Breath Dragonknight Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Engulfing Dragonfire - the main ability of this build, a 4.8 second channeled attack which causes you to breathe fire in front of you (0.3 second windup and then deals damage every 0.5 seconds, 10 ticks in total). Its damage ramps up by 5% each tick up to 50% on the last tick, but it always deals maximum damage while Take Flight's bonus is active. Unlike other channeled abilities, this one doesn't go on cooldown when you get interrupted.
• Trample (Physical, Lingering Torment, Heroism) - a 1.5 second channel which sends your mount forward in a line, dealing damage, applying a 20 second DoT, and most importantly granting you 10 seconds of Major Heroism, which will be crucial for keeping higher uptime on Take Flight
• Molten Whip - a spammable which we'll slot mostly for its passive effect. Molten Whip gains up to 3 stacks whenever you use a Dragonknight ability which grant you 15% damage done at maximum stacks. They last 10 seconds and with this many Dragonknight abilities in your rotation you'll never have to pay attention to this timer. You also gain stacks which empower your next Molten Whip cast, but these are separate from the stacks which give you increased damage done, so using up the "Empowered Whip" does not remove the damage done buff.
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Flame, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - a 22 second DoT which will also grant you Minor Resolve, increasing your armor by 2974. Having it slotted will also increase your Max Magicka and Magicka Recovery through Magicka Controller passive
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that will also apply Hemorrhage status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. It will also trigger the Slayer passive
• Take Flight - a cheap ultimate which gives you a 20% Damage Done against Monsters buff for 15 seconds. Your Engulfing Dragonfire always deals maximum damage while Take Flight's buff is active.
• Shatterspike Mantle - your source of Major Resolve which also applies a 20 second DoT to enemies around you and grants you a buff which adds 100 damage to all of your damage ticks
• Incinerate - an ability which releases a fiery wave around you on cast and then every 5 seconds for 15 seconds. It has increased base chance to proc Burning status effect. Having it slotted passively grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy.
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely loaded ability that does a multitude of things. It's completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning, Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5% and it will also apply Minor Brittle for 4 seconds if you were on your Ice Staff bar while the Chilled effect procced, and Ice Staff will be part of the Instanced gear setup. Minor Brittle increases Critical Damage taken by 10%. The Chilled proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. If it's the Ice version, it will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they'll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Igneous Weapons - a 60 second buff which grants you Major Brutality and Sorcery and causes your Light Attacks to deal additional damage up to once every 2 seconds.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker - since this build revolves around Engulfing Dragonfire you'll want to always use Take Flight as your ultimate. Flawless Dawnbreaker is slotted on backbar to passively provide some Weapon and Spell Damage through Slayer passive

Ulfsild's Contingency is the first skill that has to go if you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says it's replacing something else. If it's a difficult fight where you need all the mitigation you can get, then the skill that has to go is Barbed Trap. When replacing Barbed Trap you ideally also want to replace Deadly Strike with Tzogvin, but even without that set replacing Barbed Trap is the right call

• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics. It can also be used in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order or Reaving Blows
• Chains of Dominance - a chain ability that you can use to stack enemies. Use it in trash packs or in boss fights with adds that have to be chained. It also applies Major Cowardice which can be useful against hard hitting bosses. It isn't worth slotting just for the Major Cowardice alone, but if you already slotted it to deal with the adds you might as well use it on the boss
• Chains of Devastation - a gap closer which can be useful in fights where you have to move around a lot
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Soul Burst (Pull, Class Mastery, Breach) - an 8 meter AoE pull with a 2 second delay which will debuff your enemies with Minor Breach and grant you Weapon and Spell Damage based on number of enemies hit
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Flame, Gladiator's Tenacity, Resolve) - a different script combination which trades the DoT from Lingering Torment for the mitigation from Gladiator's Tenacity. Use it in fights where you need more damage mitigation.
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Quick Cloak - an ability which provides Major Evasion, which reduces your AoE damage taken by 20%. Use it in fights with lots of AoE damage.
• Soul of Flame - an ability which restores resources based on your missing resources. Use it if you can't sustain.
• Burning Embers - a 10 second DoT which heals you for a decent amount on cast and then continues to heal you whenever it ticks. Use it if you need more healing.
• Wing Buffet (either morph) - an extremely situational ability which can be useful in fights with lots of projectile damage
• Race Against Time - snare removal which will be crucial for some fights. It replaces Barbed Trap because it also provides Minor Force
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight
• Corrosive Armor - an ultimate that limits any damage you take to 6% of your max HP for 10 seconds, useful in fights with infrequent hard hitting mechanics
• Volcanic Ward - a decent damage shield which also reduce the next instance of damage you take by 10% and heals you after the shield ends. It has a similar use case to Resolving Vigor, but it costs Magicka instead of Stamina, and damage shields will perform better than healing in some fights, where you need to prepare for a bigger hit

Priority List

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

This rotation is for maximizing damage. In actual content you'll sometimes have different priorities. When under pressure you should always keep up defensive abilities like Shatterspike Mantle and Ulfsild's Contingency, even if it means wasting Take Flight's buff

After casting Take Flight you ideally want to spend the next 15 seconds spamming Engulfing Dragonfire. If one of your very important buffs/debuffs (Elemental Susceptibility and Igneous Weapons) has less than 15 seconds remaining as you're about to Take Flight, refresh them early before casting your Ultimate

If you're not using Heroism potions you ideally want to also cast another Trample right before casting Take Flight, so that you end up with higher Ultimate after the 15-second phase of breathing fire ends

• 1. Elemental Susceptibility
• 2. Igneous Weapons
• 3. (if Take Flight is active) Engulfing Dragonfire
• 4. Shatterspike Mantle
• 5. Trample (can be skipped if you're getting lots of Ultimate from kills through Banish the Wicked passive)
• 6. Incinerate
• 7. Elemental Blockade
• 8. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 9. Barbed Trap
• 10. Take Flight
• 11. (if at 3 stacks) Molten Whip
• 12. Engulfing Dragonfire

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Shatterspike Mantle
• Incinerate
• Igneous Weapons
• Ulfsild's Contingency