ESO Dragonknight PvP Healer Build

Table of Contents

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

Last Updated: 2023-03-21

ESO Dragonknight PvP Healer Build

Welcome to the guide for the ESO Dragonknight PvP Healer Build. Though not usually the first class players think to reach for when creating PvP healers, the Dragonknight brings its own unique toolkit to the table. It may not be a meta-healing class, but it is super tanky and survivable.

Related: PvP Campaigns guide, and what to choose, CP or no-CP?

Last Updated March 18th, 2023 for ESO Update 37 Scribes of Fate. Update 37 gave the Dragonknight Healer a mobility tool with Vampire Elusive Mist, and I highly recommend it for this build. In exchange for high mobility, you’ll have weak resource sustain, so we compensated with jewelry enhancements to keep you topped off on resource sustain. Additionally, some new monster helms have been introduced that make the group utility even stronger, and healer builds in PvP have more flexibility than ever.  The class is still in a good position to do some great PvP healing in this update and beyond.

 

How Does the Dragonknight Heal in PvP?

The Dragonknight make great healers in ESO PvP. If the following “pros” are what you are looking for, the build is for you!

Pros	Cons
Access to major mending	Limited interesting burst healing
Great stamina sustain passives	Not meant for massive AoE healing
Good heals over time

 

The Best Dragonknight Healer Build and Playstyle

The healing in PvP is different from PvE. Your purpose is to provide support, buffs and healing to you and your group and to be the tankiest player on the battlefield. If you want to survive in ESO PvP, you must keep your buffs and healing over time at all times rolling. As a result, the build provides tools within the gear and skills to help you achieve all your tasks as a healer.

Use the environment to your advantage. Never stay in an open field, exposing yourself to damage makes you easy to target and kill. Hide behind objects to lower the pressure. If they can’t see you, they can’t hit you!

The class has a strong burst heal that requires aiming at a target. Use it and your defensive ultimate as a “panic button”. Hold block and heal! However, remember to hide as soon as possible and refresh the buffs. Burst healing will not keep you or your teammates alive forever. The skill will quickly burn through your magic, leaving you vulnerable.

Try to use both resource pools (stamina and magicka) to sustain. If you run out of resources, do a heavy attack – if done on an off-balance target, it’ll refill twice as many resources.

Lastly, always use suggested food and potions. They will improve your survivability and provide more healing per second to your group. Switch the Mundus Stone and skills in and out until you achieve what works best for you!

Skills

Bar One: Restoration Staff for Healing

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - great heal over time that procs various gear sets.  Consider this a must to keep at all times.

Igneous Weapons (Morph of Molten Weapons | Skill line: Earthen Heart) - Keep this buff up on yourself and your allies at all times. Grants Major Brutality and Sorcery to all, with an uptime of 45 seconds.

Cauterize (Morph of Inferno | Skill line: Ardent Flame) - Just slotting this ability gives you Major Prophecy and Savagery, and casting grants a heal for yourself and an ally.

Energy Orb (Morph of Necrotic Orb | Skill line: Undaunted) - Main resource sustain synergy for your allies, also provides a strong AoE heal over time. Keep orb active and in proximity of your allies as much as possible.

Combat Prayer (Morph of Blessings of Protection | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Great healing buff for all classes.

Life Giver (Morph of Panacea | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - insane survivability for you or the group with mobility and low cost.

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Bar Two: Sword and Shield for Defensive and burst healing

Weapon Choices

• Restoration Staff = more flexibility with bar slots BUT you need blocking mitigation typically
• Ice Staff = block mitigation plus not having to cut your weapon trait in half, meaning more healing.
• Sword and Shield = block mitigation and the ability to recover stamina from heavy attacks

Hardened Armor (Morph of Spiked Armor | Skill line: Draconic Power) - a powerful shield skill the grants Major Resolve, as well as absorbing up to 4k damage for 6 seconds.

