One Bar Heavy Attack Warden DPS Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock, Lingering Torment, Force) - your source of crucial Empower buff, which increases damage done by Heavy Attacks by 70%. Since Ulfsild's Contingency is a Mages Guild skill, it will trigger the Might of the Guild passive, which grants you Empower for 10 seconds. It also deals decent damage in an AoE and grants you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Ulfsild's Contingency is delayed until the next skill cast but whenever it's needed you can activate it early by bashing your enemy. If you cast this ability as you're finishing your Heavy Attack, the Empower you gain from it will start working just in time to boost the final tick of that Heavy Attack you just finished
• Deep Fissure - deals a lot of damage per cast and provides 5% Critical Damage through the Advanced Species passive
• Merciless Resolve - an ability that will cause your Light and Heavy Attacks to generate stacks. You can spend 5 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range. It also grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy
• Inner Light - an ability that will passively increase your Max Magicka by 7%. 5% from the ability itself and 2% from the Magicka Controller passive
• Banner Bearer (Magic, Cavalier's Charge, Berserk) - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, grants Weapon Damage based on your movement speed and grants Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%. You can change the Berserk script to Heroism if Minor Berserk is being provided by your supports
• Wild Guardian - an ultimate that summons a permanent Bear pet, that deals decent damage to your enemies. While the Bear is summoned, you can activate this ability for 75 Ultimate to command the Bear to maul an enemy. Deals 100% more damage to enemies below 25% Health. It's also going to trigger the Advanced Species passive, increasing our Critical Damage by 5%
• Concealed Weapon - an ability that will passively grant us 15% movement speed, which will grant us 90 Weapon and Spell Damage thanks to the Cavalier's Charge script on Banner Bearer
• Soul Harvest - slotting this Ultimate on backbar will cause you to gain 10 Ultimate when killing enemies

Whenever you need to slot situational skills, replace Inner Light

• Elemental Blockade - your source of Off Balance if supports aren't providing it. It requires enemies to be Concussed, so you'll have to use Shock enchant to proc it or rely on your teammates for that.
• Hurricane - an ability that deals decent damage. increases your Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive and grants you Major Resolve, increasing your armor. Usually Major Resolve should be provided by your tank, but if it isn't, you can use Hurricane instead and it's only a slight DPS loss compared to Inner Light because Hurricane itself deals really good damage
• Critical Surge - a very strong self-heal. Use it when you need a self-heal because you're assigned to some duty which puts you far away from your group, or if your healers are bad. It also increases your Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive

Priority List

This is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh.

If you're tracking the Off Balance debuff, you should cancel your Heavy Attack when there's around 1-2 seconds left on the Off Balance Immunity. This way the next Heavy Attack you start will finish its channel during Off Balance and you'll be able to fit 3 Heavy Attacks during a single Off Balance window

• 1. Ulfsild's Contingency if your Empower is out or if it's going to run out by the end of the Heavy Attack you're channeling
• 2. Wild Guardian whenever it's ready
• 3. Deep Fissure
• 4. Merciless Resolve if you have at least 5 stacks
• 5. Ulfsild's Contingency as a filler

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Deep Fissure