Death’s Grasp – Magicka Necromancer PvE Build

Build Written By: Wayward – XB1 NA – Twitch

Role: Damage Dealer

Patch: Dragonhold

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Setup
   1. Gear
   2. Attributes
   3. Skills
   4. Champion Points
   5. Vampire vs. Werewolf vs. Mortal
   6. Other Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives)
3. Rotation
4. Veteran Maelstrom Arena
5. Contact Info
6. Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to DottzGaming.com’s PvE Magicka Necromancer DPS build; Death’s Grasp! This build has a beginner and endgame setup, with an alternate gear set for those mobile fights, as well as a vMA setup! With practice, this setup can complete any content in the game.

Setup

Gear

Other optional sets
Necromancer has a lot of options. If you don’t personally like these choices, some other good sets are:

• Necropotence (Rivenspire/Guild Traders)
• False God’s Devotion (nSS, or vSS for perfected)
• Elemental Succession (Maelstrom Arena).

Other good monster sets are:

• Grothdarr (vVoM/Gilirion the Redbeard’s Chest)
• Maw of the Infernal (vBC2/Maj-al Ragath’s Chest)
• Valkyn Skoria (vCoA2/ Gilirion the Redbeard’s Chest)

Attributes

All points into Magicka.

Skills

Main Bar – Inferno Staff: Mystic Siphon, Inner Light, Degeneration, Stalking Blastbones, Ricochet Skull, and Shooting Star

Back Bar – Inferno Staff: Skeletal Arcanist, Inner Light, Channeled Acceleration, Unstable Wall of Elements, Dampen/Harness Magicka, and Glacial Colossus

Champion Points

CHAMPION POINT 810 SETUP
THE MAGE (BLUE)

• Elfborn – 56
• Spell Erosion – 24
• Elemental Expert – 56
• Master-at-Arms – 56
• Staff Expert – 22
• Thaumaturge – 56

THE THIEF (GREEN)

• Warlord – 44
• Bashing Focus – 34
• Arcanist – 75
• Tenacity – 49
• Tumbling – 34
• Shadow Ward – 34

THE WARRIOR (RED)

• Ironclad – 72
• Hardy – 49
• Elemental Defender – 49
• Thick Skinned – 56
• Light Armor Focus – 21
• Quick Recovery – 23

CHAMPION POINT 300 SETUP
THE MAGE (BLUE)

• Elfborn – 23
• Spell Erosion – 24
• Elemental Expert – 19
• Master-at-Arms – 16
• Thaumaturge – 18

THE THIEF (GREEN)

• Warlord – 13
• Bashing Focus – 11
• Arcanist – 39
• Tenacity – 11
• Tumbling – 13
• Shadow Ward – 13

THE WARRIOR (RED)

• Ironclad – 23
• Hardy – 23
• Elemental Defender – 23
• Thick Skinned – 23
• Light Armor Focus – 8

Vampire vs. Werewolf vs. Mortal

I’ve found vampire to be worth playing, the extra recovery is very helpful, especially if you’re using just max health and max magicka food. If you don’t like the downsides and can sustain without it though, you obviously don’t need it.

Other Important Info

Buff Food

Witchmother’s Potent Brew/Clockwork citrus Filet. I found it too difficult to sustain with bi-stat food on my build this patch.

Mundus

Shadow – Increased Critical Damage

Race

1. Dunmer
2. Breton
3. High Elf

Potions/Poisons

Restore Health, Magicka, and Stamina (Bugloss, Columbine, and Mountain Flower)

Passives

All class passives, light armor passives, destruction staff passives, undaunted passives, first 3 heavy armor passives, Mages Guild passives except persuasive will, Banish the Wicked from Fighter’s Guild, 2nd, 3rd, and last medium armor, Psijic Order passives except Spell Orb, Medicinal Use from Alchemy, and race passives.

Rotation

LA = Light Attack

Buff with your potion and Channeled Acceleration pre fight. 

LA-Summon Skeletal Arcanist-Barswap-LA-Degeneration-Bar Swap-LA-Unstable Wall of Elements-Bar Swap-LA-Stalking Blastbones-(LA->Ricochet Skull x3)-LA-Mystic Siphon-LA-Ricochet Skull-LA-Degeneration-Bar Swap-LA-Unstable Wall of Elements-Bar Swap-LA-Stalking Blastbones-(LA->Ricochet Skull x3)-LA-Mystic Siphon-LA-Ricochet Skull-LA-Degeneration-LA-Barswap-repeat.

Drink potions on cooldown, and rebuff Channeled Acceleration whenever it has about 2 seconds left, usually about every 1.5 rotations. When you refresh it, use 1 less Skull that time. Drop your Colossus Ult whenever it’s available, starting with it when possible. Only use Shooting Star if the boss is almost dead and you need a quick burst to finish it, and Colossus isn’t available yet.

Veteran Maelstrom Arena

NOTE: If you have the vMA Inferno Staff, use that on the back bar instead.

Skills

Main Bar – Inferno Staff: Mystic Siphon, Inner Light, Spirit Guardian, Summoner’s Armor, Ricochet Skull, and Shooting Star

Back Bar – Inferno Staff: Skeletal Arcanist, Inner Light, Degeneration, Unstable Wall of Elements, Dampen/Harness Magicka, and Glacial Colossus

Rotation

Pretty much the same as your normal rotation, minus the blastbones and CA. In place of those, try and keep your Summoner’s Armor and Spirit Guardian up at all times. The Guardian is infinitely useful, and Summoner’s Armor helps sustain by reducing summon costs, and helps survivability by granting us Major Resolve and Ward.

Contact

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

Update Log

5/22/2019 – Build Created
6/24/2019 – buff food and vamp changed
8/15/2019 – Overhauled for scalebreaker
10/6/2019 – vma gear setup changed
10/22/2019 – updated buff food and rotation for dragonhold
11/2/2019 – Updated jewelry traits on final build
12/4/2019 – changed monster helm
1/9/2020 – Rotation updated after errors were noticed