The Best Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build For ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Necromancer Builds, Leveling Builds

This Leveling Build for the Magicka Necromancer class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Destruction Staff and Summoning Skills, providing lots of potential for easy leveling from 1 to 50!

What you will learn in this Leveling Build guide:

• The best item sets to use while leveling a Magicka Necromancer Build in ESO, and why they are important.
• How the skills work, important passives, and your rotation.
• The best consumables, race, and mundus, and most importantly, why you should select them.

This guide has been updated for The Elder Scrolls Online Update 50.

Table Of Contents

1. Leveling Sets
2. Alternate Sets
3. Gear Setup
4. Attributes
5. Race
6. Mundus Stone
7. Food/Drink Buff
8. Potions
9. Recommended Skills
10. Skills Explanation
11. Important Passives
12. More Necromancer Builds For ESO

Best Magicka Necromancer Leveling Sets

First, the Mother’s Sorrow set is an excellent starting option for any Magicka based class due to the extra Max Magicka and Critical Chance plus it’s relative ease to farm at any level. I recommend picking this up first.

The next set I recommend is Spinner’s Garments – another extremely useful early game set in The Elder Scrolls Online, increasing your Offensive Penetration which lets all of your damage abilities deal more true damage by ignoring enemy resistances.

For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.

Mother’s Sorrow

---

LVL 50 – CP 160

---

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 1528 Critical Chance

Spinner’s Garments

---

LVL 50 – CP 160

---

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration

Armor Of The Trainee

---

LVL 50 – CP 160

---

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina

Alternate Magicka Necromancer Leveling Sets

The Crafty Alfiq set is another powerful starter set that can give your build a TON of Magicka, boosting your damage and sustain.

Another nice option to increase your overall healing is the Winter’s Respite set, which creates a passive heal on the ground when you deal area damage. This can be very helpful when soloing and when playing groups!

Remember that your armor pieces can go into any gear slot, meaning you only need to use 10 slots total for this build. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Staff) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.

Crafty Alfiq

---

LVL 50 – CP 160

---

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(5 items) Adds 2550 Maximum Magicka

Winter’s Respite

---

LVL 50 – CP 160

---

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(5 items) Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create a circle of healing frost for 10 seconds. You and your group members restore 2358 Health every 1 second while inside the circle. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Gear Setup

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Attributes

Most of our skills cost Magicka to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into the Magicka stat will be the most effective.

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Race

Dark Elf will be the best option for this build as they have good Weapon and Spell Damage as well as Magicka and Stamina to help sustain our skills. Breton is another solid option for beginners, having the best cost reduction for Magicka abilities in the game. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Mundus Stone

The best Mundus Stone for leveling in the Elder Scrolls Online is the Lover Mundus because this increases your Offensive Penetration, allowing all of your skills to do more damage. Offensive Penetration can usually only be obtained through Light Armor Passives and rarely on gear sets, so boosting this stat early through your Mundus Stone will make the biggest impact, helping you kill enemies faster and thus level up faster! Review our complete Mundus Stone guide for more information.

The Lover

---

Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744

---

With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Food/Drink Buff

Witchmother’s Potent Brew is the best food or drink buff available when leveling up a Magicka build in ESO because it provides Maximum Magicka which boosts your Damage, Magicka Recovery which helps you sustain your skills and Maximum Health which improves your survivability. This drink scales with your level and can be crafted or purchased from Guild Traders.

Witchmother’s potent brew

---

Increase Max Magicka by 2856, Max Health by 3094, and Magicka Recovery by 315 for 2 hours.

These effects are scaled based on your level.

Ingredients: Nightshade, Bervez Juice, Rice, Small Game

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Potions

Basic Magicka Potions are fine for leveling up as a Magicka build in ESO. Keep these on hand to restore your Magicka and increase your Magicka recovery when running low on resources.

---

Basic Magicka Potions

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Recommended Skills

Main Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Blighted Blastbones
2. Hungry Scythe
3. Unnerving Boneyard
4. Inner Light
5. Mystic Siphon
6. ULT: Glacial Colossus

Backup Weapon: FROST STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Elemental Blockade
2. Necrotic Potency
3. Skeletal Arcanist
4. Spirit Guardian
5. Beckoning Armor
6. ULT: Ravenous Goliath

Magicka Necromancer Leveling Build Skills Explanation

Main Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Blighted Blastbones: this skill does amazing AOE damage, creates a corpse which you can use for other skills, and has an extremely low cost.
2. Hungry Scythe: use this when multiple enemies are present for some big healing!
3. Unnerving Boneyard: this skill is recommended to reduce enemy armor via the Major Breach debuff, allowing all your skills to deal more damage.
4. Inner Light: passively gives you Max Magicka plus bonus Critical Chance
5. Mystic Siphon: requires a corpse to cast but also provides AOE damage and resource recovery.
6. ULT: Glacial Colossus: this ultimate does fantastic damage plus debuffs enemies with the powerful Major Vulnerability effect, increasing all of their damage taken.

Backup Weapon: FROST STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Elemental Blockade: basic AOE damage over time skill which can proc your backup weapon glyph.
2. Necrotic Potency: use this to quickly generate ultimate and passive healing from corpses.
3. Skeletal Arcanist: keep this skill up as much as possible to buff your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage with the important Major Brutality and Major Sorcery buffs.
4. Spirit Guardian: provides self-healing and damage reduction.
5. Beckoning Armor: this skill increases your Armor by a huge amount thanks to giving both the Major Resolve and Minor Resolve buffs, plus it pulls in enemies that damage you, making them easier to group together!
6. ULT: Ravenous Goliath: this is your best survival ultimate option, vastly increasing your Max Health and healing you.

Important Passives

1. Death Knell
2. Reusable Parts
3. Dismember
4. Death Gleaning
5. Evocation
6. Concentration
7. Prodigy
8. Ancient Knowledge
9. Last Gasp

How To Create Powerful ESO Builds

Crafting the Perfect Build for you in The Elder Scrolls Online can be frustrating. Which skills are best for each class? What about passives? The best race? The best armor type and weapons? The best trait and glyphs? There are literally THOUSANDS of different options!

This is why we created the ESO Zero To Hero Build Academy – A Simple, yet Powerful build system that teaches the fundamentals of ESO Theorycrafting, step-by-step.

Build your character exactly how YOU want by following this simple process from start to finish and FINALLY start enjoying ESO the way you want to play it!

Our Guides are designed with New and Intermediate players in mind! Stop wasting hours searching the internet for the best ESO build information – get what you need NOW to succeed!

Join ESO Zero To Hero Academy today!

More Necromancer Builds For ESO

Want more Necromancer Builds? Check out our dedicated Necromancer Builds overview page for even more great options!