Arcanist DPS Guide | Top Damage Dealer Builds for PvE Solo/Group Content | ESO Update 40
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- Thanks for watching my Arcanist PvE DPS guide for both Stamina and Magicka for the Elder Scrolls Online Update 40: Infinite Archive. I hope it helps you get the most out of your Arcanist!
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IMPORTANT VIDEOS
► Tips to GO FAR in the Endless Archive - • 📝 5 Important Tips to ...
► Everything to Know for Update 40 - • 📝 Important Changes Co...
► Interview w/ Lead Encounter Designer: Mike Finnigan - • Inside Look into the E...
► How to Setup Enchantments - • Best Enchantments for ...
► Weapon Comparisons in ESO - • Which Weapon Type Shou...
► Best Races in ESO - • Which Race Should I Pi...
► Arcanist DPS Guide - • Arcanist PvE Damage De...
► Top DPS Sets Update 38 - • THE BEST DPS GEAR in E...
► Top Monster Sets - • The Top 10 Monster Set...
► Endless Dungeon Info! - • NEW DETAILS on ENDLESS...
► DPS Checklist - • Don’t Miss Anything Im...
► Guide to Critical Hit Systems - • Helping You Better Und...
► Guide to Penetration and Armor - • Easiest Guide to Armor...
► Optimizing Magicka and Stamina - • Best Ways to Setup You...
► Guide to the Trial Dummy - • How to Increase Your D...
GREAT RESOURCES
► Race Comparison Sheet - tinyurl.com/57frccev
► Damage Modifiers Calculator - tinyurl.com/bvvvrer4
► Harpooner's Kilt Cheat Sheet - tinyurl.com/4f8s282k
► Update 39 DPS Ability Sheet - tinyurl.com/mwztam4c
► Add-Ons Currently Used - tinyurl.com/y8zhz4m3
► ESO-U - eso-u.com/
► UESP - en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
► Gear Information - www.eso-sets.com
► Skill Information - www.eso-skillbook.com
TIMESTAMPS
Introduction 0:00
Attributes 0:17
Top Races 1:08
Mundus Stone 1:21
Food / Drinks 1:59
Potions 3:26
Champion Points 6:10
Standard Gear Setups 8:38
Non-Trials Gear Setup 13:32
Arcanist Main Strength for Gear 13:48
AoE Heavy Gear Setups 14:32
Short Burst Gear Setups 15:39
One Bar Build Gear Setups 17:48
Infinite Archive Late Gear Setups 18:22
Standard Skills 22:07
Bow & 2H Skill Setup 27:56
1.5 Bar DW Skill Setup 28:24
Infinite Archive Skills 29:23
One Bar Build Skills 30:47
General Combat Rotation 31:09
Great Content Creators' Videos 33:21
Summary/Outro/Thanks! 34:00
#eso #elderscrollsonline #mmorpg - Hry
Thanks so much for watching! If you are interested in digging deeper, I recommend joining the discord server for daily discussions around ESO: discord.com/invite/F3Zd2ZzJNh
Thank you for the video. Another good reason to go with Stamina (for the Infinite Archive anyway) is you are still able to flail and beam inside negates. And the casters in there must have heard how much we love negates.
Yep, good point on that!
Done both sides stam for arcanist is superior
Unfortunately argonian don't work as mag arc
@@wolfofodin1996 Any elaboration on why? Skinny doesnt really explain. I generally favour mag but if stam really is better, I dont mind switching. Main thing I notice is that Ansuul and Deadly (which are my favs) are both medium...
Appreciate this! Especially the alternative options given. I am a huge fan of the azureblight set, I can confidently say it is my favorite set in the game. And I haven't gotten to use it on the arca yet though I've been wanting to, now I just feel like going ahead and trying it, time to swap gear between characters :D
This was extremely helpful while leveling and gearing my new Arcanist. I'm doing the Coral+Deadly (Daggers) w/ Maelstrom Inf backbar right now and it is SO solid! New fan of your guides! I never leave comments or subscribe, so feel special. :P
Well thank you! I appreciate it! Glad it helped.
The way u post were the stuff goes is a huge huge help u would not beleive how many people have trouble understanding that no matter how many times u explain it that alone is why i semd people 2 ur vids because very few do that n video its usually in written guide
As always, thank you for another great video to study! Cya next time.
Good to know that not a lot has changed since the last Arcanist guide of yours. Great vid anyways mate!
been waiting for this
Thanks Skinny! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Great stuff. Many thanks!
