Magicka Arcanist Solo Build - ESO U50 PTS Guide

• Cephaliarch's Flail - an AoE spammable that generates Crux, heals you if you hit any enemy and increases the damage enemies take from you by 5%
• Pragmatic Fatecarver - extremely powerful Crux spender that deals full damage in AoE, has massive range of 22 meters and grants you a big damage shield while you channel it
• Camouflaged Hunter - this ability will passively grant you the Major Savagery and Major Prophecy buffs, which will increase your critical chance by 12%. It will also grant you the Minor Berserk buff which increases your damage done by 5% for 5 seconds after you deal Critical Damage from enemy's flank, which has a very wide radius and can be done by simply walking to the side. It will also trigger the Slayer passive, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 3%.
• Quick Cloak - an ability that deals damage around you every 2 seconds for 30 seconds and grants you Major Evasion for the duration, reducing your AoE damage taken by 20%. The damage it deals will also continue to proc your weapon enchantments even while you channel Pragmatic Fatecarver, which is important because you can't Light Attack while beaming
• Recuperative Treatise - an ability that deals decent damage, ensures you'll have at least 1 Crux and improves your sustain
• Flawless Dawnbreaker - an ultimate we'll keep slotted to activate the Slayer and Banish the Wicked passives which increase Weapon and Spell Damage by 3% and generate Ultimate on kills. You can also use it towards the end of the fight if it's obvious you won't get enough Ultimate for another The Languid Eye
• Cruxweaver Armor - your source of Major Resolve which is an extremely important defensive buff. It will also apply Minor Breach to enemies who attack you for 6 seconds and generate Crux when you get hit up to once every 5 seconds
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Bleed, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - a 22 second DoT which will also grant you Minor Resolve, increasing your armor by 2974
• 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% and it will also apply Minor Brittle for 4 seconds if you were on your Ice Staff bar while the Chilled effect procced, and Ice Staff will be part of the Instanced gear setup. Minor Brittle increases Critical Damage taken by 10%. The Chilled proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. If it's the Ice version, it will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they'll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Soul Burst (Flame, Lingering Torment, Courage) - a 20 second AoE DoT which grants you Minor Courage, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• The Languid Eye - an Ultimate which deals damage in a small AoE over 6 seconds which can be moved by pressing the ability again (it's off Global Cooldown)

Soul Burst, Camouflaged Hunter, Quick Cloak and Ulfsild's Contingency are the first skills that have to go (in that order) if you need to slot situational, unless the situational skill specifically says it's replacing something else

• Barbed Trap - use it if you don't have Tzogvin's Warband, because otherwise you wouldn't have any source of Minor Force.
• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Runeguard of Still Waters - an ability that places a delayed heal on you which triggers when you take damage below 50% HP. It also grants you Minor Resolve, which increases armor by 2974. It also grants you Minor Protection which is removed when the heal effect procs. It also snares enemies around you when cast
• Inspired Scholarship - does more damage than Recuperative Treatise and should be used if you can sustain fine and want more damage
• Runic Sunder - if you're not a Nord and need more armor, you can slot it for 2200 armor, 2200 penetration and Crux generation. The extra penetration can let you remove penetration elsewhere in the build, like dropping another Herald of the Tome skill from front bar or replacing Valkyn Skoria with Slimecraw. It's a Taunt which won't matter since this is a Solo build, but if you decide to use this build in group content (which you shouldn't do anyway) you absolutely cannot use Runic Sunder
• 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%
• Race Against Time - snare removal which will be crucial for some fights. If you don't have Tzogvin's Warband and are using Barbed Trap for Minor Force, Race Against Time can take that slot instead because it also provides Minor Force
• 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
• Sanctum of the Abyssal Sea - a defensive ultimate that grants you a large damage shield. Use it in fights where you need a panic button

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. Cruxweaver Armor
• 2. Elemental Susceptibility
• 3. Elemental Blockade
• 4. Flawless Dawnbreaker if it's obvious you won't get enough Ultimate for another The Languid Eye before the fight ends
• 5. The Languid Eye if it's ready
• 6. Recuperative Treatise
• 7. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 8. Soul Burst
• 9. Quick Cloak
• 10. Cephaliarch's Flail spammable (if you're not at 3 Crux)
• 11. Pragmatic Fatecarver spammable

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Cruxweaver Armor
• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Recuperative Treatise
• Quick Cloak