One Hand and Shield Stamina Dragonknight Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Shield Throw - Physical, Knight's Valor, Resolve. Use Power Slam instead if you don't have access to Scribing
• Soul Burst - Bleed, Lingering Torment, Courage. Use Volatile Armor instead if you don't have access to Scribing.

• Shield Throw - a spammable that will also interrupt enemies who are channeling and grant you Major Resolve for 10 seconds, which increases your armor by 5984 and is a crucial defensive buff
• Burning Embers - a DoT that will heal you for 100% of its damage done. It applies the Burning status effect at the beginning which will also proc the Combustion passive if it's off cooldown. It's also going to grant you a stack of Molten Whip
• Noxious Breath - an AoE DoT that applies the Major Breach debuff, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 and is crucial for any non-overland content, though in this build we're also getting Major Breach from Elemental Susceptibility so Noxious Breath is used just because it's a strong AoE DoT, not because of its Major Breach. You can also use it as a spammable when facing multiple enemies. It will also grant you a stack of Molten Whip
• 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
• Flames of Oblivion - an ability that deals lots of damage per cast and passively grants you Major Savagery buff, which increases your Critical Chance by 12%, though it's less important because you'll already have that buff from your potion. It will also empower your Molten Whip
• Flawless Dawnbreaker - an ultimate that we won't be using, unless the fight is about to end and it's clear you won't be able to get another Standard of Might. Flawless Dawnbreaker is there just to proc the Slayer passive, which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 3%
• Soul Burst - an AoE DoT that will grant your Minor Courage buff, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• Eruption - a ground DoT that also deals direct damage at the beginning, up to once every 10 seconds. It's crucial for proccing the Mountain’s Blessing passive which will grant you the unique Minor Brutality buff, increasing your Weapon Damage by 10%
• 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. The Burning status effect will also proc the Combustion passive if it's off cooldown. 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, which is always going to happen at the beginning when you cast Elemental Susceptibility. 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. It will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they’ll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Molten Whip - ability that will cause our other Ardent Flame abilities to grant us 100 Weapon and Spell Damage and empower next Molten Whip by 20%, stacking up to 3 times and lasting 15 seconds. Use it when it's at 3 stacks. Using up the stacks doesn't remove the Weapon and Spell Damage buff
• Standard of Might - extremely powerful ultimate that deals damage over time, increases all of your damage done and decreases all of your damage taken. It will also grant you a stack of Molten Whip

Molten Whip and Soul Burst are the first skills that have to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else

• Resolving Vigor - use it for more difficult fights where the pressure is constant and thus you need the Minor Resolve. It can also be used as your main source of healing before you obtain the Ring of the Pale Order Mythic or in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Flame, Gladiator's Tenacity, Force) - a replacement for Barbed Trap in fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a delayed AoE damage that also grants you 8% damage reduction for 8 seconds and Minor Force for 22 seconds, which increases your Critical Damage by 10%. You should recast it every 8 seconds when under pressure and every 22 seconds otherwise. Having it slotted on your frontbar will also trigger the Magicka Controller passive which will slightly improve your magicka sustain
• Temporal Guard - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's an ultimate we can frontbar for the passive Minor Protection which decreases your damage taken by 5%. It will also trigger the Concentrated Barrier passive
• 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%
• Venomous Claw - other morph of Burning Embers which deals more damage but doesn't heal you. You can use it when you want to trade survivability for more damage. Since you're switching a Magicka ability for a Stamina one, you should also change your Soul Burst's Bleed script to Flame script so that it costs Magicka instead of Stamina
• Power Slam - a replacement for Shield Throw in fights where you have to block a lot. Power Slam has decreased cost after blocking so it's the only way to sustain this kind of fights. When swapping out Shield Throw, you have to also swap Molten Whip to Volatile Armor to get your Major Resolve back
• 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
• Defensive Stance - use it for fights where you have to block a lot of attacks. This skill will passively increase your Block Mitigation by 10% and reduce your Block Cost by 10%. It can also be used to gain a damage shield and reflect the next ranged attack within 6 seconds
• Shield Wall (either morph) - a decent ultimate for fights where you have to hold block for a very long period of time, like for example Roksa the Warped fight in Bal Sunnar

Priority List

Use this as a priority list. Recast abilities when they run out and follow this list when there are multiple things to refresh

Thanks to the Deadly Bash passive, this build has potential to utilise "bash-weaving", which means using a bash after each ability. If you want to do that, make sure to set a separate keybind for Bash instead of using the Block+Light Attack combination, as blocking will halt your Stamina Recovery. You should stop bash-weaving once your stamina gets too low.

• If your Molten Whip's Weapon and Spell Damage buff is about to run out while all of your Ardent Flame abilities are already running, re-cast Burning Embers or Noxious Breath early, whichever has less time remaining
• Use Shield Throw if you don't have Major Resolve, you can skip this step in easier fights
• Use Elemental Susceptibility
• Use Eruption
• Use Elemental Blockade
• Use Barbed Trap
• Use Soul Burst
• Use Molten Whip if it's at 3 stacks
• Use Flames of Oblivion
• Use Burning Embers
• Use Noxious Breath
• Use Standard of Might
• Use Shield Throw

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Flames of Oblivion
• Soul Burst
• Eruption (place it anywhere to get the Minor Brutality from Mountain’s Blessing)