Great video as always! Much love brother!
Thank you! Same to you. Merry Christmas
Ohhhh Thanks Skinny Santa for that Christmas Treat! I Hope you will have lovely Holidays! And a big MIAAUUUU to your fury little Angels xD
Same to you. Happy holidays and merry Christmas!
Great video as always man. Happy holidays skinny!
Thank you! Happy holidays!
I run Riptide on my Magica based Arcanist. I find that with proper potion use, I have no issues at all with keeping my stamina down where it needs to be with the casts that I have to use that drain stam.... Arcanist has so many great options that cross the standard options.
Hello, i come here espcially to say many thanks for your excellent written guide! Thank you!
@@TheJcukeng thanks!
Another good craftable set is Kvatch's Gladiators set. I've seen some really interesting results in content with it.
Yeah I really like that on NB and Templar. Did Ansuul HM with it on my NB actually.
Hello, great guide, thanks you.
Without trial gear, playing nirn + deadly strike. Is there something stopping us from procing nirn once every 10 seconds on backbar instead of using the maelstrom staff, to benefit from using spectral cloak daggers on frontbar ?
MERRY CHRISTMAS, SKINNY!!!❤❤❤
Merry Christmas! ❤️
13:40 dragon top right corner, saw it out of the corner of my eye and thought a giant bug was in my room
hey skinny! i was wondering for update 41 if the enchants are still the same for the daggers? same with the traits?
Bro didn't want the crit farm headache which i can totally respect.
*Exploiter CP point work best with the Master Lightning Staff. you can proc off-balance every single time with lightning to begin your combo. Spread your tentacles for crux --> apply Elemental Susceptibility --> slam your staff with blockade --> buff your damage with Shock Reach --> switch to your main bar for the beam. Then keep slamming that staff to reproc off-balance once the cooldown is over. i prefer lightning over the fire staff. Currently trying to find a set that will work best if i proc Major Vulnerability + Off Balance at the same time and nuke with beam which means, i will have to lose mythic items but as long as the damage is close enough with the mythic item or surpass it than it doesn't really matter if i have mythic or not.*
right now i only wish i had a reason to run the IA lol...hopefully next years class sets will be better...(look and performance wise)...and hopefully they release the outfit styles at the same time
Great video and the written guide! What’s the best mundus and blue CP for the short burst setups? Warrior?
Could be if you are really focused on that and already at the crit dmg cap. Otherwise the shadow if you need the crit dmg. Usually, I just leave the thief cause other aspects of what I’m doing aren’t gonna be well suited for those 2
wow great video. Can you use bow on the 1 bar build? IF so how would you change the skills? If not when you are xp grinding without bow on back bar how do u pull all the mobs? THanks
jewles of misrule is a cheaper option instead of smoked bear haunch. Slightly less stats but health and recovs. Thats what i normally use, but everyone has their own way.
Good call!
So 3 months later would you still recommend dual wield \ inferno staff as the go to for an arcanist stam build?
Would it be possible to reach around 110k dps with Deadly and Order's Wrath? I'm currently parsing 93-96k but can't seem to improve it, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if I have achieved close to the maximum dps with this setup
May shor smile upon you sir cheeks for these holidays.
And you as well!
For those who don't got the Mytics yet, what set would you recomend for head and Shoulders?
Nice vid man, just wondering I just started playing and was looking for addons but they all say out of date and don’t work? Any tips ?
i need a update for the 1.5 bar build. it got me 107k before the nerf. love your stuff by the way
If I want to go a pure mag build and go staff staff, what would you recommend swap deadly cloak out for? I got lucky and got the inferno with precise trait for deadly in purple for a STEAL. And I feel like I have to do a pure mag build with this
Pets need to be slottable on 1 bar but active on both like every other skill now. To avoid being too OP perhaps limit it to one pet active at a time unless double barred ?
What is the best addon to track off balance? I need something that’s in my face and prominent. I haven’t found anything like that, any suggestion?
Am I able to use a master perfected bow for back bar for more single target?I have the perfected staff inferno
Hey bout the standard gear i was gone a while now so i dont have either trial set how much of a dps difference would Pillar Of Nirn make?
Very good Video. Whats the Addon that tracks the Clobal Cooldown and the Cast Time of the Beam?
Crutch alerts gives the timer. Combat metronome shows the gcd.
