Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is a video showcasing a dynamic rotation for the Stamina Dragonknight. As always, since this is a video made on the PTS, things are subject to change before the Elsweyr patch hits the live servers. This is probably one of the most fun dynamic rotations that I have come up with, and it has a lot to do with the new Dragonknight passive, Seething Fury.

From the 5.0.0 patch notes: Molten Whip (morph): Reworked this ability so it no longer grants a passive bonus to Weapon and Spell Damage while slotted. Instead, this passive grants access to Seething Fury, a 33% damage bonus to your next Molten Whip cast and increase of 125 Weapon and Spell Damage every time you activate an Ardent Flame ability that isn't Molten Whip. This bonus can stack up to 3 times, lasts 5 seconds, and will refresh in duration every time it is applied to you.

This means if I have Molten Whip slotted, I can maintain a bonus of 375 Weapon/Spell damage, which also scale with modifiers. This beats slotting a Fighters Guild ability for the passive, like how we've been doing for the past few patches. With my current bar setup, the Seething Fury is kept up when I use Noxious Breath or Venomous Claw. Although Flames of Oblivion is from the same skill line, it resides on my back bar, where I do NOT have Molten Whip slotted, so casting this does not count towards the buff in my setup.

The emergence of Whirling Blades as an easily accessible spammable AND execute makes it interesting for all without a class execute. This means everyone except Stamblades when it comes to dual wield setups.

From the 5.0.0 patch notes:
Whirlwind:
- Increased the base damage of this ability and morphs by 50%, but removed the execute bonus.
- Reduced the base cost to 3510 from 3780.
- Increased the radius of this ability and the Whirling Death morph to 6 meters from 5 meters.
Whirling Blades (morph): Removed the reduced cost and Major Endurance on hit, and reintroduced the execute bonus to this morph.

Whirling Blades gets stronger as the fight goes on. It overtakes the direct damage portion of Noxious Breath once ~95% boss HP is reached, Crushing Weapon damage at ~80% and Flying Blade at ~75%. The downside to Whirling Blades is the high cost. On this StamDK setup, it costs 2493 Stamina. Compare this to 2109 for Flying Blade, 1928 for Crushing Weapon and 1400 for Noxious Breath. With these factors considered, it pretty much makes sense to use Whirling Blades as much as possible below 95% boss HP, and just use Noxious Breath as a semi-spammable from this point onwards as a method of keeping up the Seething Fury passive.

I used Velidreth, Relequen and Perfected Lokkestiiz in this setup. It does seem to perform slightly better than Advancing Yokeda, although the real difference depends on the quality of synergies in your group. I have made the decision to use the Lava Foot Soup & Saltrice food for all of my Stamina setups. Yes, it means I'm running around with 12-13k HP on the dummy, however, the important thing here is to simulate raid sustain. In my raids, I usually have at least 2 sources of Sentinel of Rkugamz, which is a huge source of Stamina regen; otherwise absent when I test. I am also missing a number of Synergies that would be available in my raid, which means I do not benefit from the Undaunted Command passive in the same way. So I use this food for the testing to be useful to me personally.

Combat Metrics Parse from Video (88.8k)- https://i.imgur.com/8A4y4SN.png
Build as seen in Video - https://i.imgur.com/8EXx9E5.png

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Prebuff - Before I enter a fight, I would spam Noxious Breath on my front bar. This allows me to start the fight with the max stacks of Seething Fury active.

To keep up Seething Fury comfortably when I am doing my back bar rotation, you'll generally see me doing this:
Noxious Breath - Barswap - Endless Hail - Rearming Trap - Barswap - Noxious Breath - Barswap - Caltrops - Poison Injection
For the front bar portion of the rotation, I will generally refresh Venomous Claw and Rending Slashes naturally. Quick barswaps to refresh Flames of Oblivion too. The only rule otherwise is to try and use Noxious Breath to keep up Seething Fury at least once every four skills. In between, it is the perfect opportunity to use Whirling Blades. If sustain is tight, then Noxious Breath can just be used more frequently earlier on in the fight, whilst conserving the Stamina for more Whirling Blades spam in the latter parts, where it is more potent.
In the execute phase, and especially in the last 10% or so, it's probably not worth overcasting Noxious Breath anymore for the passive, but to full out Whirling Blades spam instead. It seems like not a big deal to let it drop off at this point considering how strong the execute gets.

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