
Solo Magicka Necromancer PvE Build ESO – The Conjuror
Build Written By: Dottz Gaming – PC NA
Role: Damage Dealer
Patch: Update 40
Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome to DottzGaming.com’s Solo Magicka Necromancer Build PvE, The Conjuror, for the Elder Scrolls Online! This build is intended for playing solo PvE content, such as questing, public dungeons, Maelstrom Arena, etc.! This build focuses on summoning a ton of fire-and-forget pets, allowing you to build your own personal army while exploring the world! My goal with this build was to create a magicka necromancer build that could play solo effectively, but had strong thematic ties to the class’s identity!
Setup
Gear
Magicka Necromancer Solo PvE Build | |||||
Gear Slot | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchant | Acquisition |
Head | Maw of the Infernal | Light | Divines | Magicka | Vet Banished Cells 2 |
Shoulders | Maw of the Infernal | Light | Divines | Magicka | Undaunted Chest |
Gloves | Coldharbour’s Favorite | Light | Divines | Magicka | Crafted |
Legs | Coldharbour’s Favorite | Light | Divines | Magicka | Crafted |
Chest | Coldharbour’s Favorite | Heavy | Divines | Magicka | Crafted |
Belt | Burning Spellweave | Light | Divines | Magicka | City of Ash |
Boots | Burning Spellweave | Light | Divines | Magicka | City of Ash |
Necklace | Burning Spellweave | Jewelry | Infused/Bloodthirsty | Magicka Recovery | City of Ash |
Ring | Burning Spellweave | Jewelry | Infused | Spell Damage | City of Ash |
Ring | Burning Spellweave | Jewelry | Infused | Spell Damage | City of Ash |
Weapon 1 | Coldharbour’s Favorite | Lightning | Precise | Absorb Magicka | Crafted |
Weapon 2 | Coldharbour’s Favorite | Lightning | Infused | Berserker | Crafted |
Gear Set Explanation
Maw of the Infernal: This monster set plays perfectly into the goal of trying to summoning as many fire-and-forget pets as we can! The Infernal summon gives a targetable pet that deals solid AoE damage and adds another body to the battlefield and another soldier in your army!
Coldharbour’s Favorite: Another summon focused set, you summon Honor to either heal or deal damage based on your actions. This versatile summon can help you based on your needs at the time, and plays perfectly into the build’s theme!
Burning Spellweave: An amazing damage set for for Magicka DPS, giving us a big spell damage boost whenever we deal flame damage. Since we deal fire damage with blastbones, we are able to use that to proc this set to give us a massive boost to our offensive prowess!
NOTE: If you want to run ring of the pale order, move one of your BSW pieces to your shoulder and replace your ring with the Ring of the Pale Order.
Attributes
All points into Magicka.
Skills
Main Bar – Lightning Staff: Hungry Scythe, Stalking Blastbones, Degeneration, Unnerving Boneyard, Elemental Blockade, Glacial Colossus
Back Bar – Lightning Staff: Skeletal Arcanist, Harness Magicka, Intensive Mender, Deaden Pain, Summoner’s Armor, Ravenous Goliath
Vampire vs. Werewolf vs. Mortal
You are playing a mortal for this build. We dont need any of the skills that either of these skill lines offer, so we remain as a mortal as to not suffer any drawbacks.
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 (Slotted)
- Piercing – 20
- Biting Aura – 50 (Slotted)
- Master-at-Arms – 50 (Slotted)
- Reaving Blows – 50 (Slotted)
- 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)
- Fortified – 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 (Maximum Health, Magicka and Magicka Recovery)
Mundus
The Thief – Increased Critical Damage
Race
- Breton
- Khajiit
- Dark Elf
- High Elf
NOTE: If you’re not playing as a Breton and you’re having issues sustaining, change one of your jewelry glyphs to a Reduce Spell Cost glyph.
Potions
Essence of Spell Crit (Restore Health, Magicka and Major Prophecy)
(Bugloss, Lady’s Smock, Water Hyacinth)
NOTE: If your budget is tight, you can just use regular restore magicka potions!
Passives
Class (all), Light Armor (all), Heavy Armor (all), Medium Armor (all), Destruction Staff (all), Vampire (all except Blood Ritual and Savage Feeding) (optional), Undaunted (all), Racial (all), Mages Guild (all), Alchemy (Medicinal Use)
Resource Management & Rotation
- Maintain Degeneration, Unstable Wall of Elements, Unnerving Boneyard, and Skeletal Arcanist.
- Maintain Summoner’s Armor at all times to help keep you tanky.
- Use Deaden Pain every time there are corpses near you to generate ultimate, give you a HoT and major protection!
- If none of your DoTs need to be refreshed, you want to light attack weave with Death Scythe or heavy attack if you need magicka.
- If you know a boss/mob is going to deal a big amount of damage, use your Harness Magicka to defend yourself and use Deaden Pain. Also, making sure to have the Mender pet up in case your shield goes down will help alot to get a nice big heal!
Contact
If you have any questions about the build, join our discord server and ask @Dottz about the build!
Update Log
3/12/2020 – Build created.
5/30/2020 – removed vampire from the build
8/24/2020 – no changes for stonethorn
11/2/2020 – no changes for markarth
3/8/2021 – updated CP for flames of ambition
6/2/2021 – cp and mundus updated
8/23/2021 – no changes for waking flame
11/1/2021 – slight trait changes
3/14/2022 – no changes to the build
6/6/2022- changed gear
8/22/2022- no changes for lost depths
11/9/2022 – no changes for firesong
3/14/2023- no changes for Scribes of Fate
6/5/2023- no changes for necrom
8/24/2023- no changes for update 39
11/6/2023- no changes for update 40