Warden Magicka DPS BIS Gear

Lord_Eomer · June 2017

I am planning to run AOE damage based build,
Will put 75 CP in Thutermage to benfit off-balance damage increase passive.

Mundus Stone : Thief

Front Bar : Sharpen lighting Staff (will be chanelling heavy attack for mag return)
Back Bar : inferno or dual wield

Option 1:
5 piece winterborn + 5 piece necro + 1 piece Ice Heart (heavy)

Option 2:
5 piece Necro + 4 piece IA + 2 piece illambris (1 piece heavy + 1 piece light)

Option 3 :

5 piece Necro + 5 piece master architect + vma weapon

DeHei · June 2017

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

I am planning to run AOE damage based build,
Will put 75 CP in Thutermage to benfit off-balance damage increase passive.

Mundus Stone : Thief

Front Bar : Sharpen lighting Staff (will be chanelling heavy attack for mag return)
Back Bar : inferno or dual wield

Option 1:
5 piece winterborn + 5 piece necro + 1 piece Ice Heart

Option 2:
5 piece Necro + 4 piece IA + 2 piece illambris

Option 3 :

5 piece Necro + 5 piece master architect + vma weapon

I think piece 3 could be the strongest Option

GilGalad · June 2017

Option 4:
5 BSW/Julianos, 4+1 Master Architect (Lightning Staff), 1 Kena, vMA Inferno

Necropotence is a bad set on everything but a Sorc. While the ability dmg is very good, you lack a lot of spell dmg, therefore your light and heavy attacks deal a lot less dmg, since they mostly scale with spell dmg.

BSW is still a very good choice if there are adds around. Even with no adds I managed to get uptimes of 50%+ in pure Single target fights, wich is enough to make it better than Julianos.

If you want to go for more AOE dmg:

Option 5:
5 BWS/Julianos, 3+1 Moondancer/Aether/Master Architect (lightning staff), 2 Grothhdarr, vMA Inferno

Lord_Eomer · June 2017

GilGalad wrote: »

Option 4:
5 BSW/Julianos, 4+1 Master Architect (Lightning Staff), 1 Kena, vMA Inferno

Necropotence is a bad set on everything but a Sorc. While the ability dmg is very good, you lack a lot of spell dmg, therefore your light and heavy attacks deal a lot less dmg, since they mostly scale with spell dmg.

BSW is still a very good choice if there are adds around. Even with no adds I managed to get uptimes of 50%+ in pure Single target fights, wich is enough to make it better than Julianos.

If you want to go for more AOE dmg:

Option 5:
5 BWS/Julianos, 3+1 Moondancer/Aether/Master Architect (lightning staff), 2 Grothhdarr, vMA Inferno

Can not go with BSW as uptime will be lower due to using Elemental Blockade on Lighting Staff with Spell Damage Enchantment Glpyh

In this case light inferno attack will only proc BSW

GilGalad · June 2017

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

GilGalad wrote: »

Option 4:
5 BSW/Julianos, 4+1 Master Architect (Lightning Staff), 1 Kena, vMA Inferno

Necropotence is a bad set on everything but a Sorc. While the ability dmg is very good, you lack a lot of spell dmg, therefore your light and heavy attacks deal a lot less dmg, since they mostly scale with spell dmg.

BSW is still a very good choice if there are adds around. Even with no adds I managed to get uptimes of 50%+ in pure Single target fights, wich is enough to make it better than Julianos.

If you want to go for more AOE dmg:

Option 5:
5 BWS/Julianos, 3+1 Moondancer/Aether/Master Architect (lightning staff), 2 Grothhdarr, vMA Inferno

Can not go with BSW as uptime will be lower due to using Elemental Blockade on Lighting Staff with Spell Damage Enchantment Glpyh

In this case light inferno attack will only proc BSW

Why would you take a lightning over a fire blockade?
With group buffs (engulfing flames, 100% burning uptime), the fire blockade deals up to 30% more dmg.
Lightning blockade is only better if there is no one in the group already running it, but usually every healer and even some tanks use it.

In the case you can't run BSW, Julianos will still be better than Necropotence, since you will be able to get full undaunted passives (when combined with Master Architect) and a lot more spell dmg.