Eso magicka build

This setup is for people looking to run the best in slot meta setup for group content like trials and four man content

Slimecraw: obtained in Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon

• (1 item) Adds Critical Chance

WHY? provides the most critical chance per piece and ideal when using a mythic instead of a monster helm.

Perfected Bahsei’s Mania: obtained in Rockgrove trial Blackwood Chapter.

• (2 items) Adds  Spell Damage
• (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
• (4 items) Adds  Spell Critical
• (5 items) Adds  Spell Damage, Increases your damage done to non-player enemies by up to 15% based on your missing Magicka. Current value: 0%

WHY? running two medium with low sustain provides incredible amount of damage with the hybridization of stats.  Flex this out for  either Mother’s Sorrow, Burning Spell Weave, Scathing Mage if you do not have trials gear.

Harpooner’s Wading Kilt: Mythic obtained by collecting five pieces:

• Murkmire – Wolf-Tail Sash Lead – Murkmire Foul Fishing Spots
• Blackwood – Kothringi-Cut Leather Lead – World Boss Death Wart, World Boss Sul-Xan Ritualists
• Shadowfen – Bog-Blue Jasper Fetish Lead – Ruins of Mazzatun Dungeon last boss
• Shadowfen – Tide-Glass Beads Lead – Waterplants (Nirnroot etc), Pure Water Nodes
• Bal Foyen – Silverweave Cord Lead – Covenant Enemies, most likely all enemies

Set Bonus

• (1 item) Dealing direct damage grants you a stack of Hunter’s Focus for 1 minute, up to 10 stacks max. You can only gain 1 stack of Hunter’s Focus per second. Each stack of Hunter’s Focus increases your Critical Chance by and your Critical Damage by 1%. Taking direct damage removes 5 stacks of Hunter’s Focus, up to once per second. Removing Harpooner’s Wading Kilt removes all stacks of Hunter’s Focus.

WHY? incredible damage if playing in a coordinated group with little pressure on you especially at range.  Feel free to flex monster helm like Zaan’s, drop the one piece Slimecraw for a simpler setup.

[FLEX] (if not running Harpooner’s use Monster helm below)

• Zaan’s: obtained in Veteran Scalecaller Peak – great of single target
  • (1 item) Adds  Spell Critical
  • (2 items) When you damage a nearby enemy with a Light or Heavy Attack, you have a 33% chance to create a beam of fire that will connect you to your enemy as long as you remain within 8 meters of them. The beam deals  Flame Damage every 1 second to your enemy for 6 seconds. Every second, this damage increases by %. This effect can occur every 18 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Medusa: obtained in dungeon Arx Corinium.

• (2 items) Adds  Spell Critical
• (3 items) Adds  Spell Critical
• (4 items) Adds  Spell Critical
• (5 items) Adds  Spell Critical, Gain Minor Force at all times, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%

Why? this set gives us a lot of critical and minor force freeing up a bar slot though can be difficult to obtain.  Swap in a craftable set like Julianos if this is difficult for you to obtain.

Perfected Crushing Wall (Maelstrom): obtained in Veteran Maelstrom arena.

• (2 items) Adds Spell Penetration, Your Light and Heavy Attacks deal an additional damage to enemies in your Wall of Elements.

Why? makes our back bar unstable wall of elements skill add massive damage to our light attack weaving and is priority to collect.

Passives

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Alliance Passives

World Passives

Races

Khajiit

top end PvE DPS due to critical damage bonus.

• Cutpurse
• Robustness
• Lunar Blessings
• Feline Ambush

High Elf

a great magicka race with everything you could want though lacks critical damage bonus.

• Highborn
• Spell Recharge
• Syrabane's Boon
• Elemental Talent

Dark Elf

all around great if you want to switch between magicka/stamina build though lacks resources sustain.

• Ashlander
• Dynamic
• Resist Flame
• Ruination

Breton

incredible sustain and great magicka race.

