Magicka Warden PvP Build – No Procs Cyrodiil

Welcome to my Magicka Warden (Magden) PvP Build for the Flames of Ambition patch.
This build utilizes the revamped Champion Points system and the new Armor Bonuses to get a surprising amount of damage and healing power and an incredible amount of damage prevention.

If you’re looking to be able to both pressure and burst down enemy players and still have more than enough survivability to dominate the no-procs version of Cyrodiil, you’ve come to the right place!

Setup

Before we get started, it’s important to keep in mind while viewing and using this build, that it’s meant specifically for Cyrodiil, as for the next 6 months, there will be a very limited pool of item sets that are usable in Cyrodiil, and are available to use in builds. This means that while this build is incredibly powerful in a no-procs ruleset environment, like Cyrodiil of this patch, it may not perform quite as well in places where proc sets and more set choices are available, such as Battlegrounds and out-of Cyrodiil duels.

Race

The optimal race for this build is Breton. This race helps you sustain magicka skills better than any, and increases your spell resistance and your magicka pool as well.

Other good alternatives for races would be Dark Elf, Argonian and High Elf.

Mundus

The mundus stone we are using on this build is The Atronach, since Major Intellect, a buff that grants us extra magicka regeneration was nerfed this patch, and this mundus allows us to mitigate that loss and sustain our magicka better.

Skills

Note: For the full explanation on why we use all these skills and how to utilize them effectively, make sure to check out the build video (Coming Soon).

Passives

Gear

Monster Sets

With the no-procs ruleset being implemented in Cyrodiil, we can’t use 2 pieces of the same monster set and get the 2-piece bonus. We can, however, use two different one-pieces of two different monster sets, Swarm Mother and Domihaus, to get a lot of Max Magicka and Max Stamina from the 1-piece bonus of both, combined.

Main Set

Crafty Alfiq – Out of all the damage sets within the limited pool of the no-procs ruleset, Crafty Alfiq is the one that grants the most Max Magicka. This is important for us to utilize, as in this build we try to stack our Max Magicka stat as high as possible for both our offensive potential, and our strong healing power.

Minor Sets

Grace of the Ancients – This 3-pieces set grants us a lot of addional Max Magicka, which helps push our main stat pool close towards the 50k. This set works brilliantly in combination with Crafty Alfiq towards our goal of maximizing or Magicka pool.

Armor of the Trainee – We use two pieces of this set to both help increase our Max Magicka pool further as mentioned before, but also to increase our Max Health pool. If we cared only about the Max Magicka pool, using two pieces of the Willpower set would prove more effective, however we are willing to give up a little bit of Max Magicka in order to get a lot of Max Health, which will help our healing power off the Arctic Blast skill scale better.

Weights & Traits

Weights – This patch, we are no longer forced to use 5 pieces of any type of armor, as there are no longer such limitations on any of the Armor Passives, and we are not using any active armor skills. This allows us to make the best of both worlds by combining 3 pieces of Light Armor and 3 pieces of Medium armor – both of which allows us to make our Roll Dodge cost very very cheap, and one piece of Heavy Armor to enjoy the full benefits of the Undaunted passives.

Well Fitted – A lot of our traits are Well-Fitted in this build, since our main method of damage-prevention will be roll dodging. Between the armor types, the Well Fitted trait and the new CP stars we are using in this build, we are able to reduce the cost of Roll Dodge below the one thousand mark, which proves incredibly effective to help us survive when we are playing outnumbered or running away from a big zerg.

Consumables

Food

We use Bewitched Sugar Skulls since this one food gives us all: Max Health, Max Magicka, Max Stamina and Health Recovery.

Potions

We use tri-stat potions (made with Bugloss, Columbine and Mountain Flower) to help us heal and sustain both our Magicka pool and our Stamina pool.

Champion Points