Status Effects BUSTED! 🔥🧊 Magden PVP Build - ESO Scions of Ithelia

[@robertrjackson]

Very nice indeed. Been using Serpents in the Archive. It works really well. Will be trying this soon. Awesome that both sets are craftable.

[@NorthernGrim]

Thanks for this one Luca, been looking for a magden build that i can use that isnt 1 bar! :D

[@maui_gaming7035]

Thank you! Great ideas and good explanations of everything!

[@meganaxeliar]

guys can we please all revolt on the forums about them destroying Arctic Blast for us and revert the change?😭

[@esolucacash]

poor arctic, i loved it back in the days with the insta aoe stun, now it´s still fine, but next patch ....

[@mariomarioeso1116]

Dear Luca, I made a few minor modifications to adapt it to my playing style, more single target oriented. I play BG only. I dropped mythic to use the Kjalnar. I dropped Deep Fissure (since I have minor/major breach) and use the Cliff Racer every 10s for the weapon damage buff, and having an additional chance to range stun on off balance. Polar Wind instead of artic since my goal is to stay off melee range. DB front / Ice Meteor back. Lover mundus, I don't feel I need atronach, I'm breton. Never in my life would I have thought that Serpent's Disdain combined with Dragon could be so effective. Thank you so much.

[@esolucacash]

glad to hear you like it, i was also surprised tbh!

[@AMAI460]

Love all those damage numbers!!

[@blkfiredrag1369]

Hey Luca, if i have Vate backbar with Ele sus and disdain front bar. When the 7.5 second status affects kick in and i'm on front bar with Disdain (with ele sus active from backbar), will the status's be increased by disdain?

[@esolucacash]

no i think it didn´t work if you have ele on backbar, tried it out not 100% sure

[@abitterdraft]

Do you think a build like this could work using Dragon's Appetite with Cinders of Anthelmir? The moths are fun and can easily be missed by opponents in the chaos of combat.

[@esolucacash]

sure any dmg proc set works!

[@kiwithatflew]

GOAT

[@prisonmykee2595]

I dont think piercing cold gives you 14% extra damage. Its a 2% without ice staff but with ice staff that 2% becomes 12% rather than adding 2%+12%. Also if you switch ele succeptibility to the back bar and move betty to the front you get an extra 4% crit damage

[@esolucacash]

yes it is 12% extra dmg with an ice staff, the 2% is always there! blue betty backbar feels better if i need to purge myself on my defensive bar, playing like this for years ;)

[@Dacore_DE]

I hate it. I develop new Set Combs that works fantastic, use tons of hours for theorycrafting and testing, tons of gold to maximize my tests, only for a content creators to publish this to everyone.

[@esolucacash]

i also use my brain sometimes ;)

[@therobs1484]

😂😂😂😂

[@kennycook4788]

Boohoo

[@munt368]

Womp womp

[@JoshuaTremblay-ou7vm]

Any update to this build/does it still work with the new update?

[@esolucacash]

nothing has changed here!

[@ImDoel]

Someone actually tried running this in IC yesterday. Luckily it wasnt a very talented player as my WW beat it up pretty easily. But there was 2 times where they almost got me. Sustain is what killed them as they ran out of resouces. As always though great build! Been working on a solid Magden for a while now. The bulk isnt there yet but its almost done!

[@esolucacash]

enjoy this one, worked rly good! especially in duels

[@sticky0159]

I remember racking my head for a set that would go well in a Warden and thought about these 2 sets except it utilizes the Concentrated Force to proc triple status in 2 casts since it's a 100% chance.

[@esolucacash]

ye thought about asylm too, but the uptime is already high to max, not worth on this build tbh

[@NorthernGrim]

just tried in Cyrodil and a simple max mag sorc ripped me apart :(

[@bigkimball5713]

Max mag sorc are crazy rn i just made my own and never been killing like i am now

[@NorthernGrim]

@@bigkimball5713 yep, sadly i just dont enjoy the gameplay of a mag sorc :/

[@hayride8]

I ran the one bar (serpants, ice furnace, oakensoul) and I was torn apart in cyrodiil and bg's by damn near everything. So disappointed.

[@NorthernGrim]

@@hayride8 yep, i think it's lacking all the defensive buffs etc. when running 1 bar! I'm not too sure on how to build for actualy toughness whilst still being able to burst people down... Make a DK? xD

[@tommyherington2443]

Probier ich mal aus die Idee dahinter ist echt gut. Hab aber kein Todes teil dings ring 😂

[@esolucacash]

markyn, sea serpents coil gehen auch ;)

[@samuraichicken2315]

Hey Luca, How do you manage with such low resistances? Since I'm on high ping (250ms), can I swap out some of the light pieces for some heavy ones.

[@esolucacash]

just a looot of 1vX experience ;) sure if you need more tankyness go for it or a tanky set like rallying cry instead of disdain

[@samuraichicken2315]

@@esolucacash Thanks!

[@justAtrashplayer]

Would a resto staff of potenates be better for the passives and getting more mag back and major mending?

[@esolucacash]

not worth it tbh, the block mitigation + reduction with an ice staff is more valuable! and we already have access to maj mending with the warden passive Accelerated Growth, wich procs with lotus + heal ult

[@AshGreyScarab]

Could I wear Mora's instead? Trying to maximize my alliance rank gains!

