Magicka Necromancer Solo Build - ESO Guide

All frontbar skills are from the Grave Lord skill line to boost Corpseburster .

• Detonating Siphon - an ability that consumes a corpse to form a tether between it and you, which deals damage over 20 seconds and grants you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy . When the ability ends or is reactivated the corpse explodes dealing additional damage. This is your main tool for proccing Corpseburster .
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice - an ability that summons a skeleton that will charge at you after 2.5 seconds, creating a corpse and granting you a 20 second buff that increases your damage done with Necromancer abilities and DoTs by 15%. It also makes your empowered Venom Skull deal damage in an AoE
• Venom Skull - every third cast deals more damage and creates a corpse near the enemy. Casting any Necromancer ability while Venom Skull is slotted counts toward the third cast. In this build it's only used as a backup for when you happen run out of corpses or Malevolent Promise procs, if you're playing properly you won't use it much.
• Avid Boneyard - a ground DoT that applies Minor Vulnerability to all enemies inside of it, increasing their damage taken by 5%. It can consume a corpse to deal more damage, which will also proc Corpseburster . It also grants you the Grave Robber synergy which you can use yourself.
• Skeletal Arcanist - an ability that summons a pet to attack your enemies and grants you Major Brutality and Major Sorcery for 20 seconds, which increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%. It creates a corpse when it expires.
• Glacial Colossus - an ultimate that we won't be using, but we'll keep it slotted on our frontbar to boost Corpseburster
• Summoner's Armor - an ability that will grant you Major Resolve and Minor Resolve , increasing your armor by 8922, and reduces the cost of your Grave Lord's Sacrifice , Skeletal Arcanist and Spirit Guardian by 15%. It also triggers the Disdain Harm passive, which reduces your damage taken from DoTs by 15%. It turns you into a corpse on cast, up to once every 10 seconds.
• Spirit Guardian - an ability that will summon a wraith that reduces your damage taken by 10% and heals you every 2 seconds. It will also create a corpse when it expires
• 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%
• Elemental Blockade - a 15 second ground DoT which constantly applies your Weapon Damage enchantment and deals more damage thanks to Crushing Wall .
• Ulfsild's Contingency - deals damage in an AoE, applies a 22 second DoT and grants you Minor Force , increasing your Critical Damage by 10%.
• Shooting Star - a 185 Ultimate cost AoE that leaves a ground DoT and grants you Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial blast, up to 6 enemies.

Avid Boneyard is the first skill that has to go if you need to slot something situational and can give up damage, unless the situational skill specifically says it's replacing something else. Replace Spirit Guardian instead if you can spare survivability.

• 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
• Expunge and Modify - a purge that costs only Health. Use it in fights where you need to purge an important debuff
• Mortal Coil - a 12 second HoT which consumes a corpse
• Ruinous Scythe - a good self-heal if you can consistently hit multiple enemies. It also applies a HoT.
• 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%
• Pummeling Goliath - a good defensive ultimate if a fight does not have damage that scales with your Max Health. It can also deal a lot of damage if you bash weave, but you usually won't have enough Stamina to sustain that.
• 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

Pre-buff

• Spirit Guardian
• Summoner's Armor
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• Skeletal Arcanist