The Arcane Archer - Oakensoul Bow Sorcerer
This is a solo bow build for the stamina sorcerer. It is a light hybrid build utilizing three magicka themed skills and the powerful Vateshran Bow.
Sets
Skills
Champion Points
Champion Bar
Passive Stars
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Battle Mastery
40
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Blessed
20
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Eldritch Insight
20
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Elemental Aegis
20
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Flawless Ritual
40
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Hardy
20
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Mighty
30
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Piercing
20
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Precision
20
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Preparation
20
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Quick Recovery
20
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Tireless Discipline
20
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War Mage
30
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Bashing Brutality
20
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Defiance
20
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Fortification
30
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Hasty
16
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Hero's Vigor
20
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Mystic Tenacity
50
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Nimble Protector
6
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Piercing Gaze
30
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Savage Defense
30
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Sprinter
20
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Tempered Soul
50
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Tireless Guardian
20
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Tumbling
30
Character
Consumables
Food/Drink
Potions
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Essence of Health -
Crown Tri-Restoration Potion
Passives
Sorcerer
Weapon
Armor
World
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Continuous Attack
Alliance War
Assault
Racial
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Medicinal Use
Craft
Alchemy
Buffs/Debuffs
| Name | Effect |
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Increases the damage of your Heavy Attacks by 70%. |
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Increases all damage done by 10% |
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Reduces Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948 |
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Increases Weapon Damage by 20% |
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Increases Movement Speed by 30% |
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Increases Mounted Speed by 30% |
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Increases Spell Critical chance by 12% |
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Increases Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 5948 |
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Increases Weapon Critical by 12% |
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Increases Spell Damage by 20% |
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Decreases Damage Taken in Dungeons & Trials by 5% |
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Increases all damage done by 5% |
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Increases Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 215 |
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Increases your Stamina Recovery by 15% |
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Increases Critical Damage by 10% |
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Increases Health Recovery by 15% |
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Grants 1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds |
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Increases your Magicka Recovery by 15% |
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Increases Healing Done by 8% |
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Increases Spell Critical chance by 6% |
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Reduces damage taken by 5% |
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Increases damage dealt in Dungeons and Trials by 5% |
Guide
This build currently has three setups, one for score running in veteran Vateshran Hollows, and one for soloing Harrowstorms (plus all but one world boss) and most normal DLC dungeons/veteran base game dungeons.
All three variations of the build play fairly the same, but their sets differentiate things a bit for slightly different purposes. Twice-Fanged Seperent with Lethal Injection provides excellent add clear for Vateshran Hollows, allowing you to pull adds with ease with a very strong single ability. Pillar of Nirn provides amazing single target damage on bosses and very tightly grouped adds. Venomous Smite provides very good single target damage on bosses with excellent cleave, but at the possibility of the proc firing on a low health enemy and losing that proc when the enemy dies.
The rotation for all three setups for actual content is: Critical Surge > Razor Caltrops > Hurricane/Poison Injection > Crystal Fragments (procced or not) > spam Focused Aim. While spamming Focused Aim, keep up Caltrops at 14 seconds to maintain major breach, keep up Hurricane or Poison Injection on cooldown (which you use depends on the situation, generally Poison Injection will deal more single target damage, but Hurricane makes kiting enemies easier and provides more area of effect damage for stationary fights), and fire off Crystal Fragments whenever it is procced (the skill icon turns pink and your hands glow) or when you need a bit extra healing.
Keep your potion up on cooldown. The guide says Tri-Stat potions, but if you are on a khajiit or a wood elf, trash essence of stamina potions work just fine. Tri-stat potions can be used for harder content for the extra health recovery and heal however, which is very useful.
The build is very simple, and very effective.
Possibly coming soon: more defensive options for harder hitting content like veteran DLC dungeons.