• Opportunist
• Gift of Magnus
• Spell of Attunement
• Magicka Mastery

Mundus Stone

Shadow - If at 60% critical or higher fully buffed in group. Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 11%. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 17%.

Thief - If at 59% critical or lower Increases the Critical Strike rating by With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases the Critical Strike rating by

Champion Points

Warfare

Fighting Finesse (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing done by 2% per stage.

Deadly Aim (Slottable) - 50
Increase your damage done with single target attacks by 2% per stage.

Master-at-Arms (Slottable) - 50
Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 2% per stage.

Backstabber (Passive) - 50
Increases your Critical Damage done by 3% per stage against enemies you are flanking.

Fitness

Siphoning Spells (Slottable) - 50
Restore Magicka per stage, whenever you kill an enemy.

Boundless Vitality (Slottable) - 50
Grants 28 Max Health per stage.

Expert Evasion (Slottable) - 50
Your next Roll Dodge is free of cost. After consuming this effect, you cannot gain it again for 30 seconds.

Crafting

Steed's Blessing (Slottable) - 50
Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by .4% per stage.

Rationer (Passives) - 50
Adds 10 minutes to the duration of any food or drink that increases your character's stats per stage.

Liquid Efficiency (Slottable) - 50
Whenever you use a potion or poison you have a 10% chance to not consume it.

Treasure Hunter (Slottable) - 50
Increase the quality of items you find in treasure chests.

Consumables

Clockwork Citrus Filet

Type: Foods

Increase Max Health by , Health Recovery by , Max Magicka by and Magicka Recovery by for 2 hours. (5 second cooldown)

Witchmother's Brew

Type: Foods

Increase Max Magicka by , Max Health by , and Magicka Recovery by for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level

Ghastly Eye Bowl

Type: Foods

Increase Max Magicka by and Magicka Recovery by for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level

Essence of Spell Power

Type: Potions

gives you spell damage and spell critical with a % uptime if you have max medicine use passive in Alchemy tree.

Tri-Pots

Type: Potions

Restores health, magicka, and stamina and increases recovery of all three and is a good backup if you need help healing

Wrap Up

The Magicka Sorcerer is a great choice for newer players just learning to DPS, players looking to complete solo content and also endgame players.

Magicka Sorcerer PvE Build ESO &#; Apothis

Build Written By: Saligia &#; PC NA

Role: Damage Dealer

Patch: Waking Flame

1. Introduction
2. Setup
   1. Gear
   2. Attributes
   3. Skills
   4. Champion Points
   5. Other Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives)
3. Resource Management & Rotation
4. Contact Info
5. Update Log

Welcome to DottzGaming.com’s Magicka Sorcerer Build PvE, Apothis, for the Elder Scrolls Online! This build is intended for veteran dungeons, trials and general PvE.

Magicka Sorcerer is one of the best Magicka class for beginners with a fairly easy rotation. Sustain might be a bit tough though. The new champion point system has brought up Dual Wield setups, which is slightly better on average assuming melee range is possible. Inferno staff is still good with 1~2k DPS loss, but having the flexibility to play at range.

Gears and skills listed in the table are not the best in every situation. Make sure to check out the gear and skills explanation to know how they work or why I used certain combinations.

