Plasma_Elf wrote: »

Out of those 3 sets, personally I would choose shackle/axiom. However, I would wear 5 light pieces. IMO light armor offers too much damage to give up, and you could put protective on your jewelry to help your tankiness in light. Spinner is a set worth considering if you are set on going heavy armor.

This also depends on whether you are playing no cp or cp.

Thank you for reminding me of Spinner!!! Defo a solid option...I'll have to consider it now!

I also agree with the Light armour point but it really doesn't fit my playstyle

You can get the same feel of heavy armor running full protective jewels in light. If you are still miss the stam return, higher hp, and higher base healing of heavy, then run what you like.

I would suggest the base damage set, sustain set, defensive set.

Damage - rattle or spinners if using a staff, or axiom if using SnB. You will have higher healing with rattle and axiom, and higher damage with spinner.

Sustain - shacklebreaker or bloodthorn. You will see the best sustain with bloodthorn in heavy when in combat and pairs well with HA constitution.

Defense - you can't go wrong with blood spawn.

I dont know what your CP is, but I have found mgDK to be lacking in the damage department. I cant imagine what losing the dmg buffs from light armour would do. And to make matters worse magdk doesnt have an execute either. And most of your damage will be in melee range. I find it harder to stay on top of people. If I didnt do enough damage it would be harder to kill people before theu got a chance to get out of range and heal up.
DK skills are also expensive, so I chose Breton.

Light Armor without Swift is not a life.

@Rhaegar75 I’ve been rocking light fortified brass with bloodspawn on my dunmer magDK paired with BSW or spinners and I quite like it. When BSW proc’s I get around 2.9-3k spell power with 1,400ish regen (I also use elemental drain for some regen).

I’ve gone pretty even with the build, but I will admit that I often lose to skilled players (it’s probably more the skill gap than the build though). I find it difficult to beat DoT builds because the constant pressure forced me to blow through my magicka, especially if I don’t have an ult up to regain resources.

I was fighting an EP stamDK last night in Sotha who was just wiping the floor with me lmao, but he was really cool and would stop attacking if someone else joined the fight. *** I probably walked back to them 5-6 times from Nik before giving up, still fun!

Heavy armor and it's passives feels like a waste to me. There's plenty of other sources for resistances like protective jewelry, bloodspawn, sword&board, nord, a tanking set. Any one of these or a combination of two, is more than enough. One of the more popular combos is protective jewelry and bloodspawn.

Fortified Brass is good but I personally prefer Pariah because it synchronizes very well with the vampire Undeath passive and (blackrose resto) Healing Ward.

Bloodspawn gives DKs indirect sustain through higher ult gen. Most mDKs only need around 1400 magicka recovery (unbuffed). You can go higher or lower depending on what skills you use.

Shackle is good overall and recommended as a base set.
Axiom is the most reliable damage but it doesn't buff light attacks (fine for s&b, bad for inferno staff weaves)
BSW is high damage but only up less than 2/3. (Annoying if you have to juggle it with Berserk weapon enchant)
Bright-Throat solves sustain and offsets the loss of max magicka from non-arcane jewelery. (even with food/drink nerfs)
Silks of the Sun only buffs your fire damage not your heals. (see Embers, Powerlash, Cauterize frontbar)
Spinner is highest damage but again doesn't buff heals.
Rattlecage is actually good if you want more barspace. (Max Health and stacking spell damage)

What do you make of the following build in non CP? I feel that the stats are decent....extra magicka wouldn't harm though.
What would you change?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=138272

You should definitely find a Slot for fossilize, one of the strongest if not the strongest single target cc in the game and without it you are not gonna get power lashes off for extra healing and more Damage.
One Thing I also would recommend is running a defensive ult on your backbar spellwall is Pretty strong, you could also use ice destro frontbar (dont put Points into the first destro passive if you do) and a resto backbar for resto ult, also helps your allies and makes you very tanky for its Duration.

just out of interest...any good alternative to Bright Throat?

The second set is Axiom, I like it so I won't change it

I'm running valkyn, curse eater, and shacklebreaker (5 light, 2 heavy) in battlegrounds right now. Then I use a 2-handed and resto staff. Not really an optimal build. But I'm in low MMR matches for now so I figure I'll use the 2-handed as long as it stays fun. But I do recommend 5 light, shacklebreaker, valkyn + defensive set with two recovery bonuses.

BlackMadara wrote: »

LaveniaRose wrote: »

I'm running valkyn, curse eater, and shacklebreaker (5 light, 2 heavy) in battlegrounds right now. Then I use a 2-handed and resto staff. Not really an optimal build. But I'm in low MMR matches for now so I figure I'll use the 2-handed as long as it stays fun. But I do recommend 5 light, shacklebreaker, valkyn + defensive set with two recovery bonuses.

So your build can't be bound by the mortal or ethereal coil? Sorry... I couldn't help myself...

What? I don't understand the reference. I'm just saying the build's not very good but it's fun and good doesn't matter as much in low MMR.