Magicka Dragonknight Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Molten Whip - a spammable which grants you a stack of Seething Fury whenever you use another Dragonknight ability. Seething Fury lasts 10 seconds, increases your damage done by 5% and increases damage of your next Molten Whip by 33% per stack, stacking up to 3 times. The damage done buff does not disappear when you use the empowered whip.
• Searing Claw - deals direct damage and applies a 10 second DoT which deals 10% more damage every 2 seconds. The initial hit is guaranteed to proc Burning status effect.
• Disintegrating Dragonfire - deals direct damage in a cone in front of you and applies a 10 second DoT to all enemies hit and debuffs them with Major Breach, reducing their armor by 5948
• Soul of Flame - interrupts enemies around you, restores 15% missing Stamina and Magicka every 2 seconds over 4 seconds (ticks 3 times) and deals damage in an AoE at the end
• 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. This is also your AoE spammable
• Take Flight - a cheap ultimate which deals damage, stuns enemies and grants you a 20% Damage Done against Monsters buff for 15 seconds
• 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 strong 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 increase 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.
• Standard of Might - an ultimate which calls down a standard which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 600, increases your damage done by 15% and reduces your damage taken by 25%. It's always a DPS decrease compared to Take Flight , but it can be used to survive difficult mechanics thanks to the 25% damage reduction

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 Disintegrating Dragonfire , or Searing Claw if you need a lot of AoE damage for that fight.

• 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
• Burning Talons - a replacement for Ulfsild's Contingency which does more damage but doesn't provide the armor buff, and just like Ulfsild , it can be used as AoE spammable
• 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
• 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.
• Burning Embers - the other morph of Searing Claw which doesn't deal more damage with time, but instead heals you on cast and every time the DoT ticks. Use it if you need more healing.
• Protect the Brood - an extremely situational ability which can be useful in fights with lots of projectile damage. It also provides Minor Protection for 20 seconds after casting
• Fleetstep Wings - the other morph of Protect the Brood which should be used in fights where you need to remove snares
• 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

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

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