Hexys Magicka Sorcerer PvP Build for 2.1 - Duels and Small Scale PvP

Hexys

Hexys Sorcerer PvP Build for 2.1 - Duels and Small Scale PvP
Welcome everyone to my Sorcerer Magicka PvP build that is focused on dueling and small scale PvP. With this class you can succeed in all the 3 PvP aspects. Your sustain in resources is excellent, while you can put out great damage and at the same time you are very mobile.

My goal with this build is to push the bounderies to find out the best combination between these 3 PvP aspects. With the champion system we can push these 3 all the time. Do you get more recovery because you gained 50 champion points in the last month? Maybe get more spell damage on your gear! This build is based for players that have atleast 400 champion points. I post this build here to encourage players to start dueling as is it the best way in becoming a skilled PvP player. For EU players there is the dueling guild Arena and for NA there is Legend that are organising duels.

Updates

* 9 - 10 - 2015 *
Added Efficient Purge for Small Scale in the Ability Bars Section

2.2 Efficient Purge (Support, morph of Purge)
- In small scale PvP I find Efficient Purge really usefull, it gets you out of Burning Talons, Restraining Prison or Bombard. Since the last patch while being rooted you can't light attack a direction anymore to streak this way.

Dueling video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJXSG5s5pg&feature=youtu.be

Race

To start off there are 3 races that suits this build the best.

1. Altmer
- 10% increased max magicka
- 9% increased magicka recovery in combat
- 4% increased elemental damage

2. Breton
- 10% increased max magicka
- Increased spell resistance
- 3% Reduced magicka cost of spells

3. Dunmer
- 6% increased max magicka and stamina
- Increased Fire Resistance and 3% increased max magicka
- 7% increased spell damage with fire effects

Attributes / Mundus stone / Consumable

Attributes
64 magicka / 0 health / 0 stamina
All our attributes will go into magicka, a sorcerer don't need any health as your shields (the more magicka, the stronger your shields are) and mobility will protect you from incoming damage. It is really important to focus on keeping your shields up over damaging your opponents.

Mundus stone
The Atronach
This is for sustain, I take this because the extra magicka (The Mage) or spell damage (The Apprentice) are less important in the way this build is setup.

Consumable
V15 Purple food that is increasing all our stats (Magicka, Health and Stamina)
This is to boost our magicka to over 35k, it will make our shields insanely strong. A counter to these shields is Shield Breaker. Food will also gain us more health which means we have more time to kill players using this set. Keep in mind that in a small scale fight you can encounter players with a weighted bow using this set that are spamming light attacks, you can slot alot of healing over time but for me it's not worth to change only for this situation.

Setup

5 Light / 1 Medium / 1 Heavy (all v16)
I use this setup to benifit from the Undaunted Mettle Passive in the Undaunted Skill line. (2% extra max stamina, magicka and health for every different armor type)

Gear

5/5 Seducer
(2 item) Magicka Recovery
(3 item) Maximum Magicka
(4 item) Magicka Recovery
(5 item) 8% Reduced cost on magicka spells

Helm: Light - Infused - Maximum Magicka
Body: Heavy - Infused - Maximum Magicka
Legs: Medium - Infused - Maximum Magicka
Boots: Light - Divines - Maximum Magicka
Gloves: Light - Divines - Maximum Magicka

4/5 Magnus
(2 item) Maximum Magicka
(3 item) Magicka Recovery
(4 item) Spell Damage

Belt: Light - Divines - Maximum Magicka
Shoulders: Light - Divines - Maximum Magicka
One-Hand: Sword - Nirnhoned - Enchant doesn't matter
One-Hand: Sword - Nirnhoned - Enchant doesn't matter
Staff: Restoration - Precise - Disease

3/3 Willpower
(2 item) Maximum Magicka (50% more)
(3 item) Spell Damage (50% more)

Necklace: Arcane - Spell Damage
Ring: Arcane - Spell Damage*
Ring: Arcane - Spell Damage*

* Reduced cost or magicka recovery if you have sustain issues because of low Champion Points

Ability Bars

Dual Wield (1st ability bar)



1. Tangling Webs (Undaunted, morph of Trapping Webs)
- Our main damage ability we use to get health down and shields off our enemy's, it also comes with a 50% snare which is amazing. For small scale the synergy does a 3.5 seconds fear!

2. Crystal Fragments (Dark Magic, morph of Crystal Shard)
- It's important that this ability hits your opponent around the same time as velicious curse. If you know your procced frag is gonna knock the enemy down, hardcast another one straight after.

