Best ESO One Bar Sorcerer Build – 1 Bar Sorc

Table of Contents:

• Maelstrom and Vateshran Hollows
• Setup 1 (with Mythic)
  • Gear
  • Skills
• Champion Points
• Important Information (Food, Potions, Mundus, Race, Passives, Attributes)
• Full Walkthrough (Video Guide)
• Sorcerer Subclassing

Note: Please visit the ESO Sorcerer Subclass Build, as it is a more optimized version of this setup, utilizing subclassing.

Welcome to the ESO One Bar Sorcerer Build. This heavy attack build is specifically made for people who want to avoid swapping weapons all the time in ESO. With this setup, you will have good damage, a huge shield, a huge health pool, a huge magicka pool and a huge stamina pool as you can see in the character stats screenshot below.

• 1 Bar Pet Sorc Build
• Huge Shields
• Huge Health, Magicka and Stamina Pool
• Good Damage
• Good Healing
• Easy veteran Maelstrom Arena clear
• Easy veteran Vateshran Hollows Arena clear

ESO One Bar Sorcerer Build Setups

Here are three good gear setups for the One Bar Sorceer Build.

• Beginner Gear (Craftable only)
• Advanced Gear
• Best-In-Slot Gear

Beginner Gear

The Beginner gear setup for the Sorc One Bar Build is easy to get, and everything can be crafted. I recommend joining a guild and asking someone to craft the gear pieces for you. For this setup we are using 5x Order’s Wrath, 5x Law of Julianos (weapon counts as two piece), and 2x New Moon Acolyte. All of these are easily craftable.

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Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Head	New Moon Acolyte	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Law of Julianos	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Law of Julianos	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	New Moon Acolyte	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	Law of Julianos	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Weapon 1	Law of Julianos	Shock	Precise	Absorb Magicka

 

Where can I get the gear?

Order’s Wrath: Craftable
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Law of Julianos: Craftable

Advanced Gear

The advanced gear setup for the ESO Sorc One Bar Build uses a craftable set Order’s Wrath from the beginner spec. Additionally, we use the Monster Set Maw of the Infernal to increase our damage. Lastly 5x Sergeant’s Mail which is the bread and butter of any Heavy Attack build in ESO. Nothing comes even close to this set; the only downside is its heavy armor. Therefore we need to run it on jewelry and weapons as much as possible.

Frontbaring Sergeant’s Mail: Sergeant’s Mail is only active on the frontbar, but it only triggers on Heavy Attacks anyway, we only do Heavy Attacks on the frontbar.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Head	Maw of the Infernal	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Maw of the Infernal	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Sergeant’s Mail	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	Sergeant’s Mail	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	Sergeant’s Mail	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Weapon 1	Sergeant’s Mail	Shock	Precise	Absorb Magicka

Where can I get the gear?

Order’s Wrath: Craftable
Maw of the Infernal: Veteran The Banished Cells II
Sergeant’s Mail: Wayrest Sewers 1 and 2
Crushing Wall: Normal Maelstrom Arena

Best-in-Slot Gear

The Best-in-Slot gear setup for the ESO Sorcerer One Bar Build has powerful sets.  Sergeant’s Mail is a must-have set for any Heavy Attack build; it increases the damage tremendously. Additionally, most of our damage comes from damage over time, and therefore, we use the Deadly Strikes set.

• Oakensoul Ring: Very beginner-friendly, easy to use, and you won’t have to think where to get buffs from.
• Ring of the Pale Order: Best option for veteran solo content for advanced players, because you get massive healing from the ring.

This table shows you how to build the perfect Heavy Attack Gear Setup with either Oakensoul Ring or Ring of the Pale Order.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Sergeant’s Mail	Heavy	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Deadly Strikes	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Deadly Strikes	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Deadly Strikes	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Deadly Strikes	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Head	Maw of the Infernal	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Deadly Strikes	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Sergeant’s Mail	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	Oakensoul Ring or Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Ring	Sergeant’s Mail	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increased Magical Harm
Weapon 1	Sergeant’s Mail	Shock	Precise	Absorb Magicka

Where can I get the gear?

