This guide shares the Magicka Templar (Magplar) build I used for completing both Veteran Maelstrom Arena and Veteran Vateshran Hollows with just two buttons and an ultimate. The purpose was not to flex, but to explain to folks basic mechanics of the Elder Scrolls Online. If you know the basics, you know 99% of the game. If you wish to watch the entire gameplay on Twitch, click here.
Video Guide
Skills
Harness Magicka (morph of Annulment | Armor/Light armor skill line): A shield that absorbs damage for 6 seconds and helps you restore magicka when you take damage. This skill scales (gets more powerful) with your max magicka stat so you’ll want to focus on that as a priority via gear and mundus stone. This gives you a “oh crap” panic button in between using your main spammable Puncturing Sweeps. This just chews up all types of damage making magic based character very easy to use.
Puncturing Sweep (morph of Puncturing Strikes | Templar/Aedric Spear skill line): a spammable damage ability that deals magic damage to enemies and heals you for a percentage of the damage done. This is the most amazing ability in ESO for newer players because of it’s healing potential. Throttle down and hit this over and over trying angle it for the most targets and stay alive WHILE doing damage.
Shooting Star (morph of Meteor | Guild/Mages skill line): burst ultimate with good damage over time if stationary target. I used this in VMA beacuse it helps with boss burst allowing you to breeze through the fights. I do swap this out for Crescent Sweep during Vateshran’s finale boss.
- Crescent Sweep (morph of Radial Sweep | Templar/Aedric Spear skill line): great damage ultimate that has very low cost.
All I did was using a combination of Sweeps and Shielding when taking pressure. I used dodge rolls frequently when I have about 10,000 stamina as a way to avoid attacks without using magicka. This is why the Templar is great, one button can carry you through the toughest solo content in the game.
Gear
| Slot | Weight | Set | Trait | Glyph |
| Head | Light | Slimecraw | Divines | Magicka |
| Shoulders | Light | Perfected False Gods | Divines | Magicka |
| Chest | Heavy | Medusa | Divines | Magicka |
| Legs | Light | Perfected False Gods | Divines | Magicka |
| Gloves | Light | Perfected False Gods | Divines | Magicka |
| Boots | Light | Perfected False Gods | Divines | Magicka |
| Belt | Light | Perfected False Gods | Divines | Magicka |
| Weapon One | Fire | Medusa | Precise | Fire |
| None! | ||||
| Necklace | Medusa | Bloodthirsty | Spell Damage | |
| Ring | Death Dealer’s Fete | Bloodthirsty | Spell Damage | |
| Ring | Medusa | Bloodthirsty | Spell Damage |
Slimecraw: obtained in Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon
- (1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance
WHY? It offers the most critical chance for a 1 piece item.
- [FLEX last boss Vateshran] Zaan: helm found in Veteran Scalecaller Peak, shoulder Urgarlag Chief-bane’s undaunted chest. Drop the Mythic and Slimecraw for Zaan’s extra single target DPS.
- (1 item) Adds 657 Spell Critical
(2 items) When you damage a nearby enemy with a Light or Heavy Attack, you have a 33% chance to create a beam of fire that will connect you to your enemy as long as you remain within 8 meters of them. The beam deals 305 Flame Damage every 1 second to your enemy for 6 seconds. Every second, this damage increases by 100%. This effect can occur every 18 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
- (1 item) Adds 657 Spell Critical
WHY? last boss you’ll need massive single target pressure in Vateshran. This combined with light attack weaving can make or break your fights. You won’t need max stats because of Vateshran mechanics making it a perfect swap later in the clear.
Perfected False Gods: obtained in Veteran Sunspire trial or normal for non perfected
- (2 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
- (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
- (4 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
- (5 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage, Reduces the cost of your Magicka Abilities by 8%. When an enemy you recently damaged dies, you restore 0 Magicka and gain Major Expedition for 8 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%. These effects can occur once every second
WHY? absolutely insane resource sustain AND mobility which is exactly what you need solo. Flex with Withered Hand or Vengeance Leech if you lack FG.
