ESO Dragonknight One Bar PvE Healer Build

Table of Contents

• Skills
• Rotation
• Gear
• Passives Skills
• Race
• Mundus Stone
• Champion Points
• Consumables
• Wrap Up

Last Updated: 2023-03-13

The ESO Dragonknight One Bar PvE Healer Build is able to wield fiery magic and alter the earth to strengthen their allies, shattering the ground and slamming enemies with molten rock to heal your allies. Though most known for tank builds, Dragonknight bring much to the table as healers and make for fun gameplay!

We also included flexible gear options for those with or without Oakensoul Ring mythic.

Related: How to Obtain Oakensoul Ring Guide

Last updated March 13th, 2023, for Update 37 and the Scribes of Fate DLC. We changed relevant item sets and adjusted abilities to create the most effective healing build. The champion points suggested also assume you are crafting your build for survivability, buffs, resource sustain and easy mode healing. Adjust where you see fit or to help with more challenging content. Also, make sure to use a two-bar build for Veteran Cloudrest, where bar swapping is required.

 

Should you play the ESO Dragonknight One Bar PvE Healer Build?

The ESO Dragonknight One Bar PvE Healer Build is a versatile and strong healer build. Oakensoul makes the one bar healer effective because you aren’t required to maintain as many buffs, which gives players breathing room on ability timers and allows you to focus more on mechanics and team health bars. Dragonknights are more readily used as tanks in ESO, but they make viable healers, as well! While they are mostly reliant on healing abilities provided in the resto staff skill line, they are very survivable and have a strong ultimate.

Pros

• Good resources with ultimate
• Major mending in class
• Very tanky

Cons

• Totally reliant on resto staff
• Very little unique in class

Skills

One Bar: Restoration Staff

We use restoration staff for main healing abilities. Important note for resource management: Thanks to Cycle of Life passive your fully-charged Heavy Attacks with restoration staff restore 30% more Magicka. And because of Essence Drain passive, you gain Major Mending for 4 seconds after completing a fully-charged Heavy Attack, increasing your healing done by 16%.

Illustrious Healing (Morph of Grand Healing | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Main AoE heal over time ability with a big radius. Keep this heal up, especially when stationary, also used to proc sets requiring a ground cast ability. This also helps keep high up time on Spell Power Cure or proc Olorime 5pc set.

Energy Orb (Morph of Necrotic Orb | Skill line: Undaunted) - A great heal over time with burst heal synergy. It's a slow traveler but does everything for you as a healer. Keeps people's resources flowing via undaunted synergy passive, huge burst healing anyone can activate and massive heals over time. Only downside is it's not mobile and doesn't have great range.

Blessing Of Protection (Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Provides a strong heal for you and your allies in the AoE, and also increases your physical and spell resistance for 10 seconds.

Overflowing Altar (Morph of Blood Altar | Skill line: Undaunted) - Altar in a trial is exceptional because the healing it provides during prolonged stationary fights. Moreover, added synergies means more resource sustain for your group. However, I do flex this ability in and out depending on the situation, gear set and mobility of the encounter. Swap to Combat Pray in high mobility fights, from the resto skill line.

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Great multi-targeting heal over time ability, especially for mobile encounters, also helps to proc specific healer sets. Spam ability to cover more targets if needed. This helps proc our gear sets along with decent healing in high mobility fights, plus you can pre-cast before going into a pull for HoTs.

Aggressive Horn (Morph of War Horn | Skill line: Assault) - TWO CHOICES 1x for increasing damage Aggressive Horn or 1x for Survival and that's Reviving Barrier for Alliance War Support. Horn = One of the most important ultimate abilities for a support role. Grants Major Force increasing critical damage by 20%, also increases Max Magicka and Stamina by 10% for you and your group members. Prioritize use of this ultimate, it provides a huge damage boost to your group, coordinate with other support roles if possible to keep a high uptime. Reviving Barrier = An ultimate that applies massive damage shields to group members, and those shielded also receive healing over time. Provides extra Magicka Recovery through Support skill line passive when slotting this ultimate ability.