@@skinnycheeks That combat metronome? How did you manage to incorporte Exhausing Fatecarver? The spell is longer than what CN can handle.
Thank you for the guide, love it! Is it viable to use the full hp+pale order infinite archive build for solo arenas etc? Or for solo content it is better to use regular stam build, just with pale order?
Thanks! Regular stam is usually better but if you want to put a little in health, you def can!
@@skinnycheeks thank you!
Hey Skinny, for a full mag route, how viable is a double inferno staff setup? The passive boosts our dots and beam by 12%. Stam sustain would be an issue for flail, but what about just using flail to keep up the debuff while dropping blade cloak for runeblades as the main crux builder?
You could do that but you should be able to sustain flail which would be a bit better
If I’m using the stamina build can I still use the maelstorm staff or do I need to be running the 2h
Would running a 2H on a backbar be just as viable as running a Inferno Staff on arcanist? If so what would u replace skill wise to make it viable?
ansuul and dealy have i and this is megaaaaa op beam over 35-40k hits
Hey Skinny, does it make sense to run Pillar and Deadly until we get trail gear? Love the vid
Yep, that’d be a great combo. And thanks!
Another great set for arkanist is innate axiom
Do you have beginning guide one for Templar or sorcerer. Sorry I'm new
How do I sustain stamina on this build without missing the pen cap? I'm running 6 light and 1 medium to have a good crit chance and pen but I can't sustain flail since it uses stamina. Should I swap to 2 maces on the front to keep pen and use medium? Also what crit chance should I be aiming for on this build since I'm kind of relying on mothers sorrow but can't sustain because its a light set.
What about a lightning staff instead of a flame staff on the front bar? Is the flame staff that much better even with the 12% damage boost to channeled abilities? Just curious if you've tried it.
The thing is, beam also counts as a dot, so flame staff boosts beam too, plus all your other dots. They are both fine. Inferno is just a little better
@skinnycheeks ohhh ok! I didn't know it counted at a dot as well, thank you!
Please explain the mechanical acuity interaction with ravage health? Is the damage inflicted with the potion “you deal” it?
Yes and it is never a crit
When you duo Archive, are you running a dedicated tank to survive? If I was running that much medium, I think it be dead quick by Arc 6/7! 😅
Yes best to have a tank and a dps
Awesome guide! My guild tells that going full stamina is a waste of time. They all play hybrid arcanist. Have you heard about that?
By hybrid I mean 64 mag and many stamina skills. They say it does more dmg
Thank you. That is incorrect though. The damage is the same whether you have 64 points into stamina or magicka. It just scales off the higher of the two. But sustaining the top damage builds is easier with points into stamina, plus the best damage set, coral riptide, is much easier to get good results with as a stamina character as well.
Hybrid is the way yes, but every class and setup is hybrid now to some extent. Doesn’t matter if you put points in mag or stam for that. They are not correct about 64 into magicka doing more dmg.
@@skinnycheeks thank you so much for your reply! I enjoy stamina builds more and want stamina arcanist as well. But I will use Ansul, not Riptide.
@@barryallen4205 ansuul is a great option too!
Anyone know if Deadly Strike and Mother's sorrow is a good combo? If not I could switch mother's sorrow with Orders wrath
Hi! How do the channeling abilities of arcanist work? Do you need to hold the skill button or just press once?
Just press it and it goes, no need to hold
@@skinnycheeks thanks
Is it fine to run Deadly on body with Order’s Wrath frontbar? It would be a much cheaper option cause Deadly daggers are so expensive.
yeah that's fine. doesn't really matter for that combo.
I don't understand how using Tincture of creeping ravage health potions help you reach max stacks faster for Mechanical Acuity. How does taking damage tie in with dealing non critical damage?
This
@@shadowedone1248 I just looked in to it... I think it is because you do non critical damage TO YOURSELF and it counts to proc the set and build stacks. Although, from what I've been reading online, it looks like this has been patched and no longer works?
I'm using Deadly Strike with Pillar of Nirn 5 pieces, Velothi Ur, Slimecraw x1 and Blackrose Daggers, it works really well and I end up on the leaderboard most weeks but I never thought of switching more defensively in later Arcs, does that mean encounters are more drawn out and struggling for Stamina resources though?
Not really cause you should have a lot of extra recovery from visions
Could I use inferno FB also? just unsure of what skills I would use if I go this route
yeah I have setups on the website for that. not much changes really
Helmet, chest and Pants always make reforced for the Endless Archive Rest divine.
