Magicka Warden PvP Build

by NirnStorm
6th March 2021

Build Contents

Welcome to the 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 in addition to the existing proc meta to get a deal a massive amounts of damage that pressures it’s opponents while remaining very tanky and hard to take down.

With this build you’ll be able to apply a lot of pressure to enemy players and groups alike while being very hard to take down due to your strong healing and tanky setup, in addition to having a very fast ultimate generation that helps you keep tearing through enemy groups with your powerful Northern Storms.

Details
PATCH
Flames of Ambition
RACE
Breton
MUNDUS
The Lord
Increases Maximum Health
Mortality
Mortal
Werewolf
Vampire
Attributes
29
Health
0
Stamina
35
Magicka

Setup

There are a few things to keep in mind when viewing and playing this build:

  • A lot of the damage power of this build comes from the proc sets that it utilizes in combination with the Malacath mythic item which increases the damage of your procs as well as your skills. So make sure you are constantly activating those sets if you want the build to peak in terms of damage dealing.
  • The healing power of this build scales off of it’s max Health rather than it’s max Magicka unlike most magicka based builds. This is important to keep in mind since while this build utilizes less common methods of health gain such as attribute points and mundus buff, those are very important for the overall performance of the build.

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, Nord, Argonian and High Elf.

Mundus

The mundus stone we are using on this build is The Lord, since most of our healing power in this build scales off of our Max Health, and this mundus helps us increase it’s value.

Skills

Blackrose Lightning Staff
Vateshran’s Ice Staff
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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

Animal Companions Warden

All Passives

Winters Embrace Warden

All Passives

Green Balance Warden

All Passives

Light Armor Armor

All Passives

Medium Armor Armor

Unlock all the passives except Dexterity, Improved Sneak and Agility, these are optional and not very relevant.

Heavy Armor Armor

All Passives

Destruction Staff Weapons

Unlock all the passives except Tristat Focus. It’s important to not unlock this passive.

Undaunted Guilds

All Passives

Assault Alliance War

All Passives

Support Alliance War

Unlock only Combat Medic

Racial Character

All Passives

Alchemy Crafting

Unlock only Medicinal Use

Gear

Sturdy
Tri-Stat
heavy
Sturdy
Tri-Stat
heavy
Sturdy
Tri-Stat
heavy
Sturdy
Tri-Stat
medium
Sturdy
Tri-Stat
light
Impen
Tri-Stat
heavy
Impen
Tri-Stat
heavy
Infused
Mag Regen
Infused
Mag Regen
Infused
Mag Regen
Front Bar
Defending / Infused
Weapon Damage ( Berserker )
Back Bar

Mythic Item

Malacath – We are utilizing Malacath in this build as it enables us to use heavy armor and set up our build quite defensively for the sake of tankiness while still dealing a whole lot of damage using proc sets (mentioned below). This is one of the most powerful sets in the meta and is very much recommended to use.

Main Set

Ice Furnace – This set allows us to constantly proc a considerably high amount of damage -which is buffed by malacath- every single second, as long as we deal frost damage to any enemy around us. We deal that damage using either Arctic Blast, Perfmafrost, or our spammable Force Pulse. It allows us to keep a lot of pressure on our enemies passively without much effort.

Weapon Sets

Vateshran’s Ice Staff – We are using this set on the back bar to help increase our offensive pressure. Vateshran is one of the strongest proc sets currently available in the game, and thanks to Malacath it deals 25% additional damage on top of it’s already strong value. By casting Elemental Drain on an enemy player while using this set, we apply a massive amount of damage over time to them, and to all enemy players between us and them.

Blackrose Lightning Staff – Similarly to Vateshran, Blackrose is yet another very strong proc set that is buffed by Malacath and lets us deal a whole lot of damage over time that pressures our opponents, by using Elemental Ring on them. While it’s value is slightly lower than Vatesh’s, it can proc on multiple enemies at once, and help us take down entire groups rather than individual players.

Stacking both procs weapon sets (and Ice Furnace’s procs on top) on an enemy player or multiple of them can apply a massive amount of pressure to them that will help us take them down fairly easily.

Monster Helm

Baron Zaudrus – This brand new Monster Helm is the fastest way in the game to generate ultimate quickly. By using this set with a charged staff, every time we cast Force Pulse, we have a huge chance to apply multiple status effects to our target. This means that rapidly casting our spammable two times tends to activate Baron’s effect right away, and generate a lot of ultimate for us. This ultimate generation is incredibly effective, as it helps us cast Northern Storms very frequently, and also gains us additional benefits from our CP stars, which will be mentioned below.

Minor Set

Armor of the Trainee – We use two pieces of this set to both help increase our Max Magicka pool as well as our Max Health pool, which will help our healing power off the Arctic Blast skill scale better.

Weights & Traits

Heavy Armor – We are using mainly heavy armor on this build since it makes us much tankier and increases our max health, making our Arctic Blast to heal us for more, and our damage is still very high thanks to Malacath, as we don’t mind the loss of critical chance at all when our main damge source is proc sets.

