PvP Altmer Templar Mag DPS

Dual Swords / Destro or Resto Setups (small or large group play)

Soulshine + War Maiden + Grothdarr – This is your high DPS setup for PvP, and sacrifices defensive effects for pure damage. Only with Burning Spellweave can you achieve higher DPS, and that is sporadic and harder to achieve in PvP than PvE. In this setup you will be using 2 Soulshine Swords (which aren’t as hard to get as you’d think), a Soulshine Resto and Soulshine Jewelry, with War Maiden on your body. Since Soulshine comes with Max Health on it’s jewelry you will need to switch Monster Helm sets to something with Max Magicka, like Grothdarr. This is an ideal setup for someone off healing as well, since Destro doesn’t synergize well with these sets.

Soulshine affects the following abilities: Dark Flare, Puncturing Sweep (although the tooltip will not show the damage increase), Radiant Oppression and Soul Assault.

Soulshine + Kagrenac’s Hope + Grothdarr  – This is a more balanced setup where Kag’s will still benefit a Destro as it is straight Spell Damage, but works better with a Resto, since Soulshine still doesn’t. In this setup you will have extremely high Health, so this is a more tanky setup than you will usually run, but being in light armor, you really can’t get enough Health.

Cyrodiil’s Light + Soulshine + Grothdarr – What I like about this setup is that Cyrodiil’s Light has 2 Max Magicka bonuses and Soulshine has 1 Max Magicka bonus and 3 Max Health from the Jewelry traits, so you’ll come out really balanced. With this setup you’ll need all Magicka Recovery enchants on your jewelry to compensate. I feel this setup is, however, slightly less effective than using Wizard’s Riposte since you don’t get the damage reduction unless you are attacking.

You could also use Burning Spellweave, Spinners or Julianos in this sort of setup. In Horns of the Reach, Spell Penetration will be halved on Sharpened weapons, so this Spinners will be even more helpful than it is now.