PVE DK Mage Help

cobracarter

As a somewhat new player (2 months) i'm having a little trouble finding an updated build for a DK fire mage. Most of what I have found is a little outdated and all pre-IC info. Would love some feedback on my current build if someone has any insight. I mainly do PvE so not looking for any PvP stuff atm.

Altmer DK with all relevant passives.

Gear:
Main Weapon - Inferno Staff of Willpower (V16, precise trait, absorb magic enchant)
Secondary Weapon - Same as above
Head - Silks of the sun (V12)
Chest - Silks of the sun (V12)
Shoulders - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Waist - Silks of the sun (V12)
Hands - Silks of the sun (V12)
Legs - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Feet - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Neck - Silks of the sun (V12)
Rings - Both Rings of Willpower (Arcane, V16)

Silks of the Sun - 5pc
Martial Knowledge - 3pc
Willpower - 3pc
All pieces have infused with max magic enchant

Bar 1: (single target)
Inner light, Structured Entropy, Burning Embers, Engufing Flames, Molten Whip, Standard of Might

Bar 2: (aoe)
Inner Light, Fire Ring, Eruption, Scalding Rune, Elemental Blockade, Shooting Star

Character stats:
Max Magica (no food) - 29,435
Health (no food) - 12,946
Spell Damage (before entropy) - 1762
Spell Crit (with inner light) - 37%
Magika Recovery - 1242

Any advice that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

AudioVortex

Well you seem pretty far into the game after 2 months! I've been playing since xbox release and look at how far I've got below

Is there anything that you are actually having trouble with and wanted feedback as to why? You seem to know what you're doing in terms of a magicka build (which are pretty rare these days for DK). Your stats also look pretty solid with good recovery.

With the information you've posted the only thing I could suggest is updating your silks of the sun set for V16? Not sure I can help much more than that haha.

Carelxss

cobracarter wrote: »

As a somewhat new player (2 months) i'm having a little trouble finding an updated build for a DK fire mage. Most of what I have found is a little outdated and all pre-IC info. Would love some feedback on my current build if someone has any insight. I mainly do PvE so not looking for any PvP stuff atm.

Altmer DK with all relevant passives.

Gear:
Main Weapon - Inferno Staff of Willpower (V16, precise trait, absorb magic enchant)
Secondary Weapon - Same as above
Head - Silks of the sun (V12)
Chest - Silks of the sun (V12)
Shoulders - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Waist - Silks of the sun (V12)
Hands - Silks of the sun (V12)
Legs - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Feet - Martial Knowledge (V14)
Neck - Silks of the sun (V12)
Rings - Both Rings of Willpower (Arcane, V16)

Silks of the Sun - 5pc
Martial Knowledge - 3pc
Willpower - 3pc
All pieces have infused with max magic enchant

Bar 1: (single target)
Inner light, Structured Entropy, Burning Embers, Engufing Flames, Molten Whip, Standard of Might

Bar 2: (aoe)
Inner Light, Fire Ring, Eruption, Scalding Rune, Elemental Blockade, Shooting Star

Character stats:
Max Magica (no food) - 29,435
Health (no food) - 12,946
Spell Damage (before entropy) - 1762
Spell Crit (with inner light) - 37%
Magika Recovery - 1242

Any advice that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

For my Magicka DK I'm currently in all v16 gear and I'm running;
4 Piece Magnus Chest,Belt,Gloves,Boots All magic enchants
2 Piece Torags v16 Inferno staff(nirnhoned) with daedric enchant, Another Tourags v16 Nirnhoned w/fire enchantLegs(Heavy)
3 Piece will power Necklace,2 Rings all with spell damage enchant
1 Molag Kena Shoulder
1 Skoria Head for extra 1k Health till i get Molag kena head
I went Divnes on small pieces and infused on big pieces
Mundus:Thief because i have seen a lot of how its better than apprentice and it seems to work really good

Main Bar:Inner Light,Sea of Flames,Engulfing flames,Burning embers,Molten Whip,Standard of Might
Off Bar:Inner Light,Sea of Flames,Elemental Drain,Elemental Ring,Eruption,Standard of Might

I use spell power pots instead of entropy, and elemental drain because you will get low on magic without it.
Not exactly sure on my stats ill check when i get home but i know buffed i have 2900 spell damage, around 36k magic and 18k health

tino.antoninieb17_ESO

I will just post my build as an answer to your question


First i would like to say that i am still in middle of searching for best solutions.

I am still unsure about traits on gear and weapons.

