Magicka Templar Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

“Beamplar”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Trials & Dungeons Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Vampire
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Rotation
  • DPS Tests
• AoE Setup
• Maelstrom Arena
• Build Video
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Magicka Templar Build PvE “Beamplar” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The “Beamplar” build is made for PvE Trials, Arenas and Dungeons. You can also find other Magicka Templar content on the website such as:

• Magicka Templar Beginners Guide
• Magicka Templar Beginner 160CP Build
• Solo Magicka Templar Build

Magicka Templar DPS changed quite a lot over the years, here you can find the newest available setup. Like always you can find three different gear setups, one with the best gear, one with advanced gear and a beginner setup.

• High Single Target (ST) Damage
• High Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Good Sustain
• Easy Survivability due to Magicka Shield
• Trials, Dungeons & Arenas

Changes to the previous Version

Stonethorn DLC U27, changed the skill setups for both Single Target and AoE. Removed Vampire from the build, as Blood for Blood got nerfed, replaced it with our normal Templar spammable. There is plenty of gear balance changes that made some sets a bit more viable, Single Target gear setup nothing changed, updated the AoE gear setup.

Notable changes from the patch notes:

Burning Light Passive: This passive has been slightly reworked so that the damage now triggers when you deal damage 4 times within rapid succession to an enemy with an Aedric Spear ability, rather than having a 25% chance to proc per hit. Note that the time window is long enough that abilities that hit at least once every second between will continue to proc this passive.

Bloodthirsty: This trait now grants up to 350 Weapon and Spell Damage against targets under 90% Health, rather than granting a flat 10% damage increase against targets under 25% Health.

False God’s Devotion Set:

• Removed the extra 5 piece bonus of Spell Damage on the normal version
• Removed the extra 5 piece bonus of Magicka on the perfected version

Mantle of Siroria Set:

• This set and the Perfected version now grant 52 Spell Damage per stack, up from 30.
• Reduced the maximum stacks to 10, down from 20.

Both False God and Siroria got some adjustments. False God is king if you have sustain issues. If you don’t have sustain issues you want to wear Siroria for the damage, easier to maintain the stacks now!

Mechanical Acuity Set:

• Removed the proc chance from this set.
• This set now grants its guaranteed Critical Strike to any ability that can naturally Critically Strike, rather than only attacks.

Medusa Set:

• This set’s 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
• This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
• This is a heavy armor set.

Both Acuity and the Medusa set are now also very viable. Acuity for burst situations such as trash fights and Medusa can be used if you need 1 extra Skill slot (Because you won’t have to run Trap or Channeled Acceleration for the Minor Force buff.)

Resource Management

Channeled Focus can be used if you have sustain issues on the backbar instead of Solar Barrage.

Energy Orb will always be present in a good group. When you get close to the Orb you can activate its synergy to regain resources.

Potions should always be used on cooldown to gain the maximum benefit from them.

Heavy Attacks help you restore Magicka, if you drop low on resources do a few Heavy Attacks between skills to refill your Magicka.

• Channeled Focus
• Orb Synergy
• Potions
• Heavy Attack

Trials & Dungeons Setup

5x Perfect False God’s Devotion, 5x Mother’s Sorrow, 2x Zaan on a High Elf and Artaeum Picked Fish Bowl food (Stats may differentiate a bit)

• Unbuffed: Out of combat
• Buffed: Raid Dummy buffs, Weapon Damage Enchantment, Spell Power Potions and Channeled Focus were active

Gear

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. For people that do not have all the gear yet can use the Setup 2 which is easier to obtain and beginners can use Setup 3.

• Setup 1 is with Trial Gear
• Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
• Setup 3 is for Beginners

Gear Setup 1

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Law of Julianos	Heavy	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Law of Julianos	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Law of Julianos	Light	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Law of Julianos	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Law of Julianos	Light	Divine	Magicka
Head	Magnus' Gift	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Magnus' Gift	Light	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Weapon 1	Magnus' Gift	Fire	Precise	Fire Enchant
Weapon 2	Magnus' Gift	Fire	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchant

Where can I get the gear?

