Magicka Warden PvP Build ESO – Frost Storm

Build Written By: Dottz Gaming – PC NA

Role: Damage Dealer

Patch: Ascending Tide

Table of Contents

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

Introduction

Welcome to DottzGaming.com’s Magicka Warden PVP build, Frost Storm, for the Elder Scrolls Online! This build is intended for PvP of all kinds: battlegrounds, Cyrodiil, dueling, and Imperial City. This build can be played in both CP and no-CP pvp without any changes to the build!

Magicka Warden is in a bit of a tough spot in ESO’s PvP meta. The class is definitely bottom of the barrel right now, but it doesnt mean you cant find something that works! This is what I’ve personally come up with for magicka warden this patch. This build has a really well balanced gear profile, giving us augmentations to our damage, healing and defense. If you’re looking for a solid Magden PvP build this patch, give this one a shot!

Keep in mind that PvP builds are very personal. This is what worked for ME. If you don’t like something about it, change it to fit your playstyle.

Setup

Gear

Gear Explanation

Scourge Harvester: I have personally found this patch for healing to be alot more valuable than raw mitigation, and Malubeth helps promote that. The major vitality boosting our strong healing package gives us a ton of healing, making this build very hard to take down!

Clever Alchemist: This set gives us a massive boost to our spell damage for 20 seconds after we drink a potion, helping us out both offensively and defensively. Also, the gear having 2 lines of maximum health also helps get our HP pool extremely high!

Wretched Vitality: This set is extremely strong for magicka warden by giving us a ton of extra sustain, allowing us to sustain stage 3 vampirism and orient more of our enchants towards damage!

Markyn Ring of Majesty: This mythic gives a really nice balanced profile between offense and defense, boosting our damage and our resistance!

Trainee: With the way we have our gear setup, we have a free jewelry slot, making using a piece of Trainee a no-brainer, giving us a nice boost to our max health!

Attributes

All points into magicka.

Skills

Main Bar – Dual Wield: Arterial Burst, Deep Fissure, Arctic Blast, Fetcher Infection, Bird of Prey, Dawnbreaker of Smiting

Back Bar – Restoration Staff: Leeching Vines, Rapid Regeneration, Blue Betty, Ice Fortress, Elusive Mist, Healing Thicket

Vampire vs. Mortal

We play as a stage 3 vampire in this build in order to gain access to Undeath, significantly increasing our tankiness. In addition, we use multiple skills out of the vampire skill line for offense and defense!

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)

• Eldritch Insight – 20
• Piercing – 20
• Master-at-Arms – 50 (Slotted)
• Biting Aura – 50 (Slotted)
• Quick Recovery – 20
• Elemental Aegis – 20
• Hardy – 20
• Duelist’s Rebuff – 50 (Slotted)
• Ironclad – 50 (Slotted)
• Blessed – 20
• Tireless Discipline – 20
• Flawless Ritual – 40
• War Mage – 30
• Precision – 20
• Preparation – 20

FITNESS (RED)

• Boundless Vitality – 50 (Slotted)
• Tumbling – 30
• Mystic Tenacity – 10
• Sustained by Suffering – 50 (Slotted)
• Pain’s Refuge – 50 (Slotted)
• Relentlessness – 50 (Slotted)
• Hero’s Vigor – 20
• Defiance – 20
• Hasty – 16
• Sprinter – 20
• Tireless Guardian – 20
• Fortification – 30
• Nimble Protector – 6
• Savage Defense – 30
• Piercing Gaze – 30
• Bashing Brutality – 20

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

Bewitched Sugar Skulls: Maximum Health, Magicka and Stamina

Mundus

The Atronach: Increased Mag Recovery.

Race

Imperial: This gives us 6% cost reduction to all of our skills (as well as core-combat skills), and big boosts to our health and stamina, allowing us to easily run the Ghastly Eye Bowl buff food without our stamina being too low!

Potions

Essence of Spell Crit (Restore Health, Magicka and Major Prophecy)
(Bugloss, Lady’s Smock, Water Hyacinth)

Passives

• Animal Companions: All
• Winters Embrace: All
• Green balance: All
• Light Armor: All
• Heavy Armor: All
• Medium Armor: All
• Dual Wield: All
• Restoration Staff: All
• Undaunted: All
• Assault: All
• Support: Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Racial: All
• Vampire: All
• Fighter’s Guild: All

Rotation

Offensively, your goal on the build is pretty straightforward: apply Fetcher Infection, and use Shalks and Arterial Burst to whittle down your opponents’ HP bars. When you’re ready for your big burst, do the same thing with Dawnbreaker!

Defensively, use your 3 heals: Arctic Blast, Leeching Vines and Rapid Regeneration. If you find yourself afflicted with a ton of DoTs or negative status effects while behind LOS, use Blue Betty to remove them! You can also use Elusive Mist to kite away from your opponents and give yourself some space!

Contact

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

Update Log

12/3/2020 – Build created
4/6/2021- build updated for flames of ambition
7/12/2021 – build overhauled for blackwood
11/15/2021 – build writer changed and build overhauled
11/19/2021 – build updated after testing
1/8/2022 – vampire added to the build
3/16/2022- build totally overhauled