i would say destructive reach is better than crushing shock against a stam attacker (fire does knockback and ice snares)
you could try lightning form because it buffs your armour and does non-reflectable damage
the lightning staff heavy attack is also not reflectable

Inevitable deto+curse+mages wrath / lighting destro staff - can't be reflected.
Daedric minefield if he's melee.

Stranglehands wrote: »

i would say destructive reach is better than crushing shock against a stam attacker (fire does knockback and ice snares)
you could try lightning form because it buffs your armour and does non-reflectable damage
the lightning staff heavy attack is also not reflectable

Destructive reach is reflectable tho. Since damage shields dont take resistance into consideration boundless isnt super helpful. Also the dmg isnt very significant. I use my resto to do the same thing as a lightning staff. Ive tried these suggestions and against a good player it doesnt seem to help much. I appreciate the thoughts tho

Also MOST stam dk's i beat, just against skilled stam dk's i seem to struggle

Time your burst and smack him with the dawnbreaker should be enough to take out anyone even without inevitable det

If your problem is just the refect you could run snb and reflect back. I've seen many a dk panic when they see this happening to them.

A good stam DK will drain all your Stam with fossilize, reflect all your attacks back at you and eventually kill you when you can't break free with 2-3 hits.

A good sorc will fight defensively against a good stam DK, hiding right in his minefield, using crushing shock and entropy to break through the reflects and carefully timing their frags once the DK's Magicka is drained. They will also drain the DK's stam (likely with rune cage). If being pressured hard use Atronarch and regen all your resources in your Atronarch protected minefield.

Run drinks and not food (you should be doing this anyway, not running drinks in PvP is stupid) for stam and mag, and put around 30 champion points into the tumbling passive in the shadow tree.

In the end of they can keep their stam up, a sorc will wear down a skilled stam DK. If their shields are good enough to survive the WB+Leap+Executionner burst they'll win.

Also watch the stam dk's timing on the wings and have a cfrag in your pocket ready to go.. When they flap pop a curse on them, spam mages wrath for a couple seconds then at about the four second mark (before they recast wings) streak through them to cc, turn and drop the cfrag + dawnbreaker. If you have proxy det set that up with your timing as well!

Drakilian wrote: »

A good stam DK will drain all your Stam with fossilize, reflect all your attacks back at you and eventually kill you when you can't break free with 2-3 hits.

A good sorc will fight defensively against a good stam DK, hiding right in his minefield, using crushing shock and entropy to break through the reflects and carefully timing their frags once the DK's Magicka is drained. They will also drain the DK's stam (likely with rune cage). If being pressured hard use Atronarch and regen all your resources in your Atronarch protected minefield.

Run drinks and not food (you should be doing this anyway, not running drinks in PvP is stupid) for stam and mag, and put around 30 champion points into the tumbling passive in the shadow tree.

In the end of they can keep their stam up, a sorc will wear down a skilled stam DK. If their shields are good enough to survive the WB+Leap+Executionner burst they'll win.

For magicka sorc running food is always recommended because it will raise your max magicka and increasing your shield strength. But ive come to the conclusion that the few stam dk's that i do have trouble with might just be better players than i am and using their skills to counter me