Stam build for a DK

Azalin76

I have a dark elf dragon knight and have been leveling with destro staff and magicka based. I am vet 3 now and am getting a bit bored am and thinking of trying out a 2H set up. Does anyone know if stam based dragon knights are viable for end game? I am thinking of running double 2H with crit rush, wrecking blow, brawler for the shield, burning breath, and unstable flame on my main bar. Then having my back bar as utility with things like green dragon blood, reflecting scales, eruption for the minor brutality buff , rally, and executioner. Any thoughts if this will be a decent build?

Maddux

My Bars looks like this:
1. Bar: Burning Breath, Unstable Flame, Wrecking Blow, Executioner, Flames of Oblivion/Evil Hunter, Dawnbreaker
2. Bar: Eruption, Rally, X, X, Flames of Oblivion/Evil Hunter, Standard of Might
For X, you can put in Chains, Critical Rush, GDB, Brawler or other Skills you need at most on the Boss or Trash.

I wear 5 Ravager, 5 Hundings and a random Mace with Sharpened or Sword with Precise because i dont have luck with the Masters Greatsword. The DPS isnt as high as the DPS from the good Magica DKs but 13-16k depending on which Boss you face with just full purple is more as i can deal with my almost full legendary Sorc. So i got that going for me

Dualwield is also Fun and thats my Setup:
1. Bar: Burning Breath, Unstable Flame, Rapid Strikes, Steel Tornado, FoO/Evil Hunter, Dawnbreaker
2. Bar: Eruption, Executioner, Rally, X, FoO/Evil Hunter, Standard of Might
Gear is the same like the Twohanded just with Nights Silence sharpened Mace and precise Sword. I will make the Weapons Hundings if i ever get a medium Valkyn Skoria Helmet.

The Rotation is very simple:
- Cast Rally + Eruption and SoM if ready
- switch to Bar 1
- cast Burning Breath and Unstable Flame
- LA/MA Weaving with Wrecking Blow/Rapid Strikes
- recast Burning Breath and Unstable Flame
- LA/MA Weaving with Wrecking Blow/Rapid Strikes until Rally runs out
- repeat until Execution Phase

You also can use you favorite Molten Weapons Morph but i dont have tested it and dont know if there is a DPS Increase and how big it is. Try it out if you wanna and find your own Way to play your Stamina DK.
The only Thing that i can tell you is that Valkyn Skoria makes no Sense in a 2H Build. I tried 2 Valkyn + 2 Dreughs + 2 Shadowwalker instead of 5 Ravager and Valkyn is just better in AoE Situations. Ravager does way much more DPS on Singletarget.

Azalin76

The one thing that worries me about a 2H setup is the aoe, cleave is a huge stam hog and it only hits what is in front of me. I think most players go with dual wield just for steel tornado because it's easier to aoe and does more damage. Right now with my magic build I can so any group delve but with a stam build I don't think I could anymore.

Maddux

Azalin76 wrote: »

The one thing that worries me about a 2H setup is the aoe, cleave is a huge stam hog and it only hits what is in front of me. I think most players go with dual wield just for steel tornado because it's easier to aoe and does more damage.

Thats why i use Dualwield at Trash. And with Wykkyds Outfitter, you can switch between different Setups with just 2 Clicks.
But Trash is not the Benchmark and nobody cares if the Trash takes 5 Seconds longer if you dont do Speedruns.

likewow777

Azalin76 wrote: »

The one thing that worries me about a 2H setup is the aoe, cleave is a huge stam hog and it only hits what is in front of me. I think most players go with dual wield just for steel tornado because it's easier to aoe and does more damage. Right now with my magic build I can so any group delve but with a stam build I don't think I could anymore.

I've found I can generally position myself so all my enemies are in front of me. Plus, the shield Brawler grants makes you nearly invincible, the more enemies the better. That sounds like it might only be useful for trash, but there are boss fights as well, like Grobull or Praxin, where a Brawler spam is awesome and is even enough DPS to keep aggro. I keep GDB up and use health/stamina drinks to get around 2k regen. Killing an enemy with 2H increases it by another 30%, I believe it is, and if I really need to I'll drink a stam pot. It's somewhat expensive to do, but I've found it works really well.