SOLO Magicka Templar Build PvE for Elder Scrolls Online

This setup is easier to acquire gear setup and also has more defensive stats compared to the first one, which means it’s safer to play. Iceheart really makes a huge difference in terms of defense, it procs very easily and gives you a huge shield that absorbs a lot of damage, I can highly recommend using this set if you struggle with incoming damage.

Julianos can be crafted an Mother’s Sorrow can be farmed in the Deshaan Overland zone or you can also buy them via the Guild Store. It would be preferable if you get the gear with divine trait, but you can also use any other trait, you will not loose that much power. And non divine gear pieces are usually very cheap to buy.

If you do not own a Maelstrom Staff, simply use a Mother’s Sorrow Staff on the backbar, that way you keep the spell crit when you are on the back bar!

Setup 3 Beginner

Ask a guildmate to craft you Law of Julianos, Mother's Sorrow can be obtained for a pretty cheap price in the guildstores if you do not pick the best in slot trait. More important is that you just get the full sets together as fast as possible, even if you do not have the best traits.

Where can I get the gear?

Perfect False God's Devotion: Sunspire
Mother's Sorrow: Deshaan
Iceheart: Direfrost Keep, Glirion Undaunted Chest
Law of Julianos: Craftable
Magnus' Gift: Craftable
Willpower: Imperial City Vaults/ Guildstore
Maelstrom Shock Staff: vet Maelstrom Arena

Skills

Championpoints [810]

The Ritual
81 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
44 Master-at-Arms, 11 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
64 Elemental Expert, 61 Elfborn, 9 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
56 Tumbling, 56 Shadow Ward
The Lover
100 Arcanist
The Tower
56 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spell Shield

Championpoints [600]

The Ritual
44 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
44 Master at Arms, 11 Staff Expert
The Apprentice
56 Elemental Expert, 37 Elfborn, 8 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
20 Tumbling, 20 Shadow Ward
The Lover
100 Arcanist, 23 Tenacity
The Tower
37 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
42 Hardy, 42 Elemental Defender, 40 Thick Skinned
The Steed
52 Ironclad, 24 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300]

The Ritual
31 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
20 Master at Arms
The Apprentice
27 Elemental Expert, 20 Elfborn, 2 Spell Erosion
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 Solo Magicka Templar Build PvE

Buff-food

Gear Setup 1: Longfin Pasty With Melon Sauce

This Tri Stat buff food can be bought in the store and is very cheap. The reason we are using this on our first setup is because then we can use more stamina to dodge roll and block enemy attacks.

Gear Setup 2 & 3

Because we need to get sustain from somewhere else if we do not have False God’s Devotion, I recommend using the Witchmother’s Potent Brew on Gear Setup 2 & 3. You can buy this very cheap in the guild stores or even ask people to give you some.

Mundus Stone

The Lover Mundus (Increased Spell Penetration)

Race

I choose Breton because you get a huge sustain boost and higher resistances in combination with extra max magicka. All magicka based classes work but you might want to make some small adjustments.

Breton (Recommended, best sustain)
Altmer
Darkelf
Khajiit
Argonian

Potions

You could run normal magicka potions or tri-stat potions because we get Major Sorcery (20% Spell Damage) and Major Prophecy (10% Spell Crit) from Degeneration and Reflective Light.

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
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

20 Health, 44 Magicka

Resource Management

Resource management with a solo build is slightly different compared to a group setup because you can’t really rely on your healer to give you resources. Now that does not really matter because we have other means of restoring resources. Your main tool of restoring resources is your heavy attacks, the heavy attacks take a long time to charge up, but they will restore a lot of resources. You can also use your potions on cooldown that will return a lot of extra resources. Elemental Drain is a key ability to increase your sustain and damage in a fight, make sure to keep it up all the times! And the last tool you have access to is Channeled Focus, this skill gives you resistances and also a huge boost in terms of sustain.

• Heavy Attacks
• Potions
• Elemental Drain
• Channeled Focus

Rotation

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.

Your number one priority is to always keep up Ritual of Retribution and use Puncturing Sweep to keep healing yourself. Once that is ensured, reapply your damage over time effects. If you want a general rotation so your damage over time effects do not fall off:

LA > Unstable Wall of Elements > LA > Blazing Spear > LA > Ritual of Retribution > LA > Degeneration > Weapon Swap

LA > Consuming Trap  > LA > 2x Puncturing Sweeps > LA > Reflective Light > Weapon Swap

Restart

• Reapply Elemental Drain and Channeled Focus every 2nd rotation
• LA = Light Attack

Bad Habits

The number one reason players die is when they are too busy reapplying their damage over time effects and forget to use Puncturing Sweep or Ritual of Retribution, because these two abilities are your main healing skills. You can always activate Harness Magicka to bolster damage when you drop low, by the time your shield is gone again, you will be back up to max health. Also make sure to block heavy attacks or dodge roll them as they do a lot of damage.

Iceheart also often helps to soften the blow on your health in case you forget to use healing abilities. While Iceheart is active and you use healing abilities, you will almost always get back to full health!

A lot of players usually do run around with too little health, I would at least recommend having between 18-20k health. That way you are safe even if you are doing some mistakes!