Magicka Necromancer Solo Build - ESO Guide

Simulated Parse Tables

I built a simulator that takes the current setup from the guide and plays it through the listed rotation. It uses the listed gear, skills, Champion Points, race, food, potions, target armor and target health. It tracks skill casts, light attacks, DoT ticks, cooldowns, execute scaling, crits and status effect rolls. It assumes 100% of light attacks hit and a 0.025 second weave average.

Every comparison table in this guide is the average of 10 deterministic sims, with the dummy's health spread between 5.55 and 6.45 million HP. A single sim can be off by up to 1.2%, because the result depends on when the killing hit lands. The Instanced setup is treated as the default.

For comparison tables I keep the setup identical and change one thing at a time. That makes the tables better for comparing options than random dummy parses, where one run can get better crits, different status effects or a better execute window.

Class Mastery

Class Masteries are a system where each class picks 2 of 5 passive bonuses (Class Mastery Points, not Skill Points). Activating subclassing disables Class Mastery, so it's a tradeoff between keeping your native skill lines or subclassing.

Default

Necromancer Class Mastery

Cycle Unending

The cycle of life and death continues: you will live, others will die.

Upgrades rank 2 of Reusable Parts to grant Cycle Unending for 25 seconds, increasing the potency of your damage done by 1% for every 1% Health you have more than your target. The damage bonus caps at 25%, or 10% against players.

Notes

Simply the best damage option.

Necromancer Class Mastery

Malevolent Promise

Death's knell is a familiar song. Share it with your enemies.

Upgrades rank 2 of Corpse Consumption to mark the closest non-player enemy to you with death's touch for 6 seconds, allowing you to use a corpse consuming ability on them. Consuming or replacing this effect forcibly triggers rank 1 of Corpse Consumption's Ultimate generation and triggers rank 2 of Death Gleaning.

This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.

Not in Tooltip

The tooltip is misleading. Malevolent Promise won't work without Corpse Consumption passive, but it isn't tied to Corpse Consumption proccing (which has a 16 second cooldown). You create the death-touch mark whenever you consume any corpse, up to once every 2 seconds.

Notes

Default choice. MagCro can't sustain Venom Skull and the Magicka morph of it (Ricochet Skull) is awful so it has to use Malevolent Promise as its source of "corpses"

Situational

Necromancer Class Mastery

Nothing Wasted

As an abattoir of death, no remnants of life are wasted.

Upgrades rank 2 of Corpse Consumption to also grant a stack of Nothing Wasted for 12 seconds, which increases your Max Health by 2% and Weapon and Spell Damage by 2% per stack, up to 10 times. Stacks decay two at a time instead of all at once.

Not in Tooltip

The tooltip is misleading. Nothing Wasted won't work without Corpse Consumption passive, but it isn't tied to Corpse Consumption proccing (which has a 16 second cooldown). You simply get a Nothing Wasted stack whenever you consume any corpse, without any cooldown.

Notes

Replaces Cycle Unending in fights where you need to be tankier. It gives you up to 20% Max Health.

Necromancer Class Mastery

Pound of Flesh

Knock upon death's door and demand your due.

When you take damage you have a 10% chance to heal Health and restore 5% of your missing Stamina, up to once per second. This chance increases by 1% for every missing Health percent you have and the healing is based off your Max Health.

Health

Coefficient	10% Max Health
Tags	HealingSingle TargetDirect

Notes

Replaces Cycle Unending in fights where you have to permablock to survive and need the sustain.

Not worth it

Necromancer Class Mastery

Veil's Forfeit

Call souls back from an early grave. Only you may grant them release.

While you are in combat, directly healing a target below 66% Health relinquishes them from death's clutches and allows you to use a corpse consuming ability against them within 10 seconds, up to once every second.

Extends the duration of Major Vulnerability you apply by 50%.

Notes

Not useful for this setup.

