Mag dk needing some major help

Cameron991 · October 2017

Ok so I am cp 450 and I just got to 50 on my dk I crafted my gear which is shack breaker and sun with two skoria I have 5 light and 2 heavy with snb I am lost my dps is good 1v1 but I can hardly dent a 660 and I don't know what the best abilities to use are in lost please tell me what's wrong and or how to put good damage out. Also I go down a lot faster then I expected. Thanks for the help

AverageJo3Gam3r · October 2017

I assume pvp? If so, your defense is burning embers for healing, strategic use of fossilize, and talons. When you see them start to line up their burst, use fossilize. When you use talons, get behind them. Always have burning embers ticking so you have a burst heal on demand. Stay on top of them and don't lose control of the fight. Only use dragon blood if you have to. It's expensive and doesn't help break up pressure.

Offensively, you need to line up your burst. You can't expect to stand there and whip things to death. You need to line up a flames of oblivion proc (or a deep breath explosion) with a skoria meteor and a leap followed by a flame lash. That should give you enough burst to kill them. Ideally you'd fossilize right before you burst so all the damage hits.

Matchup also is important. MDKs lack the burst to get through a perfectly played magsorcs shields. A perfectly played magplar will purge off your dots. If you play perfectly and they play perfectly, both these matchups are a stalemate. It's whoever makes the first mistake.

Cameron991 · October 2017

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

I assume pvp? If so, your defense is burning embers for healing, strategic use of fossilize, and talons. When you see them start to line up their burst, use fossilize. When you use talons, get behind them. Always have burning embers ticking so you have a burst heal on demand. Stay on top of them and don't lose control of the fight. Only use dragon blood if you have to. It's expensive and doesn't help break up pressure.

Offensively, you need to line up your burst. You can't expect to stand there and whip things to death. You need to line up a flames of oblivion proc (or a deep breath explosion) with a skoria meteor and a leap followed by a flame lash. That should give you enough burst to kill them. Ideally you'd fossilize right before you burst so all the damage hits.

Matchup also is important. MDKs lack the burst to get through a perfectly played magsorcs shields. A perfectly played magplar will purge off your dots. If you play perfectly and they play perfectly, both these matchups are a stalemate. It's whoever makes the first mistake.

Any great sets to use with sun? Or is shacklebreaker good enough? I don't know how people are getting a lot higher spell damage with the same gear as me. Mine is 1700 spell damage in buffed and I see people with like 2700 unbuffed how

kyle.wilson · October 2017

Cameron991 wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

I assume pvp? If so, your defense is burning embers for healing, strategic use of fossilize, and talons. When you see them start to line up their burst, use fossilize. When you use talons, get behind them. Always have burning embers ticking so you have a burst heal on demand. Stay on top of them and don't lose control of the fight. Only use dragon blood if you have to. It's expensive and doesn't help break up pressure.

Offensively, you need to line up your burst. You can't expect to stand there and whip things to death. You need to line up a flames of oblivion proc (or a deep breath explosion) with a skoria meteor and a leap followed by a flame lash. That should give you enough burst to kill them. Ideally you'd fossilize right before you burst so all the damage hits.

Matchup also is important. MDKs lack the burst to get through a perfectly played magsorcs shields. A perfectly played magplar will purge off your dots. If you play perfectly and they play perfectly, both these matchups are a stalemate. It's whoever makes the first mistake.

Any great sets to use with sun? Or is shacklebreaker good enough? I don't know how people are getting a lot higher spell damage with the same gear as me. Mine is 1700 spell damage in buffed and I see people with like 2700 unbuffed how

Gold your weapons.

Savos_Saren · October 2017

I use Sun, BSW, and Valkyn on my build.

Unfortunately, mDKs are getting weaker and weaker in PVP. Even as @AverageJo3Gam3r said- you can use fossilize... but that just took a huge nerf as well. They wanted it to be different from Stonefist- so, instead of redesigning it- they just nerfed it.

Your only source of mobility is Elusive Mist- which effectively renders you unable to heal, fight, or regen magicka. Of course, you'll have to accept the health regen debuff and fire susceptibility debuff from being a vampire, though.
(Technically, you have major expedition from using chains- but those are so broken that no one really uses them.)

We used to have to rely on heavy armor for more survivability annnnnd that just took a nerf.

Furious Leap is going to be your bread and butter. Eye of Storm just took a 12% nerf and Shifting Standard was just nerfed to render you unable to build ultimate for 25 seconds. (Unable to build ultimate as a Dragonknight? That's insane, right? It completely goes against our class-defining abilities.

)

Dragon Fire Scale used to be a great defense- but it's been nerfed for almost every attack. ZoS made Meteor unreflectable (which is justifiable), but then they nerfed it where beam projectiles can't be reflected. Sure. We'll suffer through that. But, that wasn't enough. ZoS nerfed it further so that a warden's birds were an exception.