Sturdy & Impen – A lot of our traits are sturdy in this build, since our ice staff makes our block very effective on the back bar and reduces blocking cost. We also use a few pieces of Impenetrable despite it being a lot lower value now, since our critical mitigating has significantly dropped with the remake of the CP system.

Consumables

Bewitched Sugar Skulls

Food

Tri-Stat

Potion

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

Craft CP Craft (0)
Warfare CP Warfare (700)
Fitness CP Fitness (787)
Biting Aura
50
Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage done
Duelist’s Rebuff
50
Reduces your damage taken by single target attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Reaving Blows
50
When you deal Direct Damage you heal for 7% of the damage done
Unassailable
50
Reduces your damage taken by area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
40
Precision
Grants 160 Critical Chance per stage.
BONUS
640 Critical Chance
50
Reaving Blows
When you deal Direct Damage you heal for 7% of the damage done
40
Eldritch Insight
Grants 260 Max Magicka per stage.
BONUS
1040 Max Magicka
40
Blessed
Increases your Healing Done by 1% per stage.
BONUS
4% Healing Done
40
Tireless Discipline
Grants 260 Max Stamina per stage.
BONUS
1040 Max Stamina
Extended Might
40
Piercing
Grants 350 Offensive Penetration per stage.
BONUS
1400 Offensive Penetration
Extended Might
40
Flawless Ritual
Increases your chance to apply a Magical status effect by 30% per stage.
BONUS
60% increased chance
Extended Might
40
Battle Mastery
Increases your chance to apply a Martial status effect by 30% per stage.
BONUS
60% increased chance
Extended Might
30
War Mage
Grants 100 Weapon and Spell Damage to Magical attacks.

Affects Magic, Flame, Frost, and Shock Damage.
Extended Might
30
Mighty
Grants 100 Weapon and Spell Damage to Martial attacks.

Affects Physical, Poison, Disease, and Bleed Damage.
50
Biting Aura
Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage done
Staving Death
40
Quick Recovery
Increases your Healing Taken by 1% per stage.
BONUS
4% Healing Taken
Staving Death
40
Elemental Aegis
Reduces the damage you take from Magical attacks by 1% per stage.

ffects Magic, Flame, Frost, and Shock Damage.
BONUS
4% damage reduction
Staving Death
40
Hardy
Reduces the damage you take from Martial attacks by 1% per stage.

Affects Physical, Poison, Disease, and Bleed Damage.
BONUS
4% damage reduction
Staving Death
40
Preparation
Reduces your damage taken from non-player attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
8% damage reduction
50
Duelist’s Rebuff
Reduces your damage taken by single target attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
50
Unassailable
Reduces your damage taken by area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
Boundless Vitality
50
Grants 28 Max Health per stage.
BONUS
1400 Max Health
Survival Instincts
50
While afflicted with a Status Effect, your core combat skills cost 5% less per stage.
BONUS
25% cost reduction
Strategic Reserve
50
Gain 30 Health Recovery for every 10 Ultimate you have.
Juggernaut
50
While under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity, you take 2% less damage per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
50
Boundless Vitality
Grants 28 Max Health per stage.
BONUS
1400 Max Health
45
Tumbling
Reduces the cost of Roll Dodge by 120 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
360 cost reduction
40
Defiance
Reduces the cost of Break Free by 110 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
440 cost reduction
50
Juggernaut
While under the effects of Crowd Control Immunity, you take 2% less damage per stage.
BONUS
10% damage reduction
50
Mystic Tenacity
Reduces the duration of Elemental Status Effects applied to you by 5% per stage.
BONUS
25% reduced duration
40
Sprinter
Reduces the cost of Sprint by 20 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
80 cost reduction
32
Hasty
Increases your movement speed when Sprinting by 2% per stage.
BONUS
8% Movement speed
40
Hero’s Vigor
Grants 280 Max Health per stage.
BONUS
1120 Max Health
50
Strategic Reserve
Gain 30 Health Recovery for every 10 Ultimate you have.
30
Piercing Gaze
Increases your Stealth Detection by 1 meter per stage.
BONUS
3 meters
50
Survival Instincts
While afflicted with a Status Effect, your core combat skills cost 5% less per stage.
BONUS
25% cost reduction
125
Tempered Soul
Return to life after resurrection with 5% more resources per stage.
BONUS
25% more resources
40
Tireless Guardian
Reduces the cost of Block by 20 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
80 Block cost reduction
45
Fortification
Increases the amount of damage you can block by 2% per stage.
BONUS
6% Block mitigation
15
Nimble Protector
Increases your Movement Speed while Bracing by 3% per stage.
BONUS
15% Movement speed
45
Savage Defense
Reduces the cost of Bash by 45 Stamina per stage.
BONUS
135 cost reduction
40
Bashing Brutality
Increases your Bash damage by 60 per stage.
BONUS
240 increased damage

The Craft CP tree doesn’t effect combat directly, and is entirely up for each player to set up for their own playstyle.

Our personal suggestions will be added soon.

About NirnStorm
NirnStorm is a content creator on Twitch and on YouTube. He currently plays and streams mainly The Elder Scrolls Online, with a focus on end-game PvP, and occasionally some different games such as Witcher, Among Us, Apex Legends and many others!