Powerful Magicka Necromancer Build PvP for ESO

Table of Contents

• Cyrodiil Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Combos & How to play
• Battlegrounds Setup
• Necromancer Subclassing
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Magicka Necromancer Build PvP “Horror” for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. This Magicka Necromancer Build both has an optimized version for Cyrodiil and one for Battlegrounds.

With the Magicka Necromancer PVP Build, we are currently using Necropotence, Clever Alchemist, Kjalnar’s Nightmare, and the Destructive Impact set. The Clever Alchemist set and the Master Destruction staff boost our Spell Damage by a lot and the Necropotence set will increase our Magicka thanks to our summons. Kjalnar is a nice set that can stun or deal damage to the enemy.

This allows us to get high burst damage, everything evolves around getting your Spell damage as high as possible and then lining up your burst with Kjalnar’s Nightmare set, Blighted Blastbones, Destructive Clench and your Ultimate.

• Necromancer Class
• Light Armor
• Destruction Staff + Resto
• Cyrodiil & Battlegrounds Spec
• High Burst Damage
• Good Sustain
• Good Healing

Cyrodiil Setup Magicka Necromancer PVP Build

Now let’s take a look at how we can create the ESO Magicka Necromanxer Build.

5x Necropotence, 5x Alchemist, 2x Kjalnar, 1x Perf. Destructive Impact on a Breton with Longfin Pasty with Melon Sauce buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
• Buffed: In combat, buff food, Weapon Damage Enchantment, Skeletal Arcanist, Entropy, Resistant Flesh, Tri-Stat Potion active.

Gear Magcro PVP Build

Where can I get the gear?

Necropotence: Rivenspire Overland
Clever Alchemist: Craftable
Kjalnar’s Nightmare: vUnhallowed Grave, Undaunted Enclave
Destructive Impact: Dragonstar Arena
Perfected Destructive Impact: vDragonstar Arena

Skills Magcro PVP Build

Skills explanation:

• Degeneration: Strong damage over time effect and also gives us Major Sorcery, increasing Spell Damage.
• Blighted Blastbones: Huge impact damage, you can combine this with other abilities because of its delayed impact.
• Shock Clench: Your main spammable, deals impact damage and AoE splash damage. Also boosts your Spell damage because of the Master Destro Staff that we use.
• Elemental Susceptibility: Applies Major Breach to your enemies, decreasing their armor. Also adds Status Effect damage to enemies.
• Skeletal Arcanist: Increases your penetration and also deals damage.
• Ice Comet: Deals massive damage on impact.
• Resistant Flesh: Your main burst heal if you need it.
• Radiating Regeneration: Your heal over time has to be active always.
• Dampen Magic: Your shield, keep it up to bolster incoming damage!
• Summoner’s Armor: Applies the Major Resolve buff to you and decreases the cost of summons.
• Spirit Guardian: One of your main healing tools.
• Glacial Colossus: Your offensive ultimate, deals a lot of damage and applies the Major Vulnerability debuff to the enemy increasing their damage taken.

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. The scribing skill listed below can increase our survivability a bit.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing system.

Base Scribing Skill useful to our build:

• Mages Guild: Ulfsild’s Contingency (Warding Contingency)

Warding Contingency

Warding Contingency helps our survivability. You can place a rune on yourself and the rune will activate once you use a skill. This is great because it essentially pre-buffs us with an extra shield and damage mitigation for the start of combat.

• Focus Script
  • Damage Shield
• Signature Script
  • Gladiator’s Tenacity
• Affix Script
  • Protection

Champion Points Magicka Necromancer PVP Build

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Important:

• Warfare Tree: This tree gives you a mix between damage, healing and damage mitigation.
• Fitness Tree: This tree gives you extra health, sustain and defensive buffs.
• Craft Tree: This tree is mostly optional, nothing really “impacts” combat, therefore you can pick whatever you prefer, or use the preset below.
• Perks: Hovering over each perk will give you insights into what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Magicka Necromancer Build PvP

Buff-food

Bewitched Sugar Skulls is the most optimal buff food but can be a bit pricy.

Bewitched Sugar Skulls
(Max Health, Max Magicka, Max Stamina, Health Recovery)

Or you can also use the much cheaper priced and almost equally strong:

Longfin pasty with Melon Sauce
(Max Health, Max Magicka, Max Stamina)

Mundus Stone

We are using The Mage Mundus Stone with this setup to further increase our max magicka. Alternatively, you could also use THe Atronach to increase your magicka recovery. You can learn more about all the other Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Mage Mundus Stone – Increased Max Magicka
or
The Atronach Mundus Stone – Increased Magicka Recovery (Use this Mundus if you have sustain issues)

Race

All Magicka-based races work with this setup. More about each race can be found on the racial overview page.

