ESO Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE

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

This build has been updated for the Update 41 patch of the Elder Scrolls Online.

Why Should You Play ESO Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE?

ESO Magicka Warden PvE Build is for players that are looking to complete solo content with a well-rounded class with great healing. This build is a great build for beginner players as it has a lot of buffs and healing built that doesn’t require potions or outside skill lines.

In ESO, the Magicka Warden is perfect for everyone who is looking for a simple-rotation survival class with a complete set of tools for solo PvE gameplay. So if the frost druid with animal companions and following “pros” is what you are looking for, this build is for you!

ESO Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE Playstyle

Use the following rotation as the starter point. After, apply your buffs and cast the DoT skills on cooldown for the best, highest DPS. In total, the Damage over Time skills (DoTs) do more damage than your main spammable. Thus, they need to be cast less often and are easier to maintain, for example, The Degeneration from Mages Guild or the Barb Trap from Fighters Guild. Maintain DoTs and use your spammable skill as filler until you need to reapply the DoTS.

At certain percentages, replace your spammable with your in-class or weapon execute if you have one in this build. Executes are the skills that deal more damage the lower the health of the opponent becomes. Ideally, these are meant to replace your main spammable skill at anywhere between 35% (Radiant Oppression) all the way to 20% (Mages’ Fury). At a high level, execute skills become so strong that the lower the enemy’s health, the fewer DoTs you maintain because it does so much damage.

Use the healing skill when your health drops below 50% or the shield skill when you anticipate damage. Also, always use the suggested food and potions as they significantly increase your damage, survivability, and resource sustain.

If you run out of resources, do a heavy attack and return to your rotation. Remember that a heavy attack on off-balance enemies will return double the resources. Additionally, if you are a beginner or struggle with sustain, you can flex in the Consuming Trap skill instead of a DoT skill. The Consuming Trap gives you a flood of both resources when a target dies.

ESO Solo Warden Magicka PvE Build Features and Mechanics

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

• Class – Warden
• Weapon One – Frost Staff
• Weapon Two – Frost Staff
• Armor Types: 5 Medium, 2 Light
• Mythic – Pale Order
• Race – Dark Elf
• Attributes – 64 Magicka
• Mundus Stone – Thief

Skills

Passives Skills

Below are the lines of the passive skill that add power without requiring a skill slot while playing the ESO Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE. 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
• Undaunted
• Psjiic Order
• 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 Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Tzogvin’s Warband	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Light	Valkyn Skoria	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Medium	Tzogvin’s Warband	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Medium	Tzogvin’s Warband	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	Medium	Tzogvin’s Warband	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Medium	Tzogvin’s Warband	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Light	Perfected False God’s	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Frost Staff	Perfected False God’s	Charged	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Perfected Crushing Wall	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Perfected False God’s	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Mythic	Pale Order	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Perfected False God’s	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

In PvE, high-end DPS builds, magicka, and stamina builds run similar gear setups, including medium armor. Medium is more robust due to not reaching the penetration cap of light armor. However, Light armor can provide a shield with greater sustain. Below are various options.

Monster Helms and Mythic

Valkyn Skoria: obtained in City of Ash II veteran. Gives a mighty one-piece bonus for penetration. Alternative: Slimecraw.

Ring of the Pale Order: Mythic obtained by collecting five pieces. This gives great healing for doing damage and allows you to focus on pure damage.

FLEX OPTIONS (if you switch to monster setup, drop the ring and replace it with Vicious or flex piece)

• Stormfist – always works, easy to obtain and  AoE DPS set.
• Balorgh = is incredible for boss burns in Veteran Maelstrom Arena saving up ultimate for 500 burns.
• Kra’gh – one piece is great for a pen, two-piece does good single-target damage
• Iceheart = is great for survivability.
• Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet: new mythic that is incredible damage if you have good survivability and don’t require Pale Order.
• Mora’s Whisper = set and forget high critical mythic but requires a collection of Mages Guild books.
• Death Dealer’s Fete = high max stats and requires no effect but in combat.

