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Magicka Dragonknight
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Two Bar Magicka Dragonknight Solo Pure Class
Last updated: Update 49 - 10th March 2026

Magicka Dragonknight Solo Build for ESO, carried by Soul of Flame, a reworked Deep Breath that restores resources based on your missing resources. It's completely broken and lets you use armor potions and Medium armor with absolutely no sustain issues.

Both Stamina and Magicka Dragonknight use Soul of Flame, but Magicka Dragonknight has an easier time keeping it up since the skill costs Magicka. It's the strongest solo build in ESO Update 49.

Capable of soloing every Veteran dungeon that doesn't have a mechanic requiring multiple people, including Veteran Hard Mode Fang Lair and Veteran Hard Mode Scalecaller Peak. Also cleared Normal Trials and Night Market bosses solo. Parses 72.9k in the most offensive setup, and only drops to 66.6k in a defensive setup that hits the 33k armor cap.

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Skill Setups

Base Setup

A base setup that will work for most situations and which should be your starting point when making situational setups

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Molten Whip Slot 1: Shatterspike Mantle
Slot 2: Searing Claw Slot 2: Incinerate
Slot 3: Disintegrating Dragonfire Slot 3: Elemental Susceptibility
Slot 4: Soul of Flame Slot 4: Elemental Blockade
Slot 5: Ulfsild's Contingency Slot 5: Igneous Weapons
Ultimate: Take Flight Ultimate: Standard of Might
Info
Situational
Rotation

Final Setups

A few examples of final setups you could end up with after applying the situational skills to the base setup

A setup for trash packs

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Molten Whip Slot 1: Shatterspike Mantle
Slot 2: Chains of Dominance Slot 2: Incinerate
Slot 3: Disintegrating Dragonfire Slot 3: Soul Burst
Slot 4: Soul of Flame Slot 4: Elemental Blockade
Slot 5: Ulfsild's Contingency Slot 5: Igneous Weapons
Ultimate: Take Flight Ultimate: Standard of Might

What Changes

Passives

The only passive you specifically have to skip is Tri Focus, but it's only important when using an Ice Staff

Some trees are only needed when using situational skills, for example Psijic Order provides nothing without Precognition

Class

Weapon

Armor

Guild

Alliance War

Racial

Craft

Class - Ardent Flame

Combustion - High Priority

Traumatic Burns - High Priority

Fan the Flames - High Priority

A Soul Ablaze - High Priority

Gear

Base Setup

A base setup that is meant for Overland content and will work for most situations. It should be your starting point when making situational setups

Switching gear for trash packs isn't worth it unless you're using gear-swap addons

Different Weapon Types If you want to use a different frontbar weapon type make sure its trait is Charged and the enchant is Poison. You can find parses done with an Inferno Staff, Lightning Staff and a Greatsword in the Parses section. They're roughly a 2.18% damage loss compared to Daggers
Gear Slot Set Weight/Type Trait Enchantment
Head Slimecraw Medium Divines Magicka
Shoulders Order's Wrath Medium Divines Magicka
Chest Tzogvin's Warband Medium Divines Magicka
Hands Order's Wrath Medium Divines Magicka
Belt Order's Wrath Light Divines Magicka
Legs Order's Wrath Medium Divines Magicka
Boots Order's Wrath Medium Divines Magicka
Necklace Tzogvin's Warband Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Magical Harm
Ring Tzogvin's Warband Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Magical Harm
Ring Ring of the Pale Order Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand Tzogvin's Warband Dagger Charged Poison
Frontbar Off Hand Tzogvin's Warband Dagger Charged Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand Crushing Wall Inferno Staff Infused Weapon Damage
Situational
Alternative

Final Setups

A few examples of final setups you could end up with after applying situational rules to the base setup

This is the crafted gear setup you can start with

The setup in the table uses only crafted gear, but if you already own parts of the Regular setup like Ring of the Pale Order you can start using them immediately

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Champion Points

Warfare
Master-at-Arms
6% Direct Damage
Because more than 60% of your damage is Direct
Deadly Aim
6% Single Target Damage
Because more than 60% of your damage is Single Target
Fighting Finesse
8% Critical Damage and Healing
Next strongest CP damage-wise
Wrathful Strikes
205 Weapon and Spell Damage
Next strongest CP damage-wise
More Mitigation
Replace Wrathful Strikes + Fighting Finesse with 2 mitigation CPs: Ironclad, Duelist’s Rebuff, Enduring Resolve, or Unassailable (depending on the type of damage the Boss deals to you)
More Healing
Reaving Blows is a decent Champion Point if you need more HPS
Fitness
Boundless Vitality
1400 Max Health
Survivability
Fortified
1731 Armor
Survivability
Celerity
10% Movement Speed
Next best thing since you don't need sustain CPs
Expert Evasion
Free Dodge Roll every 30s
Next best thing since you don't need sustain CPs
Block Mitigation
Use Bracing Anchor in fights where you block a lot and can afford to move slower
Sustain in add-heavy fights
Use Bloody Renewal if you need more if you need more Stamina in fights with lots of adds
Craft
Steed's Blessing
20% Movement Speed out of combat
Extremely useful utility
Quality of Life
Green Champion Points don't affect Combat, choose whatever Quality of Life you prefer

Race

For solo PvE you need both damage and survivability, so every race brings something to the table, but these two stand out as the best options for damage and survivability respectively

