The Best Magicka Warden Leveling Build in ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Warden Builds, Leveling Builds

This Leveling Build for the Magicka Warden class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started in your journey. This build focuses on frost-based damage and self-healing making for a very fun play style and EASY experience leveling up from level 1 to level 50.

What you will learn in this Leveling Build guide:

• The best item sets to use while leveling a Magicka Warden 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. Best Leveling Sets
2. Alternate Leveling 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 Warden Builds For ESO

Best Magicka Warden 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.

Winter’s Respite is a great all-around Magicka-focused set which includes Magicka Recovery and Max Magicka while also healing you and any group members any time you apply a ground-based effect, perfect for passive healing and survival!

Armor Of The Trainee can be used to fill in any missing slots on this build.

Mother’s Sorrow

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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

Winter’s Respite

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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.

Armor Of The Trainee

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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

Alternate Magicka Warden Leveling Sets

For alternatives, I also recommend the Frostbite set or Crafty Alfiq. 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.

Frostbite

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Increases your damage done with Frost abilities by 8%. Increases your damage done against Chilled enemies by 4%. Increases your damage done against enemies afflicted with Minor Brittle by 2%.

Crafty Alfiq

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Gear Setup

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Attributes

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

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Race

I prefer High Elf for this build thanks to the Spell Damage and Max Magicka. Dark Elf also has similar stats but includes Max Stamina. 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 Warden 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

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Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744

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

Magicka Warden 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

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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 Warden 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.

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Basic Magicka Potions

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Recommended Skills

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

1. Force Pulse
2. Deep Fissure
3. Fetcher Infection
4. Inner Light
5. Arctic Blast
6. ULT: Northern Storm

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

1. Elemental Blockade
2. Winter’s Revenge
3. Enchanted Growth
4. Blue Betty
5. Ice Fortress
6. ULT: Healing Thicket

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Skills Explanation

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

1. Force Pulse: basic DPS skill that can also deal splash damage to nearby enemies.
2. Deep Fissure: powerful timed burst damage skill that hits all enemies in front of you and also reduces their armor by a large amount via the Major Breach and Minor Breach debuffs.
3. Fetcher Infection: damage over time skill that also debuffs enemies with Minor Vulnerability, increasing their damage taken.
4. Inner Light: this skill provides passive Max Magicka and Critical Chance
5. Arctic Blast: use this as a stun and AOE frost damage skill
6. ULT: Northern Storm: deals AOE frost damage and slows down enemies while increasing your own defenses and those of your group with the Major Protection buff (10% damage reduction).

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

1. Elemental Blockade: basic AOE DOT that can also proc your backup weapon enchantment.
2. Winter’s Revenge: AOE damage over time that deals frost damage and can debuff enemies with the Chilled effect.
3. Enchanted Growth: use this as an emergency heal for you and your group.
4. Blue Betty: increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage thanks to the Major Sorcery and Major Brutality buffs, increases your damage by 5% and helps with sustain.
5. Ice Fortress: this is your armor skill, providing increased Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance with the Major Resolve buff, plus even more defense with additional Minor Protection while active.
6. ULT: Healing Thicket: a fast and effective healing ultimate for you and your group, healing all players in the area.

Magicka Warden Leveling Build Important Passives

1. Bond With Nature
2. Savage Beast
3. Flourish
4. Evocation
5. Concentration
6. Prodigy
7. Glacial Presence
8. Maturation
9. Piercing Cold
10. Advanced Species
11. Grace

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More Warden Builds For ESO

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