Amazing Magicka Sorcerer VAMPIRE Build For ESO

The SHOCK SCION is the ULTIMATE Magicka Sorcerer Build for The Elder Scrolls Online with a special focus on Vampire abilities. With the Sorcerer’s impressive healing skills, the health cost of being a Vampire is easily negated making for a Powerful Damage Dealer!

Primary Sets

Overwhelming Surge on this build offers a great mix of both damage and magicka sustain, helping to deal with the increased cost of abilities on this Vampire set up.

New Moon Acolyte is another great damage set that gives us a ton of stats, while only increasing the cost of a few active abilities on our front bar.

Finally, Ilambris is another great damage source that easily procs from our many sources of shock and fire damage.

New Moon Acolyte

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%.

Ilambris

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(2 items) When you deal Flame or Shock Damage, you have a 33% chance to summon a meteor shower of that damage type that deals 2015 Damage to all enemies within 4 meters every 1 second for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds.

Alternative Sets

You can run other damage-focused sets as alternatives, including Law Of Julianos or Mother’s Sorrow. If you’d like a more defensive-oriented set you can use the Iceheart monster set.

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

Law Of Julianos

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 300 Weapon and Spell Damage

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	New Moon Acolyte Flame Staff	Infused	NA	Damage Shield
Backup	Any Lightning Staff	Infused	NA	Spell Damage
Head	Ilambris	Divines	Heavy	Health
Shoulder	Ilambris	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Chest	Overwhelming Surge	Divines	Light	Magicka
Waist	Overwhelming Surge	Divines	Light	Magicka
Gloves	Overwhelming Surge	Divines	Light	Magicka
Legs	Overwhelming Surge	Divines	Light	Magicka
Feet	Overwhelming Surge	Divines	Light	Magicka
Necklace	New Moon Acolyte	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 1	New Moon Acolyte	Bloodthirsty	NA	Spell Damage
Ring 2	New Moon Acolyte	Arcane	NA	Spell Damage

Consumables, Race, Mundus

Race

High Elf is a strong choice for this build due to the increased spell damage, max magicka and stamina sustain (Spell Recharge). Breton also is a great choice for Vampire builds overall because of the magicka cost reduction. 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

Mistal Banana-Bunny Hash

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

Scales from level cp150 to cp160.

Potions

Tri-Stat Potions

Skills

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

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Buffs

Keep up Critical Surge and Boundless Storm. Make sure to apply Elemental Drain to any Boss.

Rotation

Start with Backbar DOTs: Blockade Of Storms and Volatile Familiar -> Bar Swap -> Arterial Burst x5

Notes

Replace Arterial Burst with Crystal Fragments when it procs. Make sure to light attack weave on the front bar.

Companions

If you like playing Solo, this build can benefit greatly from using Companions! This Solo build will benefit the most from the additional healing and defensive options a tank-focused Companion can offer, so if you are going to use a Companion I would suggest a full tank build for them. I recommend Bastian Hallix 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 Heavy Armor – Mixed Vigorous and Quickened Traits
One Handed Weapon and Shield

Recommended Skills

1. Provoke

2. Drake’s Blood

3. Kindle

4. On Guard

5. Ritual Of Salvation

6 ULT. Unleashed Rage

Additional Skills

The skills below may also be helpful in other situations such as trash pulls.

Full Companion Build: GUARDIAN DRAKE

The Guardian Drake is a strong option for Bastian Hallix as a Tank. Bastian is one of the new Companions available to ESO players starting in the Blackwood Chapter. The theme of this build is focused around Self-Healing and Survival, allowing Bastian to keep himself alive against many tough opponents and even bosses with very little help from others.

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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