[@esolucacash]

yes sure!

[@timlutzweiler2788]

Do you have a good necro Build for this Patch ?

[@esolucacash]

i do not have a necro on na yet, maybe for next patch

[@Monke-D-Crimson]

Would dragons app full and master ice fb rally bb be better for survival n damage

[@esolucacash]

dmg will be less without max uptime on status effects, survivalbility should be better with rally

[@Monke-D-Crimson]

@@esolucacash thank you just curious as the application of status be so quick thought could out do the up time thank you again

[@tristanyang3135]

any other sets i can run on magden

[@esolucacash]

winterborn, ice furnace, icy conjurer are pretty good on warden

[@Omkar.Gawade]

Hey what addon you using for buff timers?

[@esolucacash]

Action Duration Reminder

[@Omkar.Gawade]

@@esolucacash thanks mate, also what adds the pink aoe for skills? Just the default?

[@esolucacash]

it´s the ingame feature: Gameplay - Combat - Enemy Color 174 (red), 0 (green), 160 (blue)

[@RunIt_Straightt]

would this work as a Breton?

[@esolucacash]

yes on any magicka race

[@xnorowend_9872]

is db/northern storm good instead bear ?

[@esolucacash]

yes but you will lose a high uptime on the hemorrhaging effect + an active shield since the bear is a targetable pet

[@mckuba9867]

isnt serpains distain a bit useless if u are playing charged? with charged trait crushing shock has a 50 percent chance each hit to apply the 3 status effects anyway. the bear has almost 100 percent to apply the bleed status and u could wear brp bb with a disease and poison glyph for even more status effects and when u switch to fb they have 100 percent uptime as well

[@OreoTheDJ]

You just wont have 100percent uptime on bleed and burning and the others, bumping them all up to 16 seconds applies the pressure needed to not stress about bleed stacks.

[@QbanY1]

If every second hit of crushing shock applies the burning status (10 base +10 destro passive +23 from charged + 6 from cp) how u won’t have the status not up at all times ? It has 4 sec cool-down anyways. It’s up always for sure. Glyphs are 95 percent chance and the bear as long as it hits and enemy doesn’t roll out has 100 chance

[@QbanY1]

With brb and disease and poison glyph u will have 95 chance for them as well so also a 100percent uptime if u stay close to the enemy and the quick cloak hits

[@xboxgamerz22]

Serpains really seem to suck

[@OreoTheDJ]

@@QbanY1 post a video of it working that good 👍

[@SoMuchGroove]

I feel like magden is one of the worst classes to do. It’s crowd control is decent but no matter how much you heal if you come across a good TEMPLAR or NIGHTBLADE OR SORCERER you will be smoked.

[@JessRaiden]

Luca lol how my poor butt got killed by you yesterday I can't wait to try this lol

[@esolucacash]

wtf 😂

[@JessRaiden]

@@esolucacash haha i saw the kill counter alot come up on my end alot but i never seen a magden bear before this is so cool!

[@esolucacash]

@@JessRaiden ye the bear works rly good, also in 1vX fights! it´s basically like a dmg shield with absorbs enemies attacks

[@JessRaiden]

@@esolucacash anything to change in high elf and any alternative to the food?

[@esolucacash]

@@JessRaiden should remain the same as highelf! puh orzorga's is essentiel nowadays, you could try sugar skulls with 1-2 prismatic recovery glyphs

[@genych93]

Interesting build but very low survival (there is not good burst heal).

[@esolucacash]

arctic blast is a burst heal

[@genych93]

@@esolucacash but it is only ~4k heal in PVP. Too little for defense.

[@NorthernGrim]

@@genych93 ive build this build last night and it's actually good healing when on the offensive with pressure but I do agree, it does lack a BIG burst heal, but it is very good if you LOS and then go offensive with the heals you get from light attacks, it works great!

[@hayride8]

I agree, artic isn't strong enough heal for pvp

[@genych93]

@@NorthernGrim it works only in 1v1, but it doesn't enough in 1vX.

[@Bloodsaber64]

ESO is an embarrasing bugfest that ZOS doesnt care to fix as long as you keep shoveling money at them. You cant even pvp in cyrodiil cause the lag spikes will eat your inputs. This game is barely more than the failure fallout 76 was, and by the same people. Don't waste your money on this horrible game

[@jameshollins5659]

Lag doesn't really occur in Cyro tbh. So dunno wat you are on about

[@SUPERxGERBIL]

It’s really not though, it’s been over 6 months and I have yet to lag once or bug out at all so maybe it’s your wifi 😂😂 upgrade to 5g and boom all your problems will disappear

[@epstiendidntkillhimself1435]

Won't blood thirsty be better than infused?

[@esolucacash]

bt gives more dmg overall but in cost of healing, i wouldn´t swap to bt as solo player, only worth in grp play with this build

[@drakeeh1560]

But templars….

[@esolucacash]

will get melted like any other class, the templar purge is useless against this amount of dot pressure ;)

[@BakedBat]

Will run out of mag if they do nothing but spam cleanse