Blinding Flare (Morph of Revealing Flare | Skill line: Support) - This gives us 10% damage reduction and is great counter gank.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill line: Vampire) - Helpful mobility skill. It teleports you on a short distance, giving you an extremely powerful tool.

Elemental Blockade (Morph of Wall of Elements | Skill line: Destruction Staff) - Ground cast AoE ability, primarily used to apply status effects that debuff and weapon enchant, making it ideal to use Lighting or Ice staff.

Coagulating Blood (Morph of Dragon Blood | Skill line: Draconic Power) - Your main spammable burst heal that is based off your missing health. Meaning, if you’re at 75% I wouldn’t cast this because it won’t do much for you. Instead relay on Cauterize for heal over times and this for an “oh crap” spammable when below 50%.

Replenishing Barrier (Morph of Barrier | Skill line: Support) - A must have ultimate for an effective PvP group, this ability protects yourself and nearby group members for up to 11k damage. A must have when storming keeps through a hail of siege fire.

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Rotation

Healing Rotation

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Gear

Small Group Content

Ideally used with a 2-6 player group.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Ozezan the Inferno	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Ozezan the Inferno	Divines	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Mara's Balm	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Divines	Magicka
Boots	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Armor of the Trainee	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Powered	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Mara's Balm	Powered	Stamina Recovery
Secondary	Shield	Mara's Balm	Sturdy	Health
Necklace		Pearls of Ehlnofey	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Mara's Balm	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Mara's Balm	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Ozezan the Inferno = monster helm from update 37, Scribes of Fate in Scriverner’s Hall dungeon.  This provides exceptional defensive capabilities if you run multiple heals over time.

Mara’s Balm = one of the strongest defensive sets in the game even post-nerf in update 37. Additionally, this provides a free cleanse every 15 seconds making you extremely tanky.  Swap if you prefer something else in heavy armor.

Phoenix Moth Theurge = this set comes from overland Firesong DLC Galen and Y’ffelon zone or bought from the traders.  This set provides incredible group utility and helps sustain stamina.

Pearls of Ehlnofey = this mythic requires DLC and Scrying. It provides an unbelievable ultimate generation.  Another good mythic is Torc for resource sustain.

Trainee = Comes from base game starter island overland zones or sold at guild traders.  This set simply gives you extra stats and is easy to obtain.

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Zerg

This setup sacrifices survivability and assumes you have a larger group.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Earthgore	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Earthgore	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Trainee	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Sturdy	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Sturdy	Magicka
Boots	medium	Snow Treaders	Sturdy	Magicka
Belt	medium	Trainee	Well-fitted	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Powered	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Blessing of the Potentates	Powered	Stamina Recovery
Secondary	Shield	Blessing of the Potentates	Sturdy	Health
Necklace		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Earthgore: obtained in Bloodroot Forge

• Why? gives a burst heal, mini negate and cleanse.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Engine Guardian: = good resource sustain
• Magma Incarnate = great group utility
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Nightflame = AoE heal

Phoenix Moth Theurge = this set comes from overland Firesong DLC Galen and Y’ffelon zone or bought from the traders.  This set provides incredible group utility and helps sustain stamina.

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

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

FLEX OPTIONS BUFF SET

• Rallying Cry = great group utility setup
• Gossamer = great buff set major evasion to group
• Sanctuary = ideal when you want raw healing
• Almalexia’s Mercy = incredible HPS if you have high magicka
• Hiti’s Hearth = reduce block and dodge plus a heal
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction

Mara’s Balm = PvP Rewards of the worthy boxes

• WHY? one of the strongest defensive sets in the game even post-nerf in update 37. Additionally, this provides a free cleanse every 15 seconds making you extremely tanky.  Swap if you prefer something else in heavy armor.

