Category:Best Sorcerer Builds, DPS Builds
This Magicka Sorcerer PVE DPS build is able to push out some of the highest DPS in the game using a super simple Crystal Fragments rotation!
Check The Best DPS Classes in ESO
Primary Sets
Our primary damage set on this build 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, Pillar Of Nirn is an amazing proc set that offers very high damage with an easy-to-maintain proc condition and fairly long duration.
The Harpooner’s Wading Kilt is recommended to maximize Critical Chance and Critical damage.
Our backbar will be open for another powerful option, Perfected Spectral Cloak. This set buffs the Blade Cloak skill and its morphs, giving you bonus protection and damage done.
Finally, with one slot left over a single piece of Slimecraw can be used to maximize Critical Chance.
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.
Pillar Of Nirn
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) When you deal damage, you create a fissure underneath the enemy after 1 second, dealing 623 Bleed Damage to all enemies within 2.5 meters and causing them to bleed for an additional 3132 Bleed Damage over 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
Harpooner’s Wading Kilt
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Dealing direct damage grants you a stack of Hunter’s Focus for 20 seconds, up to 10 stacks max. You can only gain 1 stack of Hunter’s Focus per second. Each stack of Hunter’s Focus increases your Critical Chance by 110 and your Critical Damage by 1%. Taking direct damage removes 5 stacks of Hunter’s Focus, up to once per second. Removing Harpooner’s Wading Kilt removes all stacks of Hunter’s Focus.
Perfected Spectral Cloak
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 103 Stamina Recovery, Dealing damage with Blade Cloak grants you Spectral Cloak for 2 seconds, reducing your damage taken and increasing your damage done by 6%.
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%
Dual Wield Set Up
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Pillar Of Nirn Daggers | Nirnhoned / Charged | NA | Flame Damage / Poison Damage |
| Backup | Perfected Blackrose Daggers | Infused / Infused | NA | Shock Damage / Weapon Damage |
| Head | Slimecraw | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Divines | Medium | 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 | Harpooner’s Wading Kilt | 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 |
Inferno Staff Set Up
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Perfected Relequen Inferno Staff | Precise | NA | Flame Damage |
| Backup | Pillar Of Nirn Inferno Staff | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Maw Of The Infernal | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Maw Of The Infernal | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Chest | Pillar Of Nirn | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Waist | Pillar Of Nirn | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Gloves | Pillar Of Nirn | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Legs | Harpooner’s Wading Kilt | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Feet | Pillar Of Nirn | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Necklace | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
| Ring 1 | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Bloodthirsty | NA | Spell Damage |
Trash Gear Set Up
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Perfected Sul-Xan Inferno Staff | Precise | NA | Flame Damage |
| Backup | Burning Spellweave Inferno Staff | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Grothdar | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Grothdar | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Chest | Perfected Sul-Xan | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Waist | Burning Spellweave | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Perfected Sul-Xan | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Harpooner’s Wading Kilt | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Feet | Perfected Sul-Xan | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Burning Spellweave | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | Burning Spellweave | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 2 | Burning Spellweave | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon Damage |
Consumables, Race, Mundus
Race
The optimal DPS race for this build will be High Elf due to their bonus Weapon and Spell Damage and Max Magicka. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
Check the Best Sorcerer Races For ESO
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
- Mage’s Wrath
- Daedric Prey
- Crystal Fragments
- Summon Volatile Familiar
- Summon Twilight Tormentor
- ULT: Power Overload
Backup Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Deadly Cloak
- Hurricane
- Barbed Trap
- Summon Volatile Familiar
- Summon Twilight Tormentor
- ULT: Greater Storm Atronach
Skills Discussion & Rotation
About
Like in the previous Patch i´ve used Overload at the beginning for around 3-4k more single target dmg and dropped the Storm Atronach shortly before 170 Ulti Points. Flawless Dawnbreaker on the Frontbar and Storm Atronach Backbar should be more common for actual Content. Everything else is pretty easy, spamm Crystal Fragment and keep up your Dots. About the Pets, do only actively use the Volatile Familiar Pet, the Twilight Pet deals passive dmg do not activate it, only as prebuff! Avoid Barswap with the channeled Crystal Fragment, always super clunky to barswap with channeled abilities.
Pre-Buffs
Activate Overload and summon + activate both Pets, with Hurricane and Deadly Cloak.
Rotation
Step closer, Start with: Barbed Trap – Barswap – Deadric Prey – Crystal Fragment Spam (use Fragment Proc as soon as possible), keep up your Dots with Fragment as spammable until 20%. At 20% drop Crystal Fragment cast (keep using the Proc though), for Mages Wrath in Combination with Fragment Proc. One of the easiest Rotation ingame!
Passive Skills
Class Passives
- Unholy Knowledge
- Blood Magic
- Persistence
- Exploitation
- Rebate
- Power Stone
- Daedric Protection
- Expert Summoner
- Capacitor
- Energized
- Amplitude
- Expert Mage
Weapon Passives
- Slaughter
- Dual Wield Expert
- Controlled Fury
- Ruffian
- Twin Blade And Blunt
- Forceful
- Heavy Weapons
- Balanced Blade
- Follow Up
- Battle Rush
Armor Passives
- Dexterity
- Wind Walker
- Agility
- Athletics
- Grace
- Evocation
- Spell Warding
- Prodigy
- Concentration
Guild Passives
- Intimidating Presence
- Slayer
- Banish The Wicked
- Skilled Tracker
- Undaunted Mettle
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
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Wrathful Strikes (Slot)
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
– 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
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Wrathful Strikes (Slot)
- 50 Deadly Aim (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
– 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 Wrathful Strikes (Slot)
- 50 Deadly Aim (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 50 Exploiter (Slot)
- 40 Flawless Ritual
- 30 War Mage
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Celerity (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
– 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 Wrathful Strikes (Slot)
- 50 Deadly Aim (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 50 Exploiter (Slot)
- 40 Flawless Ritual
- 30 War Mage
- 20 Tireless Discipline
- 20 Quick Recovery
- 20 Preparation
- 20 Hardy
- 20 Elemental Aegis
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Celerity (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 30 Fortification
Similar Builds For ESO
Ultimate One Bar Magicka Necromancer For ESO
DRAUGR KIN is a Solo Magicka Necromancer One Bar build for ESO that can easily solo most content in the game while also being a valuable addition to any group!
POWERFUL Stamina Necromancer PVE DPS Build
This Stamina Necromancer PVE DPS build is a Beast and is capable of massive damage!
POWERFUL Stamina Templar PVE DPS Build
A Templar without Jabs? YES! Massive damage is possible with this UNIQUE DPS Build for the Stamina Templar class in ESO! No Mythics required!
POWERFUL Stamina Dragonknight PVE DPS Build
This powerful DPS build for the Stamina Dragonknight utilizes Wrecking Blow combined with Molten Whip for two great spammable options!
EASY Magicka Dragonknight PVE DPS Build
This simple Whip Rotation for Magicka Dragonknight offers an easy option for absolutely massive DPS in ESO – Flame on!
INSANE Magicka Templar PVE DPS Build
Juicy Sweeps damage is back! Massive damage is possible with this POWERFUL DPS Build for the Magicka Templar class in ESO!
