Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Thanks for checking out this Stamina Dragonknight PVE Build for Greymoor. This is mainly optimised for 12-man trials, but can be adjusted to suit dungeon and solo playstyles too.

EDIT: Changed DPS Values due to last-minute patch changes! If you're looking for the DW/Bow Build (originally filmed in Harrowstorm but still very relevant): liko.gg/content/1190/liko-stamina-dragonknight-pve-build-(88k+)

Thanks to Rosskag for providing us with the parse.
Rosskag's YouTube channel here: youtube.com/channel/UCn0ebl6PdpmH4JVUn8Metsg

Greymoor brought us updated ability-altering sets. For ALL stamina DDs: consider farming the following for this build:

Blackrose Dual Wield: Increases your damage done and reduces your damage taken by 6% for 2 seconds when dealing damage with Blade Cloak. The Perfected Set also has a 103 Stamina Recovery Bonus.

Masters Dual Wield (Stinging Slashes): Increases any instance of damage done with Twin Slashes by 1635, rather than only increasing the bleed damage by 1600. The Perfected Set also has a 666 Weapon Critical Rating.

This means you can stay in melee range and go with a DOUBLE Dual Wield Setup. You can also keep the EXACT same gear as the last patch and you'll be fine (vMA Bow, Relequen, with Lokkestiiz Dagger/Axe and Maarselok or other Monster Set etc). The video is linked above.

Gear
Shown here:
- Lokkestiiz Body
- Relequen Body
- Nirnhoned/Precise Master's Dagger/Axe
- Blackrose Dagger x2 Both Infused (Switch this with your Infused vMA Bow for a DW/Bow Setup)

Alternative Gear (for all different setups):
- New Moon Acolyte, Tzogvin, Leviathan (Body), Advancing Yokeda (Weapons + Jewelry) Briarheart, Selene, Velidreth, vMA Bow, Master's Bow
- Switch out Lokkestiiz if someone in your group is using the new Roaring Opportunist set!
Race
- Orc! (Dunmer, Khajiit, Redguard, Woodelf as lesser alternatives)

Mundus
- Shadow

Blue CPs for Practicing on the Dummy
- Master-at-Arms 56
- Thaumaturge 56, Piercing 57, Precise Strikes 52, Mighty 49

Blue CPs in Raid: More important than EVER: Adjust to your group's Physical Penetration Debuffs. Tremorscale has a new unique 2395 Physical Resistance Debuff that can be kept up pretty easily. Here you would remove around 32 points from Piercing, and redistribute those spare points in any logical way.
Eg:
- Master-at-Arms 72, Phys. Weapon Exp 3
- Thaumaturge 56, Piercing 27, Precise Strikes 56, Mighty 56

Food
For Practice on Dummy: Lava Foot + 0 points into HP (64 into Stamina)
In Raid: Lava Foot + ~20 points into HP + 6 Medium / 1 Heavy OR Artaeum Takeaway Broth with 0 points into HP

Parse and Build from Video -- imgur.com/a/ZgIF1lj

Rotation

This rotation is centred around achieving a good uptime of Spectral Cloak. Deadly Cloak lasts 10 seconds, and the buff lasts for 2 seconds per hit, so a maximum of 12 seconds uptime per cast. So for your backbar, you can simply cast Deadly Cloak together every 12 seconds. This relies on you being as close to the boss as possible.

Aside from that, you will want to keep up Stonefist for the group buff, which means throwing a rock every 5 abilities or so. Barbed Trap, Noxious Breath, Venomous Claw and Flames of Oblivion are also to be kept up. To be honest, for a dynamic rotation, the DOTs don't line up too well, so don't worry about trying to fit them all together perfectly. You'll have to make a decision to recast some DOTs early, let others run out. For example, I would let Venomous Claw run a full duration since it gets stronger per tick.

Rending Slashes will be your main spammable. It is really strong with the Master's Dual Wield since the change buffs the 2x initial hits. Generally, I would try to work around casting this skill non-consecutively, since you probably won't get the first bleed tick otherwise, but it's not a big deal.

In execute, nothing changes. However, you could add Whirling Blades, making space by moving Noxious Breath to your backbar.

Proposed Simplified Static Rotation
Start:
Flames of Oblivion - Barbed Trap - Deadly Cloak - Soul Trap

Then repeat:
Stone Fist - Rending Slashes - Venomous Claw - Rending Slashes
Stone Fist - Noxious Breath - Barbed Trap - Rending Slashes
Stone Fist - Flames of Oblivion - Deadly Cloak - Soul Trap

Use your Ulti in place of a Rending Slashes cast
Cast skills such as Barbed Trap, dynamically, to make more efficient use of it.

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