Ultimate Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build in ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Sorcerer Builds, Beginner Builds

This Magicka Sorcerer Pet build for The Elder Scrolls Online is very easy to play and has access to amazing heals, defense, and damage! This build will do great in both PVE and PVP.

What you will learn in this beginner build guide:

• The best item sets to use with the Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build, and why they are important.
• How the skills work, synergies with the gear, 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.

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Sets

Our main 5 piece set on this build is Mother’s Sorrow, a light armor set from the base game zone Deshaan. This set provides a substantial bonus to our build’s spell critical, which is important both for dealing damage and healing on the sorcerer class.

The second set on this build, Necropotence is a pet-specific set that pushes our max magicka through the roof when any pet is active! Remember that max magicka increases both damage and healing for magicka-based skills.

Necropotence

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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) While you have a pet active, your Maximum Magicka is increased by 3132.

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

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Alternative Sets

For alternatives, I also recommend sets such as Spinner’s Garments and Winter’s Respite. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Staff) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.

Spinner’s Garments

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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 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration

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.

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Gear

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Attributes

The best attribute for a Pet Sorcerer is Magicka because it increase the effectiveness of our spells. Additionally, increased magicka can increase the size of a shield and healing spells. It’s best to pick one attribute pool and “stack” for optimal damage and resource sustain. Therefore, I recommend 64 magicka, 0 health, and 0 stamina.

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Race

The best overall race for a Pet Sorcerer beginner is the High Elf. This race gives a balance between resource sustain and damage. However, it’s not a commonly used race for end-game serious PvE DPS. If that’s your goal eventually, use the Dark Elf. If you struggle with resource sustain and want to spam cast spells, choose the Breton. And if you want something that looks different, take the Khajiit for burst damage, and Argonian for survivability. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Mundus

The Thief is the best mundus stone for the Pet Sorcerer build because you cannot reach a “cap.” Critical damage (Shadow mundus) and offensive penetration (Lover) both can reach a hardcap where you see no benefit. Most Veteran enemies have 18,200 armor, thus Shadow becomes ineffective if using light armor. Meanwhile, the hardcap for critical damage is 125% which can be reached in trials with medium armor equipped. This is why the Thief is superior as an all around mundus stone, giving you the best benefit regardless of the content.

The Thief

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Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

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

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 Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Food & Drink

Witchmother’s Potent Brew is the best beginner Pet Sorcerer food or drink because it increases your max magicka, health, and grants magicka recovery. As a new player, you desperately need resource sustain as well as damage, which is why this is selected. Later as you advance, other food is used like “bi-stat” which forgoes magicka recovery for higher max stats. But, this comes with a big downside and that is weak sustain and not recommended right away.

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 Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Potions

The best magicka potions for the Pet Sorcerer are the base potions that give you magicka recovery. The recover, with medicine use passive from alchemy, can run 47.5 seconds. With potion cooldown only last 45 seconds, you can maintain 100% up time on an additional 20% recovery. As you advance, tri-potions (all three stats), spell power potions (buffs and recovery), or even heroism potions (ultimate generation buff) can be used. However, consider using these right now depending on your level and don’t be shy about drinking them.

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Basic Magicka Potions

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Skills

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

1. Inner Light
2. Summon Volatile Familiar
3. Hardened Ward
4. Summon Twilight Matriarch
5. Bound Armaments
6. ULT: Elemental Rage

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

1. Elemental Blockade
2. Summon Volatile Familiar
3. Summon Twilight Matriarch
4. Boundless Storm
5. Critical Surge
6. ULT: Greater Storm Atronach

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Skill Explanation

Front Bar Lightning Staff

1. Inner Light: This is passively slotted to increase max magicka and provide the critical buff.
2. Summon Volatile Familiar: damage morph of this skill that you can activate the skill to deal more damage, must be double barred to stay active.
3. Hardened Ward: grants a damage shield based off your max magicka and capped based on your max health, spam as survivability tool.
4. Summon Twilight Matriarch: this is your pet that you can summon and then reactivate for a burst heal, must be double barred to stay active.
5. Bound Armaments: stamina ability that builds stacks for light and heavy attacking then can activate the skill again for burst damage at range.
6. ULT: Elemental Rage: large radius burst ultimate that can be used at range though not mobile.

Back Bar Lightning Staff

1. Elemental Blockade: used as strong AOE damage over time that triggers status effects
2. Summon Volatile Familiar: must be double barred.
3. Summon Twilight Matriarch: must be double barred.
4. Boundless Storm: buffs your armor with Major Resolve, thus reducing incoming damage while also giving speed boost and lighting damage to enemies near you.
5. Critical Surge: grants you spell and weapon damage buff and gives healing everytime you deal critical damage based on damage done.
6. ULT: Summon Greater Storm Atronach: ranged ultimate that deals great single target damage for a long time and grants a synergy to an ally.

Magicka Sorcerer Beginner Pet Build Important Passives

1. Unholy Knowledge
2. Power Stone
3. Expert Summoner
4. Capacitor
5. Evocation
6. Prodigy
7. Concentration
8. Tri-Focus
9. Ancient Knowledge

Magicka Sorcerer Class Mastery

Players that reach level 50 in ESO while also fully reaching Rank 50 for their class skill lines and not subclassing can use 2 Class Mastery passives to improve their build. For the Sorcerer class I recommend Font of Power which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage based on the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina and Static Reverberation which gives you a chance to deal additional shock damage.

Font of Power

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Within you is a wellspring of near unlimited power.

Effect

Upgrades rank 2 of Exploitation to work with any Sorcerer ability and increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 16% for 10 seconds. The Weapon and Spell Damage increases by 1% for every 1750 Max Magicka or Stamina you have, whichever is higher.

Static Reverberation

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The battlefield crackles with untapped potential. Make use of it.

Effect

When you deal damage, you have a 5% chance to deal 747 Shock Damage, up to once every 0.3 seconds.

The chance increases by 1% for every 1% missing Health the target has. The chance is divided by 1 plus every permanent pet you have active.

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