ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Magicka Warden PvP Build, skills, gear, champion points, and more!

This build has been updated for the Updated 42, the Gold Road Chapter of the Elder Scrolls Online (ESO).

Why Should You Play ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build?

This ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build is ideal for players looking for survivability, sustainability, mobility, group utility, and damage. The Magden play style revolves around crowd control through snares, immobilization, and stuns. This is best played with double frost staff due to a passive giving a 12% damage increase.

Moreover, frost staff makes a great addition to the Warden class due to their chilled status effect bonuses. Due to its passive, the Warden also has a very high critical damage rating. Thus, this build centers on high critical chance and damage to optimize the class to initiate passives and skills.

Warden Class Pros

• Burst – Using Deep Fissure, Meteor, or Dawnbreaker, you can do some of the best burst damage in ESO PvP.
• Utility – You can argue that the Warden is the best PvP healer, offering great buffs and utility.
• Survival – With a high-health meta, the Warden shines with burst healing and healing over time capabilities.

Warden Class Cons

• Buff Cycling – Most of your skills are just for buffs and increased damage requiring constant attention.
• Weak Sustain – Like the Templar, your sustain is weaker than other classes.
• Complex Timing – Timing Deep Fissure, Dizzy Swing, and Dawnbreaker is complex and difficult to pull off.

The Magicka Warden in PvP is a powerful defensive playstyle with high mobility. The best aspect of the build is group utility while maintaining high damage. You can play at medium range as well with powerful burst damage.

ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the PvP Magicka Warden in the Elder Scrolls Online:

• Class – Warden
• Weapon One – Frost Staff
• Weapon Two – Frost Staff
• Armor Types: 3 Heavy, 1 Medium, 3 Light
• Mythic: Sea-Serpent’s Coil
• Race: Khajiit
• Infection: Vampire Stage 3
• Attributes: 32 Health 32 Magicka
• Mundus Stone: Atronach
• Best Grimoires: Traveling Knife, Soul Burst

Skills

Skill Set 1 Front Bar Frost Staff

You can use double Ice Staff or Dual Wield. If you use Dual Wield, you have access to stamina recovery with heavy attacks and Scribing Grimoire Traveling Knife.

Deep Fissure (Morph of Scorch | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Massive damage single target and AoE, keep up at all times, since it also applies Major and Minor Breach.

Growing Swarm (Morph of Swarm | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Damage over time and applies Minor Vulnerability. I use the stamina-based morph here to free up magicka resources for other abilities.

Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – Gives us a higher critical chance on our front bar and a counter to stealth classes. If you want to run critical buff potions or no critical chance buff, slot Birds of Prey in this slot.

Screaming Cliff Racer (Morph of Dive | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Great changed spammable. Swap to Destructive Clench if you use Master’s Frost staff.

Blue Betty (Morph of Betty Netch | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Spell damage buff, healing though watch out for plaguebreak, as this does cleanse. Slot flare on back bar if you want more mitigation.

Ice Comet (Morph of Meteor | Skill Line : Mages Guild) – Massive hard-hitting damage and can be used at ranged after stunning and immobilizing targets.

Skill Set 2 Back Bar Frost Staff

Ice Fortress (Morph of Frost Cloak | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – Major Resolve armor buff with Minor Protection.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – The mobility tool allows us to keep up with anyone on the battlefield. If you don’t like vampire, you can use Race Against Time instead or Bird of Prey in replacement of Camo Hunter on your front bar.

Budding Seeds (Morph of Healing Seed | Skill Line : Green Balance) – Strong heal over time when playing in group. Can also use Leaching Vines solo.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Great self healing that doesn’t require a resto staff thus back bar Frost or Sword and Shield mitigation.

Arctic Blast (Morph of Arctic Wind | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – Magicka based heal which can also stun enemies.

Enchanted Forest (Morph of Secluded Grove | Skill Line : Green Balance) – Our defensive back bar skill when in danger.

Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build

Traveling Knife and Soul Burst are the two best Grimoires (skills) for a Magicka Warden PvP build. Traveling Knife gives you a ranged bleed attack that acts like Rending Slashes but doesn’t require Master Dual Wield to be effective. Moreover, Traveling Knife can be given a stun in the focus script for classes lacking a ranged stun. Soul Burst is a helpful crowd control and buff skill. You can immobilize, pull, or snare targets and get your favorite minor buffs. Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Traveling Knife (dual wield) – Bleed or Stun (focus script), Lingering Torment or Assassin’s Misery (signature script), Berserk or Vulnerability (affix script)
• Soul Burst (soul magic) – Immobilize or Pull (focus script), Class Mastery or Hunter’s Snare (signature script), Courage or Expedition (affix script)

The Scribing System utilizes one of 11 new skills from the Gold Road Chapter called Grimoires. With Grimoires, you can customize spells via Scripts. The scribing feature requires the purchase of the Gold Road Chapter (sponsored link). To learn more about scribing, check out our full guide here.

