Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Stress Tested - 21st July 2020 - Greymoor DLC
Veteran Maw of Lorkhaj
173,622 Score
10:55 Time
36/36 Vitality
This is a run by Stress Tested, PC EU, taking 22 seconds off the World Record score set by 4D, PC NA, 2 months ago.
I was brutally forced off my poor Magicka Warden by the bosses here at Stress Tested, so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to showcase what Magicka Nightblade can do here. The cleave from this class is one of the worst out of all Magicka DDs, but the Single Target DPS is pretty good.
Either way, I've taken the blueprints from the Build video for Magblade that I posted (link below), and adjusted it for each situation in this trial.
Thanks for watching, happy to answer Qs in the comments.
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Builds and Parses from the run in the video
Didn't really think too hard about the gear used here, I hate moving gear between characters so I left as much as I could on my Warden. Therefore all bosses - Maw, 4x Perfected False God (with staff), 5x Sorrow, no experimentation done.
1st Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/UaURjpC.png
1st Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/jCRYX0l.png
2nd Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/7j0c9I9.png
2nd Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/38QvUVv.png
3rd Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/nWSgeo7.png
3rd Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/2WRPC5x.png
Trash Build - https://i.imgur.com/TFiabkf.png
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Team Comp
Dragonknight Main Tank
Templar Off-Tank
Warden Healer
(A full range of DD classes!)
3x Magicka Necromancer DD
2x Magicka Nightblade DD
1x Magicka Sorcerer DD
1x Magicka Templar DD
1x Magicka Warden DD
1x Magicka Dragonknight DD
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Greymoor (Vampire) Build for Magicka Warden: youtu.be/oqqssc7eqGQ
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See my Greymoor Builds and those from others at liko.gg
My Patreon - patreon.com/likoxie
Thanks to my Patrons: Brad, Dkfusion, OwnLight, AverageJoe316, Paratomick, Draveus, youth and more
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Music provided by HearWeGo
Artist: Andy Leech
Title: The Journey
Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/FS0bMCWhmWk
Music provided by HearWeGo
Artist: Fyze
Title: Mystery
Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/a17Flv9-lLg
Stress Tested - 21st July 2020 - Greymoor DLC
Veteran Maw of Lorkhaj
173,622 Score
10:55 Time
36/36 Vitality
This is a run by Stress Tested, PC EU, taking 22 seconds off the World Record score set by 4D, PC NA, 2 months ago.
I was brutally forced off my poor Magicka Warden by the bosses here at Stress Tested, so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to showcase what Magicka Nightblade can do here. The cleave from this class is one of the worst out of all Magicka DDs, but the Single Target DPS is pretty good.
Either way, I've taken the blueprints from the Build video for Magblade that I posted (link below), and adjusted it for each situation in this trial.
Thanks for watching, happy to answer Qs in the comments.
--
Builds and Parses from the run in the video
Didn't really think too hard about the gear used here, I hate moving gear between characters so I left as much as I could on my Warden. Therefore all bosses - Maw, 4x Perfected False God (with staff), 5x Sorrow, no experimentation done.
1st Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/UaURjpC.png
1st Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/jCRYX0l.png
2nd Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/7j0c9I9.png
2nd Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/38QvUVv.png
3rd Boss Parse from video - https://i.imgur.com/nWSgeo7.png
3rd Boss Build - https://i.imgur.com/2WRPC5x.png
Trash Build - https://i.imgur.com/TFiabkf.png
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Team Comp
Dragonknight Main Tank
Templar Off-Tank
Warden Healer
(A full range of DD classes!)
3x Magicka Necromancer DD
2x Magicka Nightblade DD
1x Magicka Sorcerer DD
1x Magicka Templar DD
1x Magicka Warden DD
1x Magicka Dragonknight DD
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Greymoor (Vampire) Build for Magicka Warden: youtu.be/oqqssc7eqGQ
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See my Greymoor Builds and those from others at liko.gg
My Patreon - patreon.com/likoxie
Thanks to my Patrons: Brad, Dkfusion, OwnLight, AverageJoe316, Paratomick, Draveus, youth and more
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Music provided by HearWeGo
Artist: Andy Leech
Title: The Journey
Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/FS0bMCWhmWk
Music provided by HearWeGo
Artist: Fyze
Title: Mystery
Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/a17Flv9-lLg




![Vengeful. - Magicka Warden PVE (87k) - Harrowstorm - ESO
Edit 24th Feb: Filmed in Dragonhold but updated for Harrowstorm. Not much has changed - sustain is better, but this is the main one: Glacial Presence: This passive now also increases your Critical Damage against enemies and Critical Healing against allies who have been recently afflicted with the Chilled status effect. Expect BETTER DPS from Magicka Warden in Harrowstorm!
