Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Thanks for checking out this video on Magicka Necromancer PVE Builds for Markarth.

Magicka Necromancer can be considered up there as one of the most useful, strongest and now certainly most popular specs for PVE, especially in 12-man trials due to the Major Vulnerability debuff, which has seen a change that possibly encourages more to be in a group than before.

Thanks to Bread and Milk, from PC NA, who has kindly shared some Magicka Necromancer Parses with 3 popular setups for 12-man trials for this patch:

- Elemental Catalyst (Front) with Mother's Sorrow (Body)
- Siroria (Front) with Mother's Sorrow (Body)
- Siroria (Front) with Medusa (Body)

Bread's YouTube Channel - youtube.com/channel/UCz1g5jFPHcT8OHBdQNQcWDw
Bread's Twitch Channel - twitch.tv/breadandmilk92
Bread's Vampire Build Parse Video - youtu.be/ixpwnlfGbUI
Bread's Cloudrest World Record Run - youtu.be/Jp7suhuoRAY

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Gear
Shown here (see above for specifics):
Monster Set - Zaan
- Mother's Sorrow Body/Medusa (Body)
- Siroria/Elemental Catalyst (Front bar and jewellery)
- The Maelstrom’s Inferno staff (Perfected)
- 3 Bloodthirsty

Alternative Gear (for all different setups):
- False God, Spell Strategist, New Moon Acolyte, Medusa, Burning Spellweave, Martial Knowledge, Z'ens Redress
- Monster Sets: Maw of the Infernal, Domihaus, Ilambris, Iceheart, 2x Crit (or other 1pc bonuses)

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Race
- Altmer in video
- Dunmer, Breton, Khajiit all fine alternatives

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Mundus: Shadow

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Blue CPs
- Elemental Expert 64, Elfborn 56
- Master-at-Arms 66, Staff Expert 9
- Thaumaturge 72 Piercing 3

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Food
For Practice on Dummy: Ghastly Eye Bowl
In Raid: Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl (or Clockwork Citrus Fillet if you need more sustain)

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Skills
Degeneration / Spammable - Blastbones - Boneyard - Inner Light - Shocking Siphon - Meteor
Barbed Trap - Mystic Orb - Skeletal Mage - Scalding Rune - Unstable Wall - Meteor/Frozen Colossus

Notes
Spammable = Force Pulse / Ricochet Skull, to be used instead of degeneration. Force Pulse can be more beneficial for Elemental Catalyst uptime and cleave damage. Ricochet Skull for stronger ST damage and necro passives.
Boneyard - Avid for parsing / 'selfish' play, Unnerving to provide Major Breach debuff
Meteor / Destro Ultimate for 'selfish' play, Colossus to provide Major Vulnerability debuff

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Screenshots!

Siroria/MS CMX Parse: https://i.imgur.com/GmsHq6z.jpg
Siroria/MS CMX Build: https://i.imgur.com/s9Nv0CA.jpg

Siroria/Medusa CMX Parse: https://i.imgur.com/GVLkhMf.jpg
Siroria/Medusa CMX Build: https://i.imgur.com/ArGA6Yu.jpg

Catalyst/MS CMX Parse: https://i.imgur.com/pE7bL1j.jpg
Catalyst/MS CMX Build: https://i.imgur.com/AGJH6XK.jpg

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Rotation

The video here showcases a more DOT-focused Magicka Necromancer rotation. The premise here is that if you cast enough Blastbones, then in-between you should have enough time to cast all of your DOTs. Cast Blastbones 1-in-3 skills whenever possible.

Keep up Mystic Orb, Skeletal Archer, Scalding Rune, Degeneration and Shock Siphon inbetween. Also do keep up Unstable Wall, but due to it's reasonably high direct damage portion, feel free to recast this early if there is nothing else that needs casting. Recasting Scalding Rune early works too!

Replace one of these DOTs (or Inner Light) for a spammable such as Skull or Force Pulse if you feel like you need one, which in certain fights would be beneficial. My first choice would probably be Degeneration. Wherever you feel that you will less frequently get the full value out of DOT casts, I would go with a spammable.

In execute, you can keep this rotation up, since the passive crit chance bonus will do the heavy lifting for you!

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Static Rotation (adapted from, and seen in Sparrow's Video -- youtu.be/D_Ze9SB_ar8)

Rotation:
Start: Arcanist - Trap

Repeat:
BB - Degen - Unstable - Boneyard
BB - Orb - Scalding - Siphon
BB - Spam - Spam

BB - Degen - Unstable - Boneyard
BB - Orb - Arcanist
BB - Trap - Siphon - Spam

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