Two Handed Death Knight Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Wrecking Blow - a spammable which will grant you Major Berserk for 3 seconds, increasing all of your damage done by 10%
• Skeletal Archer - an ability that summons a Skeletal Archer which attacks your enemies for 20 seconds. It also grants you Major Brutality and Major Sorcery for the duration, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%. Getting Major Brutality from an ability allows you to use different potions. We need this ability on frontbar to trigger passives of the Grave Lord skill line, which will grant us a lot of penetration thanks to Dismember passive and increase our Critical Chance in execute thanks to Death Knell
• Relentless Focus - an ability that will cause your Light Attacks to generate stacks. You can spend 4 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range. It also grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy
• 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%
• Smash Bleed, Lingering Torment, Berserk) - AoE DoT which grants you the Minor Berserk buff which increases your damage done by 5%. It can also be used as your AoE spammable
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. This is the ultimate you should use in Single Target fights. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Ice Fortress - your source of crucial Major Resolve buff which increases your armor by 5948. It will also grant you Minor Protection, reducing your damage taken by 5%
• Arctic Blast - an ability with a higher chance to proc the Chilled status effect, which deals increased damage thanks to the Glacial Presence passive. It can also be used as a self-heal when there are no enemies nearby.
• 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, 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
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Bleed, Lingering Torment, Intellect and Endurance) - a 22 second DoT that will improve our sustain by increasing both Stamina and Magicka recoveries by 15%
• Northern Storm - a powerful ultimate that deals damage in an AoE, increases your damage done and grants you Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%

Arctic Blast is the first skill that has to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else. If it has to be a front-barred skill you can replace Smash but then you'll also have to change the Intellect and Endurance script on your Ulfsild's Contingency to Force to make up for it

• 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. It can also be used in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order or Reaving Blows
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Unnerving Boneyard - a source of AoE Major Breach for trash fights or boss fights with lots of important adds
• Merciless Resolve - the other morph of Relentless Focus which costs Magicka instead of Stamina. You'll have to use this one instead if you're not using the Essence Thief set, otherwise you won't be able to sustain your Stamina. You'll also have to switch your food to Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch in order to sustain the Magicka cost of Merciless Resolve
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Bleed, Gladiator's Tenacity, Intellect and Endurance) - a slightly different script combination which trades the DoT component for damage reduction, for fights where you need more damage mitigation. You should recast it every 8 seconds when under pressure and every 22 seconds otherwise
• 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%
• 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

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

• 1. Use Ice Fortress
• 2. Use Skeletal Archer
• 3. Use Elemental Susceptibility
• 4. Use Barbed Trap
• 5. Use Elemental Blockade
• 6. Use Smash
• 7. If you're at 9 stacks, use Relentless Focus
• 8. Use Arctic Blast
• 9. Use Ulfsild's Contingency
• 10. If it's an AoE fight or you're starting at or close to 200 Ultimate, use Northern Storm
• 11. If it's a Single Target fight, use Soul Harvest
• 12. Use Wrecking Blow

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Skeletal Archer
• Smash
• Ice Fortress
• Arctic Blast
• Ulfsild's Contingency