Dragon Knight (double) bow build - need some suggestions!

Seraphayel

Hey there,

after playing Magicka for years I thought it's finally time to try Stamina and what should I say... I really like the Bow-playstyle on my DK. I'm trying to make a build with high damage (especially focused on poisons and DoTs) and would like to get some advice here.

I'm imagining something like: http://www.eso-skillfactory.com/en/build-planer/#f1,r8,c1,25:1,28:1,33:1,213:1,216:1,224:1,288:1,293:1,297:1,299:1,301:2,302:2,303:2,304:2,397:1,415:1,668:1;299:288:224:297:33:668;25:28:216:293:415:213;5;0,0,0;0,0,0;;0,0,0;0,0;

Don't judge me on my skill choices yet, it's still the "try" phase for me as I'm leveling my bow (45) and I'm fairly new to the playstyle (I know I need to slot Flames of Oblivion on both bars but I just placed it on one and Igneous Weapons on the other because I'm not sure which skill benefits my playstyle better).

I am playing on console (XOne EU) so I can't track DPS or something like that and it's not even necessary in the current state of my build.

Playstyle should be something like:

1st bar: Trap -> Poison Injection -> Lethal Arrow -> Silver Leash -> Silver Leash follow up skill

bar swap

2nd bar: Venomous Claw -> Noxious Breath -> Acid Spray -> Magnum Shot

(1st bar Trap getting away from your enemy --> etc.)

rinse and repeat

I don't know how this playstyle is working, if it's working, if it's effective... it's just an idea.

What do you think?

Another thing: I'm really squishy with my leather armour and bow, what's the best way to keep health up or healing in emergency situations? I tried Green Dragon Blood but it's pretty underwhelming.

Masel

To get the best out of a Bow Build, you'd need a Sharpened Master Bow and a Sharpened vMA bow. That way you can use the master bow on front bar, keep poison injection up to get that 300 WD full time.

Back bar vMA bow to cast endless hail.

Then rearming trap for minor force (as you need to go melee anyway), lethal arrow/LA as spam, acid spray isn't a spam skill as the dot always refreshes when you recast it...
So replace silver leash with endless hail.

The concussion from Magnum shot is good as it now grants minor vulnerability, thus 8% more damage for 5 seconds. But the firing yourself away is kind of annoying in fights as it disrupts your rotation.. ballista is the far better ultimate morph of the two because you can carry on doing your rotation after placing it. flawless dawnbreaker and trap on main bar (for 8% WD buff only), ballista for offbar. Also, focused aim is the better morph for the minor breach, only other source of this is power of the light on stamplars.
I'm going to give you a build that I wanted to try out for a while now:

So the Dots are:
Igneous Weapons (39s)
Rearming Trap (15s)
Focused Aim (10s)
Poison injection (10s)
Endless Hail (10s)
Noxious Breath (10s)
Venomous Claw (10.5s)
Magnum Shot (5s)
Arrow Spray (5s)
Ballista (4s)

Front Bar (Master Bow):

Poison Injection, Focused Aim, Magnum Shot/Arrow Spray, Reaming Trap, Flames of Oblivion, Flawless Dawnbreaker

Back Bar (vMA Bow):

Noxious Breath, Venomous Claw, Endless Hail, Igneous Weapons (Resolving Vigor in Group Content), Flames of Oblivion, Ballista

Rotation:
Start off with Igneous Weapons > Focused Aim > LA > Poison Injection > LA > Rearming Trap > Bar Swap > Venomous Claw > LA > Noxious Breath > LA > Endless Hail > Ballista when ready > Bar Swap > Magnum Shot > LA > Start at focused aim.

Basically just a 10 second rinse and repeat of applying DoTs. Still have to level bow skills on my imperial tank so I can test it... And get the sharpened master bow to drop ffs...

Rearming Trap lasts 15 seconds, so it gets wasted a little. We bar swap cancel Ballista so it has it's full uptime on the front bar. Light attacks in between are important to empower our damage by up to 25%.

In Trash Mobs, just put down trap, endless hail and spam arrow spray and cast flawless dawnbreaker when it's ready.

This Build has literally no self-healing, so ask the tank to run igneous weapons and run vigor on the back bar. You can use the other Morph of Magnum Shot if you need some additional healing. Plus that doesn't push you away and bosses are immune to it anyway.

Gearwise I'd run 5 VO 5 Twice-Fanged Serpent or 5 5 Spriggan and Master Bow/vMA Bow Sharpened.

I think this build can push ~ 35k DPS by itself, but I still have to get proper testing down.