Welcome to Nirnstorm.com‘s Magicka Warden ( Magden ) PvP build for the Blackwood patch!
This build utilizes the revamped Champion Points system, the recently added Armor Bonuses and several new item sets to get a powerful amount of damage and healing power and an incredible amount of damage prevention in addition to high resistances.
If you’re looking to be able to both pressure and burst down enemy players and still have more than enough survivability to dominate Cyrodiil and other PvP activities, you’ve come to the right place!
The optimal race for this Magicka Warden build is Breton. This race helps you sustain magicka skills better than any, and increases your spell resistance and your magicka pool as well.
Other good alternatives for races would be Dark Elf, Argonian and High Elf.
The mundus stone we are using on this build is The Atronach. This mundus helps us sustain our Magicka, and by doing so allows us to afford more Spell Damage jewelry glyphs to increase our overall damage and healing done.
If you suffer from high-ping or connection issues, I suggest replacing Elemental Weapon with Force Pulse as it’s a much more reliable spammable skill that doesn’t depend on your light attacks’ timing.
Note: For the full explanation on why we use all these skills and how to utilize them effectively, make sure to check out the build video (coming soon).
Unlock all the passives except Dexterity, Improved Sneak and Agility, these are optional and not very relevant.
Unlock all passives except Deliberation.
Unlock only Combat Medic
Unlock only Medicinal Use
Gaze of Sithis – We are utilizing Gaze of Sithis in this build as our main method of damage prevention is not blocking but rather roll-dodging. We don’t use an effective blocking weapon (SnB & Ice Staff) and so using this set, we give up blocking for the purpose of mitigating damage (you may still block to prevent incoming stuns and to benefit from your psijic & restoration staff passives) to gain a high amount of Max Health and resistances instead.
We are not using any monster helms on this build as Gaze of Sithis requires our helmet slot, and thus can’t use both this mythic and monster helms.
Necropotence – This set gives us the highest amount of Max Magicka obtainable through a single set, provided as we have a combat pet active. Luckily for Wardens, our free Blue Betty skill counts towards this effect activation, so all we must do is cast this skill once per 25 seconds and we will gain the benefits of Necropotence at all times.
Heartland Conqueror – This brand new craftable set increases the effectiveness of our weapon traits by 100%. This effect grants us a lot of penetration thanks to our front-bar Sharpened weapon, and either a lot of healing power (via Powered) or spell damage (via Infused) thanks to our back bar weapon.
Armor of the Trainee – We use one piece of this set to help increase our Max Health pool further to provide some additional survivability and healing power, as we have one extra armor slot available when using all the other sets previously mentioned.
Light & Medium Armor – We are using mainly light & medium armor pieces on this build as those armor types both reduce the cost of our roll-dodging, which is one of our main damage prevention methods on this build. Light armor benefits our damage and sustain a lot, however due to it’s new penalties we can’t afford to use too many pieces of it, which is where the medium pieces come in. We also use one piece of heavy armor for the Undaunted passives.
Well Fitted & Impen – A lot of our traits are Well Fitted on this build to help further reduce the cost of our roll dodging. We don’t benefit at all from the Sturdy trait as we don’t block much on this build, and so Well Fitted is the most effective trait for us to use. We also use multiple pieces of Impen on this build to increase our Critical Resistance a bit more, to increase our survivability against not proc-oriented builds.
We use Clockwork Citrus Fillet as this one food gives us all: Max Health, Health Recovery, Max Magicka and Magicka Recovery.
We use Tri-Stat potions (made with Bugloss, Columbine and Mountain Flower) to help us heal and sustain both our Magicka pool and our Stamina pool.
Craft (0)
Warfare (520)
Fitness (542)The Craft Champion Points as a whole do not effect combat much, and so they are completely up to your playstyle!
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My personal recommendations and preferences (by order of importance):
Passive Stars
Active Stars
That’s about all the information you need to set up this Magicka Warden build and play it in PvP! I hope you found this build setup useful and will enjoy playing it in game!
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Good luck tearing Cyrodiil apart!
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