Elementalist Heavy Attack Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency ( Frost , Lingering Torment , Force ) - your source of crucial Empower buff, which increases damage done by Heavy Attack 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. Use Gladiator's Tenacity instead of Lingering Torment when you need more damage mitigation
• Hurricane - an ability which provides a crucial Major Resolve buff which provides 5948 armor and it deals very good damage. It also grants you a 15% movement speed buff during its duration
• Critical Surge - your source of Major Brutality and Sorcery that will also heal you for 3300 whenever you deal critical damage, up to once every second. The heal itself can also be a critical heal
• Arctic Blast - a decent AoE DoT with very high chance to proc Chilled status effect, which deals increased damage thanks to the Glacial Presence passive. It can also stun small adds and heal you when used away from enemies
• Banner Bearer ( Magic , Class Mastery , Berserk ) - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, provides various bonuses depending on your 2nd script and class, and provides Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%. It also severely decreases your sustain but it's not an issue on a Heavy Attack build. Use Mitigation instead of Magic when you need more damage mitigation. Use Cavalier's Charge instead of Class Mastery if you want more damage and your base class isn't Dragonknight. Use Warmage's Defense instead of Class Mastery if you need more survivability. Keep in mind that depending on situation Dragonknight's or Warden's Class Mastery can be better. Use Resolve if you need more damage mitigation and you're not already getting Minor Resolve from a situational skill like Resolving Vigor
• Energy Overload - an ultimate we won't be using, but we'll have it slotted on frontbar for the Expert Mage passive. It can also be used in emergency when you're running out of resources
• Soul Burst ( Frost , Lingering Torment , Courage ) - an AoE DoT which grants you Minor Courage, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• Flames of Oblivion - an ability that shoots out 3 fireballs at enemies at the start and then every 5 seconds for 15 seconds (4 times in total). It deals a lot of damage per cast and passively grants you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely strong ability that does a multitude of things. It's completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning, Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5%. The Concussed proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. It will also constantly apply Off Balance to enemies who are Concussed, and they'll be Concussed thanks to Elemental Susceptibility . Enemies who are Off Balance take 70% increased damage from Heavy Attacks
• Standard of Might - extremely powerful ultimate that deals damage over time, increases all of your damage done and decreases all of your damage taken

Soul Burst is the first skill that has to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else. Arctic Blast is the second skill that has to go

• Resolving Vigor - a very strong HoT which provides Minor Resolve. It can be used as your main source of healing before you obtain the Ring of the Pale Order Mythic or in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Temporal Guard - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's an ultimate we can frontbar for the passive Minor Protection which decreases your damage taken by 5%. It will also trigger the Concentrated Barrier passive
• Wield Soul ( Damage Shield , Druid's Resurgence , Vitality ) - a strong damage shield that restores your Stamina and grants you Major Vitality, increasing your healing received and strength of damage shields by 12%
• Burning Embers - a single target DoT which heals you for 100% of the damage it causes. It can be useful in fights where you need more HPS
• Shimmering Shield - massive damage shield that works only against projectiles. Extremely strong but very situational. It also grants you Major Heroism when it absorbs projectiles, increasing your Ultimate generation
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight
• Ball of Lightning - an ability that teleports you forward. Use it in fights where you need more mobility or in fights where this teleport allows you to invalidate some mechanic

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

• 1. Use 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. Use Critical Surge (you can recast this early)
• 3. Use Elemental Susceptibility
• 4. Use Elemental Blockade
• 5. Use Hurricane
• 6. Use Flames of Oblivion
• 7. Use Arctic Blast
• 8. Use Soul Burst
• 9. Use Standard of Might
• 10. Use Ulfsild's Contingency

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Hurricane
• Critical Surge
• Flames of Oblivion
• Arctic Blast
• Soul Burst (the Minor Courage, not the damage)