Gear

Gear Set Explanation and Alternatives

• Beginner Setup: Law of Julianos and Mother’s Sorrow are the easiest and cheapest combination to obtain once you reach CP For Mother’s Sorrow you can purchase blue jewelries if you cannot afford purple or gold yet. The ‘beginner’ setup already allows you to clear veteran maelstrom arena or meet most vet trials’ DPS requirement, make sure you don’t underestimate them! Once you get vMA inferno staff, swap out Julianos inferno staff on the back bar for an ‘intermediate’ setup.
• Zaan: A melee single-target monster set providing the highest DPS if you can stay at melee range. If you need to stay at ranged most of the time, pick one of the other monster sets mentioned above or 2 different pieces with spell crit bonus e.g. Iceheart + Slimecraw
• Iceheart: A defensive monster helm which is very useful when you are doing progression trials or dungeons. For those who enter vMA the first time, it might be a good choice.
• Maw of Infernal: Another Monster giving extra burning and good DPS potential. However, it might be annoying to Melee DPS or tanks.
• Mother’s Sorrow: A staple magicka set for magicka DPS providing a lot of crit.
• Law of Julianos: A crafted set that requires 6 traits researched. Best beginner set for all magicka classes, also good enough for all end-game PVE contents in case you do not have any other gear sets mentioned below
• Perfected False God’s Devotion: Another set that can be used in any situation, providing an 8% cost reduction in magicka abilities and restore magicka when you kill an enemy. The major expedition is also useful in certain situations.
• Mantle of Siroria: The strongest Magicka DPS set if you can maintain siroria stacks, replace false god’s devotion if want to use it. It provides spell damage at full stack.
• Medusa: Another crit set for Magicka DPS, but it’s a heavy armor set, which means you either use on Jewelry + Front bar weapon, or Jewelry + 2 Body pieces. Either pick Medusa or Mother’s sorrow at the same time and pair it with other sets. For Magsorcs spending more time on front bar than other classes, using Medusa weapon is a good choice and you can have the flexibility to run 7 or 6 light armor pieces for more sustain. However, you have to gold the jewelry and spend transmutes because the default traits are not optimal (Healthy), but you gain one more flex spot for any skills you like e.g. using 2 pet build.

Other Important Notes

• If you want to use any mythic item sets like Harpooner’s Wading Kilt / Death Dealer’s Fete, replace shoulder piece with Bahsei’s Mania
• If you can’t keep your Magicka low, replace Bahsei’s Mania with Mantle of Siroria
• If you don’t have Medusa Inferno staff yet, use Mother’s Sorrow instead of Medusa but you will need to slot Channeled Acceleration / Barbed Trap.
• Non-perfect gear is absolutely fine with less than 2% DPS difference.

Attributes

All points into Magicka.

Skills

Main Bar – Fire Staff &#; Daedric Prey, Crystal Fragments, Elemental Weapon, Summon Twilight Matriarch, Mystic Orb, Flawless Dawnbreaker

Back Bar – Fire Staff &#; Unstable Wall of Elements, Channeled Acceleration, Hardened Ward, Summon Twilight Matriarch, Boundless Storm, Greater Storm Atronach

Alternative Skills:

• Elemental Rage: Use this when you need a burst AOE ultimate
• Reviving Barrier: Use this is you want another 10% magicka recovery when you are on your front bar
• Consuming Trap: Use this in trash fights for more sustain.
• Bounded Aegis: Use this on the front bar for more max magicka.
• Summon Twilight Tormentor: Use this if you want more damage.

NOTE: These are the skills I prefer for any type of content, if you want an optimal DPS setup (usually being more aggressive and requires better knowledge to the fight), check out the parse video at the end.

Champion Points

The list below showcases the order in which champion points should be acquired, the number of points you need to place into that perk and whether or not it needs to be slotted in the CP bar. The Warfare CP perks increase your damage and mitigation and are the most important, the Fitness tree has some miscellaneous sustain and defensive perks and the Craft tree has crafting and non-combat bonuses. The Craft CP points are entirely customizable to however you want, or you can follow the list below.

CHAMPION POINT SETUP
WARFARE (BLUE)

• Precision &#; 20
• Fighting Finesse &#; 50 (slottable)
• Piercing &#; 20
• Deadly Aim &#; 50 (slottable)
• Master-at-Arms &#; 50 (slottable)
• Backstabber &#; 50 (slottable)
• Eldritch Insight &#; 20
• Flawless Ritual &#; 40
• War Mage &#; 30
• Quick Recovery &#; 20
• Preparation &#; 20
• Elemental Aegis &#; 20
• Hardy &#; 20
• Blessed &#; 20
• Tireless Discipline &#; 20

FITNESS (RED)

