Powerful Magicka Warden One Bar Heavy Attack Build

The BITTER CHILL Magicka Warden is quite possibly the most powerful Heavy Attack, One Bar build in ESO! This insanely EASY build requires absolutely zero trials gear but still manages a metric ton of Critical Damage through Warden’s innate passives.

Primary Sets

First, the Sergeant’s Mail set is undoubtedly the strongest Heavy Attack set in the game in terms of raw damage output. Remember that this effect has a stacking mechanic and you must maintain all 4 stacks to receive the highest damage.

Next, the Order’s Wrath set provides a ton of extra stats for our build including Critical Chance, and even more Critical Damage, helping our skills, and especially our Heavy Attacks to do much more damage.

The Oakensoul Ring is the new go-to Mythic Item that packs a punch for one bar builds, delivering many powerful Major and Minor buffs, and in this case the Heavy Attack buff “Empower.”

Finally, a one-piece Monster Set is perfect for adding some extra stats to this build. A great option is Slimecraw for the additional Critical Chance.

Click on a Set Name below to learn more.

Sergeant’s Mail

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
(3 items) Adds 129 Health Recovery
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Heavy Attack, you gain a stack of Sergeant’s Focus for 5 seconds, increasing the damage of your Heavy Attacks by 645 per stack. This effect can occur once every second and stacks up to 4 times.

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%.

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%

The Oakensoul Ring

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) While equipped, you are unable to swap between your Primary and Backup Weapon Sets and gain Minor Berserk, Minor Courage, Major Brutality, Major Sorcery, Major Prophecy, Major Savagery, Minor Force, Minor Protection, Major Resolve, Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect, Minor Endurance, Minor Heroism, Minor Aegis, Minor Slayer and Empower.

Volcanic stone for Firesong. Gems for Eldertide. With Stonelore craftsmanship to bind them together. This ring is the Draoife Incarnate. The might of the druids, in the palm of your hand.

Oakensoul Ring Lead Locations

Getting the Oakensoul Ring in ESO is easier than you might think! Check out our full Oakensoul Ring Guide.

Alternate Sets

Other heavy attack sets such as Noble Duelist can also be used to proc big heavy attack damage numbers. Any set that improves your Critical Chance or Critical Damage will also be a nice option for this build such as Mother’s Sorrow.

Noble Duelist

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack in melee range, you cause your Light and Heavy Attacks to deal an additional 2111 damage for 15 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds.

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

Gear Set Up

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	Sergeant’s Mail Lightning Staff	Precise	NA	Flame Damage
Head	Slimecraw	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Shoulder	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Light	Magicka
Chest	Sergeant’s Mail	Divines	Heavy	Magicka
Waist	Order’s wrath	Divines	Light	Magicka
Gloves	Order’s wrath	Divines	Light	Magicka
Legs	Order’s wrath	Divines	Medium	Magicka
Feet	Order’s wrath	Divines	Light	Magicka
Necklace	Seergeant’s Mail	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 1	Seergeant’s Mail	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 2	Oakensoul Ring	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage

Race, Mundus, and Consumables

In order to pump out as much damage as possible on this build I recommend Khajiit. Other options that will work well include Dark Elf, Orc and High Elf. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

The Thief

Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

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

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.

Mistal Banana-Bunny Hash

Increase Max Health by 5395 and Max Magicka by 4936 for 1 hour.

Scales from level cp150 to cp160.

Potions

Basic Increase Armor Potions

Bugloss, Mountain Flower, Mudcrab Chitin

Basic Health Potions or Armor Potions (Bugloss, Mountain Flower, Mudcrab Chitin)

Skills – One Bar Setup

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

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Combat Tips

Start by casting Deep Fissure which will fire after a 3-second delay. Next, cast Screaming Cliff Race from at least 7 meters away to proc Off-Balance on the target. Move into melee range and cast Winter’s Revenge and Arctic Blast. Now Heavy attack while recasting each ability as it falls off.

Bear Ultimate

You can cast the Bear Ultimate in easier encounters or when you have a tank to increase your DPS. This also does bonus execute damage when enemies are below 25% health. For more difficult content it’s recommended to keep the pet active without casting, stacking your Ultimate to 500. This will give you 1500 bonus Health Recovery for free which greatly helps with survival on this build.