Khajiit
Best for Damage
Khajiit
Why pick this
The strongest race for solo damage. Critical Damage is one of the most valuable stats in Solo play and Khajiits get 12% of it from Feline Ambush passive.
Feline Ambush 12% Critical Damage
Nimble 915 Max Health, Stamina and Magicka
Robustness 90 Health, Stamina, Magicka Recovery
Nord
Best for Survivability
Nord
Why pick this
The tankiest race. Nord is also what I use for soloing Veteran Hard Mode DLC Dungeons. Rugged provides around 5-7% damage mitigation (depending on your current armor), making difficult content significantly more forgiving without sacrificing much damage.
Rugged 2600 armor
Stalwart 1500 Max Stamina, 0.5 Ultimate per second
Reveler 1000 Max Health, 4620 Frost Resistance

Mundus

The Thief
Default
The Thief
7.5% Critical Chance (12.2% with Divines)
When to use
Use in all Overland content and most situations. It increases Critical Chance
The Lover
Instanced
The Lover
2744 Penetration (4489 with Divines)
When to use
Switch when using the Medium Armor Instanced setup. Provides penetration to compensate for the higher armor of Instanced enemies
The Lady
Difficult Content
The Lady
2744 Armor (4489 with Divines)
When to use
Consider for extremely difficult dungeons, though Nord using Medium Armor with Ulfsild's Contingency and Armor Potions is already at the armor cap

Attributes

For most content you should put all 64 points into Magicka. For difficult content you should devote as many attribute points as necessary to Health - for some content you'll be able to get away with 32 Health 32 Magicka, for the extremely difficult stuff you'll need 64 Health.

Health
0
Stamina
0
Magicka
64
All points into Magicka. Use it for most content
Health
32
Stamina
0
Magicka
32
Split evenly between Health and Magicka. Use this whenever you start to struggle
Health
64
Stamina
0
Magicka
0
All points into Health. Use this for very difficult fights

Food

Your sustain is completely trivialized by Soul of Flame, so you don't need any recoveries from your food.

Max Health Max Stamina Max Magicka
The default option. Having higher Maximum Stamina means you'll restore even more Stamina through Soul of Flame, so it's a better default option despite providing less Maximum Health and Maximum Magicka.
Max Health Max Magicka
Slightly more Max Health and slightly better damage, but will cause Stamina issues in any fight which requires constant Dodge Rolling and Blocking. Solitude Salmon-Millet Soup is a cheaper alternative.

Potions

Your sustain is completely trivialized by Soul of Flame, so you don't need any recovery from your potions. Use Armor Potions as your default.

Armor Potion
Default Armor Potion
Restore Health +5280 Armor

Most of the time you should use Armor potions. They'll provide you with 5280 armor and you don't need sustain from your potions thanks to Soul of Flame.

Heroism Potion
Full Damage Heroism Potion
Minor Heroism Restore Stamina Restore Magicka

Heroism potions can provide 100% uptime on Minor Heroism, so they're the best option if going for pure damage, but it's a small DPS gain and a decent nerf to your survivability. On top of that, they're extremely expensive.

Parses

All parses are recorded on the 6 million Target Dummy

Full Damage Setup
72,946DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

Using Full DPS setup

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Full DPS Setup
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Full DPS Setup
Recording
Parse recording
Sugar Skulls
72,272DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

Food changed to Bewitched Sugar Skulls

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Sugar Skulls
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Sugar Skulls
Armor Potions
69,748DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

All previous changes + Armor Potions

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Armor Potions
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Armor Potions
Regular Setup
68,063DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

All previous changes + Regular Skill Setup

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Regular Setup
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Regular Setup
Medium Armor
66,695DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

All previous changes + Medium Armor

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Medium Armor
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Medium Armor
64 Health
64,145DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

All previous changes + 64 attribute points into Health

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - 64 Health
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - 64 Health
Inferno Staff
65,239DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

Medium Armor setup (66.6k DPS) with Daggers changed to Inferno Staff

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Inferno Staff
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Inferno Staff
Lightning Staff
65,166DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

Medium Armor setup (66.6k DPS) with Daggers changed to Lightning Staff

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Lightning Staff
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Lightning Staff
Greatsword
65,171DPS
Target: 6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch: Update 49

Medium Armor setup (66.6k DPS) with Daggers changed to Greatsword

CMX Parse
CMX Parse - Greatsword
CMX Setup
CMX Setup - Greatsword

Gameplay

Here you can see this build tackling Veteran dungeons and other content

Fang Lair
Dungeon
Scalecaller Peak
Dungeon
Scrivener's Hall
Dungeon
Oakenclaw
World Boss
The Prime Cataloger
World Boss
Dragon
World Event
Normal Trials
Trial
Night Market Bosses
Miscellaneous
Fang Lair
Dungeon Veteran Hard Mode
Scalecaller Peak
Dungeon Veteran Hard Mode
Scrivener's Hall
Dungeon Veteran
Oakenclaw
World Boss
The Prime Cataloger
World Boss
Dragon
World Event
Normal Trials
Trial
Night Market Bosses
Miscellaneous

Fashion

Outfit
Magicka Dragonknight fashion screenshot
Slot Style Dyes
Head Annihilarch's Chosen Helmet
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Legate's Black
Shoulders Annihilarch's Chosen Pauldrons
Thalmor Black
Chest Scorianite Gladiator Jack
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Hands Annihilarch's Chosen Gauntlets
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Belt Annihilarch's Chosen Girdle
Thalmor Black
Legs Annihilarch's Chosen Greaves
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Feet Annihilarch's Chosen Sabatons
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Frontbar Main Hand Ilambris Sword
Thalmor Black
Legate's Black
Legate's Black
Frontbar Off Hand Ilambris Sword
Thalmor Black
Legate's Black
Legate's Black
Backbar Main Hand Annihilarch's Chosen Staff
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Magicka Dragonknight fashion screenshot
Collectibles
Slot Collectible
Skin Deadlands Scorcher
Personality Deadlands Firewalker
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