Magicka Warden Solo Build - ESO Guide

Every Animal Companions ability on your bar will trigger the Advanced Species passive, increasing your Critical Damage by 5% each

• Wield Soul (Frost, Druid's Resurgence, Resolve) - a spammable which will restore 600 Stamina and Magicka with each cast which will be crucial for sustaining with a Warden. It's also going to be our source of Major Resolve, which increases armor by 5948 and is a very important defensive buff
• Subterranean Assault - a delayed ability that will deal decent damage in an AoE in front of you. The fact that it's a Stamina ability that has to be re-activated every 6 seconds is going to massively help with sustaining our Magicka
• Blue Betty - an ability that grants us Major Brutality and Sorcery, sustain, 5% damage buff and it automatically cleanses debuffs every 5 seconds. You can recast it early if you need to cleanse an important debuff
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Frost, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - your AoE spammable, a 22 second DoT which also grants you Minor Resolve, increasing your armor by 2974. Having it slotted on your frontbar will also trigger the Magicka Controller passive which will slightly improve your damage and sustain. If you don't have Tzogvin's Warband, use the Force script instead to get Minor Force
• Bird of Prey - an ability that will passively grant you Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%. Whenever it's needed, you can also activate it to gain 30% movement speed boost and immunity to slows and immobilizations for 4 seconds
• Wild Guardian - a free ultimate that has to be double-barred that summons a permanent Bear pet, that deals decent damage to your enemies. While the Bear is summoned, you can activate this ability for 75 Ultimate to command the Bear to maul an enemy. Deals 100% more damage to enemies below 25% Health
• Lotus Blossom - an ability that will provide an important Major Savagery/Prophecy buff and some passive healing whenever you Light or Heavy Attack
• Winter's Revenge - a ground DoT that deals massive damage when you count in the Chilled procs, triggered thanks to this skill's increased innate chance to proc status effects
• 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% 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. It will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they'll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Arctic Blast - a 20 second DoT around you which will deal a lot of damage by proccing the Chilled status effect. It can also be used as a self-heal if there are no enemies around you

Winter's Revenge and Arctic Blast are the first skills that have to go if you need to slot situational, in that order, unless the situational skill specifically says it's replacing something else

• 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
• Living Trellis - a healing ability you can spam under big pressure, also good for fights where you're getting hit very frequently
• 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
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Frost, Gladiator's Tenacity, Resolve) - a different script combination which trades the DoT from Lingering Torment for the mitigation from Gladiator's Tenacity. Use it in fights where you need more damage mitigation.
• 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%
• 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

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. Lotus Blossom
• 2. Blue Betty
• 3. Elemental Susceptibility
• 4. Wild Guardian if you have 75 Ultimate
• 5. Elemental Blockade
• 6. Subterranean Assault
• 7. Winter's Revenge
• 8. Arctic Blast
• 9. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 10. Wield Soul spammable

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Lotus Blossom
• Blue Betty
• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Arctic Blast
• Subterranean Assault