a pyromancer build (caster dragonknight) will want to fight a little closer to enemies than your typical mage/sorceror, because most of the dragonknight class abilities are close-range attacks. It's entirely feasible, and that build puts out a massive amount of damage, you just run the risk of being closer to enemies.

Combine the destruction (fire) staff attacks with ardent flame skills like fiery breath, searing strike, and lava whip for an up close caster style. Inferno also works well for this as a toggled self buff that boosts spell critical chance, deals fire damage to nearby enemies, and can restore magicka when it kills an enemy.

Other good spells to throw into the build are ash cloud/eruption and stone fist/obsidian shard from the earthen heart line, which can be used at range and deal decent damage. Ash cloud deals fire damage over time as well, so it'll benefit from your high elf passives.

bucks902 wrote: »

:whats the difference between destruction staff and a restoration one?

They're different skill lines. The restoration staff skill line is primarily about healing skills, but there's also some primarily utility skills in the line. One of the main reasons to use the skill line aside from wanting access to healing/utility skills is the fact that there are some passives in the line that make heavy attacks with the resto staff very attractive. Heavy attacks with a staff restore magicka anyway, but with the right passives a heavy attack with a resto staff restores significantly more magicka, and also heals a nearby ally (and anything that affects "an ally" considers you to be your own ally, so it can heal you).

The destruction staff skill line is all about causing damage.

bucks902 wrote: »

:i found out how to add potions to the quick wheel but i can only get the up on d pad one to work? (xbox)

Um, I really have no idea how the quick wheel works on console, but on PC the quick wheel is just used to select one potion (or something else that can be slotted), and then you tap the button to use the one that's selected. If you've got 5 or 6 different items on your quick wheel you can't just tap one button to use any one of them - only the one that's currently selected.

bucks902 wrote: »

:i seem to have low health i fight and usually dont get hit however if i manage to get hit it doesnt take much to kill me im trying to finish the ghosts of westry and the ghost thing in the cellar keeps killing me because its so fast and does alot of dmg when it hits

OK, there are a few things that could be going on here.

First: what level are you? It's possible that you're having trouble because you're under-leveled. Did you do the starter islands (Stros M'Kai and Betnikh) before starting to quest in Glenumbra? If not, you're going to have a much harder time because the starter islands are designed to teach you common questing mechanics, level you up (if all you've done are the tutorial and the starter islands you should be about level 8, which makes questing in Glenumbra much easier), get you 2 skill points worth of sky shards, and begin your alliance storyline.

Second: where have you assigned your attribute points? If you haven't put any into health, that could be the problem.

Third: what equipment are you using? Heavy armour provides significantly more protection from damage than medium, and even more than light. If you're wearing armour that's much lower level than your character level, think about replacing it with higher level stuff. Also, check to see if your armour is damaged and not giving you full protection. If it is, you can either sell it and replace it with new gear, or pay a merchant to repair it.

Fourth: does your enemy telegraph a special attack before you get killed? If so (and you'll be able to tell by there being red thingies that show that a special attack is incoming) then you should do one of the following (with experience you'll learn which one to use in which situation): bash them to interrupt it, block it, dodge-roll out of the way.

bucks902 wrote: »

also when my friend is online is there a way to invite him to a group or something so we can see each other easier and do the same quests or do we just need to follow each other around and talk with the same npcs?

Yes, you can invite him to group with you. I don't know exactly how you do that on console though.

Survivor_Chris wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

In a word: yes.

In more than one word: if you're looking to be a magicka-based DPS (and from the sounds of it that's the direction you're going), an Altmer Dragonknight using a flame staff is totally viable. Some might argue it's one of the best combos for magicka DPS. When you hit level 15 and unlock weapon swapping, it might be worth picking up a restoration staff and putting that on your second bar so that you've got a little more utility and magicka recovery, but that's up to you.

Hello! I really don't want to steal the thread but I have one single question and you seem nice! Can you use spears in the game? (XB1) I want to be like prince oberyn from game of thrones with a venomous spear

The answer is "kind of, but not really". There aren't any spears (or other pole arms) as weapons that you can use, and there's no skill line for them. The only way that you can kind of use them is by being a Templar. Templars have a class skill line Aedric Spear which has a number of spells that are based on spears, and show a spear in the animation for them (radial sweep, puncturing strikes, piercing javelin, spear shards).

I saw a comment once by one of the devs along the lines of "there aren't spears in the game because spear attack animations are boring". As you clearly know, Oberyn Martell begs to differ

i'm wondering about DK, high elf or dummer?,

magic build sword & shield only stamina skill shield bash & magic build & fire skills, or are light armor passives create loss for magic build?

Sugram22 wrote: »

i'm wondering about DK, high elf or dummer?,

magic build sword & shield only stamina skill shield bash & magic build & fire skills, or are light armor passives create loss for magic build?

Dunmer is somewhat better for fire dmg, and altmer has better mana passives. Both are good for DK.

I tried different combinations for my DK DPS. And now i use DW/destro for PvE (DW - no active skills, only passives to max dmg on single boss targets, destro for AoE - inferno+fire breath+eruption+elemental ring spam and deap breath for heal works great)
And for PvP i use destro/restro build.

even magic DK, to be tanky & good dam

bucks902 wrote: »

:i seem to have low health i fight and usually dont get hit however if i manage to get hit it doesnt take much to kill me im trying to finish the ghosts of westry and the ghost thing in the cellar keeps killing me because its so fast and does alot of dmg when it hits

On low lev you have ineffisient resource management as you have no armor sets and armor bonuses so you should kill quick or have healing skills. For destro DK you should open gragon blood skill for healing asap. As you do not need stamina for attck learn to use block it will mitigate dmg you recive. If you use stone fist for knock down, try to replase it with fire clench (destro staff skill). Use fire breath on groups befor you attack then one by one.

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Magicka DK is great in pve.,Even good a shield healer (think wow disc priest). But dont take them into pvp if you value your life

Cuyler wrote: »

Sugram22 wrote: »

i asked cause with DK sword & shield i usually go for heavy armor for survival

Sounds like you want to be a tank, or are looking for a PvP build.

heavy armor sword & shield just 1 shield skill shield bash & good DPS

Ishammael wrote: »

Sugram22 wrote: »

Cuyler wrote: »

Sugram22 wrote: »

i asked cause with DK sword & shield i usually go for heavy armor for survival

Sounds like you want to be a tank, or are looking for a PvP build.

tank for self benefit, to survive, survive & to have good DPS, so heavy armor

You won't get this with a DK in the current state of the game, sorry.

Regardless, High Elf is the absolutely a good choice for any magicka spec, especially for PvP.

, i have nord DK Magic & heavy armor, DPS seems best from all the classes, others are more burst then DPS, more burst dam, fire breath then flame sword skill, they burn + i make dam with flame sword (forgot skill name), it doubles the dam, ppl who say it has bad DPS don't know how to use DK skills right, mobs die faster, not just that i can kill groups faster then with any other class

i do use fiery breath to & flame sword skill + i want to add shield bash to it, last skill inner light, not sure will i replace 1 with inferno, 1 of the 4 skills, if it still stops mana recovery then i think i won't use it with my magic build

ofc if life steal morph has that effect that increases MP cost when i want to cast only that, then i don't like it, i know 1 spell that does that, sorc jolt escape or bolt escape or how was it called, cast within 4sec again & it costs 50% more MP, it just that whip will be my mane attack, specially if i go with Molten, so i will be using whip the most, F Breath is for making enemy burn, so i use it once as long as enemy is burning, recast when burn ends