HEAVY ATTACK WARDEN PVE DPS BUILD

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Heavy Attack Warden PvE DPS


Last updated: Update 45 - 24th April 2025

This build focuses on amplifying Heavy Attacks with the Sergeant’s Mail item set and the Empower buff, sourced from the Might of the Guild passive, procced by constantly using Ulfsild's Contingency. Warden is the perfect class for that because of passives like Piercing Cold which straight up boosts all damage done by 8% and Glacial Presence which buffs the Chilled status effect, which makes long duration skills like Elemental Susceptibility worth it, which gives us more time to channel Heavy Attacks.


SKILL SETUPS


This is the regular skill setup

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Ulfsild's Contingency Slot 1: Bull Netch
Slot 2: Deep Fissure Slot 2: Arctic Blast
Slot 3: Barbed Trap Slot 3: Elemental Susceptibility
Slot 4: Inner Light Slot 4: Elemental Blockade
Slot 5: Banner Bearer Slot 5: Banner Bearer
Ultimate: Wild Guardian Ultimate: Wild Guardian
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PASSIVES

There are no passives you need to skip with this build

  • Class
  • Weapon
  • Armor
  • Guild
  • Alliance War
  • Racial
  • Craft

Class - Animal Companions

Bond with Nature - Medium Priority

Savage Beast - Medium Priority

Flourish - Low Priority

Advanced Species - High Priority


GEAR

Default setup for dungeons and trials

Gear Slot Set Weight/Type Trait Enchantment

Head

Anthelmir's Construct Medium Divines Magicka

Shoulders

Anthelmir's Construct Light Divines Magicka

Chest

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Magicka

Hands

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Magicka

Belt

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Magicka

Legs

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Magicka

Boots

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Magicka

Necklace

Sergeant's Mail Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Sergeant's Mail Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Sergeant's Mail Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Frontbar Main Hand

Sergeant's Mail Lightning Staff Charged Poison

Backbar Main Hand

Crushing Wall Lightning Staff Infused Weapon Damage

When choosing different situational sets you can only replace Ansuul's Torment, Crushing Wall and Anthelmir’s Construct. Sergeant’s Mail is too strong and too crucial for this build to ever be replaced. Ideally you want your 2nd 5-piece set to be Medium weight, but choosing a Light set is also an option in dungeons if none of your group members are providing any penetration

For example, a default setup for trash packs would replace Ansuul's Torment with Sul-Xan’s Torment

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CHAMPION POINTS

Warfare

Fitness

ADDITIONAL INFO:


RACE

The difference between best and worst race is about 5% of DPS and there is no content in the entire game that you'd be blocked from completing because of choosing a bad race.

Best race for 12-man content - High Elf, Dark Elf

Best race for 4-man content - Khajiit

Other decent options: Orc, Breton


MUNDUS

Most of the time you should use The Thief Mundus, which increases your Critical Chance

If your group isn't providing penetration you have to either put on Roar of Alkosh, put on some Light Armor set (like for example Noble Duelist) or switch your Mundus to The Lover.

Roar of Alkosh is the best option as long as you can rely on your teammates to provide synergies, because even though Alkosh is a support set it has really good stat lines and a Minor Slayer line, so you’ll end up with more DPS with Alkosh and The Thief Mundus, rather than with a Light Armor set, or with a regular Medium DPS set and The Lover Mundus.


ATTRIBUTES

HEALTH

0

STAMINA

0

MAGICKA

64

You should always put all 64 attribute points into Magicka


FOOD


POTIONS

Use the Spell Power potions (Increase Spell Power, Spell Critical, Restore Magicka). They'll provide Major Sorcery and Major Prophecy which are crucial buffs. You can craft them by combining Lady's Smock, Namira's Rot and Corn Flower.

If you need more damage mitigation you can use the Armor potions, though this is only possible if you didn't replace Inner Light with any situational skill. It will be a small DPS decrease as you will no longer have Major Savagery and Prophecy on your backbar. You will also have to refresh Bull Netch every 25 seconds instead of 30, as it will now be your only source of Major Brutality and Sorcery. You can craft them by combining Bugloss, Mountain's Flower and Mudcrab Chitin.


PARSE

Combat Metrics screenshot of the 121k parse

Recording of the 121k parse

OTHER PARSES

Anthelmir's Construct / Ansuul's Torment / Sergeant's Mail - 116.8k DPS


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