Passives Skills

Below are the passive skills lines that add power without requiring a skill slot while playing the ESO PvP Magicka Warden Build. Consider taking all the skill passives in the skill tree listed below:

• Winter’s Embrace (class skill line)
• ‎Animal Companions (class skill line)
• Green Balance (class skill line)
• Destruction Staff (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor
• Undaunted
• Mage’s Guild
• Fight’s Guild
• Vampirism
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Gear – Best in Slot

The gear chart below represents the best gear for ESO PvP Magicka Warden Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Order’s Wrath	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Light	Order’s Wrath	Sturdy	Magicka
Boots	Light	Rallying Cry	Sturdy	Magicka
Belt	Light	Trainee	Sturdy	Magicka
Weapon One	Frost Staff	Order’s Wrath	Sharpened	Escapist Poison
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Rallying Cry	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Sea-Serpent’s Coil	Swift	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Rallying Cry	Infused	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Swift	Spell Damage

Monster Helms and Mythic

Roksa the Warped: Obtained from Vet Bal Sunnar; Scribes of Fate DLC. Carries your survivability and resource sustain in a two-piece set, without the Engine Guardian droid.

Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Obtained through Mythic System click here for lead locations. Used because it’s essentially two five-piece damage sets in one, with nearly zero drawbacks if using Vampire Mist Form.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Balorgh: Burst damage.
• Zoal the Ever-Wakeful: Counter gank.
• Ozezan the Inferno: Great paired with heals over time.
• Scourge Harvest: Good self-healing when playing in melee range.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty: Great all-around defensive and offensive mythic
• Torc of Tonal Constancy: Resource sustain mythic.
• Death Dealer’s Fete: Max stats which equates to good damage if you don’t have better options.
• The Master’s Ice Staff: Drop the mythic and use Master’s Ice Staff on the front bar and complete the 5pc Order’s Wrath.

Gear Sets

Rallying Cr: Great offensive and defensive set that lowers the burst damage you receive and increases your damage and healing.

Order’s Wrath: Great critical chance and critical damage increase.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Wretched Vitality: Great resource sustain five-piece set that you can proc on your back bar.
2. Mara’s Balm: Best for pure healing and cleansing but the Warden doesn’t lack in that department.
3. Powerful Assault: Great set to add damage to you and your group and the buff stacks with Rallying Cry.
4. Robes of the Hist: Great back bar healing set alternate to Mara’s Balm.
5. War Maiden: Decent spell damage set to the front bar.
6. Snake in the Stars: Counters players using “heal stacking.”
7. Scathing Mage: Good front bar that will help with your damage and healing if playing with staff.
8. Back-Alley Gourmand: Even more critical damage than Order’s Wrath but it only comes in Light armor.

Gear 2 – No Proc PvP Cyrodiil and Imperial City

Meant for specific rule sets inside Cyrodiil in Imperial City ESO PvP:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	War Maiden	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Impenetrable	Magicka
Boots	Light	War Maiden	Impenetrable	Magicka
Belt	Light	War Maiden	Impenetrable	Magicka
Weapon One	Frost Staff	War Maiden	Sharpened	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Blessing of the Potentates	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Torc or Tonal Constancy	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	Infused	Spell Damage

Gear Options

• Magma Incarnate: great sustain for a one-piece item set.
• Mark of the Pariah: is the best defensive set in no proc PvP.
• War Maiden: is great damage that applies to nearly all damage abilities.
• Blessing of Potentates: is a great damage reduction set two-piece.
• Torc or Tonal Constancy: is a god tier resource sustain mythic that can be used in no proc PvP

Race

The best race choices for PvP Magicka Warden:

1. Khajiit: best overall due to burst critical damage bonus.
2. Dark Elf: good max stats and weapon and spell damage.
3. Argonian: It’s a powerful defensive tank race all around.

Attributes

You should aim to reach 32,000 health; therefore, we recommend 32 health and 32 magicka attribute split.

Mundus Stone

The best mundus stone is the Atronach for resource sustain. You can use Thief or Apprentice if your damage is low.

