STAMINA DRAGONKNIGHT SUBCLASS SOLO GUIDE

• Bloodthirst - a spammable that will heal you for 33% of the damage done
• Venomous Claw - a strong DoT that is also guaranteed to proc the Poisoned status effect which will proc Combustion, improving your sustain
• Traveling Knife (Poison, Lingering Torment, Berserk) - AoE DoT that grants you Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%
• 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
• Hurricane - your source of Major Resolve which is a crucial defensive buff. It also deals decent damage and grants Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive.
• Power Overload - an ultimate we won't be using most of the time, but we'll keep slotted on frontbar for the passive 108 Weapon and Spell Damage from Expert Mage passive. When starting a fight with a lot of Ultimate stored up you can use Power Overload light attacks until you're at 250 Ultimate and only then cast Standard of Might
• Soul Burst (Flame, Lingering Torment, Courage) - 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
• Standard of Might - extremely powerful ultimate that deals damage over time, increases all of your damage done and decreases all of your damage taken
• 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.

Soul Burst and Venomous Claw 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

• Critical Surge - extremely strong self-heal which you should slot for more difficult fights
• 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 in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order, Reaving Blows or Critical Surge
• 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%
• Noxious Breath - a strong AoE DoT that applies the Major Breach debuff. Good replacement for Venomous Claw in AoE fights
• Whirling Blades - an AoE spammable which is a good replacement for Bloodthirst if you want to get through trash packs faster, or if you need lots of AoE damage for some boss fight
• Burning Embers - other morph of Venomous Claw, deals less damage and costs Magicka, but it heals you for 100% of its damage done. In order to sustain enough Magicka to use it, you'll have to change the Flame script on your Soul Burst to Bleed.
• Lethal Arrow - a ranged spammable which replaces Bloodthirst when you switch to a ranged setup
• Poison Injection - a ranged single target DoT, use it in fights where you have to keep your distance from the boss majority of the time so you can't utilize melee DoTs
• Acid Spray - a ranged AoE DoT, use it in ranged fights where you need more AoE damage
• Consuming Trap - a very weak DoT which replenishes your resources when the affected target dies, it can provide you with a lot of sustain in fights which constantly spawn weak adds
• Ballista - a replacement for Standard of Might (since Bow will be on your frontbar you'll have to swap it around with Power Overload) in fights where you have to constantly kite the boss
• 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
• Ball of Lightning - an ability that teleports you forward. Use it in fights where you need more mobility or in fights where this teleport allows you to invalidate some mechanic

Priority List

I don't use a static rotation so 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

• Use Hurricane 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 Flames of Oblivion
• Use Traveling Knife
• Use Soul Burst
• Use Venomous Claw
• Use Hurricane
• Use Standard of Might
• Use Bloodthirst

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)
• Hurricane