Deadly Strikes: Cyrodiil, Bruma Elite Gear Vendor
Maw of the Infernal: Veteran The Banished Cells II
Sergeant’s Mail: Wayrest Sewers 1 and 2
Perfected Crushing Wall: Veteran Maelstrom Arena
Oakensoul Ring: Oakensoul Lead Location
Ring of the Pale Order: Pale Order Lead Location

Oakensoul Ring Mythic

The Oakensoul Ring is often the Mythic of choice for most One Bar Builds in ESO. Once you equip the ring, the second bar will be deactivated. The ring comes with a plethora of major and minor buffs. What most players don’t realize is that most of these buffs can be obtained easily from other sources like skills, gear, or potions. For example, drinking the correct potion already gives you Major Brutality/Sorcery, Major Savagery/Prophecy and Major Endurance/Intellect.

TheOakensoul Ring is ideal for players seeking a simplified experience, removing the need for bar swapping or buff upkeep while keeping your damage rotation effective. The ring doesn’t provide any healing, therefore you need to slot healing skills yourself or have a healer with you for more difficult content.

This is where the next Mythic comes into play.

Ring of the Pale Order Mythic

The Ring of the Pale Order is the best Mythic item for advanced players. It provides massive healing while you deal damage. You can focus on DPSing. Meanwhile, with the other mythics, you will have to go more often into a defensive playstyle. However, this ring gets less effective in bigger groups because the healing you receive decreases by the amount of players in your group.

The Ring of the Pale Order is one of the strongest Mythic items for advanced players, thanks to its auto healing effect that restores health as you deal damage. This powerful sustain tool allows experienced players to tackle even veteran hardmode dungeons solo, a testament to its strength.

Unlike Oakensoul, advanced players typically gain key buffs from other sources through precise bar setups, group synergies, and active buff management. This makes Pale Order ideal for those who are comfortable with micromanaging their build for maximum efficiency.

Skills Setup for the One Bar Sorc Build

Skill explanation:

• Hardened Ward: This is your shield, always keep it up. (Useful Guides: How do Shields Work?, How do Shields Scale?)
• Unstable Wall of Elements: One of your main damage abilities, keep it up all the time on the enemies plus it also explodes with nice damage.
• Elemental Susceptibility: Elemental Drain reduces enemies’ Spell Resistance and adds status effexts, thus increasing our damage tremendously. Alternatively, you can also use Critical Surge here for extra heals.
• Volatile Familiar: One of your main damage abilities, keep the skill up all the times you are engaging enemies. The last pulse also stuns enemies.
• Twilight Matriarch: When you drop low on health, use the shield first and then use this ability, which will give you a big burst heal.
• Shock Rage: Save this for big monsters or when you have trouble killing a certain mob or wave.

Champion Points for the One Bar Sorcerer Build

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

You have two options, Bewitched Sugar Skulls will give you the best stats, but the buff food also costs quite a lot. You can also use Longfin Pasty With Melon Sauce, which is only a tiny bit less powerful than the other one but only costs a fraction of the price.

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

Optimally, you want to use the Spell-Power Potions, because they provide you with Major Sorcerery, Major Prophecy and Major Intellect, all boosting your stats like crazy. This is only important if you are doing more difficult content. If you are doing easy content you can simply use normal Essence of Magicka potions.

Make sure to have the Alchemy passive Medicinal Use, to fully benefit from the potions with a 100% uptime!

Spell-Power Potions
(Spell-crit, Spell Damage, Magicka)
(Cornflower, Ladys Smock, Water Hyacinth)

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

Vateshran Hollows

I highly recommend checking out the written guide to learn more about the Vateshran Hollows arena. The written guide explains everything in detail and also has some nice tricks explained, that you can use to make your life easier!

Here is a second run I did with the One Bar Pet Sorc Build.

ESO Sorcerer 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 Sorcerer Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Sorcerer build!