High Elf
Breton
Dark Elf
Argonian
Khajiit
Orc

Potions

I do recommend using Tri-Stat Potions as we really need all Stamina and Magicka we can get, to help with sustain and also blocking.

Tri-Stat Potion
(Health, Stamina, Magicka)
(Bugloss, Columbine, Dragonthorn)

Passives

• Grave Lord: Reusable Parts, Death Knell, Dismember, Rapid Rot
• Bone Tyrant: Death Gleaning, Disdain Harm, Health Avarice, Last Gasp
• Living Death: Curative Curse, Near-Death Experience, Corpse Consumption, Undead Confederate
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Restoration Staff: Essence Drain, Restoration Expert, Cycle of Life, Absorb, Restoration Master
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut, Revitalize, Rapid Mending
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Assault: Continuous Attack, Reach, Combat Frenzy
• Support: Magicka Aid, Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All

Please make sure not to forget the Medicinal Use passive from the Alchemy tree, it is one of the most important passives that will allow you to keep your Potions active a 100% of the time.

Resource Management Magcro PVP Build

Heavy Attacks from the Shock staff or the Resto staff both return resources. Depending on what you do, if you just focus on Magicka return, do the Heavy Attack on the Resto Staff because of the Cycle of Life passive.

Spirit Guardian heals us and also keeps the Undead Confederate passive up all the time.

Potions are an important tool, make sure to have the alchemist Medicinal Use passive, to increase potion duration. Always activate the potion on the backbar, because Clever Alchemist set is only active on our back bar!

Magicka Recovery glyphs are another tool that we use. Currently, I run 1 Magicka Recovery on my jewelry, if you want, you can increase the amount of Magicka Recovery glyphs.

• Heavy Attacks
• Undead Confederate
• Potions
• Magicka Recovery glyph

Combos & How to Play

In this section I want you to give a quick rundown so you can understand how to deal damage and how to heal/defense.

Damage & Combo

Elemental Susceptibility has to be placed on the enemy to increase your damage against them. It also adds Status Effects to the enemy, dealing extra damage. The ability also has no cost.

To pump up your damage as high as possible you want to:

1. Place the Degeneration skill on the enemy to get damage over time effect and Major Sorcery, which boosts your Spell Damage by 20%.
2. Have your Skeletal Arcanist up to gain extra damage and penetration.
3. Activate your back bar Weapon Damage enchantment with a Resto Light Attack.

After that, you want to try to line up the Blighted Blastbones, weave Destructive Clench and activate your Ultimate Ice Comet. If these all impact at the same time most enemies will die.

Healing & Defense

Spirit Guardian is your main heal, this Ghost has to be up ALL THE TIME. It also gives you a 10% damage mitigation boost,

If you take too much damage you want to go to your sword & board bar to block and heal with the Resistant Flesh skill, this will give you a huge burst heal and also grant you extra resistance.

Radiating Regeneration will also provide you with nice healing over time.

Battlegrounds Setup Magicka Necromancer PVP Build

We are going full Magicka Recovery on the jewelry on this setup in the Battlegrounds, because we need more sustain.

Mundus

Because sustain is tougher in Battlegrounds, I also recommend using the Atronach Mundus Stone.

The Atronach Mundus Stone (Increased Magicka Recovery)

ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build Options

ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.

Take a look at our ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Necromancer build!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Horror Magicka Necromancer PvP Build for ESO

Let’s take a look at the outfit style of the Ranged Magicka Necromancer PvP Build for ESO. You can find a close up shot, an image from the back and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Costume: Thieves Guild Leathers
• Annihilarch’s Chosen Style: Staff
• Dyes: Legate’s Black, Patron’s Gold
• Personality: Worm Wizard
• Skin: Dro-m’Athra

Update Log for the ESO Necromancer PVP Build

10.08.2019 Updated the Mag Necro PvP Build Horror for the Scalebreaker DLC.
19.10.2019 Updated the build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
21.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
14.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
18.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
26.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
30.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
18.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
27.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
09.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
16.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
10.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
28.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
08.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter
24.05.2023 Updated the Build for the NECROM CHAPTER.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter
27.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
04.11.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
30.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

Tags: Mag Necro PvP Build, Mag Necromancer PvP Build, Magicka Necro PvP Build.

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