This is a Magicka Warden PVE build and Iron Atronach Parse for the Dragonhold/Harrowstorm patch.
Magicka Warden offers more utility than ever before in Dragonhold, which makes them more useful than ever before (if there is no Warden support player in the group, at least). The Screaming Cliff Racer can set the enemy off-balance and Fetcher Infection will now apply Minor Vulnerability. Winters Revenge now becomes one of the strongest AOEs in the game. The Bear also remains one of the strongest ultimate in the game for sustained damage, but again it leaves the class very reliant on it.
This rotation was performed by @stileanima. Check out her channel, especially for Healing and End-game raiding content.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZrF6282tJGZboWa2IwCHg
I am using the Max Magicka/Magicka Regen food, with 64 points into Magicka for all Magicka Setups in these rotations.
Gear used here:
5x Mothers Sorrow Body, 5x Siroria front-barred, 2x Zaan. (See build screenshot for full details).
The above is used simply for purposes of comparison against other classes, in this test environment.
Race used: Altmer
Good alternatives: Breton, Dunmer, Khajiit
In real raid situations, consider Clockwork Citrus Fillet or Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl as food alternatives.
Other gear that is perfectly suitable for different situations include:
False God, Spell Strategist, New Moon Acolyte, Master Architect
CMX Parse, Build (Gear, Skills, CPs), Superstar from Video https://imgur.com/a/ZMI8uyF
Rotation:
This rotation is all about getting the best blend of direct damage and damage over time. Here we choose to keep up Unstable Wall, Winters Revenge, Scalding Rune, Barbed Trap, Fetcher Infection and Degeneration for our DOTs. Then we fit in as much Deep Fissure and Screaming Cliff Racer (Birbs) as possible.
Here @stileanima chooses to cast Deep Fissure more or less 1-in-3 casts. Seeing as I am describing a dynamic rotation here I shall say that generally, in-between, there is a cast of a DOT, of which Unstable Wall and Winters Revenge hold the highest priority. Fetcher Infection is generally the next strongest, then really whatever else needs refreshing from the skills listed above. Throw the Birbs whenever there is nothing else that needs casting. Use the Bear Ultimate as soon as convenient.
If you notice that many DOTs run out at the same time, feel free to cast them consecutively, and skipping a Deep Fissure cast. In previous patches, Ive noticed that casting Deep Fissure 1-in-4 is not too different than 1-in-3 if it means a better uptime in DOTs. There can also the occurence that your Deep Fissure damage does not hit if you try 1-in-3 with slight mistimings just so you know.
Proposed Static Rotation
Start:
Netch - Trap
Repeat:
Shalk - Wall - Winter
Shalk - Fetcher - Degeneration
Shalk - Scalding - Spam - Spam/Netch/Trap (Alternate Netch and Trap, if sustain is good, use a Spam)
Spam = Birb or Bear Ulti
About alternative skills that I did not use in this video:
Mystic Orb - a must-have skill if you want to include more AOE damage into your setup. Upsides also include a nice group synergy, but the downside is the high resource cost.
Inner Light (front-barred) - if you want a simpler rotation, you could drop one of the DOTs (for example Degeneration) and include Inner Light on the front bar.
Elemental Blockade - using this morph instead of Unstable Wall can also be a decent option. This option offers more cleave allows slightly better sustain by allowing you to cast this skill less frequently, and more so other cheaper skills.
Consuming Trap - a DOT that can help sustain if used in trash fights or on smaller mobs in Boss Fights, due to the resource return.
Channeled Acceleration - if you prefer this over Barbed Trap, this is fine. Magicka sustain will suffer a little but might be easier to use in some cases.
Flame Reach - if you wanted to add another single-target DOT. Provides some extra sources of Burning damage and cost is relatively cheap, but the damage isnt as good as some other options.
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![ESO - [MC] - vHOF Pinnacle Factotum - 2:03 Fight - Likōya - Magblade - Wolfhunter
A fight from 2nd Boss in vHOF, sort of close to perfect but not quite, from a team perspective. Since I was the only Magicka DD that stayed downstairs the whole time, it was my role to kill the conduits (with a little help from others). Pretty bad conduit RNG in this fight, sometimes it spawns right underneath the boss, sometimes on the other side of the map (it was the case every time in this fight).
Id imagine the top groups will soon change the way they do this boss during this patch.
I didnt manage to save this exact parse, but I have a Combat Metrics Parse from a different fight where I do the same role (60.4k/53.3k) - https://i.imgur.com/itkVVoL.png
Build for this fight (Note: I swapped between Shock and Absorb Magicka Glyph on Backbar) https://i.imgur.com/dwO6qI7.png
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●DJ Quads - I Will Wait
●Song - https://youtu.be/BSJmOM3U-cc
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![Magicka Sorcerer 1-Pet PVE (87k+) - Dragonhold - ESO
This is a Magicka Sorcerer 1-Pet PVE build and Iron Atronach Parse for the Dragonhold patch.
