since you went dark elf you should go magicka and should use destroy staff for the most part but while questing you can basically use want you want till you get to end game. id just have fun while questing and do what you want try different abilities and weapons. if you have trouble doing questing and stuff you can look up builds and guides to help you

Vampire and 2 Destro Fire Staves

but as Dunmer Dual Wield stamina build could also work

Personally I prefer the magikca play style & definitely play to it's fire wielding strengths

I have 4 questions for you:

1: Do you want to play PvE, PvP or a both?
2: What role would you like to play?
3: Do you like Stamina, Health or Magicka based builds?
4: Do you prefer Ranged or Melee builds?

hi so i prefer melee but i will like to try ranged but mostly i do melee

JLPM98191 wrote: »

hi socan i go dual wield and a bow for my stamina dunmer dk

Race doesn't matter until you start counting every last ounce of dps for leaderboard scores. So for now, do whatever you want. Experiment and so what you like but the flat answer to your question is yes, you can.

I started with a wood elf stamdk and wound up really enjoying DK's and have mained a magDK for sometime now. I realized that I just didn't really enjoy the blandness of stamina setups, they are all basically the same with a bow on the backbar.

So my advice would be to make one character of each class and play each one up to around level 15 or 20. See which one you really care to play; maybe you'll find yourself gravitating towards one character.

If you are absolutely deadset on DK's already, GREAT! DK's are a lot of fun to play because everything is fire and the visuals for the skills are great (until you start animation canceling and then you don't see the fun stuff, but thats another story for another time).

Another reason magDK's are fun is that they find themselves in what I call the half-way. For several skills they need to be in melee range (which isn't as close as you actually think) but they can also drop back a bit and hit from range. You'll need to learn how to be mobile as a magDK, moving in and out much like a boxer would compared to the relatively static positioning of a ranged DD or a pure melee DD (their concern is simply staying out of the red). This can challenge your stamina, especially if you dodge roll a lot.

Edit: as a magDK you get a lot of survivability: reflective plate reflects arrows and spells back to the caster for 6 seconds and removes snares from you, you get a rockstar Ultimate in Standard of Might, and you get a killer Ultimate in Magma Shell/Corrosive armor that basically makes you invincible for a short time, which is great in a pinch.

And as a dark elf, you almost offset the increase in damage vampires take in higher stages while buffing your flame damage output.