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Need help raising DPS on Magden

Astromancr
Astromancr
Soul Shriven
I've seemed to have plateaued at around the 8 - 10k DPS mark (11k if I'm really on the ball) and I'm not sure how to go about raising my numbers. I'm not the greatest at rotations, but I'm learning. I'm CP313 running pure a Mag Warden with Necropotence and Julianos. Both divines. I'm in the process of getting my hands on infused weapons, but right now they're both precise with frost damage enchants. All my armor is enchanted with max mag, but I still have two pieces of blue jewelry (and the one purple one I have has phys. resistance on it). Could that be what's holding me back?

I've been hesitant about trying to venture into vet dungeons because of this poor damage output, so I don't have a monster set yet, either. I could include a list of my skills and passives as well if needed--as well as my current champion point setup.
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  • ESO_Nightingale
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    What is your bar settup?

    Food?

    Mundus?

    Potions?

    CP points?

    Are you light attack weaving?

    Do you have 2 fire staves?
    Edited by ESO_Nightingale on January 3, 2019 3:47AM
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  • Astromancr
    Astromancr
    Soul Shriven
    @ESO_Nightingale

    Food is literally whatever I can find in my guild bank at the time until I can level my provisioning lmfao. Right now it's mistral banana-bunny hash.

    Thief Mundus.

    Screaming Cliff Racer, Fetcher Infection, Elemental Weapon, Magelight, and Blue Betty on front
    Elemental Ring, Elemental Blockade, Harness Magicak, Magelight, and Channeled Acceleration on back. Bear ult on both.

    I didn't know potions factored into DPS output. What do you recommend?
    the Tower
    2 Warlord

    the Lover
    50 in Arcanist and 50 in Tenacity

    the Shadow
    2 Tumbling

    the Apprentice
    20 in Elfborn and 31 Elemental Expert

    the Atronach
    2 in Staff Expert and 20 in Master-at-Arms

    the Ritual
    31 in Thaumaturage

    the Steed
    35 in Ironclad and 1 in Spell Shield

    the Lady
    23 Hard, Elemental Defender, and Thick skinned

    the Lord has no points

    2 lightning on front and back, and yeah, I'm light attack weaving.
    Edited by Astromancr on January 3, 2019 4:01AM
    Vera / High Elf Templar / Aldmeri Dominion
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  • ESO_Nightingale
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    Astromancr wrote: »
    @ESO_Nightingale

    Food is literally whatever I can find in my guild bank at the time until I can level my provisioning lmfao. Right now it's mistral banana-bunny hash.

    Thief Mundus.

    Screaming Cliff Racer, Fetcher Infection, Elemental Weapon, Magelight, and Blue Betty on front
    Elemental Ring, Elemental Blockade, Harness Magicak, Magelight, and Channeled Acceleration on back. Bear ult on both.

    I didn't know potions factored into DPS output. What do you recommend?
    the Tower
    2 Warlord

    the Lover
    50 in Arcanist and 50 in Tenacity

    the Shadow
    2 Tumbling

    the Apprentice
    20 in Elfborn and 31 Elemental Expert

    the Atronach
    2 in Staff Expert and 20 in Master-at-Arms

    the Ritual
    31 in Thaumaturage

    the Steed
    35 in Ironclad and 1 in Spell Shield

    the Lady
    23 Hard, Elemental Defender, and Thick skinned

    the Lord has no points

    2 lightning on front and back, and yeah, I'm light attack weaving.

    food: ask guildies if they can get you witchmother's potent brew. thief is a solid mundus. i personally use tri- stat potions that restore health, mag and stam.

    your front bar looks okay apart from both elemental weapon and screaming cliff racer being on the bar. I recommend dropping screaming cliff racer for Bird of Prey and Elemental weapon for perhaps Force Pulse because of the destro staff passives. Bird of Prey gives 11% more damage due to advanced species passive and it gives 8 with minor berserk. you're not really casting it.

    backbar is fine. but absolutely put winters revenge on over elemental ring. you're losing out on a great ground based aoe.
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  • Astromancr
    Astromancr
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    @ESO_Nightingale

    Thank you so much for your input! I really appreciate it. I'll give it a try asap.
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  • Ramber
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    call me :)
  • Iki
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    Hello Astromancr, ESO_Nightingale gave you very good advices. Here`s what I`d like to add to that: Try to include deep fissure to your rotation, that skill can hit like a truck and can hit multiple targets. Deep fissure is also considered aoe-dmg so it is buffed by ancient knowledge passive when using lightning-staff, so it definitely should increase your dps since you use lightning-staves on both bars. Just use deep fissure at the beginning and end of front-bar rotation and weave force pulse between fissures or use lightning-heavies when low on magicka.
    Getting infused staves with dmg-glyphs (not same glyph on both staves) would also be noticeable dps increase.

    Here is bar-setup I use with my magicka warden
    Front-bar: 1. Fletcher infection 2. Deep fissure 3. Force pulse 4. Inner light 5. Bird of prey Bear ultimate double slotted
    Back-bar: 1. Channeled acceleration 2. Blue netch 3. Winters revenge 4. Elemental blockade 5. Flexible slot (Living trellis, blue lotus, harness magicka, frost cloak, ele drain, enchanted growth etc. whatever is needed)

    Magicka wardens dps is bit lower than what other classes can reach but it is versatile spec and fun to play, I hope you enjoy yours. :)
  • ESO_Nightingale
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    Iki wrote: »
    Hello Astromancr, ESO_Nightingale gave you very good advices. Here`s what I`d like to add to that: Try to include deep fissure to your rotation, that skill can hit like a truck and can hit multiple targets. Deep fissure is also considered aoe-dmg so it is buffed by ancient knowledge passive when using lightning-staff, so it definitely should increase your dps since you use lightning-staves on both bars. Just use deep fissure at the beginning and end of front-bar rotation and weave force pulse between fissures or use lightning-heavies when low on magicka.
    Getting infused staves with dmg-glyphs (not same glyph on both staves) would also be noticeable dps increase.

    Here is bar-setup I use with my magicka warden
    Front-bar: 1. Fletcher infection 2. Deep fissure 3. Force pulse 4. Inner light 5. Bird of prey Bear ultimate double slotted
    Back-bar: 1. Channeled acceleration 2. Blue netch 3. Winters revenge 4. Elemental blockade 5. Flexible slot (Living trellis, blue lotus, harness magicka, frost cloak, ele drain, enchanted growth etc. whatever is needed)

    Magicka wardens dps is bit lower than what other classes can reach but it is versatile spec and fun to play, I hope you enjoy yours. :)

    i like fissure a lot but i found it severely drained my magicka when i casted it every 3 seconds. ill give it another shot in the future though.
    Edited by ESO_Nightingale on January 3, 2019 2:29PM
    PvE Frost Warden Main and teacher. Come Join the ESO Frost Discord to discuss everything frost!: https://discord.gg/5PT3rQX
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