Magicka Warden Build Ice & Fire Summerset Chapter

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Trials & Dungeons Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info
• Rotation & Skeleton Parse
• Maelstrom Arena
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Magicka Warden Build PvE “Ice & Fire” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Ice & Fire build is created for Trials, Dungeons & Maelstrom Arena. It features the new Warden Class and it will take some time to figure out the best possible setups for this class.

Wardens focus a lot on pet abilities and elemental damage. Both ranged and melee playstyle are very viable and can deal a lot of damage. Unlike Sorcerers, most of their “pets” are abilities and do not require to be double slotted, which is a huge advantage! Only the Bear Ultimate and the Belly Netch count towards “summonable pets”. We are using the Necropotence set which will give us an insane Magicka pool, that combined with Master Architect and the Bear Ultimate does some serious damage. This setup is optimized for the Bear ultimate with Master Architect, if you do not want the Bear ultimate, then I do recommend running Siroria instead of Master Architect.

• Warden Class
• Double Destruction staff setup
• High Magicka resource pool
• Good AoE damage
• Good Single Target damage
• Good sustain
• Ice & Fire skill setup

Changes from the previous version

Updated and optimized Champion Points, also optimized Maelstrom Arena setup.  Now that Two Handed Weapons count as two bonus, we can use two 5 piece sets and a Monster Set. For this update we are looking at 5 Necropotence, 5 Master Architect and 2 Zaan or Valkyn. We are still using 3 arcane traits on jewelry, bloodthirsty has to be tested more. Recommended Race is Dark Elf, you will get about 2k more dps with a Dark Elf compared to a High Elf.

We now use Elemental Weapon as our main spammable (use Screaming Cliff Racer if you do not have Psijic Order. Rotation also changed, make sure to activate the Bear ultimate on the frontbar, because we only frontbar Master Architect.

Resource Management

We run normal Health + Magicka food, with the Blue Netch and Bubbles we have enough sustain. The Blue Netch helps quite a lot already with sustain, so thats the first thing you need to remember to keep up.  Depending on what buff food you are using, make sure to have at least 17,2k Health for Trials and Dungeons. Witchmothers Brew can be very helpful as well with sustain, but you need to invest a few points into Health to reach around 17k HP again. If you think you need more sustain, you can always add more Magicka Recovery Glyphs. Heavy Attacks are also a great tool to restore resources and basically a must have for every build.

• Blue Betty
• Magicka Recovery Glyph
• Heavy Attacks
• Witchmothers Brew

Trials & Dungeons Setup

Spellpower Potion, Weapon Damage Enchantment and Necropotence were active when I took the screenshot.

Gear

There are several good Sets that you can use, I will list some here:

• Mantle of Siroria
• Perfect Mantle of Siroria
• Moondancer
• Burning Spellweave
• Master Architect
• Law of Julianos
• Mechanical Acuity
• Spinner's Garments
• Necropotence

Gear Setup 1

Gear Setup 2 (Non-Bear Ultimate)

When you are running with the Bear you can use Acuity and Master Architect combo.

Where can I get the gear?
Master Architect: Halls of Fabrication
Necropotence: Rivenspire
Zaan: Scalecaller Peak
Valkyn Skoria: City of Ash 2
Maelstrom Fire Staff: Maelstrom Arena
Perfect Mantle of Siroria: Cloudrest
Mantle of Siroria: Cloudrest
Perfect Asylum Inferno Staff: Asylum Sanctorium
Ilambris: Crypts of Hearts 1
Willpower: Imperial City Vaults, Guildstore
Spinner's Garments: Malabal Tor
Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1

Skills

• Elemental Weapon: You can also use Screaming Cliff Racer in case you do not have Elemental Weapon.
• Channeled Acceleration: You can also use Rearming Trap in case you do not have Channeled Acceleration
• Elemental Ring: Use this fro AoE fights, its also placed there to get the Ancient Knowledge passive from Destruction Staff passives.

Fire Staff Mainbar	Fire Staff bar
Slot 1: Elemental Ring	Slot 1: Blockade of Fire
Slot 2: Blue Betty	Slot 2: Winter’s Revenge
Slot 3: Elemental Weapon	Slot 3: Harness Magicka
Slot 4: Fetchers Infection	Slot 4: Channeled Acceleration
Slot 5: Inner Light	Slot 5: Inner Light
Ultimate: Eternal Guardian	Ultimate: Eternal Guardian

Championpoints

Championpoints [750 CP]

The Ritual
37 Thaumaturge
The Attronarch
61 Master-at-Arms, 14 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
56 Elemental Expert, 49 Elfborn, 33 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
47 Shadow Ward, 37 Tumbling
The Lover
75 Arcanist, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
42 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 23 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300 CP]

Important Info for Magicka Warden Build PvE

Buff-food

Solitude Salmon-Millet Sauce (Max Health+Max Magicka)
or
Witchmothers Brew (Max Health, Max Magicka, Magicka Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Apprentice (Max Spelldamage)

Race

Darkelf (Recommended)
Altmer
Breton

Potions

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

In case you are still unsure on how to mix the ingredients together, you can check out a alchemy simulator here: Alchemy Simulator 

Passives

• Animal Companions: All passives
• Winters Embrace: All passives
• Green Balance: All passives
• Destruction Staff: All passives
• Light Armor: All
• Heavy Armor: Juggernaunt Passive
• Vampire (optional): Supernatural Recovery, Undeath, Dark Stalker
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
• Mages Guild: All
• Undaunted: All
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Psijic Order: All

Rotation

Make sure to activate Channeled Acceleration and Blue Betty before you start the rotation.

> Winter’s Revenge > Light Attack > Blockade of Fire > Weapon Swap
> Light Attack > Fetcher Infection > Light Attack > 5x Elemental Weapon (Light Attack between each weave) > Weapon Swap
> Restart

• Use Channeled Acceleration every 4th rotation, and then only do 3x Elemental Weapon instead of 4 when you use that skill.
• Recast Blue Betty when it runs out because its very important for sustain. When you use that skill only do 3x Elemental Weapon instead of 4.

Skeleton Parse

This is from the Summerset PTS testing 3m Skeleton. I used Lover instead of Apprentice Mundus Stone in this video. I used a dynamic rotation in that video where I reapply DoTs on cooldown.

Maelstrom Arena

Update Log

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