3. Hardened Ward (Deadric Summoning, morph of Conjured Ward)
- Our main shield against all attacks, 100% uptime.

4. Velicious Curse (Deadric Summoning, morph of Deadric Curse)
- Our timed burst ability that works against every player.

5. Streak (Storm Calling, morph of Bolt Escape)
- I prefer offensive playstyle, for the stun, damage and get nightblades out of stealth.

U. Dawnbreaker of Smiting (Fighter's Guild, morph of Dawnbreaker)
- Great instant high damage ultimate with a very low cost.

Restoration Staff (2nd ability bar)



1. Healing Ward (Restoration Staff, morph of Steadfast Ward)
-Our healing ability for if opponents manage to get some health down.

2.1 Boundless Storm (Storm Calling, morph of Lightning Form)
- Some basic defensive stats for if it happens you don't have a shield up and very nice for some movement speed.

2.2 Efficient Purge (Support, morph of Purge)
- In small scale PvP I find Efficient Purge really usefull, it gets you out of Burning Talons, Restraining Prison or Bombard. Since the last patch while being rooted you can't light attack a direction anymore to streak this way.

3. Harness Magicka (Light armor, morph of Annulment)
- Our 2nd shield that works against magicka opponents and helps us with extra resource management.

4. Proximity Detonation (Assault, morph of Magicka Detonation)
- Because it is an instant cast now we can use this ability and time it with velicious curse. I took this morph because inevitable detonation can easiliy be interrupted and only casted while you are in the view of your enemy. It's nice to mind trick your enemy making them think you are running from them, but then returning with the detonation and push them very hard.

5. Power Surge (Storm Calling, morph of Surge)
- Main spell damage buff and some extra heals.

U. Power Overload (Storm Calling, morph of Overload)
- To open an extra ability bar, 99% of the time only used in small scale, not duels

Overload Bar (3rd ability bar, 99% of the time only used in small scale, not duels)



1. Volcanic Rune (Mage's Guild, morph of Fire Rune)
- Ground cover, works nice together with Deadric Mines.

2. Defensive Rune (Dark Magic, morph of Rune Prison) <- Put this instead of boundless armour if you duel a Magicka Vampire Nightblade.
- Anti-gank ability, also works great against players using clouding swarm which you will encounter alot these days.

3. Hardened Ward (Deadric Summoning, morph of Conjured Ward)
- Our main shield against all attacks, 100% uptime.

4. Deadric Minefield (Dark Magic, morph of Deadric Mines)
- Ground cover, works nice together with volcanic Rune.

5. Streak (Storm Calling, morph of Bolt Escape)
- I prefer offensive playstyle, for the stun, damage and get nightblades out of stealth.

U. Power Overload (Storm Calling, morph of Overload)
- To open an extra ability bar

Champion System (based on 450 points)

The Tower: 55 Magician
The Lover: 80 Arcanist
The Shadow: 15 Tumbling

The Apprentice: 1 Spell Erosion | 18 Elfborn | 30 Blessed
The Atronach: 1 Staff Expert
The Ritual: 100 Thaumaturge

The Steed: 10 Block Expertise
The Lady: -
The Lord: 100 Bastion | 35 Quick Recovery

Extra

- Vampire: No
- Werewolf: No
- Alchemy passive Medicinal Use 3/3
- Use Tri-Stat Potions
- Ignore weighted bow shield breaker light attack spammer

My Stats (non buffed + buffed)
The more champion points, the more magicka, stamina and health you will have. These screenshots are taken with 643 champion points.

Buffs: none


Buffs: Power Surge / Boundless Storm / Tri-stat Potion


I hope this build suits you well and give you good fights in Cyrodiil, I'm open for suggestions and ways to improve for a even better experience. Enjoy!

For question leave a post or /w ingame (EU Megaserver) on @Hexiss

Master_Kas

Nice info. I just need those pesky undaunted passives and a bit more silk to test it

Hexys

Master_Kas wrote: »

Nice info. I just need those pesky undaunted passives and a bit more silk to test it

It cost me so much gold to finally make a build that I found usefull in most situations. XD

Waffennacht

Why tangling webs? I think the synergy is cool but I'm gonna guess it is very rare spiders show up. What's its damage for you? Im interested in it to see how it runs.

It looks to me as a pretty standard dps build with a few varieties.

Im lookin at fire rune and wondering how much it does and how do you like to use them with the Daedric mines?

