embers, cauterize, coagulating blood are your class based self heals. But what you truly lack as a mDK is a class based HoT, if you're double staff mDK definitely try rapid regen.

Hard to say what to use at low levels. Mine power leveled in nMA over a day from 10 to 50 so I hardly remember what I used. Flame Lash is a good heal and you unlock it straight away but can only proc if the enemy is off-balanced and has a cooldown. Burning Embers is by far the best one. If you can't wait to heal you can refresh it early. Coagulating Blood unlocks later, and the heal mostly scales on HP, so it's not a good choice for a magicka build outside of PvP. Later you unlock Deep Breath and possibly Cauterize, though I prefer the other morph. Battle Roar passive under Earthen heart also heals you for up to 11.5K when you cast an ultimate, and Fragmented Shield skill amps all your healing (Major Mending). So DK has quite a few healing skills.

Stridig wrote: »

Looks like they pretty much covered it. There are a couple things to consider at later levels that weren't mentioned. Draw Essence is a very good heal and dont forget Cinder Storm. Both are very good for congested areas. I personally run Destro/Resto as MagDK is pretty tanky.

I believe both morphs of inhale are amazing abilities for outnumbered combat, I'd kill for a stamina morph honestly.

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

At lvl 18 you won't have much self healing. No class except wardens and templar have that. But burning embers is your most important heal, cauterize is your second, flame lash your third and coagulating blood is your emergency heal.

I personally don't understand why magdks run resto, we have 4 strong heals at our disposal and don't need a resto staff. If its going to be for PvP I would recommend shield back bar or the very uncommon frost staff (which I use the most)

No HoT. Rapids is the best HoT on demand you can get

Xvorg wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

At lvl 18 you won't have much self healing. No class except wardens and templar have that. But burning embers is your most important heal, cauterize is your second, flame lash your third and coagulating blood is your emergency heal.

I personally don't understand why magdks run resto, we have 4 strong heals at our disposal and don't need a resto staff. If its going to be for PvP I would recommend shield back bar or the very uncommon frost staff (which I use the most)

No HoT. Rapids is the best HoT on demand you can get

I agree for PvP, but for PvE you really don't need that much healing, since it isn't halved by Battle Spirit. I've soloed most WBs in the game on my Mag DK healing simply off Embers and Whip and shielding heavily.

Oh, of course, on PvE you don't need a resto staff unless your magicka regen is toooooo low (or you are trying to play differently)

For solo I play Lightning Staff front bar, Inferno back bar. I can sustain just fine even with base recovery ~700 because I weave heavy attacks with the front bar DoTs until Unstable Wall explodes. They are easy to weave, melt trash and do quite a bit of damage since I buff myself with Molten Armaments. I breezed trough vMA with this build, and beat almost every world boss. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=71272

Something like his can be done with crafted gear for lowbies instead of what sets I have here. Ex Julianos/Torug's/New Moon or any other set with magicka bonuses.

Asardes wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

At lvl 18 you won't have much self healing. No class except wardens and templar have that. But burning embers is your most important heal, cauterize is your second, flame lash your third and coagulating blood is your emergency heal.

I personally don't understand why magdks run resto, we have 4 strong heals at our disposal and don't need a resto staff. If its going to be for PvP I would recommend shield back bar or the very uncommon frost staff (which I use the most)

No HoT. Rapids is the best HoT on demand you can get

I agree for PvP, but for PvE you really don't need that much healing, since it isn't halved by Battle Spirit. I've soloed most WBs in the game on my Mag DK healing simply off Embers and Whip and shielding heavily.

Oh, of course, on PvE you don't need a resto staff unless your magicka regen is toooooo low (or you are trying to play differently)

For solo I play Lightning Staff front bar, Inferno back bar. I can sustain just fine even with base recovery ~700 because I weave heavy attacks with the front bar DoTs until Unstable Wall explodes. They are easy to weave, melt trash and do quite a bit of damage since I buff myself with Molten Armaments. I breezed trough vMA with this build, and beat almost every world boss. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=71272

Something like his can be done with crafted gear for lowbies instead of what sets I have here. Ex Julianos/Torug's/New Moon or any other set with magicka bonuses.

We should create a poor's man builds thread using:

1- Base overland sets
2- crafted sets
3- Monsters (optional)