ESO Warden Healer PvE build, The Shaman

Table of Contents

• Recent Changes
• Should You Play This Build?
• Skills
• Priority Passives & Skills
• Suggested Gear Options
• Race
• Consumables
• Mundus
• Attribute Points
• Champion Points

Full Build Video (coming soon)

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Recent Changes New armor passives

• Champion point system overhaul
• New racial passives
• New mundus stone passives
• New weapon passives
• More base health

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Objective

This build is for players interested in playing a group oriented buff machine Warden Healer optimized for 4-man content, but could also be used in endgame trials. This is a general build, so feel free to play around with skills as needed to fit your own play style.

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Should you play this build?

Wardens have unique buffs that provide the group benefits on sustain, damage and more.  Making them one of, if not the best healers in the Elder Scrolls Online.  You’ll want to pick this up for top end healing at end game.

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Skills

For this build the following skills are recommended, although feel free to play around with it and make it comfortable for your play style

Bar One Restoration Staff for healing and buffs

Radiating Regen: A heal over time that heals you or up to 3 nearby allies

Illustrious Healing: An AOE heal over time that gives you and allies standing in the area a heal and also a heal over time for 12 seconds

Harness Magicka: A shield that absorbs damage for 6 seconds and helps you restore magicka when you take damage. If you’re already comfortable with the content and don’t need a shield, illustrious healing will be a good replacement

Enhanced Growth:  burst heal with boost to magicka and stamina recovery

Combat Prayer: a strong AoE heal that adds minor berserk increasing damage and minor resolve increasing resistances

Life Giver: A very strong MOBILE heal over time that heals you and an ally for 5 seconds

• [FLEX]  Enchanted Forest: strong AoE heal for stationary fights

Blue Betty:  sustain tool that provides spell power buff and removes negative effects

Mystic Orbs: mystic orb gives massive damage and sustain (flex in Energy Orb for better healing)

Aggressive War Horn: A must have for most four-man content and trials to boost dps as well as a health, stamina and magicka pool

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Priority Skill Lines & Passives

Class-Specific Skill Lines

• Animal Companions
• Green Balance
• Winter’s Embrace

Weapon Skill Lines

• Restoration Staff
• Destruction Staff

Armor Skills

• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor

Guild Skills

• Mages Guild
• Psijic Order
• Undaunted
• Fighter’s Guild

Crafting Skills

• Alchemy
• Provisioning

Alliance War Skills

• Assault
• Support

Racial Skill Line

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Suggested Gear

This a general set up that is suitable for most content, but you may need to run different sets depending on content. Click on the tables below to see a more in depth overview of build options

Beginner Gear Setup

Slot	Weight	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Law of Julianos	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Medium	Law of Julianos	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	Light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Ice	Willpower	Charged	Frost
Weapon Two	Resto	Willpower	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Necklace		Law of Julianos	Arcane	Mag Recovery
Ring		Law of Julianos	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring		Law of Julianos	Arcane	Spell Damage

Law of Julianos: Craftable set in Orsinium

• (2 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
• (5 items) Adds 300 Spell Damage

Armor of the Seducer: Craftable set in Stormhaven, Grahtwood and Deshaan

• (2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
• (5 items) Reduces the cost of your Magicka Abilities by 10%.

Willpower: Overland set found in Imperial City or dungeons

• (2 items) Adds 1752 Maximum Magicka
• (3 items) Adds 206 Spell Damage

Advanced Gear Setup

Slot	Weight	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Medium	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Light	Worm’s Raiment	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Light	Worm’s Raiment	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	Light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Light	Worm’s Raiment	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Ice	Worm’s Raiment	Charged	Frost
Weapon Two	Resto	Worm’s Raiment	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Necklace		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Mag Recovery
Ring		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Spell Damage

Symphony of Blades: Found in veteran Depths of Malatar dungeon

• (1 item) Adds 4% Healing Done
• (2 items) When you heal an ally who is under 50% of their primary resource, grant them Meridia’s Favor, which restores 570 Magicka or Stamina every 1 second for 6 seconds. This effect can occur every 18 seconds per target. The resource returned is based off the target’s highest maximum resource.

Worm’s Raiment: Found in Vaults of Madness dungeon

• (2 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
• (5 items) Grants 145 Magicka Recovery to you and up to 11 other group members within 28 meters of you.

Spell Power Cure: Found in White Gold Tower dungeon

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
• (5 items) When you overheal yourself or an ally, you give the target Major Courage for 5 seconds which increases their Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 430.

