The ATRONACH is a Solo Magicka Warden build for ESO designed to easily solo some of the most challenging content in the game! This build uses Heavy Armor that also damages enemies in a large radius while blocking, turning our defense into offense!
Primary Sets
The Frozen Watcher set is an amazing option for the Magicka Warden specifically as it procs free AOE Frost Damage every time we block. So not only can this build sustain great defense but it can also do great passive damage at the same time!
Order’s Wrath is a strong, easily crafted set that will increase our overall Critical Chance as well as Critical Damage.
To make this build even more powerful the Sea-Serpent’s Coil Mythic is recommended which both increases our damage and defense.
Finally, any one-piece Monster Set will round out this build. I prefer Slimecraw for the extra Critical Chance.
Click on a Set Name below to learn more.
Frozen Watcher
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(5 items) Summon a blizzard around you while blocking, inflicting 1365 Frost Damage every 1 second to enemies within 6 meters. Your blizzard has a 15% chance of inflicting Chilled on enemies damaged.
Order’s Wrath
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 943 Critical Chance, Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 8%.
Sea-Serpent’s Coil
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) While at full Health, you gain 40% damage resistance. After taking damage while at full Health in combat, you gain Serpent’s Rebuke for 10 seconds, snaring yourself by 40% and gaining Major Berserk and Major Courage, increasing your damage done by 10% and Weapon and Spell Damage by 430.
The damage resistance does not apply while Serpent’s Rebuke is active.
Slimecraw
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance
(2 items) Gain Minor Berserk at all times, increasing your damage done by 5%
Alternative Sets
If you want a basic Ice-themed build, Ysgramor’s Birthright will be a good replacement for Frozen Watcher. You can also substitute any general damage-focused sets like New Moon Acolyte or Mother’s Sorrow. And if you don’t have access to Mythic Items, running a full monster set like Iceheart will be a nice replacement.
Ysgramor’s Birthright
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 400 Weapon and Spell Damage to your Frost Damage abilities.
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) Adds 401 Weapon and Spell Damage. Increases the cost of your active abilities by 5%.
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
Iceheart
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(2 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 5000 damage for 6 seconds. While the damage shield holds, you deal 500 Frost Damage to all enemies within 5 meters of you every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds.
Gear Setup
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Order’s Wrath 1h and Shield | Precise / Sturdy | NA | Absorb Magic / Magicka |
| Backup | Maelstrom Ice Staff | Infused | NA | Spell Damage |
| Head | Frozen Watcher | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Slimecraw | Sturdy | Light | Magicka |
| Chest | Frozen Watcher | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Waist | Order’s Wrath | Sturdy | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Order’s Wrath | Sturdy | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Frozen Watcher | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Feet | Order’s Wrath | Sturdy | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Sea-Serpent’s Coil | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
| Ring 1 | Frozen Watcher | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Frozen Watcher | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
Consumables, Race, Mundus
Race
My favorite race for this build is Khajiit due to the extra recoveries, stats and Critical Damage. Any magicka-based race such as High Elf or Breton will also be fine. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
Mundus
The Thief
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167
Food/Drink Buff
Bewitched Sugar Skulls
Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours.
These effects are scaled based on your level.
Potions
Tri-Stat Potions
Basic Magicka Potions
Skills
Main Weapon: One Hand And Shield – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Backup Weapon: FROST STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Elemental Blockade
- Winter’s Revenge
- Fetcher Infection
- Ice Fortress
- Blue Betty or Bull Netch
- ULT: Northern Storm
Skills Discussion & Rotation
Buff with Ice Fortress and Blue Betty. Then cast Fetcher Infection, Blockade Of Frost, and Winter’s Revenge. Bar Swap:
Hold Block to proc Frozen Watcher -> Deep Fissure -> Barbed Trap -> Bar Swap back
Notes
Use Living Trellis as needed for healing. Use Northern Storm when ready.
Passive Skills
Class Passives
- Bond With Nature
- Savage Beast
- Flourish
- Advanced Species
- Accelerated Growth
- Nature’s Gift
- Emerald Moss
- Maturation
- Glacial Presence
- Frozen Armor
- Icy Aura
- Piercing Cold
Weapon Passives
- Fortress
- Sword And Board
- Deadly Bash
- Deflect Bolts
- Battlefield Mobility
- Tri Focus
- Penetrating Magic
- Elemental Force
- Ancient Knowledge
- Destruction Expert
Armor Passives
Guild Passives
Racial
Other
Companions
If you like playing Solo, this build can benefit greatly from using Companions! This Solo build for the Warden is both fairly tanky and also GREAT at self-healing, so if you are going to use a Companion I would suggest a Ranged Damage approach for them. I recommend Mirri Elendis for Companion on this build with the setup below. More information on Companions Builds and Skills can be found in our detailed Companion Guides section.
Recommended Gear
- All Medium Armor – Aggressive Trait
- Companion Bow
Recommended Skills
- 1. Starfall
- 2. Piercing Arrow
- 3. Viper’s Bite
- 4. Sniping Silver
- 5. Vanish
- 6 ULT. Impeccable Shot
Additional Skills
The skills below may also be helpful in other situations.
Full Companion Build
Featured: DEADSHOT
The DEADSHOT Build is an easy Bow DPS Set Up for Mirri Elendis, one of the new Companions available to ESO players starting in the Blackwood Chapter. The theme of this build is focused on maxing our Mirri’s Ranged Damage as much as possible! The fact that Mirri’s Ultimate skill is also a Bow-type ability makes her perfect for this build, though it can work on Bastian too with some tweaks.
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
BLUE
RED
– 600 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 10 Fortune’s Favor
- 15 Wanderer
- 40 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
BLUE
RED
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 6 Nimble Protector
- 50 Bracing Anchor (Slot)
– 900 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 10 Fortune’s Favor
- 15 Wanderer
- 40 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
- 50 Breakfall
- 50 Treasure Hunter (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Thaumature (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 40 Flawless Ritual
- 30 War Mage
RED
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 6 Nimble Protector
- 50 Bracing Anchor (Slot)
- 30 Fortification
- 20 Savage Defense
- 50 Soothing Shield (Slot)
– 1200 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 30 Fortune’s Favor
- 15 Wanderer
- 50 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
- 50 Breakfall
- 50 Treasure Hunter (Slot)
- 75 Liquid Efficiency (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Thaumature (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 40 Flawless Ritual
- 30 War Mage
- 20 Eldritch Insight
- 20 Quick Recovery
- 20 Preparation
- 20 Hardy
- 20 Elemental Aegis
RED
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 6 Nimble Protector
- 50 Bracing Anchor (Slot)
- 30 Fortification
- 20 Savage Defense
- 50 Soothing Shield (Slot)
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
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