Heavy Attack Subclass Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency - 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
• Detonating Siphon - your source of Major Savagery and Major Prophecy which also deals decent damage and increases your damage done by 3% while slotted. You need it slotted on your frontbar to trigger passives of the Grave Lord skill line. You need a corpse to activate it but you'll get it from Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• Banner Bearer (Magic, Class Mastery, Berserk) - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, provides either Weapon and Spell Damage or maximum resources depending on your 2nd script 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 your base class isn't Necromancer. Use Warmage's Defense instead of Class Mastery if your base class isn't Necromancer and it's a more difficult fight
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. This is the ultimate you should use in Single Target fights. You need it on your frontbar to trigger passives of the Assassination skill line. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice - this ability will provide a 15% bonus to the channeled part of your Heavy Attack. It will also generate the corpse you'll need for Detonating Siphon
• Soul Burst (Shock, Lingering Torment, Courage) - an AoE DoT which grants you Minor Courage, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely loaded 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
• Shooting Star - a powerful ultimate that deals damage in an AoE and grants you Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial blast. Use it in AoE fights or when you start fights with high amount of Ultimate stored up

When you want to slot something situational you have to remove Detonating Siphon, move Grave Lord's Sacrifice to frontbar and then change the Berserk script on your Banner Bearer to Savagery and Prophecy

• Resolving Vigor - use it for more difficult fights where the pressure is constant and thus you need the Minor Resolve. It can also 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
• Mystic Siphon - other morph of Detonating Siphon which increases your recoveries, use it in fights where you need more sustain. Due to Shock damage bonuses from Magic Banner Bearer and Energized passive it's only slightly behind Detonating Siphon in damage
• 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%
• 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%
• 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 Soul Burst
• 6. If it's an AoE fight or you're starting at or close to 200 Ultimate, use Shooting Star
• 7. If it's a Single Target fight, use Soul Harvest
• 8. Use Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• 9. Use Detonating Siphon, keep in mind that the corpse from Grave Lord's Sacrifice will only stay on the ground for 5 seconds
• 10. Use Hurricane

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Hurricane
• Critical Surge
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• Soul Burst