Helm and feet have same armor value so it doesn’t really matter. I did feet but if you wanna do helm and have your monster set as a shoulder then go for it.
hey, whats the skill setup for trash?
Are front bar daggers good for 1.5 bar setup or flame staff is better?
front bar daggers are generally slightly better, but flame is very good too
@@skinnycheeks nice, thanks!
I've been in my kitchen but I didn't hear any aegis but nirn like 2 times.
Why not aegis? Higher aoe, less chance to MISS the damage from the 5th line and even if you crit on the first hit and then equal Aegis on the rest, you are doing 20% more dmg with aegis. And if you don't crit with nirn you do like 40-50% more damage with aegis.
My main issue even when I did the aegis build for sorc build, was that I didn't count 9 hits, so it made the set a little weaker and it had stamina regen. BUT it hits 9 times so it beats nirn. Also i've seen people pull ads or the boss away from my nirn proc, SO MANY TIMES I AM TRAUMATIZED BY IT.
Aegis is great overall but it doesn’t work as well on arcanist cause you can’t proc it while you are beaming so the uptime isn’t as consistent as other classes
Hey man. I just wanted to know if it is worth grabbing this class, as I don't want to get nerfs slapped with it.
arcanist is amazing right now. but no one is immune to future nerfs lol
What passives are used?
What does the off balance icon look like on the dummy?
@@crazyjrho swirlies over the head. Lasts 7 seconds then off 15 then on 7 then off 15, repeat
New player here, just hit my first 50 after a decade! ( started in ESO Beta, never stuck around till now ) And I'm a little confused on what I should do for my Fitness Champion Points!
It’s mostly dependent on content and preference but the 3 slottables on the top left are super common to run and great ones to start working towards.
@@skinnycheeks Thank you!
Hey skinny what guilds do u join
Just wanting for dps
Hello, for 64 magicka player I would have to go all light and front staff? or?
No wouldn’t need to, no. You can do a staff if you want but that works with both magicka and stamina.
Im runing deadly + ansuul but im wondering if fhis is the top or azure is berrer
Azure is better when there are multiple enemies grouped up. It’s listed in the AoE section of the vid
Can someone explain to me why people like to use Deadly on the weapons instead of armor only? Don't you miss out on the damage increase when you switch to your backbar?
Depends what you are pairing it with. Some setups you put the other set front barred
@@skinnycheeks - How do you decide? If I were pairing it with, say, Pillar of Nirn, do I want to use Deadly weapons, and leave Pillar on the body to make sure it procs on cooldown? Is that an example of how the reasoning would go?
@@mayedalshamsi would be the opposite. Since pillar is a proc, that is what you’d want front barred. Deadly is a static bonus so you’d want it always active. But if you paired deadly with something like coral, the bonus from coral is a little higher so you’d want that always active but really it doesn’t make a huge difference either way
@@skinnycheeks - I see. I think I get it now. Thank you for the explanation, and the great videos. 😇
Can someone tell me how this is suppose to work. I get having one or two magica skills on a stam build, but this entire back bar is magica, that’s impossible to sustain for me. What am I missing here please?
if you are using potions with magicka return on them, such as tri-stat potions, sustain should be very easy. your magicka abilities have pretty long timers on them.
Flawless Dawnbreaker slotted as ulti on Main dps bar, restore 3 ulti on a mob kill, yes or no? It is confusion pure, wheill an
*fighterguild ability* sloted and Not an *ultimative ability*
Pls for help cannot See it
Yeah it counts for the passive
@@skinnycheeks awesome! Thank you very much🙏😎
Will you be updating the Warden DPS build to U40?
most likely won't have time.
How much more dps loss is bow instead of fire staff? Id much rather run bow as i feel weird usinh staff on a stam aha
It's not much different it is just a little harder to sustain
I knew there was something up with ansuul's. I was recently farming vDSA, and I was using perfected sul xans and deadly. For one run I ran perfected ansuul's and deadly and it actually outperformed sul xan by a good bit. I thought combat metrics made a mistake or something.
why is there a random guy running circles in the background with a dog? lol
can i use torough pact instead of vrol ?
yeah but I'd front bar it and use blackrose prison dw as a backbar set
Why is there no guids for mag arcanist? Are they that bad?
