INSANE Magicka Nightblade PVE DPS Build

by Hack The Minotaur

Magicka Nightblade is looking stronger than ever making this build a fantastic choice for PVE DPS with no Mythic required!

Primary Sets

Our primary damage set on this build is Perfected Arms Of Relequen. This is a Trials set that can be obtained from Cloudrest and provides plenty of extra damage as long as you can maintain your light attacks consistently.

The second set, Runecarver’s Blaze is a powerful new proc set that buffs your DOT skills.

The recommended Monster Set for this build to increase our total DPS will be Zaan.

And finally, since we don’t necessarily need a Mythic, using a Perfected Maelstrom Two-Hander on the backbar will also result in slightly higher damage.

Perfected Arms Of Relequen

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina, Your Light and Heavy attacks apply a stack of harmful winds to your target for 5 seconds. Harmful winds deal 52 Physical Damage per stack every 1 second. This effect can stack once every half second, up to 10 times and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Runecarver’s Blaze

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) Your damage over time effects deal an additional 368 Flame Damage on the third damage tick. This damage scales off your Weapon or Spell Damage and always applies the Burning status effect.

Zaan

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(2 items) When you damage a nearby enemy with a Light or Heavy Attack, you have a 33% chance to create a beam of fire that will connect you to your enemy. The beam deals 2010 Flame Damage every 1 second to your enemy for 6 seconds. Every second, this damage increases by 100%. The beam is broken if the enemy moves 8 meters away from you. This effect can occur every 18 seconds.

Runecarver Gear Set Up

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Perfected Relequen Daggers	Nirnhoned / Charged	NA	Flame Damage / Poison Damage
Backup	Maelstrom Perfected Greatsword	Infused	NA	Weapon/Spell Damage
Head	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Shoulder	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Chest	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Waist	Runecarver’s Blaze	Divines	Light	Magicka
Gloves	Runecarver’s Blaze	Divines	Light	Magicka
Legs	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Feet	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Necklace	Runecarver’s Blaze	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 1	Runecarver’s Blaze	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 2	Runecarver’s Blaze	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage

Standard Build (No Runecarver)

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Perfected Blackrose Daggers	Nirnhoned / Charged	NA	Flame Damage / Poison Damage
Backup	Pillar Of Nirn Greatsword	Infused	NA	Weapon/Spell Damage
Head	Zaan	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Shoulder	Zaan	Divines	Light	Magicka
Chest	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Waist	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Gloves	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Legs	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Feet	Perfected Arms Of Relequen	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Necklace	Pillar Of Nirn	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 1	Pillar Of Nirn	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 2	Pillar Of Nirn	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage

Consumables, Race, Mundus

Race

The optimal DPS race for this build will be High Elf due to their bonus Weapon and Spell Damage, Max Magicka and improved Sustain. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Mundus

The Thief

The Thief

Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

Food/Drink Buff

Ghastly Eye Bowl

Potions

Spell Power Potions

Skills

Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

Backup Weapon: TWO HANDER – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Pre-Buffs

Prebuff with Channeled Accelleration + Merciless Resolve (4-5 Stacks with light attacks) + Dark Shade + Deadly Cloak, stay a bit out of Range to not hit the Target.

Rotation (100% – 25%)

Start with Shooting Star + Potion for extra 20 Ulti (swap back to Incap afterwards, keep incap as console player!), step closer to your Target, use Twisting Path – Barswap – Merciless Proc – Barswap – Stampede – Carve – Barswap – Debilitate – Barswap – Barbed Trap – Barswap – Concealed Weapon Spam.

Try to keep up all of your Dots before using Incap, like this you make sure to not waste the empowered 6 seconds time window (incap gives +20% extra dmg for 6 seconds), use the empowered phase to spam as many Concealed Weapon casts as possible!
If you´re unsure just use Incap on Cooldowns, dps loss will be minimalistic! Don´t reactivate Merciless Resolve too early, use it only with 5x Stacks for the Bow Proc Assassins Will (recast it after it expires ofc).

Execute (25% – 0)

Drop Merciless Resolve, but keep 5x Stacks (do not reapply it, Buffs remains!). Replace Concealed Weapon for Impale. Reapply all of your Dots at around 25%, but do not recast Dark Shade + Debilitate + Carve + Stampede below 20%. Keep up still Twisting Path + Barbed Trap + Deadly Cloak + Incap as Ultimate and Spam Impale in between.

Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

All Racial Passives

Other

Medicinal Use

Champion Points

Below you will find the recommended Active and Passive Champion Point Stars for this build, broken down into 300, 600, 900, and 1200 CP ranges.

For more information on Champion Points click on a Star name below or browse our detailed Champion Points Guides.

Constellation Descriptions:

Craft

The Green Craft Constellation is focused on crafting and utility-centered upgrades.

Warfare

The Blue Warfare Constellation focuses primarily on increasing player damage, healing and defenses

Fitness

The Red Fitness Constellation is focused on character survival and sustain.

– 300 Champion Points –

GREEN

50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
50 Gilded Fingers

BLUE

RED

– 600 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 900 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 1200 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

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