Kal's Grave Lord Warden: Solo Arena - Build PvE - ESO

My Warden DPS build for Update 46. Animal Companion Stamden with Grave Lord and Assassination subclassed.

By kalamon   •  Updated 1 week ago

Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 PvE Stamina Damage Dealer Warden Has Subclassing Setups

Introduction

My Warden DPS build for Update 46. Animal Companion Stamden with Grave Lord and Assassination subclassed.

Armor Sets

All equipped armor sets
Equipped active Skills
The following skill lines from other classes are used : Necromancer -> Grave Lord , Nightblade -> Assassination
Learn more about subclassing here

Champion Points

All active and passive stars

Character

All about character setup

Race Options

Attributes

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    Magicka
    0
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    Health
    0
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    Stamina
    64

Mundus stone, Curse

Food, Drinks & Potions
Icon icon Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
Flour (1)
Potato (1)
Saltrice (1)
Scrib Jelly (1)
Icon icon Dubious Camoran Throne
Beetle Scuttle (3)
Lake Bait (1)
River Bait (1)
White Meat (1)
Guts
Insect Parts
Icon icon Artaeum Takeaway Broth
Fish (20)
Melon (5)
Powdered Mother Of Pearl (5)
Torchbug Thorax (5)
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Crown Tri-Restoration Potion

Passives

All passive Skills

Buffs & Debuffs

Buffs granted from skills, items & potions
Gallop icon
Gallop
Increases Mounted Speed by 15%
Major Brutality icon
Major Brutality
Increases Weapon Damage by 20%
Major Defile icon
Major Defile
Reduces Healing Received and Health Recovery by 16%
Major Expedition icon
Major Expedition
Increases Movement Speed by 30%
Major Prophecy icon
Major Prophecy
Increases Spell Critical chance by 12%
Major Savagery icon
Major Savagery
Increases Weapon Critical by 12%
Major Sorcery icon
Major Sorcery
Increases Spell Damage by 20%
Minor Resolve icon
Minor Resolve
Increases Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 2974
Minor Savagery icon
Minor Savagery
Increases Weapon Critical by 6%
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Minor Slayer
Increases damage dealt in Dungeons and Trials by 5%

Guide

Build Explaination

This build combines Animal Companions, Grave Lord, and Assassination to create a powerful DPS build that has a more complex, asymmetrical rotation which I always love. In an optimal rotation you're trying to balance:

  • Using Blighted Blastbones every 3rd or 4th cast.
  • Timing your Subterranean Assault to sneak in every 7th cast.
  • Keeping Venom Skull rolling as your main spammable, especially when its supercharged 3rd cast is ready.
  • Refreshing your DoTs, Detonating SiphonSkeletal ArcherEndless Hail and Poison Injection when they're ready. With my build, both Endless Hail and Skeletal Archer increase in damage over time so you don't want to refresh them early while Detonating Siphon and Poison Injection can (and sometimes should) be refreshed early.
  • Once the target is below 50% health I begin swapping over to Killer's Blade in place of Venom Skull. I'll still launch a Venom Skull after it gets supercharged by using other Necro skills, but Killer's Blade is my spammable. When the target is below 25%, I start leaning more and more on Killer's Blade, worrying less about optimizing my DOT rotation as the ramping execute damage supercharges Killer's Blade.
  • Bird of Prey and Relentless Focus are slotted for the passive benefits they provide.

Overall, it’s fast and reactive, AND this build boosted my DPS by about 25%. Prior to update 46 I was parsing around 80-85k on the Trial dummy. Which isn't top tier but seemed to be my personal ceiling. With this new subclassed build I'm hitting 105k and I think there's still a lot of room for improvement.

Video

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Updated 1 week ago