Magicka Warden Build PvE for Elder Scrolls Online

“Ice & Fire”

Wolfhunter DLC, 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

The Video is from the Summerset Chapter, so there might be small changes in this version of the build, remember that.

Changes from the previous version

Reminder: The Build video is from the Summerset Chapter patch. Small changes have been made in the Wolfhunter DLC update, as you can see here in the written guide.

• Updated Champion Points and improved the passive section.
• Changed Enchantments, ZOS changed how they proc, so now we run a fire enchant on the backbar.
• We also now use 2 Arcane and 1 Bloodthirsty for the first two Gear setups.
• Optimized Gear Setups, it now follows the rule of 1,2,3
  • Setup 1 is with Trial Gear
  • Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
  • Setup 3 is for Beginners

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

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 could also use Acuity and Master Architect combo.

Beginner Setup

Where can I get the gear?
Master Architect: Halls of Fabrication
Necropotence: Rivenspire
Burning Spellweave: City of Ash 1 & 2
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 foo AoE fights, it is 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 [780 CP]

The Ritual
44 Thaumaturge
The Attronarch
61 Master-at-Arms, 14 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
56 Elemental Expert, 56 Elfborn, 29 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
47 Shadow Ward, 47 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, 33 Spell Shield

Championpoints [600 CP]

600 Championpoints setup for Magicka Warden Build

The Ritual
44 Thaumaturge
The Attronarch
40 Master at Arms, 11 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
49 Elemental Expert, 37 Elfborn, 19 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
20 Tumbling, 20 Shadow Ward
The Lover
75 Arcanist, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
36 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
42 Hardy, 42 Elemental Defender, 40 Thick Skinned
The Steed
52 Ironclad, 24 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300 CP]

300 Championpoints setup for Magicka Warden Build

The Ritual
31 Thaumaturge
The Attronarch
20 Master at Arms, 2 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
27 Elemental Expert, 20 Elfborn
The Shadow
The Lover
49 Arcanist, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
2 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
23 Hardy, 23 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed
31 Ironclad

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

Thief Mundus (Increased Spell Critical)

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 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: Recovery, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• Vampire (optional): Supernatural Recovery, Undeath, Dark Stalker
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Psijic Order: Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

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.

Magicka Warden DPS Test 3m Target Dummy – PTS Summerset

The video is from the Summerset PTS, the video is here to show the rotation.

Maelstrom Arena

Maelstrom Setup for Magicka Warden Build

Setup is optimized with the Asylum Inferno Staff. You could use the Bear ultimate with the setup for Dungeon & Trials.

Gear

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Necropotence	Light	Divine	Magicka
Belt	Necropotence	Light	Divine	Magicka
Shoes	Necropotence	Light	Divine	Magicka
Pants	Necropotence	Light	Divine	Magicka
Hands	Necropotence	Light	Divine	Magicka
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divine	Magicka
Shoulder	Slimecraw	Heavy	Divine	Magicka
Necklace	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Dmg
Ring	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Dmg
Ring	Willpower	Jewelry	Arcane	Spell Dmg
Weapon 1	The Asylum's Perfected Inferno Staff	Fire	Infused	Weapon Dmg Enchant
Weapon 2	The Maelstrom's Inferno Staff	Fire	Infused	Fire Enchant

Skills

More skill information

More skill information

Update Log

Update Log Magicka Warden Ice & Fire Build

10.08.2018 Updated Build for Wolfhunter DLC, Summerset Chapter, Magicka Warden Build PvE
14.08.2018 Added Thief Mundus as an option, Magicka Warden Build PvE
21.08.2018 Removed Apprentice Mundus as it performed slightly worse than Thief. Removed Char Screenshot due to inaccuracy.
12.09.2018 Added CP 600 Setup.