Panocek wrote: »

Play the way you want to play.

Magicka Dunmer DK naturally assembles into "pyromancer" theme, whether in heavy or light armor. Unless you're pursuing tops of dps charts, you can't go wrong with Seducer set - easy to craft and gives lots of sustain for your buck. Add some found/bought overland set and for non veteran content you should be good to go.

Magicka tank? Sword and board on one bar, destruction staff on another. Heavy crafted Seducers, Wyrd Tree Blessing if you need even more magicka recovery. Use stamina based skills more carefully - don't poke mobs to death with Pierce Armor, just poke them once for taunt and debuffs, switch to staff, burn them. If you see heavy attack brewing, switch to sword and board to block it.

Asardes wrote: »

Blake6332 wrote: »

Panocek wrote: »

Play the way you want to play.

Magicka Dunmer DK naturally assembles into "pyromancer" theme, whether in heavy or light armor. Unless you're pursuing tops of dps charts, you can't go wrong with Seducer set - easy to craft and gives lots of sustain for your buck. Add some found/bought overland set and for non veteran content you should be good to go.

Magicka tank? Sword and board on one bar, destruction staff on another. Heavy crafted Seducers, Wyrd Tree Blessing if you need even more magicka recovery. Use stamina based skills more carefully - don't poke mobs to death with Pierce Armor, just poke them once for taunt and debuffs, switch to staff, burn them. If you see heavy attack brewing, switch to sword and board to block it.

If you go with this, dont expect to be able to do anything other than the very easiest vet dungeons. Magicka DK tank is already less powerful than stamina DK tank, but using a destro staff backbar will do nothing for you. The damage you do as a tank is a pebble's throw at best. What you CAN do is build your character to support your group so that they can do their jobs easier and better.

Full magicka DK will be very effective as tank. My main character is stamina DK but most of his tanking skills, except pierce armor and heroic slash, are magicka. My gear gives me enough health to tank even veteran trials, so I only invest in magicka and magicka recovery. Provided you use prismatic enchantments on your gear, or at least mix some stamina ones, your stamina pool will be around 14.5-15K on a Dark Elf full magicka character. Which is sufficient for a tank, if you know how to manage it. Or you can use a maximum magicka + maximum health food as DD and a maximum stamina + maximum health food for tanking. That will push your stamina pool up to 20K. If you receive some health bonuses from your gear your health will be 28-30K. I'd say this is a viable build for any of the veteran trials.

I've tanked vRoM HM and vCoS HM with a full magicka build sorcerer in heavy Willow's Path and Amerplasm, with lightning staff backbar, not for the damage, but for the major vulnerability debuff and power surge self heals. Tanking it with a similarly built DK would have been much easier ex. interrupting the stone shapers with crystal frags is much clunkier than chaining.