Living Trellis can work decently well for a spammable heal, since the previous buff "expires" every time you refresh it with a new one. It won't counter high burst damage by itself, but it's very cheap and I used it extensively when I was actively playing Magicka Warden. That, combined with a pre-nerf "Spiderman Vine" and Tree Ultimate were generally the only heals I ran back then (from Morrowind early access until Elsweyr early access).

With back-barred Ice Staves losing a lot of their potency, and the heal on Regeneration finally being more than a fart in a hurricane, I think I'd try to fit Rapid Regeneration into the build somewhere if I were to go back to playing Magicka Warden. The "smart" targeting gets really irritating, but it's a very strong HOT now.

With Shock Clench/Reach no longer having a stun, and Flame Clench potentially knocking people out of the path of your Shalks (thus causing you to counter-play yourself sometimes), you're basically forced into being a Vampire. The stun itself is actually pretty good now, but the extra incoming fire damage is really harsh at times, and you need to be ready to quickly self-interrupt in many/most cases. A lot of the better players will be Johnny-on-the-spot with a bash (or Crushing Shock, etc...) if you try to keep the channel going.

TelvanniWizard wrote: »

Change necropotence for julianos or false god´s. Use wall of elements combined with shalks for aoe burst. I wouldn´t use cliff as spammable, but stick to the destro staff skill line one, or use elemental weapon from psijic skill line. For self-healing, the first skill of your nature skill line (don´t remember the name right now, the one with mushrooms). Add some dots and you´ll be good, imo. Hope it helps.

I'm afraid I have to disagree here. Necropotence is a solid set on Magicka Warden, and I wouldn't swap it out. Wall of Elements also isn't burst damage, though Wall of Frost used to be quite good for utility (and still isn't "terrible" or anything, but it's not what it once was). DOTs other than Fetcher Infection are also absolutely not worth using with the Dragonhold patch, which came out yesterday on PC. Even Fetcher Infection is really more of a debuff than a DOT now, since the gigantic damage nerfs.

I'll agree that the Cliff Racer is fairly bad as a spammable, especially since it just got both a damage nerf and cost increase, with the only compensation for Magicka being the ability to apply Off Balance against targets that are more than 7m away. While that's not "nothing," it's hard to gain much benefit on a Magicka build, especially if you always play no-CP like I do. There were really only two situations where I made much use of the Cliff Racer in the past; 1) during the early days of Morrowind, when it couldn't be dodged, and 2) when facing off against many DKs in Battlegrounds, back when Wings was ridiculous and would essentially hard-counter me otherwise.