Welcome to Nirnstorm.com‘s Magicka Necromancer ( Magcro / Mag Necro ) PvP build for the Blackwood patch – “Iron Victory“!
This build was made and written by AkinosPvP– more information about the author at the bottom of the page.
The Iron Victory build is designed to do just that – be victorious with it’s huge flatlining burst and incredible durability and sustain.
This build is great for duels and fighting outnumbered in small groups or solo PvP!
Setup
Race
The optimal race for this build is Breton because of it’s passive Magicka Regen and it’s Magicka abilities cost reduction.
Any other Magicka-based race will do too, so High Elf and Dark Elf would be good alternatives.
Mundus
We are using The Atronach mundus stone as it gives us additional Magicka regeneration which helps us sustain our 5-pieces heavy armor build.
Mortality
We are using playing this Magicka Necromancer build as a mortal to avoid receiving any penalties.
Alternatively, if you’re interested in playing the build as a vampire to gain access to the vampirism skills, you could play it on stage one.
Skills
Diamond Victory’s Dual Wield
Skills Rotation
Light
Attack
Light
Attack
Light
Attack
After applying your self buffs, your offensive rotation is as listed above, followed by immediately activating the Boneyard synergy.
Passives
Grave Lord Necromancer
All Passives
Bone Tyrant Necromancer
All Passives
Living Death Necromancer
All Passives
Light Armor Armor
All Passives
Medium Armor Armor
All Passives
Heavy Armor Armor
All Passives
Dual Wield Weapons
Unlock all the passives except Slaughter and Controlled Fury, these are optional and not relevant.
Destruction Staff Weapons
Unlock all the passives except Tristat Focus. It’s important to not unlock this passive.
Fighters Guild Guilds
Unlock only Slayer, Banish the Wicked and Skilled Tracker.
Mages Guild Guilds
Unlock only Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller and Might of the Guild
Undaunted Guilds
All Passives
Assault Alliance War
All Passives
Support Alliance War
Unlock only Combat Medic and Battle Resurrection.
Racial Character
All Passives
Alchemy Crafting
Unlock only Medicinal Use
Gear
Impen
Tri-Stat
heavy
Impen
Tri-Stat
heavy
Reinforced
Tri-Stat
heavy
Impen
Tri-Stat
medium
Impen
Tri-Stat
light
Reinforced
Tri-Stat
heavy
Reinforced
Tri-Stat
heavy
Harmony
Spell Damage
Harmony
Spell Damage
Harmony
Tri-Regen / Magicka Regen
Nirnhoned
Weapon Damage ( Berserker )
Sharpened
Glyph of Crushing
Front Bar
Defending
Weapon Damage / Escapist’s Poisons
Back Bar
Monster Helm
Balorgh – This set is where most of our huge burst comes from, due to it giving us large amounts of Spell damage and Spell & Physical Penetration, which benefit all of our damage skills.
Main Sets
Diamond’s Victory – This is a new crafted set introduced in Blackwood. It gives you two unique buffs based on the range of skills you cast: Skills with up to 7 meters range will give you Ranged Supremacy; and skills with more than 7 meters range will give you Melee Supremacy. You want to keep both these buffs up as much as possible.
Keep in mind Blastbones can proc both of these buffs, so make sure to cast it at least every 5 seconds.
Ironblood – This is the “Grand Daddy” of all defensive sets in my opinion, it gives you a huge unique 30% damage reduction buff for 10 seconds at the cost of reducing your movement speed. That’s not a big deal though because we use Race Against Time.
Minor Set
Armor of the Trainee – We use one piece of this set to help increase our Max Health, as more Max health means you live longer!
Mythic Item
Malacath’s Band of Brutality – This mythic ring increases our damage done by 16% while reducing our critical damage by 50%. Since this build has a very low critical rate to begin with, this ring is the way to go to increase our damage.
- Note: If you plan on playing mostly in no-CP PvP you should add a 2nd Tri-Regen / Magicka Regen jewelry glyph.
Armor & Weapons
Heavy Armor – We mainly use this armor type for maximum resists, Max Health and for helping us take less damage from the thousands of stamina builds out there!
Dual Wield Maces – We use these because they give us the most damage possible in the game – now more than ever because many players are stacking resists with sets like Pariah.
Ice Staff – We use this weapon to have access to Elemental Drain, be able to heavy attack to restore Magicka and to block incoming damage.
- Note: You can replace the Dual Wield Maces with a Sharpened Lightning Staff on the front bar and the Ice Staff with a One Handed & Shield on the back bar if you prefer.