FLEX OPTIONS DEFNESIVES

• Ironblood = most mitigation possible
• Grace of Gloom = God tier survivability but from healing which scales off max health and major evasion proc
• Mark of the Pariah = good for armor keep on body all times
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction
• Wretched Vitality = great resource sustain
• Daedric Trickery = craftable defensive set

Blessing of the Potentates: Cyrodiil, Vlastarus Elite Gear Vendor

• WHY? great cost reduction after casting combat pray

FLEX OPTION

• Blessing of the Potentates: = great damage reduction set
• Perfected Timeless Blessing = great cost reduction after casting combat pray
• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = great if using healing springs
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = easy to obtain and boost sustain

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No-Proc PvP

Meant for no proc no CP PvP campaigns in Cyrodiil

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Domihaus	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	medium	Swarm Mothers	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Boots	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Belt	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Amber Plasm	Powered	Spell damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Amber Plasm	Powered	Escapist’s Poison IX
Secondary	Shield	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Necklace		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Triune	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Domihaus: obtained in Falkreath Hold & Swarm Mother

• Why? massive 1pc bonuses give you huge stat pools.

FLEX OPTION

• Magma Incarnate = for extra recovery
• Earthgore = for increase healing %

Mark of the Pariah: obtained in overland Orsinium or bought from traders.

• Why? great mitigation set on at all times that’s very easy to obtain.

Amber Plasm: obtained in Ruins of Mazzatun dungeon Shadows of the Hist DLC.

• Why? Carries your resource sustain in no CP.

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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 skill lines
• Armor skill lines
• Undaunted
• Fighter’s Guild (optional)
• Mage’s Guild (optional)
• Undaunted (must have)
• Psijic (optional)
• Crafting Alchemy (Medicinal Use for potion duration)
• Race
• Alliance War
• World Vampire if using

Races

Argonian

god tier tanky making it a perfect fit for being that annoying healer that just won't die.

• Amphibian
• Life Mender
• Argonian Resistance
• Resourceful

Breton

the best burst magicka sustain race in the game.

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

Attributes

Mundus Stone

Ritual - Best overall mundus due to pure raw healing. Increases healing effectiveness by 8 % (13% with 8 Legendary Divine Traits)

Thief - Great mundus stone if to increase your critical healing. Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333. Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

Champion Points

Warfare

Ironclad (Slottable) - 50
Reduces your damage taken by direct damage attacks by 3% per stage.

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

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

Focused Mending (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Healing Done with single target heals by 2% 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)

Fitness

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

Bracing Anchor (Slottable) - 50
While in combat, increase the amount of damage you can block by 4% per stage, but reduces your Movement Speed by 16% at all stages.

Celerity (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Movement Speed by 2% per stage.

Pain's Refuge (Slottable) - 50
Reduces your damage taken by 1% per negative effect active on you, up to a maximum of 20%.

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)

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.

Liquid Efficiency (Slottable) - 75
Whenever you use a potion or poison you have a 10% chance to not consume it.

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

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

Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch

Type: Foods

BEST FOR SUSTAIN: Increase Max Health by 4312, Health Recovery by 406 and Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 369 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Frost Mirriam (1), Perfect Roe (1), Red Meat (1), Tomato (1), White Cap (1)

Jewels of Misrule

Type: Foods

CHEAP SUSTAIN OPTION: Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 357 and Max Health by 3927 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level. Ingredients: Bervez Juice (1), Lotus (1), Mint (1), Rose (1), Columbine (1)

Tri-Restoration Potion or Essence of Health (tri-stat)

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

Escapist's Poison IX

Type: Poisons

Immobilizes your target and grants you unstoppable, rendering you immune to control effects for 1.6 seconds. This poison will also break you free of ongoing control effects. Inflects hindrance to your target and grants you major expedition, reducing their movement speed by 40% and increasing your movement speed by 30% for 2.3 seconds. Drains stamina from your target, increasing the cost of their stamina abilities by 10% and restores 238 stamina per second to you for 2.3 seconds. (10s cooldown). Ingredients: Columbine, Namira’s Rot, Wormwood

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