Magicka Warden Solo Build - ESO U50 PTS 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, Intellect and Endurance) - a spammable which restores 600 Stamina and Magicka with each cast. It also grants Minor Intellect and Endurance, increasing Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 15%.
• Subterranean Assault - a delayed ability that deals 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 helps with sustaining Magicka.
• Blue Betty - grants Major Brutality and Sorcery, sustain, a 5% damage buff and automatically cleanses debuffs every 5 seconds. You can recast it early if you need to cleanse an important debuff.
• Traveling Knife (Poison, Assassin's Misery, Force) - a Stamina skill that increases enemies' chance to be affected by Status Effects and grants Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%.
• Arctic Blast - your AoE spammable, a 20 second DoT around you which deals 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.
• Wild Guardian - front-barred for the 5% Critical Damage bonus from Advanced Species.
• Ice Fortress - your source of Major Resolve, increasing your armor by 5948. It also grants Minor Protection, reducing your damage taken by 5%.
• Lotus Blossom - provides Major Savagery and Prophecy plus some passive healing whenever you Light or Heavy Attack. This healing also triggers the Nature's Gift passive.
• Elemental Susceptibility - a free skill that applies Major Breach and keeps applying Burning, Chilled and Concussed over time. Concussed adds Minor Vulnerability, Chilled adds Minor Maim, and Chilled from your Ice Staff bar also adds Minor Brittle.
• Elemental Blockade - constantly applies your Weapon Damage enchantment and keeps applying Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled.
• Soul Burst (Bleed, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - an AoE DoT that grants Minor Resolve, increasing your armor by 2974.
• Northern Storm - a powerful ultimate that deals damage in an AoE, increases your Max Magicka and grants Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%.

Soul Burst, Arctic Blast and Traveling Knife 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. Replaces Soul Burst since both apply Minor Resolve.
• 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
• 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. Ice Fortress
• 2. Lotus Blossom
• 3. Blue Betty
• 4. Elemental Susceptibility
• 5. Northern Storm when available
• 6. Elemental Blockade
• 7. Subterranean Assault
• 8. Traveling Knife
• 9. Arctic Blast
• 10. Soul Burst
• 11. Wield Soul spammable

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ice Fortress
• Lotus Blossom
• Blue Betty
• Arctic Blast
• Soul Burst
• Subterranean Assault