Magicka Templar Damage PvP Build for Elder Scrolls Online

“Blazeplar”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Cyrodiil Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Battlegrounds
• Gameplay
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Magicka Templar Damage PvP Build “Blazeplar” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO.

This build is optimized for Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds. We are using Shacklebreaker, Valkyn Skoria and Bright-Throat's Boast in combination with Witchmother’s Potent Brew. Those sets will give us overall very good stats for all three resources and will make it easier to sustain and manage your stamina to CC break. The setup has very good AoE and Single Target damage and can pretty much obliterate any setup. We also do have very strong healing power which can help us a lot. If you want you can choose another Monster Set, Valkyn is my favourite because it deals a lot of damage and gives extra health, but pretty much every Monster Set will work.

Our S&B Bar is for defensive situations whereas our Destruction Staff bar is for offensive situations.

• Cyrodiil & Battlegrounds
• Heavy Armor S&B + Destro
• Tanky setup
• Strong Healing
• High Damage
• Good Sustain

In case you don’t know what what weaving light attacks is, make sure to check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

Resource Management

Channeled Focus is your main resource for magicka, make sure to keep it up a 100% of the time, it also gives you a lot of resistances which makes you tankier. Tri-Stat Potions are also very important, they can save you because they give a lot of health, magicka and stamina back with one button press. Make sure to save the potion for tough situations. Magicka Recovery Glyphs give us better sustain too. You can also also do heavy attacks on your Shock Staff, they deal nice damage because we have an infused Shock Damage Glyph on there and can not be dodge rolled and because we are in heavy armor, they restore 25% more magicka then normal heavy attacks.

• Channeled Focus
• Potions (Tri-Stat)
• Magicka Recovery Glyphs
• Heavy Attacks with Shock Staff

In case you struggle with sustain, you can always swap to the Atronach Mundus Stone which increases your Magicka Recovery.

Cyrodiil Setup

Unbuffed: Out of Combat

Buffed: Major Sorcery, Channeled Focus and Essence of Health potion was active.

Gear

• Monster Set: I prefer Valkyn because it deals good damage and also gives me a health bonus. However, if you want to use another Monster Set then go for it.
• 5/2 Setup: We are using 5 Heavy and two Light Armor pieces, that way we get a little bit better sustain due to the extra spell cost reduction from two light armor pieces.

Where can I get the gear?

Shacklebreaker: Craftable
Valkyn Skoria: Head: City of Ash 2 vet, Shoulder: Glirion Undaunted Chest
Bright-Throat’s Boast: Murkmire Overland, Blackrose Prison, Guildstore

Skills

Skill Info

• Radiant Oppression: Your execute ability, deals a lot of damage and can also be used from far away to apply pressure
• Purifying Light: Apply this to stack up a lot of damage that explodes at the end of the duration.
• Puncturing Sweeps: One of our strong AoE attacks that heal us while we deal damage.
• Degeneration: Very strong single target damage, gives you Major Sorcerery (20% Spell Damage buff) and every light or heavy attack you do restores 100 magicka!
• Aurora Javelin: Deals decent damage and stuns the enemy.
• Shooting Star Ultimate: This is your offensive ultimate, it costs quite a bit but if you can hit an enemy with this while he is stunned it will deal a lot of damage.
• Living Dark: Very powerful heal that you should always keep on you while you are under pressure.
• Ritual of Retribution: Cleanses debuffs, deals damage and heals. You could choose the other morph if you want to cleanse more effects at the same time, but you will loose damage.
• Honor the Dead: This heals for a lot and if we heal someone below 75% health we will get 60% of the cost back! Just keep in mind spamming this will consume a lot of your magicka, so be careful.
• Vampire’s Bane: Very long DoT that can be placed on the enemy and deals decent damage. You could also choose the other multi target morph.
• Channeled Focus: Needs to be on the ground all the times because it gives you the spell and physical resistance buff and also increases your magicka sustain.
• Spell Wall: If you are under high pressure, activate this, it will give you permablock for a few seconds and you will have time to recover.

Championpoints

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

Championpoints [810]

The Ritual
61 Thaumaturge
The Atronarch
37 Master-at-Arms
The Apprentice
43 Blessed, 31 Elfborn, 49 Spell Erosion, 49 Elemental Expert
The Shadow
61 Tumbling, 61 Shadow Ward
The Lover
56 Arcanist
The Tower
73 Warlord, 18 Sprinter, 1 Siphoner
The Lord
37 Quick Recovery
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 20 Thick Skinned
The Steed
63 Resistant, 52 Ironclad

Championpoints [600]

The Ritual
28 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
The Apprentice
43 Blessed, 31 Elfborn, 49 Spell Erosion, 49 Elemental Expert
The Shadow
49 Tumbling, 49 Shadow Ward
The Lover
56 Arcanist
The Tower
45 Warlord, 1 Siphoner
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 20 Thick Skinned
The Steed
30 Resistant, 52 Ironclad

Championpoints [300]

The Ritual
20 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
The Apprentice
27 Elemental Expert, 20 Elfborn, 20 Blessed, 13 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
20 Shadow Ward, 20 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Arcanist
The Tower
11 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
23 Hardy, 23 Elemental Defender
The Steed
31 Ironclad, 23 Resistant

Important Info for Magicka Templar Damage PvP Build

I will be explaining a few important things in this section of the Magicka Templar Damage PvP Build.

Buff-food

You need to use Double Bloody Mara in combination with the Bright-Throat's Boast set. That way we benefit from really high stats and extra magicka recovery.

You can also use the advanced version which gives you additional very valuable health recovery on top.

Mundus Stone

The Mage (Increased Max Magicka)

Race

In terms of race you have a few options. High Elves are my favourite because they get 5% damage mitigation when you channel an attack (Puncturing Sweeps, Radiant Oppression) and they get a lot of max magicka and max spell damage on top of a bit stamina return from their passives. Bretons and Argonians also work well due to their passives. You can find a full list of all racials in my racial passives article.

High Elf
Argonian
Breton
Dark Elf

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)

Poisons

Make sure to run poisons on the S&B bar, those poisons put a lot of pressure on the enemy.

Damage Health Posion
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)

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
• One Hand and Shield: Fortress, Sword and Board, Deadly Bash, Deflect Bolts, Battlefield Mobility
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut, Revitalize, Rapid Mending
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Assault: Continuous Attack, Reach, Combat Frenzy
• Support: Magicka Aid, Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Racial: All

Attributes

All into Magicka

Battlegrounds

For Battlegrounds, you want to slightly change the build because Champion Points are deactivated. That means your overall resources and sustain will drop quite hard. With only a few adjustments you can make the build Battlegrounds ready. All we do is change our buff food and mundus stone.

Buff Food

Instead of Double Bloody Mara we are going to use the Witchmother’s Potent Brew. This is also a drink and will work together with the Bright Throat’s Boast Set.

Witchmother’s Brew (Max Health, Max Magicka, Magicka Recovery)

Mundus Stone

Instead of the Mage Mundus Stone you want to use the Atronach Mundus Stone, this one gives you extra Magicka Recovery.

Gameplay

Deathmatch Battlegrounds Magicka Templar Blazeplar Gameplay from the Wrathstone update, the build slightly changed (like you can see on this page) since then keep that in mind.

Update Log