Skill Setups

Base Setup

A base setup that will work for most situations and which should be your starting point when making situational setups

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Spirit GuardianMorph of Spirit Mender
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Elemental SusceptibilityMorph of Weakness to Elements
Slot 4: Avid BoneyardMorph of Boneyard	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcanistMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Ulfsild's ContingencyShock Damage / Lingering Torment / Force
Ultimate: Glacial ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Ice CometMorph of Meteor

INFO

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. 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 for 20 seconds, which increases 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 costs 3240 Magicka. 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%.
• Ice Comet - a 200 Ultimate cost AoE that knocks enemies down and leaves a ground DoT. U51 buffed the DoT, so it does more single target damage than Shooting Star now.

SITUATIONAL

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

ROTATION

Rotation	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Priority List	71.6k DPS	Baseline
Static Rotation	59.2k DPS	-17.3%

Priority List Static Rotation

Priority List

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. Skeletal Arcanist
• 2. Grave Lord's Sacrifice - refresh when there's less than 5 seconds left
• 3. Spirit Guardian
• 4. Summoner's Armor
• 5. Elemental Susceptibility
• 6. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 7. Elemental Blockade
• 8. Glacial Colossus when there's less than 8 seconds of the fight left
• 9. Ice Comet when available
• 10. Avid Boneyard
• 11. Detonating Siphon if there's a corpse available
• 12. Venom Skull if the next cast is empowered
• 13. Venom Skull

Static Rotation

This might be easier for some players, but it is weaker than the priority list.

Glacial Colossus and Ice Comet stay outside this repeating Static Rotation. Cast Glacial Colossus when there's less than 8 seconds of the fight left, and cast Ice Comet when available.

• 1. Skeletal Arcanist
• 2. Elemental Susceptibility
• 3. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 4. Elemental Blockade
• 5. Spirit Guardian
• 6. Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• 7. Summoner's Armor
• 8. Detonating Siphon
• 9. Avid Boneyard
• 10. Detonating Siphon
• 11. Detonating Siphon
• 12. Venom Skull
• 13. Detonating Siphon
• 14. Detonating Siphon
• 15. Elemental Blockade
• 16. Spirit Guardian
• 17. Venom Skull
• 18. Detonating Siphon
• 19. Avid Boneyard
• 20. Summoner's Armor

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat.

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

Other Setups

A few examples of other setups you could end up with after applying the situational skills to the base setup

A setup for trash packs

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Silver LeashMorph of Silver Bolts
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Razor CaltropsMorph of Caltrops
Slot 4: Avid BoneyardMorph of Boneyard	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcanistMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Ulfsild's ContingencyShock Damage / Lingering Torment / Force
Ultimate: Glacial ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Shooting StarMorph of Meteor

What Changes

Changes compared to the Base Setup

• Razor Caltrops replaces Elemental Susceptibility
• Silver Leash replaces Spirit Guardian

A setup which trades damage for more survivability. Use it against harder boss fights or if you simply want a tankier build and don't mind fights taking longer

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Spirit GuardianMorph of Spirit Mender
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Elemental SusceptibilityMorph of Weakness to Elements
Slot 4: Revealing Flare	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcanistMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Ulfsild's ContingencyShock Damage / Lingering Torment / Force
Ultimate: Glacial ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Ice CometMorph of Meteor

What Changes

Changes compared to the Base Setup

• Revealing Flare replaces Avid Boneyard

Skill Setup Comparison

Passives

Some trees are only needed when using situational skills, for example Psijic Order provides nothing without Precognition

Gear

Overland (Base) is your starting point and works for most situations. Crafted is a beginner version using only craftable sets. Instanced is a swap for Arenas and Dungeons where enemies have higher armor.