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- [FLEX] Robes of the Withered Hand: obtained in overland Alik’r Desert or guild traders
- (2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
- (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
- (4 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
- (5 items) When you are within 28 meters of an enemy you are in combat with, and the enemy dies, you heal for 1637 Health and gain 1637 Magicka. This effect can occur once every 3 seconds
- [FLEX] Robes of the Withered Hand: obtained in overland Alik’r Desert or guild traders
Death Dealer’s Fete: Mythic obtained by collecting five pieces:
- Dragonstar Arena – Sturdy Silver Prongs Lead – Dragonstar Arena last chest after endboss
- Imperial City – Carved Signet Base Lead – Imperial City Upstair Bosses
- Blackwood – Warm Asymmetrical Ruby Lead – Oblivion Portal final Chest
- Cyrodiil – Weighted Spiked Bridge Lead – Rewards from the Worthy Mail Box
- Craglorn – Wide Barbed Shank Lead – Anomalies in Craglorn in the reward treasure chest, Nirncrux Mines
Set bonus
- (1 item) Gain a persistent stack of Escalating Fete every 2 seconds you are in combat, up to 30 stacks max. Each stack of Escalating Fete increases your Maximum Stamina, Health, and Magicka by 88. You lose a stack of Escalating Fete every 4 seconds you are out of combat.
WHY? Because the max stats during constant action arenas outweighs the healing of Pale Order.
Medusa: obtained in dungeon Arx Corinium
- (2 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
- (3 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
- (4 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
- (5 items) Adds 892 Spell Critical, Gain Minor Force at all times, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%
WHY? pound for pound the simplest/best five piece that you can run for the average player. Adding tons of critical chance a long with critical damage making it a staple in end game PvE.
Once you reach your potential and want more options, click here for end game Damage Dealer build the Gladiator.
Champion Points
Fitness CP Slottables
- Rejuvenation: Grants 3 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.
- Helps with sustain
- Expert Evasion: Your next Roll Dodge is free of cost. After consuming this effect, you cannot gain it again for 30 seconds..
- Helps with survivability more than armor as I constantly dodge roll
- Boundless Vitality: Grants 28 Max Health per stage.
- Helps being more durable
- Siphoning Spells: Restore 300 Magicka per stage, whenever you kill an enemy.
- Helps resource sustain
Warfare CP Slottables
- Fighting Finesse: Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing done by 2% per stage.
- Helps with overall damage and healing running high critical chance/damage
- Arcane Supremacy: Increases Max Magicka by 26 per stage.
- Helps with overall damage, healing and scales well with our shield.
- Master at Arms: Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 2% per stage.
- Directly increases our damage from Puncturing Sweeps.
- Wrathful Strikes: Grants 33 Weapon and Spell Damage to your damaging abilities per stage.
- Helps with overall damage.
Crafting CP Slottables
- Treasure Hunter: Increase the quality of items you find in treasure chests.
- Helps with farming gear
- Rationer: Adds 10 minutes to the duration of any food or drink that increases your character’s stats per stage.
- Helps save gold
- Liquid Efficiency: Whenever you use a potion or poison you have a 10% chance to not consume it.
- Helps save gold
- Steed’s Blessing: Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by .4% per stage.
- Helps getting around faster
Misc
High Elf: all around my favorite all time magicka race for Magplar
| Passive abilities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Highborn | Increases your experience gain with the Destruction Staff skill line by 15%. Increases your experience gained by 1%. | |
| 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. | |
Food: Clockwork Citrus, Witchmothers Brew, Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl
Potions: Essence of Spell Power or Essence of Health/Crown Tri-Restoration Potions
Scrolls: If you’re needing to grind CP, these scrolls can help a lot!
Mundus: the Mage for more max magicka
Attributes: reach 24,000 health with 30 stacks of Death Dealer’s Fete, then rest into magicka. Mine is 64 magicka based on my CP and racial choice.
