Category:Best Necromancer Builds, Leveling Builds
This Leveling Build for the Magicka Necromancer class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Destruction Staff and Summoning Skills, providing lots of potential for easy leveling from 1 to 50!
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Primary Sets
First, the Mother’s Sorrow set is an excellent starting option for any Magicka based class due to the extra Max Magicka and Critical Chance plus it’s relative ease to farm at any level. I recommend picking this up first.
The next set I recommend is Spinner’s Garments– another extremely useful early game set in The Elder Scrolls Online, increasing your Offensive Penetration which lets all of your damage abilities deal more true damage by ignoring enemy resistances.
For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.
Mother’s Sorrow
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 1528 Critical Chance
Spinner’s Garments
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration
Armor Of The Trainee
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina
Alternative Sets
The Crafty Alfiq set is another powerful starter set that can give your build a TON of Magicka, boosting your damage and sustain.
Another nice option to increase your overall healing is the Winter’s Respite set, which creates a passive heal on the ground when you deal area damage. This can be very helpful when soloing and when playing groups!
Remember that your armor pieces can go into any gear slot, meaning you only need to use 10 slots total for this build. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Staff) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.
Crafty Alfiq
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(5 items) Adds 2550 Maximum Magicka
Winter’s Respite
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(5 items) Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create a circle of healing frost for 10 seconds. You and your group members restore 2358 Health every 1 second while inside the circle. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
Sample Gear Loadout
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Armor Of The Trainee Lightning Staff | Precise / Sharpened | NA | Absorb Magicka |
| Backup | Armor Of The Trainee Frost Staff | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Spinner’s Garments | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Spinner’s Garments | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Chest | Spinner’s Garments | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Waist | Spinner’s Garments | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Spinner’s Garments | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Mother’s Sorrow | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Feet | Mother’s Sorrow | Training | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Mother’s Sorrow | Arcane | NA | Magicka Recovery |
| Ring 1 | Mother’s Sorrow | Arcane | NA | Magicka Recovery |
| Ring 2 | Mother’s Sorrow | Arcane | NA | Magicka Recovery |
Attributes
Most of our skills cost Magicka to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into the Magicka stat will be the most effective.
64 Magicka
0 Health
0 Stamina
Consumables, Race, Mundus
Race
Dark Elf will be the best option for this build as they have good Weapon and Spell Damage as well as Magicka and Stamina to help sustain our skills. Breton is another solid option for beginners, having the best cost reduction for Magicka abilities in the game. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
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Mundus
The Thief
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167
Food/Drink Buff
Witchmother’s potent brew
Increase MaxMagickaby 2856, MaxHealthby 3094, andMagicka Recoveryby 315 for 2 hours.
These effects are scaled based on your level.
Potions
Basic Magicka Potions
Sample Skills
Main Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Blighted Blastbones
- Hungry Scythe
- Unnerving Boneyard
- Inner Light
- Mystic Siphon
- ULT: Glacial Colossus
Backup Weapon: FROST STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Elemental Blockade
- Necrotic Potency
- Skeletal Arcanist
- Spirit Guardian
- Beckoning Armor
- ULT: Ravenous Goliath
Important Passives
- Death Knell
- Reusable Parts
- Dismember
- Death Gleaning
- Evocation
- Concentration
- Prodigy
- Ancient Knowledge
- Last Gasp
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