you skill it by the way).

Use Block and interrupt, use dode. Play around with abilities which make your opponents unable to fight (stonefist, uppercut).
People laying on the floor waiting for a heavy hit from your twohanded weapon are much easyer opponents then fireball throwing maniacs ^^

Hope that helps.

Regards
Lorgarn

madmax911 wrote: »

Hello everyone.

I just started playing ESO again and figured i would play dragonknight.
Now the first few levels went fine but atm im lvl 7 and i die ALOT. Some monsters i cant even kill.
There must be something im doing wrong.
I only have medium armor and im using a 2h sword.
im skilling up in ardent flame.

Put your skill points in both ardent flame, earthen heart and 2 handed weapons. I have a level 5 and was wrecking things with Fiery Grip, Stonefist, cleave and critical charge. Start off with a critical charge, then use the Stone fist for a stun when your fighting two mobs at a time. Cleave helps a lot as well and hits multiple targets. So far I'm only using dropped weapons/armor and don't have much on.

In case you aren't, make sure to clear all content as you go. You don't want to be under-leveled.

On the other hand, you don't want to be over-leveled to the point that you don't get any XP for killing trash in Coldharbour due to being VR1. That happened to me on my first play through and it was lame.

Since you are only level 7, I have to ask -- did you complete the 2 starter zones?

DKs pretty much suck until they unlock Green Dragon Blood.
After they unlock GDB it's all YOLO.