Optimal Gear Setup

Slot	Weight	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Medium	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	Worm’s Raiment	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Light	Hollowfang Thirst	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Ice	Hollowfang Thirst	Charged	Frost
Weapon Two	Resto	Timeless Blessing	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Necklace		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Mag Recovery
Ring		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring		Spell Power Cure	Arcane	Spell Damage

Symphony of Blades: Found in veteran Depths of Malatar dungeon

• (1 item) Adds 4% Healing Done
• (2 items) When you heal an ally who is under 50% of their primary resource, grant them Meridia’s Favor, which restores 570 Magicka or Stamina every 1 second for 6 seconds. This effect can occur every 18 seconds per target. The resource returned is based off the target’s highest maximum resource.

Hollowfang Thirst: Found in Moongrave Fane Dungeon

• (2 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
• (5 items) Whenever you critically heal or critically damage a target, spawn a ball of Hemoglobin at their location. After 2 seconds the ball explodes, restoring 1750 Magicka and applying Minor Vitality to you and your group members within 6 meters of the ball for 9 seconds, increasing their healing received by 8%. This effect can occur once every 9 seconds.

Spell Power Cure: Found in White Gold Tower dungeon

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
• (5 items) When you overheal yourself or an ally, you give the target Major Courage for 5 seconds which increases their Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 430

Timeless Blessing: Found in Asylum Sanctorium

(2 items) When you cast Blessing of Protection, the cost of your Magicka and Stamina healing abilities are reduced by 21% for 3 seconds.

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Race Options

Breton: incredible sustain and great magicka race

Passive abilities
Opportunist	Increases your experience gain with the Light Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your Alliance Points gained by 1%.
Gift of Magnus	Increases your Max Magicka by 2000.
Spell Attunement	Increases your Spell Resistance by 2310. This effect is doubled if you are afflicted with Burning, Chilled, or Concussed. Increases your Magicka Recovery by 130.
Magicka Mastery	Reduces the Magicka cost of your abilities by 7%.

High Elf: my favorite all around magicka race

Passive abilities
Highborn	Increases your experience gain with the Destruction Staff skill line by 15%. Increases your experience gained by 1%.
Spell Recharge	When you activate an ability, you restore 625 Magicka or Stamina, based on whichever is lowest. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds. When you are using an ability with a channel or cast time, you take 5% less damage.
Syrabane’s Boon	Increases your Max Magicka by 2000.
Elemental Talent	Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 258.

Khajiit: Powerful crit heals

Passive abilities
Cutpurse	Increases your experience gain with the Medium Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your chance to successfully pickpocket by 5%.
Robustness	Increases your Health Recovery by 100 and your Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 85.
Lunar Blessings	Increase your Maximum Health, Magicka, and Stamina by 915.
Feline Ambush	Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 12%. Decreases your detection radius in Stealth by 3 meters.

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Consumables

• Food: Clockwork Citrus Filet, Witchmother’s Brew, or Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl
  • Clockwork Citrus Filet: Increase Max Health by 3724, Health Recovery by 351, Max Magicka by 3458 and Magicka Recovery by 319 for 2 hours. (5 second cooldown)
  • Witchmother’s Brew: Increase Max Magicka by 2856, Max Health by 3094, and Magicka Recovery by 315 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level.
  • Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl: Increase Max Health by 5652 and Max Magicka by 5117 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level. Additionally, fish may be drawn to you.
• Potions: Essence of Spell Power or Tri-Pots
  • Tri-pots: = Restores health, magicka, and stamina and increases recovery of all three
  • Essence of Spell Power: Grants Major Sorcery which increases your Spell Damage by 20%

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Mundus Stone

• Thief: Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333 (generally a great choice for most situations)
• Mage/Apprentice: Increases Maximum Magicka  by 2023 (great if you are an RO/Jorvulds trials off healer)
• Ritual: Increases healing effectiveness by 8 % (great for beginners or healing-intensive trials like vCR kite healing)

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Attribute Points

This patch players get a huge health boost so it will not be necessary to put any points into health. So all 64 points will go into magicka

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Champion Points

Fitness CP Slottables:

• Rejuvenation 50/50
• Ironclad 50/50
• Boundless Vitality 50/50
• Spirit Mastery 50/50

Warfare CP Slottables:

• Arcane Supremacy 50/50
• Foresight 50/50
• Swift Renewal 50/50
• Fighting Finesse 50/50

Craft CP Slottables:

• Rationer 30/30
• Liquid Efficiency 75/75
• Steed’s Blessing 50/50
• Treasure Hunter 50/50