ONE BAR MAGICKA TEMPLAR SOLO GUIDE

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One Bar Magicka Templar Solo

Table of contents

Skill Setups
Passives
Vampirism
Gear
Champion Points
Race
Mundus
Attributes
Food
Potions
Gameplay

Last updated: Update 44 - 22nd February 2025

This build is capable of soloing every Veteran dungeon that doesnt have a specific mechanic that requires multiple people. Its also capable of soloing most Hard Mode dungeons, and with some adjustments even the more difficult ones.

In this guide Ill be regularly using the terms Regular and Difficult. Regular refers to content that is intended to be solo-ed (such as Maelstrom Arena or Vateshran Arena) and to any overland content such as World Bosses, Dolmens, Dragons, Volcanic Vents, Harrowstorms, Mirrormoor Incursions, etc. Majority of dungeon fights will also fall under that category. Difficult refers to extremely difficult dungeon fights.

SKILL SETUPS

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Puncturing Sweep	Slot 1: Restoring Aura
Slot 2: Radiant Glory
Slot 3: Wield Soul
Slot 4: Power of the Light
Slot 5: Channeled Focus
Ultimate: Shooting Star

SCRIBING

INFO

Puncturing Sweep - a spammable that will heal you for 33% of the damage done. Having it slotted will also trigger the Piercing Spear passive, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Using it will trigger the Spear Wall passive, granting you Minor Protection for 6 seconds, which reduces your damage taken by 5%
Radiant Glory - an execute that will heal you for 17% of the damage done. Damage wise the point at which you should switch from Puncturing Sweep to Radiant Glory is when enemy is at 41% HP, but since Puncturing Sweep heals you for a higher percentage and grants you Minor Protection that breaking point can be further down if you're under pressure that you need to outheal
Wield Soul - a DoT that will also apply the Major Breach debuff, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 and is crucial for any non-overland content. Since it's a Stamina ability that has to be re-cast every 10 seconds, it's going to improve our Magicka sustain by a lot
Power of the Light - an ability that deals decent damage and applies the Sunder status effect. Sunder applies Minor Breach and grants you 100 Weapon and Spell Damage for 4 seconds. Power of the Light is also going to proc the Illuminate passive, granting you Minor Sorcery for 20 seconds, which increases your Spell Damage by 10%
Channeled Focus - an ability that places a rune on the ground and grants you Major Resolve for 25 seconds, which is an extremely important defensive buff. It's also going to restore your Magicka and heal you for 2% of your Max Health every second, which increases to 6% if you're standing inside of the rune
Shooting Star - a powerful ultimate that deals AoE damage, leaves a ground DoT behind and restores 12 Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial hit. Having it slotted will also trigger the Magicka Controller passive which will slightly improve your damage and sustain
Restoring Aura - an ability you can keep slotted on your backbar to gain its passive benefits. It will grant you Minor Endurance, Intellect and Fortitude, increasing all your recoveries by 15%

SITUATIONAL

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Puncturing Sweep	Slot 1: Restoring Aura
Slot 2: Radiant Glory
Slot 3: Wield Soul
Slot 4: Ulfsild's Contingency
Slot 5: Channeled Focus
Ultimate: Shooting Star

SCRIBING

INFO

Puncturing Sweep - a spammable that will heal you for 33% of the damage done. Having it slotted will also trigger the Piercing Spear passive, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Using it will trigger the Spear Wall passive, granting you Minor Protection for 6 seconds, which reduces your damage taken by 5%
Radiant Glory - an execute that will heal you for 17% of the damage done. Damage wise the point at which you should switch from Puncturing Sweep to Radiant Glory is when enemy is at 41% HP, but since Puncturing Sweep heals you for a higher percentage and grants you Minor Protection that breaking point can be further down if you're under pressure that you need to outheal. Since in this setup this is your only source of Illuminate, you should recast it once every 20 seconds even when your enemy is above the execute threshold
Wield Soul - a DoT that will also apply the Major Breach debuff, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 and is crucial for any non-overland content. Since it's a Stamina ability that has to be re-cast every 10 seconds, it's going to improve our Magicka sustain by a lot
Ulfsild's Contingency - a delayed AoE damage that also grants you 8% damage reduction for 8 seconds and Minor Force for 22 seconds, which increases your Critical Damage by 10%. You should recast it every 8 seconds when under pressure and every 22 seconds otherwise
Channeled Focus - an ability that places a rune on the ground and grants you Major Resolve for 25 seconds, which is an extremely important defensive buff. It's also going to restore your Magicka and heal you for 2% of your Max Health every second, which increases to 6% if you're standing inside of the rune
Shooting Star - a powerful ultimate that deals AoE damage, leaves a ground DoT behind and restores 12 Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial hit. Having it slotted will also trigger the Magicka Controller passive which will slightly improve your damage and sustain
Restoring Aura - an ability you can keep slotted on your backbar to gain its passive benefits. It will grant you Minor Endurance, Intellect and Fortitude, increasing all your recoveries by 15%

SITUATIONAL

PASSIVES

There are no passives you need to skip with this build, you should get all of them.