Consumables
Essence of Immovability & Detection
Food
We use Bewitched Sugar Skulls because it gives us all: Max Magicka, Stamina and Health in one food.
Potions
We use two types of potions on this Magicka Necromancer build:
- Essence of Immovablity for Immovability, Detection and Magicka Regeneration (Columbine / Bugloss / Mountain Flower).
- Tri-Stat Potions for Health, Stamina and Magicka sustain (Columbine / Cornflower / Wormwood).
Poisons
We use Escapists Poisons for rooting enemy players that are attempting to escape the fight or stopping players riding away on mounts. Good for proccing the Juggernaut CP passive too (Made with Columbine, Namira’s Rot & Wormwood).
Champion Points
Craft (0) 
Warfare (520) 
Fitness (542) Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage done
Grants 132 Critical Resistance per stage.
BONUS
660 Critical Resistance
Reduces your damage taken by single target attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% direct damage
Grants 160 Critical Chance per stage.
BONUS
320 Critical Chance
Grants 260 Max Magicka per stage.
BONUS
520 Max Magicka
Increases your Healing Done by 1% per stage.
BONUS
2% Healing Done
Grants 260 Max Stamina per stage.
BONUS
520 Max Stamina Extended Might
Grants 350 Offensive Penetration per stage.
BONUS
700 Offensive Penetration Extended Might
Increases your chance to apply a Magical status effect by 30% per stage.
BONUS
60% increased chance Extended Might
Increases your chance to apply a Martial status effect by 30% per stage.
BONUS
60% increased chance Extended Might
Grants 100 Weapon and Spell Damage to Magical attacks.
Affects Magic, Flame, Frost, and Shock Damage.
Extended Might
Grants 100 Weapon and Spell Damage to Martial attacks.
Affects Physical, Poison, Disease, and Bleed Damage.
Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage done Staving Death
Increases your Healing Taken by 1% per stage.
BONUS
2% Healing Taken Staving Death
Reduces the damage you take from Magical attacks by 1% per stage.
ffects Magic, Flame, Frost, and Shock Damage.
BONUS
2% damage reduction Staving Death
Reduces the damage you take from Martial attacks by 1% per stage.
Affects Physical, Poison, Disease, and Bleed Damage.
BONUS
2% damage reduction Staving Death
Grants 132 Critical Resistance per stage.
BONUS
660 Critical Resistance Staving Death
Reduces your damage taken from non-player attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Reduces your damage taken by single target attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% direct damage Increases Magicka and Health Recovery while under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity by 40 per stage.
BONUS
200 Health and Magicka Recovery
While under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity, you take 2% less damage per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Grants 3 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.
BONUS
150 Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery
While afflicted with a Status Effect, your core combat skills cost 5% less per stage.
BONUS
25% cost reduction
Grants 3 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.
BONUS
150 Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery
Reduces the cost of Roll Dodge by 120 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
240 cost reduction
Reduces the cost of Break Free by 110 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
220 cost reduction
While under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity, you take 2% less damage per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Increases Magicka and Health Recovery while under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity by 40 per stage.
BONUS
200 Health and Magicka Recovery
Reduces the duration of Elemental Status Effects applied to you by 5% per stage.
BONUS
25% reduced duration
Reduces the cost of Sprint by 20 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
40 cost reduction
Increases your movement speed when Sprinting by 2% per stage.
BONUS
4% Movement speed
Grants 280 Max Health per stage.
BONUS
560 Max Health
Increases your Stealth Detection by 1 meter per stage.
BONUS
3 meters
While afflicted with a Status Effect, your core combat skills cost 5% less per stage.
BONUS
25% cost reduction
Return to life after resurrection with 5% more resources per stage.
BONUS
10% more resources
Reduces the cost of Block by 20 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
40 Block cost reduction
Increases the amount of damage you can block by 2% per stage.
BONUS
4% Block mitigation
Increases your Movement Speed while Bracing by 3% per stage.
BONUS
6% Movement speed
Reduces the cost of Bash by 45 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
90 cost reduction
Increases your Bash damage by 60 per stage.
BONUS
120 increased damage Recommended Slottable stars:
- Steed’s Blessing
- Gifted Rider
- Liquid Efficiency
- Rationer
The only necessary passive star is Breakfall.
Akinos is a streamer on Twitch and content creator on YouTube. He's an experienced PvP MMO player who played many different MMOs over the years, and has been focusing on ESO for the past 6. He's extremely experienced at small-scale and Solo PvP, as well as organized group PvP. He is known as one of the best Magicka Necromancer players on PC NA and ESO as a whole. His channels have high-quality footage at 1440p as well!
