Magicka Warden Solo Build - ESO Guide

Every Animal Companions ability on your bar will trigger the Advanced Species passive, increasing your Critical Damage by 5% each

• Wield Soul (Frost, Druid's Resurgence, Resolve) - a spammable which restores 600 Stamina and Magicka with each cast. It's also our source of Major Resolve , increasing armor by 5948.
• Subterranean Assault - a delayed ability that deals decent damage in an AoE in front of you. The fact that it's a Stamina ability that has to be re-activated every 6 seconds helps with sustaining Magicka.
• Blue Betty - grants Major Brutality and Major Sorcery , sustain, a 5% damage buff and automatically cleanses debuffs every 5 seconds. You can recast it early if you need to cleanse an important debuff.
• Traveling Knife (Poison, Assassin's Misery, Force) - a Stamina skill that increases enemies' chance to be affected by Status Effects and grants Minor Force , increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. You also have to overcast it because the extra Stamina casts are needed to sustain your Magicka.
• Arctic Blast - a 20 second DoT around you which will deal a lot of damage by proccing the Chilled status effect. It can also be used as a self-heal if there are no enemies around you.
• Wild Guardian - only front-barred for the 5% Critical Damage bonus from Advanced Species . Don't summon it and don't spend Ultimate on it.
• Winter's Revenge - a ground DoT that deals massive damage when you count in the Chilled procs, triggered thanks to this skill's increased innate chance to proc status effects.
• Lotus Blossom - provides Major Savagery and Major Prophecy plus some passive healing whenever you Light or Heavy Attack. This healing also triggers the Nature's Gift passive.
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely strong ability that does a multitude of things. It's completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach , which reduces enemies' armor by 5948, but it also applies Burning , Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these status effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5%, and when Chilled procs while you are holding an Ice Staff it also applies Minor Brittle for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' Critical Damage taken by 10%.
• Elemental Blockade - constantly applies your Weapon Damage enchantment and keeps applying Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled .
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Frost, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - an AoE DoT that grants Minor Resolve , increasing your armor by 2974.
• Northern Storm - a powerful ultimate that deals damage in an AoE, increases your Max Magicka and grants Major Protection , reducing your damage taken by 10%.

Winter's Revenge and Arctic Blast are the first skills that have to go if you need to slot something situational, in that order, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else

• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics. Replaces Ulfsild's Contingency since both apply Minor Resolve .
• Living Trellis - a healing ability you can spam under big pressure, also good for fights where you're getting hit very frequently
• Shimmering Shield - massive damage shield that works only against projectiles. Extremely strong but very situational.
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Frost, Gladiator's Tenacity, Force) - a different script combination which trades the DoT from Lingering Torment for the mitigation from Gladiator's Tenacity. Use it in fights where you need more damage mitigation.
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection , reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat.

• Lotus Blossom
• Blue Betty
• Arctic Blast
• Subterranean Assault