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Rotation

Normal rotation

The premise here is to roll as many heals over time as possible to keep high up time on spell power cure and or another set. Build in a heavy attack after each cycle to keep sustain high. Then switch to burst healing mode if anyone drops to 50% or lower. Priorities are as follows:

1. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE
2. high heals per second
3. high up time on gear sets
4. burst up allies who dip below 50%
5. keep your resources high by heavy attacking in between rotation.

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Gear

Optimal with Mythic

Great all around setup with oakensoul

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Magma Incarnate	Divine	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divine	Magicka
Chest	light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divine	Magicka
Legs	light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divine	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Boots	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Belt	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Spell Power Cure	Powered	Spell Damage
Weapon Two
Necklace		Hollowfang Thirst	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Oakensoul Ring	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Hollowfang Thirst	Arcane	Spell Damage

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Magma Incarnate: helmet obtained in Veteran dungeon The Dread Cellar, Waking Flame DLC, shoulders bought from Urgarlag Chief-bane the Pledge Master

• Why? 1 piece gives stamina and magical recovery helps with sustain.

FLEX OPTIONS:

Hollowfang Thirst: obtained in Moongrave Fane dungeon, Scalebreaker DLC.

• Why? does everything you need, helps with healing and sustain!

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Stone-Talker’s Oath= great back bar sustain set
• Z’en’s Redress = niche setup that adds tons of damage
• Powerful Assault: = great increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Way of Martial Knowledge = great overall DPS added set

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

• WHY? Major courage adds tons of damage and this set is mobile.

FLEX OPTIONS on Body

• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Sanctuary = easy to obtain increase to HPS
• Kagrenac’s Hope = craftable option for beginners
• Winter’s Respite= beginner overland set

Oakensoul: obtained through ESO Mythics/antiquities system. You need 5 objects(leads) to be able to create the Mythic item. Location of the 5 leads (click for details)

• Why? The best one bar item for a DPS

FLEX OPTIONS

• Spaulder of Ruin = incredible damage added for raids
• Torc of Tonal Constancy = Sustain
• Markyn Ring of Majesty: = good damage per one piece and it helps defensives as well

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Optimal without Mythic

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Earthgore	Divine	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Earthgore	Divine	Magicka
Chest	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divine	Magicka
Boots	light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divine	Magicka
Belt	light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divine	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Spell Power Cure	Powered	Spell Damage
Weapon Two
Necklace		Hollowfang Thirst	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Hollowfang Thirst	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Hollowfang Thirst	Arcane	Spell Damage

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Engine Guardian: obtained from Vet Darkshade Caverns II; base game duneon

• Why? carries your survivability and resource sustain in a two piece set.

• Symphony of Blades = S tier resource sustain
• Sentinel of Rkugamz = great resource sustain
• Nightflame = good HPS
• Earthgore = AoE burst heal

Hollowfang Thirst: obtained in Moongrave Fane dungeon, Scalebreaker DLC.

• Why? does everything you need, helps with healing and sustain!

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Stone-Talker’s Oath= great back bar sustain set
• Z’en’s Redress = niche setup that adds tons of damage
• Powerful Assault: = great increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Way of Martial Knowledge = great overall DPS added set

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

• WHY? Major courage adds tons of damage and this set is mobile.

FLEX OPTIONS on Body

• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Sanctuary = easy to obtain increase to HPS
• Kagrenac’s Hope = craftable option for beginners
• Winter’s Respite= beginner overland set

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Passives

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Alliance Passives

World Passives

Make sure to focus on maxing out the following passives skills as they add performance to your character

• Class passives
• Weapon passives
• Armor passives
• Fighter’s Guild (optional)
• Mage’s Guild (optional)
• Undaunted (must have)
• Psijic Guild (optional)
• Crafting Alchemy (Medicinal Use for potion duration)
• Race
• Assault Alliance passives
• Alliance Support passives
• Vampire (if using)
• Werewolf (if using)

Races

Breton

Insane sustainability lacks spell damage or increased healing.

