Dunmer dk tank is such a waste lol, but yeah i agree

One of my main dps characters is a magDK, excellent choice! They are considered a bit harder to play than most other characters, simply because of a lack of burst damage and a class execute skill, but believe me, once you get the hang of it...things die in a glorious fiery mess! The thing to keep in mind though, magDKs tend to play close in, essentially melee range. If you want to play from range, that's a different beast all together, one I am unpracticed with.

I run dual wield on the front bar, destro on the back for pve. The trick to magDK is managing your DoTs(damage over time). At any given time you should have 3-5 dots on any given target. My rotation starts with flame breath(adds 20% to fire damage on target), burning embers(wonderful spammable w/ heal), bar swap and drop wall of elements, then cinder storm(ground based AOE). Bar swap back to DW and light attack weave fire whip twice, then start back at the beginning to reapply the dots. There are MANY skill combinations you can put together, but that's the rotation I've put together and it works quite well!

For pvp/dueling I swap destro for a resto staff. In place of wall of elements I place fossilize(wonderful cc/snare ability) and replace cinder storm with healing ward. I also exchange DW for one hand and shield, as all skills on front bar are class skills, no changes necessary. For a pvp magDK, your go to combo/execute is meteor(mages guild ultimate) in to fossilize. Players know to simply block when they get the white circle under them signifying incoming meteor. If magic character, whole stam bar is gone so they won't be able to CC break out of fossilize, therefore dead as a mofo. Stam characters should be able to get out of it in time, but will be left with few resources and very little health. Couple of well placed attacks and game over for them too.

As for sets...end game wise burning spellweave(city of ash) will be the main set you want. So if you can do 5bsw/5 julianos/2 Vakyn skoria or grothdar(undaunted vet dungeons/chests) that's going to be a powerhouse. Spell damage enchants on all Jewlery. Resource management for me comes in the form of a low cost ult on the front bar(bat swarm). Pop that and about half of my magic pool comes right back. For boss type fights I save up meteor or destro staff ult and use that for big damage. When resources get low, I replace the 2x flame whip with 2 full heavy attacks(with molten weapons up they hit for +40%) to keep the resource pool in check.

As for your sets growing the character, completely agree with above. Julianos with training traits is what you will want, then I would recommend Magnus gift(training also) for the second(max mag/recovery/spell damage) for your staff/DW setup. A little extra recovery with seducer is nice, but I find the extra SD with Magnus much more appealing. Also, don't worry that you will be under 2k spell damage the majority of the time, mine didn't get over 3k until I was maxed out with gold weapons and jewelry.

Skill slots: <skills in brackets are pvp swaps>
DW/<S&B>
Flame breath
Burning embers
Harness magic
Flame lash
Inner light/<Choking talons>
>Bat swarm/<Take Flight>

Destro/<Resto>
Wall of elements/<Fossilize>
Molten weapons
Cinder storm<Healing Ward>
<Spiked armor>/Deep breath/elemental drain- depends on need
Inner light/<empowering chains>
>Meteor/destro ult

38k mag/20k health, 15k spell/physical resist(20 with spiked armor), 3200 SD(atronoch mundus), 57% crit<47% for pvp>. Can go with thief mundus for similar or possibly better damage in pve. 60-65% crit is perfect for a magDK, but anything over 50 is good.

Forgot to mention I run him as a vampire...may have already deduced that from bat swarm, but there you have it anyway.

Hope this helps!

Level resto staff and sword and shield. For group PvE you will run double destro but if you want to do vMA you will want resto/destro and if you want to PvP you will want to run sword and shield/destro or sword and shield/resto. It probably wouldn't hurt to level dual wield so you have access to the twin blade and blunt passive in case dual wield is ever a thing for mag DK.

Narvuntien wrote: »

Well I am back with a fully leveled dragon mage now.

I currently have.
5 Sun, 5 Mothers sorrow. Generic crafted precise fire enchanted weapons. I just farmed them in the overworld so thier traits are a bit random. Still its mostly purple and mostly divines.

Thief Stone

I was using 2x Destructo staff for most of the allance story but I switched to Resto/destructo. When I realised healing allies counts yourself.

Resto main bar.
Engulfing flames.
Burning embers.
Molten whip.
Draw essence.
Ward ally.
Devouring swarm

Destructo.
Elemental wall
Structured entropy
Force pulse
Elemental ring
Flames of oblivion.
Elemental Rage

I think I'll switch elemental ring for Eruption for more dots. Apperently I chose the opposite morphs to what you suggested but that is easy enough to fix.

I still don't get the magelight thing is it just the extra magicka? I think I prefer the extra damage from flames of oblivion.

Extra magic, higher crit chance, and mages guild passives when you level up the skill line. I find a bigger magic pool far more useful than a fireball every 5 seconds(that I have to remember to reapply).

I tried dual wielding for a bit but I really didn't like it, I had mana issues and having to get up close to attack was a pain.
I guess I'll try out S&B I kind of like the mana return from the staff heavy attacks though. I have no monster helms sooo do I even need the single handed stuff?

I mean... I need something to even try dungeons right? I haven't actually done many dungeons, honestly kind of scared...this is my first MMO.

Anything crafted I can use?, I picked up purple sun jewellery, I don't have DLC though...