Gear Single target:

Main goals spell damage > crit

Molag Kena x 2
Martial knowledge x 4
Willpower jewlery x 3
Turug pact x 2

Possible improvement : swap Martial for Scatching mage set ( that should improve your output for >10% )
Traits should go as usual – big pieces infused , small divines
Your health pool shouldnt be bellow 17,5 k
All enchants max mag
On staffs 1 prismatic and 1 poison enchant
5 light , 1 medium , 1 heavy
Remark : Kena is eating your magica so u have always elemental drain on , dont ever trigger pot and banner together unless u are totally drained. If u are carefull with pots and banner thingy u will have enough mag in 95% of situations.

Gear AOE :

Main goals spell damage > crit

Nerenienth x 2
Martial knowledge x 4
Willpower jewlery x 3
Turug pact x 2

Possible improvement : swap Martial for Scatching mage set ( that should improve your output for >10% )
All traits should go as usual – big pieces infused , small divines
Your health pool shouldnt be bellow 17,5 k
All enchants max mag
5 light , 1 medium , 1 heavy

Mundus stone – Thief

Attributes – All in magica

Champion points ( in this moment i have 408 )

Blue – Elemental expert to the 100 , Spell crit one rest
Red – Elemental defender > Thick skinned = Hardy ( i have distribution between those 3 : 5,3,3 )
Green Cost reduction up to 100 > Mag regen

Spell Setup

Single target

1st bar : Whip , Engulfing , Burning, Inner , Flames of Oblivion , Shooting star ( u have it here coz it gives + on magic pool )
2nd bar : Flame clench, Eruption, Elemental drain ( since u have molag kena its necessary) , Inner , Flames of Oblivion , Banner
Remark : U are waving 2 light attacks till u trigger Kena proc and than u do semi heavy waving and rinse repeat.
Mechanics : u open with heavy attack ( to trigger passive which gives u +5% crit) with elemental drain , place eruption, clench, Engulfing , Burning , whipxn ( till u need to refresh eruption) rinse repeat.
Remark : Clench is hitting harder ( for single target fights ) than fire ring and i have replaced fire ring dot for clench dot
Example for this fight is 1st boss in WGT

AOE – Multiple target fights

1st bar – Whip, Engulfing , Burning , Elemental drain, Inner , Shooting star
2nd bar – Fire ring , Eruption , Engulfing , Draw essence , Inner light , Banner
Remarks : 1) Draw essence is less dps than Deep breath ( less 700 per target ) and doesnt do aoe stun which is anyways quite unreliable , but returns magica ( 500 per target ) which is important for sustainability. In most fights sustainability is more important than couple % more dps ; 2) Keep Engulfing on your targets coz it increase every fire damage u do by 10%.

Example for this setup is boss No 4 in prison

Ranged / harness magica fights

On these fights ( for example 3rd in wgt and 5th boss in prison ) u will use single target gear ( my main bar will be ranged so there i use precise staff)

1st bar: Force pulse , Clench , Eruption, Magica harness , Inner light , Shooting star
2nd bar. Whip, Engulfing, Burning, Elemental drain, Inner light , Banner.

MOB packs
In new dungeons mobs hit like truck. Some pulls are hard as much as bosses . There u always use aoe setup .

There are lot of spell setup variations but i give u just 3 plain vanilla setups. All in all i use like 6-7 different spell setups . Changing gear and specially spell setups is pain so i use addon – Dressing room .

What u can expect regarding your output ?
remark : i am not talking here about burst numbers but stating numbers at the end of that fight for full duration
1 st boss in wgt – single target fight, fully stationary – 22-25 k ( 29 with Scatching )

1 st boss in prison – aoe + single target ( aoe gear setup ) 35 k dps with Scatching mage set.

2 nd boss in prison – if u go burn strat its aoe fight ( with some single target moments ) – u will go 25- 30 k dps ( 33k dps with scatching)

Ranged fights ( 3rd in wgt and 4th in prison ) u will go around 10-12k ( for whole duration of fight ) and if u go 4th in wgt all in strategy u might have up to 14-15 k ( 18 k with scatching and without exploits). If someone tells u that he has 25 -30 k dps on 4th boss in wgt- dont worry he has that for 25 seconds of that fight before dps down time kick in or on last 15-20 seconds.

cobracarter

Wow, thanks a lot for the feedback guys. One question i do have, why inner light and sea of flames? It seems they do not stack on crit %. Is it for the max magica for inner light?

tino.antoninieb17_ESO

Directly increases magica pool and indirectly dps coz larger pool = higher damage u make.