Switching gear for trash packs isn't worth it unless you're using gear-swap addons

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Corpseburster	Heavy	Reinforced	Magicka
Hands	Corpseburster	Light	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Aegis Caller	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Corpseburster	Light	Divines	Magicka
Necklace	Aegis Caller	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Aegis Caller	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Aegis Caller	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Aegis Caller	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Crushing Wall	Ice Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

Fallback Gear

Look here You don't need the Dungeon gear. The Crafted set Tide-Born Wildstalker is about 1.2% less damage, while the Crafted set Order's Wrath is about 2.7% less damage.

Tide-Born Wildstalker (Crafted)

About 1.2% less damage

Order's Wrath (Crafted)

About 2.7% less damage

Body

Corpseburster - Class Set (Infinite Archive)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Order's Wrath - Crafted
2. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted

Weapons and Jewelry

Aegis Caller - Dungeon Set (Unhallowed Grave)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Whorl of the Depths - Trial Set (Dreadsail Reef)
2. Slivers of the Null Arca - Trial Set (Lucent Citadel)
3. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted
4. Order's Wrath - Crafted

Monster Helm

Slimecraw - Monster Set (Wayrest Sewers I)

Alternative (same bonus)

1. Iceheart - Direfrost Keep
2. Zaan - Scalecaller Peak
3. Grundwulf - Moongrave Fane
4. Stone Husk - Stone Garden
5. The Blind - Bedlam Veil
6. Thousand Eyes - Night Market

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Heavy	Reinforced	Magicka
Hands	Order's Wrath	Light	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Order's Wrath	Light	Divines	Magicka
Necklace	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Highland Sentinel	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Ice Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

The setup in the table uses only crafted gear, but if you already own parts of the Base setup like Corpseburster, Aegis Caller or Ring of the Pale Order you can start using them immediately.

Use this in Instanced content where enemies have 18,200 armor instead of 9,100.

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Valkyn Skoria	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Corpseburster	Light	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Corpseburster	Heavy	Reinforced	Magicka
Hands	Corpseburster	Light	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Corpseburster	Light	Divines	Magicka
Necklace	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Crushing Wall	Ice Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

Fallback Gear

Look here You don't need the Trial gear. The Dungeon set Aegis Caller is about 3.8% less damage, while the Crafted set Tide-Born Wildstalker is about 4.7% less damage.

Aegis Caller (Dungeon)

About 3.8% less damage

Tide-Born Wildstalker (Crafted)

About 4.7% less damage

Body

Corpseburster - Class Set (Infinite Archive)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Order's Wrath - Crafted
2. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted

Weapons and Jewelry

Whorl of the Depths - Trial Set (Dreadsail Reef)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Slivers of the Null Arca - Trial Set (Lucent Citadel)
2. Aegis Caller - Dungeon Set (Unhallowed Grave)
3. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted
4. Order's Wrath - Crafted

Monster Helm

Valkyn Skoria - Monster Set (City of Ash II)

Alternatives

1. Slimecraw - Wayrest Sewers I
2. Kra'gh - Fungal Grotto I
3. Archdruid Devyric - Earthen Root Enclave
4. Lady Malygda - Imperial City
5. Black Gem Monstrosity - Black Gem Foundry

What Changes

Changes compared to the Overland setup

• Head switches from Slimecraw to Valkyn Skoria
• Aegis Caller to Whorl of the Depths
• 2 Light / 4 Medium / 1 Heavy to 4 Light / 2 Medium / 1 Heavy

Use the Penetration Calculator to fine-tune your penetration for different content. Overland enemies have 9,100 armor while Instanced enemies (Arenas and Dungeons) have 18,200.

Tool Penetration Calculator Check your total armor penetration in ESO and see exactly how much DPS you're losing. Find out if you've hit the penetration cap for the type of content you're doing.

Gear Set Comparisons

Damage comparison for the set options.

Instanced Enemy - 18,200 Armor

All of these use 4 Light / 2 Medium / 1 Heavy and Valkyn Skoria.