• Boundless Vitality – 50 (Slotted)
• Rejuvenation – 50 (Slotted)
• Tumbling – 30
• Mystic Tenacity – 10
• Hero’s Vigor – 20
• Siphoning Spells – 50 (Slotted)
• Ironclad – 50 (Slotted)
• Defiance – 20
• Tireless Guardian – 20
• Fortification – 30
• Hasty – 16
• Sprinter – 20
• Nimble Protector – 6
• Savage Defense – 30
• Bashing Brutality – 20
• Piercing Gaze – 30

CRAFT (GREEN)

• Steed’s Blessing – 50 (Slotted)
• Breakfall – 50
• Wanderer – 15
• Steadfast Enchantment – 50
• Rationer – 30 (Slotted)
• Liquid Efficiency – 75 (Slotted)
• Treasure Hunter – 50 (Slotted)
• Fortune’s Favor – 50
• Gilded Fingers – 50
• Soul Reservoir – 33

Other Important Info

Buff Food

• Witchmother’s Potent Brew Increased Health, Magicka and Magicka Recovery
• Melon-Baked Parmesan Pork / any increase Health and Magicka food if you have no sustain issues
• Artaeum Pickled fishbowl Increased Health, Magicka （slightly better but cost more）
• Ghastly Eyebowl Magicka and Magicka Recovery (for parse practice / situations where you don’t need extra health, not recommended for beginners)

Mundus

Thief &#; Increased Critical Chance

Race

• High Elf
• Dark Elf
• Breton
• Khajiit

Potions

Spell Power Potions (Spell Crit, Spell Damage, Magicka Restoration)
Cornflower, Ladys Smock, Water Hyacinth

Passives

All class passives, All Destruction Staff passives, All Light Armor passives, All Mages Guild passives, Banished the Wicked in Fighters Guild skill line, All Heavy armor passives, All Psijic Order Passives, All Undaunted passives, All Racial passives, Medicinal use in alchemy skill line (one of the most important passives in crafting for this build)

Suggestions to improve sustain (not a must if you feel satisfied with your sustain):

• 1 magicka recovery glyph on jewelry if you are using High Elf / Dark Elf or any other races without any sustain passives, but make sure they are not on infused jewelries

ROTATION

We are using a dynamic rotation to maximize our DPS, so there’s no static rotation. It might take a bit of time to get used to it, but I highly recommend practicing a dynamic rotation so that you won’t mess up your rotation even if you have to do mechanics. When you solo parse, replace your shield with elemental drain.

Channeled Acceleration > Weapon Swap > Light Attack > Daedric Prey > Weapon Swap > Light Attack > Blockade of Fire > Boundless Storm> Weapon Swap > Light Attack > Mystic Orb > Light Attack> Spam Elemental Weapon with Light Attack and reapply DOTs or Buffs once they fall off

• Reapply DOTs and Buffs just before they end. The only DOT you should NEVER reapply earlier is Daedric Prey. For the other DOTs or Buffs, you may reapply slightly earlier
• Crystal Fragments take priority over elemental weapon, replace one elemental weapon when it procs
• Greater Storm Atronach is our primary ultimate due to the synergy (Major Berserk) it provides the group. Make sure you place it at a place where the other DDs could use the synergy! (Bad Example: Pads of vMOL last boss)

If you have any questions about the build, join our discord server and ask @Saligia about the build!

12/18/ &#; Build created.
2/28/ &#; Build updated for dragon bones. Gear, abilities, rotation and cp updated
6/7/ &#; Build updated from Summerset.
8/29/ &#; CP Updated for Wolfhunter.
11/15/ &#; Build writer added to the build. CP updated for Murkmire.
3/1/ &#; Build overhauled for wrathstone
5/22/ &#; Build writer changed and overhauled for Elsweyr
8/15/ &#; Gear and skills/rotation changed for scalebreaker.
10/21/ &#; Skills, CP and Rotation changed
5/29/ &#; build overhauled for greymoor
8/24/ &#; no updates for stonethorn required
11/9/ &#; CP updated
3/23/ &#; build overhauled
6/10/ &#; cp updated
9/10/ &#; updated skills and final gear setup