Champion Points – ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
War Mount	Duelist’s Rebuff	Fortified
Gifted Rider	Focused Mending	Celerity
Steed’s Blessing	Fighting Finesse	Pain’s Refuge
Liquid Efficiency	Ironclad	Survival Instincts

Warfare Constellation Champion Points

Below is a step-by-step method for slotting your champion points in the Warfare tree (blue). We have used the minimum possible to reach 4 slottable selections, all maxed out. If you have more CP, consider taking more in the passives for optimal performance.

Below are recommended Warfare Champion Point selections for the ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build:

1. Precision 10
2. Fighting finesse (slottable) 50
3. Mastered curation – sub constellation – blessed 10
4. Focused mending (slottable) 50
5. Eldritch insight 10
6. Staving death – sub constellation – quick recovery 10
7. Staving death – sub constellation – Ironclad (slottable) 50
8. Duelist’s rebuff (slottable) 50

This would be the minimum setup, spending 240 CP (720 total required). The next step is to max out passives that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Precision 10
2. Piercing 10
3. Tireless discipline 20
4. Eldritch insight 20
5. Blessed 20
6. Quick recovery 20
7. Flawless ritual 40
8. War mage 30
9. Battle mastery 40
10. Mighty 30
11. Elemental aegis 20
12. Hardy 20
13. Preparation 20

This would max out the Warfare tree with all active and passive champion points at 520 spent 1,560 total spent.

Fitness Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Fitness Champion Point selections for the ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Sprinter 10
3. Wind chaser – sub constellation – hasty 8
4. Wind chaser – sub constellation – celerity (slottable) 50
5. Hero’s vigar 10
6. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation– mystic tenacity 10
7. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation –  pain’s refuge (slottable) 50
8. Survival instincts 50 (slottable)

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 238 CP (714 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Hero’s Vigor 10
2. Tumbling 30
3. Sprinter 10
4. Defiance 20
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless guardian 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 6
9. Mystic tenacity 50
10. Tempered soul 50
11. Piercing gaze 30
12. Savage defense  30
13. Bashing brutality 20

This would max out the fitness tree with all active passive champion points at 532 cp spent 1,596 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the ESO Magicka Warden PvP Build:

1. Steed’s blessing – 50(slottable)
2. Breakfall 10 
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Rationer 10
6. Liquid efficiency (slottable) 75
7. Treasure hunter 50
8. Master gatherer 15
9. Gifted rider (slottable) 100
10. War mount (slottable) 120

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 455CP (1365 total required). The next step is to max out passives that do not require a slottable but increase performance.

1. Steadfast enchantment 40cp
2. Breakfall 40 cp
3. Wanderer 60
4. Fortunes favor 10
5. Friends in low places 25
6. Out of sight 30
7. Fleet of Phantom 40
8. Soul’s Reservoir 33
9. Gilded fingers 50
10. Fortunes favor 40
11. Inspiration boost 45
12. Infamous 30

This would max out the crafting tree with all active and passive champion points at 898 CP spent and 2,694 total spent.

Consumables

The best consumables for the Magicka Warden PvP build are Bewitched Sugar Skulls food and Essence of Health tri-stat potions. Bewitched Sugar Skulls give a massive boost to overall stats but sacrifices recovery. If you struggle with recovery, use Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch or cheaper Jewels of Misrule. The essence of health or Tri-stat potions is the best to passively give you a flood of resources and tri-recovery with alchemy medicinal use. Immovability potions are also helpful. Below are our recommended food and potion choices:

• Bewitched Sugar Skulls: Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Scrib Jelly, Flour, Columbine, Bervez Juice, and Honey.
  • Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch (recovery): Increase Max Health, Health Recovery, and Stamina and Magicka Recovery (effects are scaled based on your level). Ingredients: Red Meat, Tomato, White Cap, Frost Mirriam, and Perfect Roe.
  • Jewels of Misrule (cheap): Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery and Max Health for 2 hours. Ingredients: Rose, Mint, Lotus, Columbine, and Bervez Juice.
• Essence of Health (tri-stat): Restore 7329 Health, 6618 Magicka, and 6618 Stamina immediately. Grants Major Fortitude, Major Intellect, and Major Endurance, which increase your Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower.
  • Essecene of Immovability: Restores health and stamina and is immune to knockback effects. Ingredients: Namria’s Rot, Columbine, and Mountain Flower.
• Escapist’s Poison IX: Immobilizes your target and grants you unstoppable, rendering you immune to control effects for 1.6 seconds. Ingredients: Columbine, Namira’s Rot, Wormwood.

Build Summary – ESO PvP Magicka Warden

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