Wollust

Waffennacht wrote: »

Why tangling webs? I think the synergy is cool but I'm gonna guess it is very rare spiders show up. What's its damage for you? Im interested in it to see how it runs.

It looks to me as a pretty standard dps build with a few varieties.

Im lookin at fire rune and wondering how much it does and how do you like to use them with the Daedric mines?

It has almost the same damage as crushing shock, it snares and you can go dual wield with it. And for the very useful synergy he got people like me ready to press synergize

r.jan_emailb16_ESO

Nice build, as always

A few of your skill descriptions are off, though.

SHADOW2KK

Nice build matey.

Hexys

Waffennacht wrote: »

Why tangling webs? I think the synergy is cool but I'm gonna guess it is very rare spiders show up. What's its damage for you? Im interested in it to see how it runs.

It looks to me as a pretty standard dps build with a few varieties.

Im lookin at fire rune and wondering how much it does and how do you like to use them with the Daedric mines?

6k magick damage tooltip buffed + the snare is just really good.

Volcanic rune is for the CC and to proc 20% extra damage.

r.jan_emailb16_ESO wrote: »

Nice build, as always

A few of your skill descriptions are off, though.

Thanks, fixed

Jormasaurus

I hope you don't mind me asking, but which armor styles are you using in the picture? Looks absolutely great and I'd very much like my NB to look like something similiar.

AbraXuSeXile

Jormasaurus wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me asking, but which armor styles are you using in the picture? Looks absolutely great and I'd very much like my NB to look like something similiar.

Dont get him started, he sits at the dye station half the day.

Hexys

Jormasaurus wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me asking, but which armor styles are you using in the picture? Looks absolutely great and I'd very much like my NB to look like something similiar.

Head = Xyvkin Light
Body = Xyvkin Light
Legs = Doesn't matter (pick medium piece here)
Belt: Imperial Heavy
Shoulders: Dwemer Light
Gloves: Xyvkin Light
Boots: Xyvkin Light

AbraXuSeXile wrote: »

Jormasaurus wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me asking, but which armor styles are you using in the picture? Looks absolutely great and I'd very much like my NB to look like something similiar.

Dont get him started, he sits at the dye station half the day.

Mwuahahhaa

Hyssia

Nice build, gonna test it on my sorc when I have the time to log it

Hexys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJXSG5s5pg&amp;feature=youtu.be

Dueling Video added to show some gameplay with this build.

Maulkin

This is a great build and, I'm happy to concede, a big improvement over my DW build from 1.6. I never considered Trapping Webs for spammable DPS.

Suggested improvements:
Stop being such a fashion victim and make the chest heavy instead of the belt. You are losing free extra armor and spell resistance :P

JLN

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

This is a great build and, I'm happy to concede, a big improvement over my DW build from 1.6. I never considered Trapping Webs for spammable DPS.

Suggested improvements:
Stop being such a fashion victim and make the chest heavy instead of the belt. You are losing free extra armor and spell resistance :P

Shields doesnt have Resistance anyways

Maulkin

JLN wrote: »

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

This is a great build and, I'm happy to concede, a big improvement over my DW build from 1.6. I never considered Trapping Webs for spammable DPS.

Suggested improvements:
Stop being such a fashion victim and make the chest heavy instead of the belt. You are losing free extra armor and spell resistance :P

Shields doesnt have Resistance anyways

Every time you died you took hits after your wards went down and maybe, just maybe, having more resistance would have helped against mitigating those hits better :P

The different is small, agreed, but I don't see why not take advantage of everything you can get?

AbraXuSeXile

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

This is a great build and, I'm happy to concede, a big improvement over my DW build from 1.6. I never considered Trapping Webs for spammable DPS.

Suggested improvements:
Stop being such a fashion victim and make the chest heavy instead of the belt. You are losing free extra armor and spell resistance :P

In guild chat everyday 'can someone make me blah blah so i can see what it looks like' then sits at dye station.

Such a girl

Makkir

nvm

Hexys

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

JLN wrote: »

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

This is a great build and, I'm happy to concede, a big improvement over my DW build from 1.6. I never considered Trapping Webs for spammable DPS.

Suggested improvements:
Stop being such a fashion victim and make the chest heavy instead of the belt. You are losing free extra armor and spell resistance :P

Shields doesnt have Resistance anyways

Every time you died you took hits after your wards went down and maybe, just maybe, having more resistance would have helped against mitigating those hits better :P

The different is small, agreed, but I don't see why not take advantage of everything you can get?

