How to gear a magicka dps for pve
Recommended gear sets
Magnus (5): Crafted
- (2 items) Adds 967 Max Magicka
- (3 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
- (4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
- (5 items) 8% Chance to negate the Magicka cost of a spell.
Molag Kena (1): Acquired through gold keys or from VWGT
- (1 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
Torug's Pact (2-3):Crafted
- (2 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
- (3 items) Adds 1064 Max Health
Willpower(3): Acquired with Bone shards and dark ether in IC or can be purchased. DO NOT waste your money and arcane rings healthy will do just fine
- (2 items) Adds 1451 Max Magicka
- (3 items) Adds 193 Spell Damage
Wear at least one piece of heavy
Try to achieve 20k health with food and run 3 spell damage enchants(I recommend picking up the magicka recovery boon with this)
Have thoughts or questions? Please leave a reply if so.
Looks good. My magicka DK uses 5xJulianos and 2xMagnus for the armor with either 1xMagnus (Inferno staff) or 2xMagnus (swords) for the weapon slots. That way with dual wield there is the 4-piece set bonus for spell damage for Magnus. I would run it a little differently but I have no Molag Kena pieces. Another fun DPS magicka build is 5xJulianos, 2xMolag Kena, 2xTorug's Pact, 3xWillpower, but again, it requires Kena.
My DK *does* have 3 Willpower pieces with the Healthy enchant, but that's the only VR16. The rest is VR15 until I have enough mats to do the VR16 pieces. If the Trials still scale only to VR14 I am hoping that should be enough.
I decided to leave out Julianos because it has alot less sustain than Magnus. It still works well ,but you will have to be conscious of it. Perhaps run 1-2 reduce magicka cost enchants with it to compensate. The plus to julianos is it gives you extra crit so you might be able to drop magelight(depending on if you have atleast 50% crit without it)
My DK's stats with the set-up above, dual swords, regen glyphs on all jewelry, and Autronauch for the boon (more regen), can be seen here: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2610367/#Comment_2610367 No ability or potion buffs. It was made for sustain.
If I use the Thief and Inner Light with two swords, I get: spell damage 1923, spell crit 60.4%, regen 1742. The drop from 2059 regen isn't too bad for the extra crit and higher max magicka.