One Bar Heavy Attack Dragonknight DPS Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency (Flame, Lingering Torment, Force) - your source of crucial Empower buff, which increases damage done by Heavy Attacks by 70%. Since Ulfsild's Contingency is a Mages Guild skill, it will trigger the Might of the Guild passive, which grants you Empower for 10 seconds. It also deals decent damage in an AoE and grants you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Ulfsild's Contingency is delayed until the next skill cast but whenever it's needed you can activate it early by bashing your enemy. If you cast this ability as you're finishing your Heavy Attack, the Empower you gain from it will start working just in time to boost the final tick of that Heavy Attack you just finished
• Flames of Oblivion - an ability which deals a lot of damage per cast, passively grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy, and grants you a Molten Whip stack.
• Merciless Resolve - an ability that will cause your Light and Heavy Attacks to generate stacks. You can spend 5 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range. It also grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy
• Engulfing Flames - an AoE DoT which increases enemies' Flame damage taken by 6% and grants you a Molten Whip stack.
• Banner Bearer (Magic, Cavalier's Charge, Berserk) - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, grants Weapon Damage based on your movement speed and grants Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%. You can change the Berserk script to Heroism if Minor Berserk is being provided by your supports. You can also use Class Mastery instead of Cavalier's Charge if your base class is Dragonknight. It grants Weapon Damage based on amount of enemies surrounding you and it reaches the Weapon Damage provided by Cavalier's Charge at 3 enemies. It also reduces your damage taken
• Standard of Might - extremely powerful ultimate that deals damage over time, increases all of your damage done and decreases all of your damage taken
• Concealed Weapon - an ability that will passively grant us 15% movement speed, which will grant us 90 Weapon and Spell Damage thanks to the Cavalier's Charge script on Banner Bearer
• Molten Whip - an ability we'll keep slotted on backbar for its passive effect. At 3 stacks it will provide you with 300 Weapon and Spell Damage and the stacks will be kept up with Engulfing Flames and Flames of Oblivion
• Soul Harvest - slotting this Ultimate on backbar will cause you to gain 10 Ultimate when killing enemies

• Whenever you need to slot situational skills, replace Banner Bearer
• Venomous Claw - a replacement for Engulfing Flames for purely Single Target fights. Just like Engulfing Flames it will grant you Molten Whip stacks
• Elemental Blockade - your source of Off Balance if supports aren't providing it. It requires enemies to be Concussed, so you'll have to use Shock enchant to proc it or rely on your teammates for that.
• Critical Surge - a very strong self-heal. Use it when you need a self-heal because you're assigned to some duty which puts you far away from your group, or if your healers are bad. It also increases your Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive

This is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh.

If you're tracking the Off Balance debuff, you should cancel your Heavy Attack when there's around 1-2 seconds left on the Off Balance Immunity. This way the next Heavy Attack you start will finish its channel during Off Balance and you'll be able to fit 3 Heavy Attacks during a single Off Balance window

While the build works perfectly fine without it, reaching 125k DPS requires you to maintain Molten Whip stacks. It means that sometimes you'll have to recast Flames of Oblivion early so that your Molten Whip stacks don't expire. Whenever the timers on your Flames of Oblivion and Molten Whip are equal, the timer on Engulfing Flames/Venomous Claw is higher than these two and your Standard of Might isn't becoming ready in a few seconds, you have to recast Flames of Oblivion after there's 5 seconds left on it, which is when it shoots out the second to last projectile. This way you're wasting the last projectile which would shoot out at 0 seconds but you're avoiding losing the 300 Weapon and Spell Damage from Molten Whip

Priority List

• Use Ulfsild's Contingency if your Empower is out or if it's going to run out by the end of the Heavy Attack you're channeling
• Use Standard of Might whenever it's ready
• Use Flames of Oblivion
• Use Engulfing Flames (or Venomous Claw depending on your setup)
• Use Merciless Resolve if you have at least 5 stacks
• Use Ulfsild's Contingency as a filler

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Flames of Oblivion