In the description I put heavy on the chest as best suggestion, I know it but just don't like it haha :P

Maulkin

I take it you tried going for Kagrenac instead of Seducer but the sustain was crap?

Hexys

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

I take it you tried going for Kagrenac instead of Seducer but the sustain was crap?

Yes, the Webs are not cheap to cast but this build is not only for duels. I need to keep in mind that in small scale fights your resources will drain faster. I think for dueling magicka casters (Harness Magicka) I can swap out 4 magnus for 2 torug's pact (greatsword + armour piece) and 1 Molag Kena for higher tooltips and will still be sustainable.

NoRefunds

a lot of people is using 2h now, did you test it? also did you try to charge ult to 1k and use overload instead of dawnbreaker, with curse-frag-overload most people die

Hexys

NoRefunds wrote: »

a lot of people is using 2h now, did you test it? also did you try to charge ult to 1k and use overload instead of dawnbreaker, with curse-frag-overload most people die

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/212729/two-handed-or-dual-wield-for-magicka-builds#latest

Have a nice read

Overload is really nice if the light attacks are constantly hitting your opponent, Frostsoul and me had some fun the other day doing a 'overload battle' but in general it is really easy to reflect or avoid. Curse-frag-overload, you got a small rotation going on, that's good but you can expand! Between the curse and the frag there is space for 2 attacks, you can make it Curse-web-web-frag-ovl or even curse-endless fury-ovl-frag-ovl and go on.

If you check my dueling video you see my rotation is just over the top, against players that aren't putting many pressure on me, they just get destroyed. Proximity Detonation is going off a second after they died.

This is my rotation at this moment:



Taking to much damage or getting CC'd will break this rotation, you can either don't cast on of these ability's or shield back up and start at 1 again.

Hope this helps!

NoRefunds

i was thinking of going full spell dmg and use energy overload(seems that power ovl is bugged atm), not sure if 2h or dual wield is better for this kind of build, i guess i'll have to test both... my dps bar would be the same as yours but i would replace trapping webs since i have ovl light attacks, not sure if its better inner light, degeneration or something else tho

iTzStevey

NoRefunds wrote: »

i was thinking of going full spell dmg and use energy overload(seems that power ovl is bugged atm), not sure if 2h or dual wield is better for this kind of build, i guess i'll have to test both... my dps bar would be the same as yours but i would replace trapping webs since i have ovl light attacks, not sure if its better inner light, degeneration or something else tho

If the degeneration heal still procs from overload I'm guessing that would be a good place to start

NoRefunds

it should proc but its only 15% chance, with surge+inner light you have around 42% chance to proc and more dmg, i'll test both and see

Ahzek

TRAPPING WEBS IS MY SKILL. ITS MINE ! YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!
You all laughed at poor spidercat back in 1.6 and now you are stealing his secret weapon Q_Q.

ToRelax

Ahzek wrote: »

TRAPPING WEBS IS MY SKILL. ITS MINE ! YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!
You all laughed at poor spidercat back in 1.6 and now you are stealing his secret weapon Q_Q.

I already laughed in 1.5 about it.

Waffennacht

Ahzek wrote: »

TRAPPING WEBS IS MY SKILL. ITS MINE ! YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!
You all laughed at poor spidercat back in 1.6 and now you are stealing his secret weapon Q_Q.

@Ahzek I was thinking of you! I was thinking the last two days, "And we laughed at that poor guy.." well I didn't actually say anything but you get the idea. Be happy that not only you were right but at least one person remembered you said it first

a1x23

I run a similar build but mine is Bar 1) 1. Endless fury 2. C. Frags 3. Streak 4. Curse 5 webs U. Overload/soul assault Bar 2.) 1. Boundless storm 2. Combat prayer 3. Hardened ward 4. Mines 5. Power surge U.) Atro/dawnbreaker Overload bar.) 1. Endless fury 2. C. Frags 3. Hardened ward 4. Shattering prison 5. Power surge

rokrdt05

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm having trouble seeing you obtaining that magicka pool and stamina pool with out more CP invested.

Here is a link to my build. forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/223410/tempest-pvp-simplistic-sorcerer-build#latest

(I've updated to 5 Seducer since and went all spell damage on rings. 2,638 Unbuffed, 3,145 Buffed and with all my CP {741 - I did this for a comparison to your build} 39,514 Magicka with V15 tri-stat food. Regen is sitting at 1954 w/ a pot and 1,697 w/o.)

So I might be missing something? (I wouldn't be surprised if I did.) This is a really nice build and I am always looking for comparisons to the build I'm using for tweaking or improving on.