Body Corpseburster Weapons + Jewelry Whorl of the Depths

Body

Compares Whorl of the Depths + X body set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Body Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Corpseburster	Class Set - Infinite Archive	71.6k DPS	Baseline
Order's Wrath	Crafted	57.4k DPS	-19.8%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 57.4k DPS 0 Stacks 55.8k DPS	-19.9% -22.1%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	57.0k DPS	-20.4%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	56.0k DPS	-21.7%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	55.6k DPS	-22.3%

Weapons + Jewelry

Compares Corpseburster + X weapons and jewelry set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 75.8k DPS No Interrupt 68.5k DPS	+5.9% -4.3%
Sul-Xan's Torment	Trial - Rockgrove	Soul 73.5k DPS No Soul 66.1k DPS	+2.7% -7.7%
Whorl of the Depths	Trial - Dreadsail Reef	71.6k DPS	Baseline
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	70.4k DPS	-1.7%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	68.9k DPS	-3.8%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	68.2k DPS	-4.7%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 67.1k DPS 0 Stacks 64.7k DPS	-6.2% -9.7%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	66.8k DPS	-6.6%
Symmetry of the Weald	Overland - West Weald	65.8k DPS	-8.1%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	65.8k DPS	-8.1%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	65.7k DPS	-8.2%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	65.3k DPS	-8.9%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	65.2k DPS	-8.9%
Frostbite	Overland - Blackwood	65.2k DPS	-8.9%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	64.9k DPS	-9.4%
Mother's Sorrow	Overland - Deshaan	64.8k DPS	-9.5%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	64.7k DPS	-9.6%

Overland Enemy - 9,100 Armor

All of these use 2 Light / 4 Medium / 1 Heavy and Slimecraw.

Body Corpseburster Weapons + Jewelry Aegis Caller

Body

Compares Aegis Caller + X body set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Body Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Corpseburster	Class Set - Infinite Archive	71.8k DPS	Baseline
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 58.0k DPS 0 Stacks 56.1k DPS	-19.2% -21.9%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	58.0k DPS	-19.2%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	57.4k DPS	-20.1%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	56.4k DPS	-21.5%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	56.0k DPS	-22.1%

Weapons + Jewelry

Compares Corpseburster + X weapons and jewelry set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 79.1k DPS No Interrupt 71.2k DPS	+10.2% -0.9%
Sul-Xan's Torment	Trial - Rockgrove	Soul 77.1k DPS No Soul 69.4k DPS	+7.3% -3.4%
Whorl of the Depths	Trial - Dreadsail Reef	75.0k DPS	+4.4%
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	73.6k DPS	+2.6%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	71.8k DPS	Baseline
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	71.0k DPS	-1.2%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 70.1k DPS 0 Stacks 68.2k DPS	-2.3% -5.1%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	69.9k DPS	-2.7%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	68.9k DPS	-4.0%
Symmetry of the Weald	Overland - West Weald	68.9k DPS	-4.1%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	68.7k DPS	-4.3%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	68.7k DPS	-4.3%
Frostbite	Overland - Blackwood	68.7k DPS	-4.4%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	68.7k DPS	-4.4%
Mother's Sorrow	Overland - Deshaan	68.3k DPS	-4.8%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	68.2k DPS	-5.0%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	68.1k DPS	-5.1%

Front Bar Weapons

Daggers are the default weapon.

Only the front bar weapon changes. Daggers use Nirnhoned Poison and Charged Absorb Stamina. Every one-weapon option uses a Precise Poison weapon. One Handed and Shield uses a Precise Poison one handed weapon plus a Divines Magicka shield.