The guide is the same. You just put points into magicka instead. Pretty much the same build you just sustain worse
Arcanist domain or heavy att solve pool issue for mag.
Every build has down side anyway. Most stam arc keep dying during fight. 😅
The hemorrhage status doesn't (isn't supposed to) effect any elites or bosses (which are generally the only enemies worth specific attention); for this reason I wonder why so many use the barbed trap. I'm aware of the 20sec minor force buff but the channeled acceleration skill gives this buff for thrice that long. If the trap is simply for the bleed damage, cool, but carve seems a better option for bleed dot damage imo (in addition to pillar of nirn). If there's another reason, I'd like to know to feed my curiosity.
While I play all seven classes, my main is a sorc & don't really see the point of using the trap. However again, curious to see what others think about the skill.
That is not correct. Hemorrhage does affect elites and bosses. I think you are thinking of the minor mangle that it provides as well. That part does not work. The additional bleed damage (hemorrhaging) does work though and hits really hard. Barbed trap keeps this up best cause it has a higher chance to proc it.
@@skinnycheeks Yes sir, that's what I mean, the effect that removes 10% of the enemies health. Curiosity still remains; is the skill used only for the bleed damage? As a console player, we don't have the option to quickly switch skills around & a skill that would only provide decent damage to a stationary boss (in my testing. I run tank most of the time) doesn't seem worth the bar space. Of course, could just be my playstyle. Regardless, thanx for the reply.
@@pragmaticeagle4832 it is a dot itself plus the hemo bleed together make it one of the strongest dots in the game. Plus as a fighters guild skill you get 3% more weapon and spell dmg just for slotting it. Plus the minor force if you need it. It’s really good.
@@skinnycheeksUnderstood, thank you. I tend to get minor force from channeled acceleration & plenty of bleed damage from nirn. Playing sorc, it's often difficult to sacrifice 1 or both pets for something. However, I will give the trap another try on my non-sorc toons.
Unblinking eye isn't fighters guild for 1 bar setup at the end 😂
Whoops. Control c control v strikes again
Is this build still viable I heard about nerfs to hemorrhaging
Yeah build still works. Just lost some bleed dmg
You don't ever explain red tree
Red tree is mostly personally preference or changed to fit the specific encounter.
Why do all guide and builds go straight to stamina, i dont wanna play stam
Then use magicka attributes and magicka glyphs. I explained that in the video. Check it out!
@@skinnycheeks Hey man, thanks for the vid. Just adding another question to this, are daggers locked in? I kinda wanna play my Arcanist like a mage, was thinking Lightning staff for front bar? I understand it wouldn't be as optimal as dual wield, but would I be completely gimping myself? If I did go lightning/fire staff for front and back, would I definitely use Magicka morphs? Sorry am still quite new to the game
@@ryanrichards4901 nah staff is good too. Inferno is slightly better than lightning cause beam also counts as a dot and you’ll have more status effect and dot dmg in your build than direct and channel. But they both work well.
Hey, a returning player here. Is this build still dated?
99% of the info is still the same.
@@skinnycheeks Thanks! Good guide by the way
@@agreeable-youth thanks!
This video doesn't feel for beginners I think. Seems like a very good video just when, like me, you are still learning a lot this is way too hard to understand. Been looking for beginner friendly information on a lot of things but keep getting lost in a lot of info, words and most of all abbreviations that I dont understand, making following guides very hard.
Anyone any tips?
* also the pain of learning too late that I messed up things on my characters like champion points or skill morphs and such. I'm kinda lost now in what character to focus on or starting a new one all together
You can easily reset all skills and champion points. You can even do this for free in your home if you place an armory station and then choose the empty build. Other things will come with experience
How does this reach 132k dps?
Did you watch the video?
I did sorry I should have been clearer. It was late when I commented, I meant which set up they all look like a lot of fun and building a few of them.
I also ment no disrespect, I believe and trust your builds. My mind is just whirling with the possibilities but I've been away a while and breaking back in
No disrespect taken. I shared some setups that could reach that amount then talked about and linked to other creators who demonstrated that on the dummy.
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Hi! Nice video! Do you continue recommending pragmatic fatecarver instead of exhausting after the shield nerf for infinite archive? thx
it's still a nice shield covering half your health. for survival I definitely think it is good still.
@@skinnycheeks (Inserts meme of Bernie sanders asking again for support) Hi! It's me again! After the nerf to barbed trap would you maintain it here or would you change the skill for another? thx