Powerful Magicka Warden Build for ESO – Damage Dealer

Table of Contents

• Magicka Warden Build Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Maelstrom Arena & Vatehsran Hollows Arena
• Related Content
• Update Log

Welcome to the Magicka Warden Build for ESO. This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The Magicka Warden DPS build is optimized for maximum damage. The build works best in a group but with some minor adjustments can also be played as a solo setup if necessary.

Magicka Wardens have strong abilities such as the Screaming Cliff Racer, Deep Fissure, Fetcher Infection, Blue Betty and Bird of Prey. Wardens also have useful passives such as Advanced Species, Flourish, Piercing Cold and of course plenty more.

The Magicka Warden Build has 3 different gear setups. Tier 1 with the best gear, Tier 2 with advanced gear and Tier 3 for beginners. If you are a new player I do recommend reading the Magicka Warden Beginners Guide. If you are looking for a solo build then I recommend checking out the Solo Magicka Warden Build.

• Double Destruction Staff Setup
• Amazing Single Target (ST) Damage
• Amazing Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Good Sustain
• Easy Survivability due to Magicka Shield
• Optimized for Trials, Dungeons & Arenas

More Warden Builds can be found in the Warden class category.

Magicka Warden Build Setup

5x Mother’s Sorrow, 5x Medusa, 2x Zaan on a High Elf with Clockwork Citrus Fillet food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active
• Buffed: Raid Target Dummy buffs, buff food, Spell Power Potion, Weapon Damage Enchantment active.

Gear – Magicka Warden Build

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 the primary Gear setup
• Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
• Setup 3 is for Beginners

Gear Setup 1

False God’s Devotion, Siroria, Bahsei and many more sets can also be used for this build.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Where can I get the gear?
Perfected False God’s Devotion: vSunspire
Mother’s Sorrow: Deshaan
Medusa: Arx Corinium
Necropotence: Rivenspire
Zaan: vScalecaller Peak
Valkyn Skoria: vCity of Ash 2
Perfected Crushing Wall (Maelstrom Staff): vMaelstrom Arena
Crushing Wall (Maelstrom Staff): Maelstrom Arena
Law of Julianos: Craftable
Willpower: Guildstore
Magnus’ Gift: Craftable
Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1
Iceheart: vDirefrost Keep
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

More sets:

Diamond’s Victory: Craftable
Bahsei’s Mania: Rockgrove Trial
Perfected Bahsei’s Mania: vRockgrove Trial

Skills

• Channeled Acceleration: You can also use Barbed Trap in case you do not have Channeled Acceleration.

Champion Points – Magicka Warden 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.

Hovering over each perk will give you insights on 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 Warden Build PvE

In this section of the Magicka Warden Build we are going to take a look at buff-food, mundus stone, race, potions, passives and attributes. These things are very important for the Magicka Warden Build as they help with damage and sustain.

Buff-food

Mundus Stone

The Shadow Mundus Stone increases our overall Spell Critical Damage which boosts our damage. You can learn more about all the other Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Shadow Mundus Stone (Increased Spell Critical Damage)

Race

Any race with magicka based passives will work with this setup. You can find out more about all the racial passives in the Racial Overview page.

• High Elf
• Breton
• Darkelf
• Khajiit
• Orc

Potions

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

Passives

• Animal Companion: Bond with Nature, Savage Beast, Flourish, Advanced Species
• Green Balance: Accelerated Growth, Nature’s Gift, Emerald Moss, Maturation
• Winter’s Embrace: Glacial Presence, Frozen Armor, Icy Aura, Piercing Cold
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Psijic Order: (Only if you use Channeled Acceleration) Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Magicka

Resource Management – Magicka Warden Build

Blue Betty has to be active all the time, it gives you a huge boost to Magicka sustain.

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.

• Blue Betty
• Orb Synergy
• Potions
• Heavy Attack

Rotation for the Magicka Warden Build

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

Make sure to activate Channeled Acceleration and Blue Betty before you start the rotation and keep them up all the time. Activate Ultimate whenever you are on the front bar..

Winter’s Revenge > LA > Unstable Wall of Elements > Weapon Swap

Deep Fissure > LA > Fetchers Infection > LA > Cliff Racer > LA > Deep Fissure > LA >  Mystic Orb > LA > Cliff Racer > LA > Deep Fissure >  Cliff Racer > Weapon Swap

Restart

• Reapply Blue Betty every 3rd rotation.
• LA = Light Attack

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	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Iceheart	Light	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	Perfected Crushing Wall	Fire	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchant

 

Skills

Maelstrom Arena & Vateshran Hollows Arena

Please check out the Solo Magicka Warden Build for the Maelstrom and Vateshran Setup. The build here focuses on group setups, therefore the Solo Magicka Warden Build is better suited to face the dangers of the Maelstrom and Vateshran Arena. I also highly recommend reading the full in depth Maelstrom Arena Guide & Vateshran Hollows Arena Guide.

Related Content

More Magicka Warden Builds & Guides:

• PVE Magicka Warden Beginner Guide
• PVE Magicka Warden Beginner Build (160CP)
• PVE Solo Magicka Warden Build
• PVE Magicka Warden EXP Grind Build
• PVP Magicka Warden Build

Other Magicka DPS Builds:

• Magicka Sorcerer
• Magicka Nightblade
• Magicka Dragonknight
• Magicka Necromancer
• Magicka Templar

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