Heavy Attack Warden DPS Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency - Frost, Lingering Torment, Force. Use Scalding Rune instead if you don't have access to Scribing
• Banner Bearer - Magic, Cavalier's Charge, Berserk. You can change Berserk to Heroism if you can rely on your Healer to provide the Minor Berserk buff. Use Camouflaged Hunter on frontbar and Winter's Revenge on backbar instead if you don't have access to Scribing

• Ulfsild's Contingency - your source of crucial Empower buff, which increases damage done by Heavy Attacks by 70%. Since Ulfsild's Contingency is a Mages Guild skill, it will trigger the Might of the Guild passive, which grants you Empower for 10 seconds. It also deals decent damage in an AoE and grants you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Ulfsild's Contingency is delayed until the next skill cast but whenever it's needed you can activate it early by bashing your enemy. If you cast this ability as you're finishing your Heavy Attack, the Empower you gain from it will start working just in time to boost the final tick of that Heavy Attack you just finished
• Deep Fissure - deals a lot of damage per cast and provides 4% Critical Damage through the Advanced Species passive
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that will also apply Hemorrhage status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. It will also trigger the Slayer passive
• Inner Light - passively provides 7% Max Magicka - 5% from the skill itself and 2% from the Magicka Controller passive
• Banner Bearer - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, grants 60 Weapon Damage thanks to the Celerity Champion Point and grants Minor Berserk or Minor Heroism, depending on the script you used. It also severely decreases your sustain but it's not an issue on a Heavy Attack build
• Wild Guardian - a free ultimate that has to be double-barred that summons a permanent Bear pet, that deals decent damage to your enemies. While the Bear is summoned, you can activate this ability for 75 Ultimate to command the Bear to maul an enemy. Deals 100% more damage to enemies below 25% Health. It's also going to trigger the Advanced Species passive, increasing our Critical Damage by 4%
• Bull Netch - an ability that grants us a 5% damage buff and automatically cleanses a debuff every 5 seconds. You can recast it early if you need to cleanse an important debuff. The skill's duration is 25 seconds but the 5 second 5% damage done buff refreshes at the end so you only have to recast it every 30 seconds
• Arctic Blast - an ability witha higher chance to proc the Chilled status effect, which deals increased damage thanks tothe Glacial Presence passive
• Elemental Susceptibility - an ability which procs Burning, Concussed and Chilled status effects at the start and every 7.5 seconds for 30 seconds. It will deal a lot of damage per cast thanks to the Glacial Presence passive
• Elemental Blockade - a ground DoT that will constantly re-apply your backbar weapon enchantment. It will also deal increased damage thanks to the Crushing Wall set and proc Off Balance if your supports aren't already doing it

• Whenever you need to slot situational skills, replace Inner Light
• Resolving Vigor - Stamina-costing heal over time which also grants you Minor Resolve which reduces your damage taken. Use it when you need a self-heal
• Living Trellis - Magicka-costing ability that heals you when you take damage and at the end, which means you can spam it to constantly re-proc the direct heal. Use it when you need a self-heal you can spam under pressure. This ability can also target allies which can be either a good or a bad thing depending on the situation
• Winter's Revenge - replacement for Barbed Trap for trash fights and boss fights which require more AoE damage

Priority List

This is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh.

For maximum DPS, it's more optimal to switch from Heavy Attack weaving to Light Attack weaving when you have many DoTs to refresh, though it's not mandatory and you can do massive DPS even while sticking to just Heavy Attacks

• Always start a Heavy Attack roughly a second before Off Balance immunity ends, this way you'll be able to fit 3 Heavy Attacks within an Off Balance window
• Use Ulfsild's Contingency if your Empower is out or if it's going to run out by the end of the Heavy Attack you're channeling
• Use Wild Guardian if it's ready
• Use Elemental Blockade
• Use Deep Fissure
• Use Barbed Trap
• Use Bull Netch
• Use Elemental Susceptibility
• Use Arctic Blast
• Use Ulfsild's Contingency

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Deep Fissure
• Bull Netch
• Arctic Blast