Gear Sets

Perfected False God’s Devotion: Trial set that drops in Veteran Sunspire, Elsweyr Chapter. Reduces overall cost of Magicka abilities by 8% and boosts movement speed on enemy death.

Tzogvin’s Warband: Dungeon set that drops in Frostvault, part of Wrathstone DLC. Boosts Critical chance and critical damage.

Perfected Crushing Wall: from Veteran Maelstrom Arena in Orsinium. Increase your overall DPS due to the ability of the wall of elements and more damage.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Whorl of the Depths – great proc set for damage.
• Mechanical Acuity = (CRAFTING) the highest burst combined with Balorgh for VMA boss nukes
• Pillar of Nirn = (DUNGEON) great overall proc set damage.
• Mechanical Acuity = (CRAFTING) the highest burst combined with Balorgh for VMA boss nukes
• Deadly Strike – good medium armor set for overall damage.
• Order’s Wrath = Crafted and best overall option for great damage
• Mother’s Sorrow: = overland option base game easy to get and good damage
• Medusa  = easy dungeon set if you’re not using barb trap
• Scathing Mage = High spell damage set from dungeons.
• Perfected Bahsei’s Mania = considered BiS for damage if you can run magicka low and keep it there.
• Robes of the Withered Hand = Base game, overland, and a great replacement for False Gods to get you started.
• Bright-Throat’s Boast = decent sustain set if you’re using Witch Mother Drink.
• Law of Julianos = decent craftable option.
• Willpower = extra 2pc set

Gear – Beginner

This setup is for someone who just started and doesn’t have access to Monsters, Mythics, Trials gear

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Withered Hand	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Withered Hand	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Mother’s Sorrow	Divines	Magicka
Legs	light	Mother’s Sorrow	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	light	Mother’s Sorrow	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Mother’s Sorrow	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Mother’s Sorrow	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Frost Staff	Willpower	Precise	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Willpower	Infused	Berserker
Necklace		Withered Hand	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Withered Hand	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Withered Hand	Arcane	Spell Damage

• Withered Hand – found in Alikr Desert overland or in build traders. Gives resources back on kills.
• Willpower – is obtained in dungeon daily rewards or cheaply from build traders. Gives you a big magicka stat boost.
• Mother’s Sorrow – found in overland Deshaan or bought from guild traders. Useful for high critical and base game easy to obtain.

Race

The best racial choice for the Magicka Warden is below:

1. Dark Elf: Gain max magicka, stamina, and weapon and spell damage. The flame resistance is also helpful and considered the strongest overall PVE DPS race.
2. High Elf: Gain resource sustain passive, max magicka, and weapon and spell damage. The downside of High Elf is a lack of stamina or flame resistance.
3. Khajiit: This race gets recovery, max stats, and critical damage and healing. Consider the Khajiit a great option if you aren’t over the critical cap of 125%.

Attributes

The best choice is 64 magicka, which increases damage, healing, and DoTs.

Mundus Stone

The Thief is the best Mundus Stone for PvE Builds because it gives Increases Weapon and Spell Critical Strike a chance.

Champion Points – ESO Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE

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 Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE:

1. Precision 10
2. Wrathful Strikes (slottable) 50
3. Fighting Finesse (slottable) 50
4. Extended Might – sub constellation – piercing 10
5. Deadly Aim (slottable) 50
6. Master – at- Arms (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 220 CP (660 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 Solo Warden Magicka Build for PvE:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Boundless vitality (slottable) 50
3. Rejuvenation (slottable) 50
4. Sprinter 10
5. Winder chaser – sub con – hasty 8
6. Hero’s Vigor 10
7. Siphoning Spells (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 228 CP (684 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 542 cp spent and 1,626 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

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

1. Steed’s blessing (slottable) – 50
2. Breakfall 10 
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Treasure hunter 50 (slottable)
6. rationer (slottable) 30
7. liquid effiency (slottable) 75

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 240CP (720 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 50
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

Consumables

Build Summary – ESO Solo Warden Magicka PvE Build

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