The 1-Pet Magicka Sorcerer (generally) brings the best balance of damage and practicality out of the different setups. For this reason, it has been the most popular setup, and maybe it will continue to be this way. Having said, the damage difference between various Magicka Sorcerer setups look to be smaller than we have seen in while too. Magicka Sorcerer has received a set of changes which brings it away from the style of rotation from Scalebreaker, and a little bit closer to that from Elsweyr and the few patches previously.
Thanks to @Aerenel, who raids with Wipes on Trash (WoT) PC/NA, for providing these parses. His Discord ID is @Aerenel#8604 should you want to ask him about Magicka Sorcerer.
Here are the other MagSorc parses from Dragonhold, again kindly provided by @Aerenel.
2-Pet Magicka Sorcerer video here https://youtu.be/8ckdDI6V1uk
No-Pet Magicka Sorcerer video here https://youtu.be/moyPcWL4zlA
I am using the Max Magicka/Magicka Regen food, with 64 points into Magicka for all Magicka Setups in these rotations.
Gear used here:
5x Mothers Sorrow Body, 5x Siroria front-barred, 2x Zaan. (See build screenshot for full details).
The above is used simply for purposes of comparison against other classes, in this test environment.
Race used: Altmer
Good alternatives: Breton, Dunmer, Khajiit
In real raid situations, consider Clockwork Citrus Fillet or Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl as food alternatives.
Other gear that is perfectly suitable for different situations include:
False God, Spell Strategist, New Moon Acolyte, Burning Spellweave, Necropotence
CMX Parse, Build (Gear, Skills, CPs), Superstar from Video https://imgur.com/a/XdRZ56R
Rotation
Focus on keeping a great up-time with Unstable Wall. Cast Daedric Prey on cooldown, so every 6 seconds, but never before. This skill is useful to keep up because it has a relatively low Magicka cost, and also gives a damage boost to your Twilight and Atronach Ultimate. Beyond that, Keep up Barbed Trap and Boundless Storm, which is also great for its utility. This means youll be more optimal when playing as close to melee whenever possible. You can try some of the alternative skills below if you are more comfortable at range. Use Elemental Weapon as your spammable and Crystal Fragments as frequently as possible. You can easily switch out the Twilight for the Scamp, if you wish to have a more imvolved rotation, or for fights where the extra cleave from the Scamp may be better!
Proposed Static Rotation:
12-second Rotation as the base structure.
Start:
Boundless - Barbed Trap
Wall - Prey - Boundless/Spam - Spam - Spam - Spam/Barbed Trap
Spam - Prey - Spam - Spam - Spam - Spam/Barbed Trap
Spam = Elemental Weapon / Crystal Frags / Ultimate / Spell Symmetry - use whichever is most suitable at any given moment
Every other rotation, alternate Boundless Storm with Spam.
Cast Barbed Trap every 1.5 rotations, at spots where Spam/Barbed Trap is written.
About alternative skills. This is for Magicka Sorcerer in general:
Mystic Orb - a must-have skill if you want to include more AOE damage into your setup. Upsides also include a nice group synergy, but the downside is the high resource cost.
Flame Reach - if you wanted to add another single-target DOT. Provides some extra sources of Burning damage and cost is relatively cheap, but damage isnt as good as some other options.
Scalding Rune - another option for an alternative DOT. More damage per cast than Flame Reach but also costlier.
Liquid Lightning / Lightning Flood - an AOE ability which provides a unique synergy for the group. Costs more than it did in the previous patch.
Bound Aegis - if you want a simpler rotation, you could drop a DOT.
Inner Light - same as above, but Bound Aegis is better.
Shield (e.g Empowered Ward) - you could replace a DOT or Spell Symmetry if you can make a setup to sustain without if you wanted to include a shield.
Elemental Blockade - using this morph instead of Unstable Wall can also be a decent option. This option offers more cleave, and a longer duration, therefore better sustain, since this skill is costly.
Consuming Trap - a DOT that can help sustain if used in trash fights or on smaller mobs in Boss Fights, due to the resource return.
Channelled Acceleration - if you prefer this over Barbed Trap, this is fine. Magicka sustain will suffer a little but might be easier to use in some cases.
Power/Critical Surge - an ability which is primarily used for the healing. Power Surge also provides Major Sorcery for yourself.
Scamp - check out the other Pet Sorc videos, linked above for 2-Pet Sorc. Or you can replace the Twilight with the Scamp directly.
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Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
Watch: https://youtu.be/X5n9OwR6taQ
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