VAMPIRISM

Becoming a Vampire Vampire can allow you to use Simmering Frenzy if you don't mind switching to your backbar once per fight

GEAR

This is the crafted gear setup you can start with.

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Claw of the Forest Wraith	Light	Training /Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Claw of the Forest Wraith	Light	Training /Divines	Magicka
Chest	Order's Wrath	Heavy	Training /Reinforced	Magicka
Hands	Order's Wrath	Light	Training /Divines	Magicka
Belt	Order's Wrath	Light	Training /Divines	Magicka
Legs	Order's Wrath	Medium	Training /Divines	Magicka
Boots	Order's Wrath	Light	Training /Divines	Magicka
Necklace	Claw of the Forest Wraith	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Claw of the Forest Wraith	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Claw of the Forest Wraith	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Assassin's Guile	Mace	Nirnhoned	Shock
Frontbar Off Hand	Assassin's Guile	Mace	Charged	Flame

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Change Flame enchant to Absorb Stamina when you use the Difficult skill setup and drop Power of the Light
Use Daggers instead of Maces if you don't plan on using this gear setup for any instanced content (Dungeons, Arenas)
Use Training traits if you're still leveling. If you're already max level and have enough Champion Points you can instead use Divines and Reinforced on the chest piece

This is my suggested setup for regular content, such as Solo Arenas, World Bosses, Dolmens, Dragons, Volcanic Vents, Harrowstorms, Mirrormoor Incursions and majority of the dungeons.

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Slimecraw	Light	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Deadly Strike	Medium	Divines	Magicka
Hands	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Legs	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Magicka
Necklace	Deadly Strike	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Deadly Strike	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Magical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Deadly Strike	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Shock
Frontbar Off Hand	Deadly Strike	Mace	Charged	Flame

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Change Flame enchant to Absorb Stamina when you use the Difficult skill setup and drop Power of the Light
Use Daggers instead of Maces if you don't plan on using this gear setup for any instanced content (Dungeons, Arenas)
Order’s Wrath is an extremely powerful set despite being crafted so it's a good replacement for Whorl of the Depths if you don't have access to it
For more difficult encounters you can change the weight on your Slimecraw head piece from Light to Heavy

CHAMPION POINTS

Warfare

Thaumaturge (6% DoT Damage)
Deadly Aim (6% Single Target Damage)
Fighting Finesse (8% Critical Damage and Healing)
Wrathful Strikes (205 Weapon and Spell Damage added to damaging skills)

Fitness

Boundless Vitality (1400 Max Health)
Sustained by Suffering (150 Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery when debuffed)
Rejuvenation (90 Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery)
Fortified (1731 armor)

ADDITIONAL INFO:

When soloing extremely difficult dungeons you should replace Wrathful Strikes and Fighting Finesse with 2 of the 4 mitigation CPs (Ironclad, Duelists Rebuff, Enduring Resolve, Unassailable)
In fights with lots of adds Siphoning Spells and Bloody Renewal can be stronger than Rejuvenation and Sustained by Suffering

RACE

When it comes to solo PvE, you need both damage and survivability so pretty much all races have useful racials.

The best race for dealing damage is Khajiit. While the Critical Damage from Feline Ambush can sometimes be wasted due to Critical Damage being capped at 125%, it will never happen in solo content, because there will be no tanks or healers providing you with the Major Force buff.

The best race for survivability is Nord. The Rugged Rugged racial will provide around 6% damage mitigation.

MUNDUS

You should use The Thief Mundus, which increases your Critical Chance.

For extremely difficult dungeons you should consider switching to The Lady Mundus, which increases your Armor.

ATTRIBUTES

HEALTH

STAMINA

MAGICKA

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 youll be able to get away with 32 Health 32 Magicka, for the extremely difficult stuff youll need 64 Health.

FOOD

You'll have to use the Orzorga's Red Frothgar in order to sustain.

Other decent foods:

Clockwork Citrus Filet - if your sustain is good enough you can use this food instead, which compared to Orzorga's Red Frothgar will lower your Magicka Recovery and Max Health but it will grant you additional Max Magicka which will increase your damage
Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch - if a certain fight requires much more blocking and/or dodge rolling you can use this food instead, which compared to Orzorga's Red Frothgar will lower your Magicka Recovery and Max Health but it will grant you additional Stamina Recovery. Jewels of Misrule is a much cheaper alternative version of this food

POTIONS

Use the Spell Power potions (Increase Spell Power, Spell Critical, Restore Magicka). They'll greatly improve your sustain and provide Major Sorcery and Major Prophecy which are crucial. You can craft them by combining Lady's Smock, Namira's Rot and Corn Flower.