• Opportunist
• Gift of Magnus
• Spell of Attunement
• Magicka Mastery

Argonian

Great for pure healing and survival, lacks sustain and has less Max Magicka.

• Amphibian
• Life Mender
• Argonian Resistance
• Resourceful

Attributes

Mundus Stone

Atronach - Ideal if using spell damage glyphs on jewelry = Increases Magicka recovery by 310. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Magicka recovery by 507 (Well-rounded choice for all setups)

Ritual - Ideal if using recovery glyphs on jewelry = Increases healing effectiveness by 8 %. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases healing effectiveness by 13%

Champion Points

Warfare

Soothing Tide (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Healing Done by area of effect heals by 2% per stage.

Swift Renewal (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Healing Done with healing over time effects by 2% per stage.

Rejuvenator (Slottable) - 50
Grants 41 Weapon and Spell Damage to your healing abilities per stage.

Enlivening Overflow (Slottable) - 50
Overhealing yourself or an ally grants them Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery equal to .5% of your Max Magicka, up to a cap of 150, for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds per target.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Tumbling (30), Mystic Tenacity (10), Hero’s Vigor (20), Shield Master (10), Defiance (20), Hasty (16), Tireless Guardian (20), Fortification (30), Sprinter (20), Nimble Protector (6), Savage Defense (30), Bashing Brutality (20), & Piercing Gaze (30)

Fitness

Boundless Vitality (Slottable) - 50
Grants 28 Max Health per stage.

Fortified (Slottable) - 50
Grants 34.6 Armor per stage.

Spirit Mastery (Slottable) - 50
Decreases the time it takes to resurrect an ally by 33%.

Rejuvenation (Slottable) - 50
Grants 1.8 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Precision (20), Piercing (20), Eldritch Insight (20), Flawless Ritual (40), War Mage (30), Quick Recovery (20), Preparation (20), Elemental Aegis (20), Hardy (20), Blessed (20), Tireless Discipline (20), Battle Mastery (40), & Mighty (30)

Crafting

War Mount (Slottable) - 120
Improves your mastery with mounts, removing all mount Stamina costs outside of combat.

Gifted Rider (Passives) - 100
Increases your Mount Speed by 2% per stage.

Steed's Blessing (Slottable) - 50
Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by .4% per stage.

Treasure Hunter (Slottable) - 50
Increase the quality of items you find in treasure chests.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Breakfall (50), Wanderer (75), Steadfast Enchantment (50), Fortune’s Favor (40), Gilded Fingers (50), & Inspiration Boost (45)

Consumables

Ghastly Eye Bowl

Type: Foods

GOOD HEALING (Use if you're good with mechanics and sacrifice less health): Increase Max Magicka by 4256 and Magicka Recovery by 425 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bananas (1), Fleshfly Larvae (1), Rose (1), Saltwater Bait (1), Worms (1)

Bewitched Sugar Skulls

Type: Foods

GOOD MAX STATS (Use if you don't need recovery or want more health and stamina): Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Scrib Jelly (2), Flour (5), Columbine (2), Bervez Juice (2), Honey (5)

Clockwork Citrus Filet

Type: Foods

EXPENSIVE (A great option if you can afford it): Increase Max Health by 3724, Health Recovery by 351, Max Magicka by 3458 and Magicka Recovery by 319 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Red Meat (1), Lemon (1), Frost Mirriam (1), Perfect Roe (1)

Tri-Potion

Type: Potions

Restore 7329 Health, 6618 Magicka, and 6618 Stamina immediately. Grants Major Fortitude, Major Intellect, and Major Endurance which increase your Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower

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