Perfect False God's Devotion: Sunspire Vet
Mother's Sorrow: Deshaan
Valkyn Skoria: City of Ash 2
Burning Spellweave: City of Ash 2
Law of Julianos: Craftable
Magnus' Gift: Craftable
Willpower: Imperial City Vaults/ Guildstore
Zaan: vScalecaller Peak
Maw of the Infernal: vThe Banished Cells II, Maj Undaunted Chest
Maelstrom Inferno Staff: Maelstrom Arena
Perfected Maelstrom Inferno Staff: vMaelstrom Arena

Skills

Fire Staff Mainbar	Fire Staff bar
Slot 1: Blazing Spear	Slot 1: Unstable Wall of Elements
Slot 2: Purifying light	Slot 2: Mystic Orb
Slot 3: Elemental Weapon	Slot 3: Solar Barrage
Slot 4: Radiant Oppression	Slot 4: Barbed Trap/ Channeled Acceleration
Slot 5: Inner Light	Slot 5: Harness Magicka
Ultimate: Shooting Star/ Destro Ultimate	Ultimate: Crescent Sweep

• Important: It is very important that the Crescent Sweeps Ultimate stays on the backbar for the Aedric Spear passive Piercing Spear, otherwise you might lose the passive bonus.

Champion Points

If you need optimized defensive Champion Points for a specific trial I recommend checking out my Maximize Damage Mitigation in Trials Article.

• In case you need help distributing your Champion Points, make sure to check out the Champion Points Calculator!

Champion Points [810]

The Ritual
56 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
56 Master-at-Arms, 23 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
64 Elemental Expert, 61 Elfborn, 10 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
61 Tumbling, 61 Shadow Ward
The Lover
100 Arcanist
The Tower
37 Warlord, 11 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spell Shield

Champion Points [600]

The Ritual
34 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
34 Master at Arms, 23 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
64 Elemental Expert, 37 Elfborn, 8 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
29 Tumbling, 29 Shadow Ward
The Lover
100 Arcanist
The Tower
31 Warlord, 11 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 37 Thick Skinned
The Steed
37 Ironclad, 28 Spell Shield

Champion Points [300]

The Ritual
18 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
16 Master at Arms, 11 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
32 Elemental Expert, 16 Elfborn, 7 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
17 Tumbling, 17 Shadow Ward
The Lover
37 Arcanist
The Tower
18 Warlord, 11 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
27 Hardy, 27 Elemental Defender, 18 Thick Skinned
The Steed
16 Ironclad, 12 Spell Shield

Important Info for Magicka Templar Build PvE

Here you can find information about what race, buff-food, potions & poisons you want to use. I also do list all the passives that you need for this setup.

Buff-food

Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl
(Max Health, Max Magicka)
(Fish, Rice, Clam Gall, Honey)

In case you still have sustain issues or you don’t have access to False God’s Devotion or you are not a Breton, I recommend using the Witchmother’s Potent Brew Drink (or Clockwork Citrus Filet)

Mundus Stone

Shadow Mundus (Increased Spell Critical Damage)

Race

Altmer (Best Damage)
Breton (Best Sustain)
Darkelf
Khajiit

Potions

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

Passives

• Aedric Spear: Piercing Spear, Spear Wall, Burning Light, Balanced Warrior
• Dawn’s Wrath: Enduring Rays, Prism, Illuminate, Restoring Spirit
• Restoring Light: Mending, Sacred Ground, Light Weaver, Master Ritualist
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Psijic Order (Optional): Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Magicka

Puncturing Sweeps

I can highly recommend running Puncturing Sweep in certain situations, for example if you are playing solo or in group dungeons. Puncturing Sweeps has a strong heal attached to it while you deal damage, this can be very helpful.

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Rotation

Also please check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

This here is the simple rotation that has less barswaps. You will loose about 4-5k dps compared to the advanced rotation, which is not a big deal.

Advanced Rotation

The advanced rotation is more complicated and is the one I used for the DPS tests in the video.

DPS Parse Examples (Greymoor patch)

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Area of Effect Setup

Here you can find an optimized AoE setup for your build. This will help increase your damage on trash packs during dungeons & trials. You can choose any magicka based Monster Set, I prefer Iceheart because it provides so much damage mitigation.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Perfected False God's Devotion	Light	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Perfected False God's Devotion	Light	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Mechanical Acuity	Light	Divine	Magicka
Head	Iceheart	Heavy	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Iceheart	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Perfected False God's Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Perfected False God's Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring	Perfected False God's Devotion	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Damage
Weapon 1	Mechanical Acuity	Shock	Nirnhoned	Fire Enchant
Weapon 2	Crushing Wall	Fire	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchant

Perfect False God's Devotion: Sunspire
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable
Iceheart: Direfrost Keep, Glirion Chest

Skills

Build Video (Greymoor Chapter)

The build video is from the Greymoor Chapter. The only change that happened since then was that we replaced Blood for Blood with Elemental Weapon.