Situational Swaps

Alternative setups for different goals and content types

Additional Tips

Champion Points

Unlock Order

Warfare

Master-at-Arms

6% Direct Damage

Biting Aura

6% Area of Effect Damage

Wrathful Strikes

205 Weapon and Spell Damage

Fighting Finesse

8% Critical Damage and Healing

More Mitigation

Replace Wrathful Strikes + Fighting Finesse with 2 mitigation CPs: Ironclad, Duelist's Rebuff, Enduring Resolve, or Unassailable (depending on the type of damage the Boss deals to you)

More Healing

Reaving Blows is a decent option if you need more HPS

Fitness

Boundless Vitality

1400 Max Health

Siphoning Spells

1500 Magicka on kills

Rejuvenation

90 Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery

Fortified

1731 Armor

Block Mitigation

Use Bracing Anchor in fights where you need to block a lot and can afford to be slower

Movement Speed

Use Celerity in fights where you have to move a lot

Craft

Steed's Blessing

20% Movement Speed out of combat

Quality of Life

The Craft tree is non-combat utility. Steed's Blessing is the only slottable that matters for group content, giving you extra movement speed between fights.

Race

For solo you need both damage and survivability, so every race brings something to the table. I use Nord because in difficult solo content the armor racial is worth the DPS trade-off. If you want to use a different race, the table shows comparison between their DPS.

Nord

The tankiest race. Nord is also what I use for soloing Veteran Hard Mode DLC Dungeons. Rugged provides around 5-7% damage mitigation depending on your current armor, making difficult content easier to survive without sacrificing much damage.

Rugged 2600 armor

Stalwart 1500 Max Stamina, 0.5 Ultimate per second

Resist Frost 1000 Max Health, 4620 Frost Resistance

Mundus

• 

  Default

  The Thief

  5.53% Critical Chance(9.04% with 7 Divines)

  Use most of the time. It increases your Critical Chance.
• 

  Difficult Content

  The Lady

  2744 Armor(4489 with 7 Divines)

  Consider switching for extremely difficult dungeons. It increases your Armor.

Attributes

For most content you should put all 64 points into Magicka. For difficult content you should devote as many attribute points as necessary to Health - for some content you'll be able to get away with 32 Health 32 Magicka, for the extremely difficult stuff you'll need 64 Health.

As you can see, the damage loss from changing attributes is minimal, and you gain up to 7808 Health, so change attributes whenever you struggle with some harder enemy.

Food

• 

  Default

  Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl

  Max Health +5,414 Max Magicka +4,938

  The default option.
• 

  Sustain

  Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch

  Max Health +4,312 Health Recovery +406 Stamina Recovery +369 Magicka Recovery +369

  Use this if you need more sustain. It trades Max Magicka for Stamina and Magicka Recovery.
  Cheaper alternative Jewels of Misrule

  Difference Max Health +3,927 −385 Health Recovery — −406 Stamina Recovery +357 −12 Magicka Recovery +357 −12

Setup	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl	71.6k DPS	Baseline
Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch	69.4k DPS	-3.1%

Potions

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  Default

  Armor Potion

  Restore Health Spell Resistance Physical Resistance

  The default option. Gives you 5,280 Armor, which is a lot of damage mitigation.

  Craft with: Bugloss Mountain Flower Mudcrab Chitin
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  Sustain

  Tri-Stat Potion

  Restore Health Restore Stamina Restore Magicka

  Use this if you need more sustain. It restores Stamina and Magicka on use, and also grants you Major Endurance and Major Intellect.

  Craft with: Columbine Bugloss Mountain Flower
• 

  Full Damage

  Heroism Potion

  Restore Magicka Restore Stamina Minor Heroism

  Same idea as Tri-Stat Potion, but straight up better because it adds Minor Heroism on top. More damage, just much more expensive to craft.

  Craft with: Dragon Rheum Dragon's Blood Columbine

Parses

Instanced Setup

65,361 DPS

Instanced Setup

65,361DPS

6mil Skeleton Dummy

Patch

Update 50

Armor

4 Light / 2 Medium / 1 Heavy

Gear Setup

Instanced

Skill Setup

Base

Potion

Armor Potion

Food

Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl

Mundus

The Thief

Race

Nord

CMX Parse

CMX Setup

Recording

✕ Close

Gameplay

FAQ