Elemental Master: Warden

Savos_Saren · June 2017

I was trying to theorycraft the most effective amount of elemental power on a single build- and here's what I've come up with:

Race: Dunmer (7% extra damage from fire, 2% from shock, 2% from frost)
Class: Warden (6% extra frost and magic damage)
Gear: 5 Elemental Succession, 5 Netch's Touch, 1 Maelstrom lightning staff

So, here's the thing: you get 7% bonus to fire, 8% bonus to frost, and 2% + 400 spell damage bonus to your lighting staff abilities. PLUS- you get a rotating 515 extra spell damage from Elemental Succession.

If you use this bar's setup- you should get relatively high regen:

- Bird of Prey, Force Pulse, Inner Light, Blue Netch, Winter's Revenge Ultimate: Shooting Star

7 pieces of light armor gives you 28% magicka recovery, 14% reduced magicka costs, 2541 spell resistance, 2191 spell crit (plus Inner light's spell crit), 4884 spell penetration
2 Mage's Guild skills slotted gives you another 4% magicka recovery and 2% max magicka
2 Animal Companion skills slotted gives you another 12% magicka and stamina recovery and 4% extra damage done... on top of the 8% extra damage from Bird of Prey

44% magicka recovery seems pretty good. You could supplement it more if you added magicka recovery enchants to your jewelry

Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with the gear setup? Would it hit like a beast and still have good recovery?

Note: Edited to show "shooting star" vs "ice comet" for the full trifecta of elemental effects

GrumpyDuckling · June 2017

Are you using any fire skills?

Savos_Saren · June 2017

Besides Force pulse? I was reviewing my post and I think that Shooting Star would be better with maximizing all the elements.

Ariotar · June 2017

You planning on using your second bar?

Masel · June 2017

I wouldn't say it hits like a beast, because all your gear only boosts a fraction of your damage.

Bird of prey for example is way too expensive for its short duration... Takes out a very big chunk of sustain for a buff that you get anyway in group content...

If you want to simulate the sustain of the build, you can use my sustain simulator.

I entered the rotation you'd probably use in it (added a second bar with blockade, inner light, harness magicka, deep fissure and destructive clench) and you have a -300 magicka drain per second, with Electric drain, Potions (and therefore another 20% recovery, Worm Cult, A drain magicka poison, Orbs and the Betty active. So you definitely need another way of sustain... Force pulse is a pretty expensive spammable, so to sustain it you need more recovery. 44% in a very low boost to it. I usually have about a 90-100% with Vampire (10%), Altmer (9%), Potions (20%), 7 light (28%), Betty (12%) and stalwart guard (10%), mages guild (2%-4%).

You can switch one of your sets to moondancer, that lunar blessing gives a lot of sustain. Amberplasm is good too.

You can see the calculation here. You can tick off buffs individually and change the rotation to your needs.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecfjx20u81ov82q/Sustain Analyser.xlsx?dl=0

PS: I have a somewhat similar warden build for endgame content, you can check that out here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/345638/elemental-guardian-a-magicka-warden-vma-dd-build