ESO Tel Var Farm Build

The Best Solo Build to farm Tel Var in ESO! A Magicka Nightblade Build that will help you earn a small fortune by farming Tel Var in the Sewers and Districts of the Imperial City zone. The Build is utilizing the System of Subclassing and combines Nightblade and Sorcerer abilities. This is a powerful PVE Build for The Imperial City that will help you make Gold in ESO! This is not a PVP Build, you will not survive against a dedicated PVP Build! More Nightblade Guides and Builds you can check:

• Nightblade Beginner Guide
• Nightblade Builds
• Subclassing Builds

Skills for Tel Var Nightblade – Sorcerer Build Setup

This Subclassing Build is using the following Skill Lines:

• Assassination
• Shadow
• Storm Calling

• Concealed Weapon(Veiled Strike)
• Relentless Focus(Grim Focus)
• Endless Fury(Mages’ Fury)
• Barbed Trap(Trap Beast)
• Streak(Bolt Escape)
• Dawnbreaker of Smiting(Dawnbreaker)
• Shadowy Disguise(Shadow Cloak)
• Unstable Wall of Elements(Wall of Elements)
• Boundless Storm(Lightning Form)
• Critical Surge(Surge)
• Elemental Susceptibility(Weakness to Elements)
• Incapacitating Strike(Death Stroke)

Rotation

Cast Boundless Storm, Critical Surge, set Barbed Trap and apply Elemental Susceptibility. Attack with Unstable Wall of Elements, switch bars and continue with Spectral Arrow(always fire it when it is ready), Concealed Weapon. Continue attacking with Concealed Weapon as your spammable and re cast the other skills when necessary.

Use Endless Fury to execute low health enemies, your Ultimates when ready and always Light Attack before every skill to boost your damage. Drink Essence of Detection Potions to boost your damage but to also spot hostile players. Cloak with Shadowy Disguise and escape. Dawnbreaker of Smiting can stun enemies and give you time to escape. Streak is a very helpful skill for escaping as well.

Best Race

The Best Race for the Tel Var Farm Build is Khajiit! The Khajiit race offers a few useful racial passives for the goals of the Build.

• Robustness, increases Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery.
• Lunar Blessings, increases Maximum Health, Stamina and Magicka.
• Feline Ambush, increases Critical Damage and Healing, decreases Detection Radius in Stealth.

The Feline Ambush Passive is the most important reason to pick a Khajiit for the Build. This is mostly because it makes it harder for other players to detect you when you are stealthed!

Best Passive Skills

Very important passive skills that can help you maximize the potential of your Tel Var Farm Build.

• All Passive Skills from your Class’ Lines
• All Passive Skills from Weapon Lines you are using
• Passive Skills from Armor Lines you are using
• Passive Abilities from Guild lines(Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Psijic Order) that affect your skills/Build
• Undaunted Passives
• (Optional)Vampire Passives: Dark Stalker, Strike from the Shadows, Undeath
• Your Racial Passives
• Medicinal Use Passive from Alchemy to boost the effectiveness of Potions

ESO Tel Var Farm Build Subclassing Setup

The Build is using Crafted Sets that you can get easily!

Piece	Set	Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Slimecraw	Light	Divines	Tri-Stat
Shoulders	Wretched Vitality	Medium	Divines	Tri-Stat
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Light	Divines	Tri-Stat
Legs	Order’s Wrath	Light	Divines	Tri-Stat
Chest	Order’s Wrath	Heavy	Divines	Tri-Stat
Waist	Order’s Wrath	Light	Divines	Tri-Stat
Feet	Order’s Wrath	Light	Divines	Tri-Stat
Necklace	Wretched Vitality	Jewel	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
Ring	Wretched Vitality	Jewel	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewel	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
One Handed Weapon	Wretched Vitality	Dagger	Charged	Flame Damage
One Handed Weapon	Wretched Vitality	Dagger	Precise	Poison Damage
Staff	(Perfected)Wrath of Elements	Lightning	Infused	Weakening

• Slimecraw: Veteran Wayrest Sewers I, Maj Al-Ragath
• Order’s Wrath: High Isle, Crafted
• Wretched Vitality: The Deadlands, Crafted
• Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities Reward
• Wrath of Elements: (Veteran)Vateshran Hollows

You can use the above setup to farm Tel Var but to also PVE and complete Daily Quests in Open World PVP zones, like the Imperial City and Cyrodiil.

Champion Points

These are the Best Champion Points for the Build:

Warfare

• Slottable Stars: Master-at-Arms, Ironclad, Wrathful Strikes, Fighting Finesse
• Passive: Eldritch Insight, Piercing, Flawless Ritual, War Mage, Precision, Quick Recovery, Hardy, Elemental Aegis, Preparation, Blessed, Tireless Discipline

Craft

• Slottable: Sustaining Shadows, Steed’s Blessing, Gifted Rider, War Mount
• Passive: Out of Sight, Gilded Fingers, Fortune’s Favor, Wanderer, Steadfast Enchantment, Rationer, Liquid Efficiency

Fitness

• Slottable Stars: Celerity, Rejuvenation, Boundless Vitality, Fortified
• Passive: Sprinter, Hasty, Tireless Guardian, Hero’s Vigor, Mystic Tenacity, Tumbling, Defiance

Best Food and Potions

The Best Food for the Build is Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch! This Food boosts Maximum Health, Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery, which allow you to survive easier and move around while in stealth for more.

The Best Potions for the Build are Essence of Detection Potions! Essence of Detection increases your Stealth Detection, grants Major Savagery, Major Intellect and restores Magicka. The perfect Potion for running around the Imperial City, that will allow you to spot enemy players faster and boost your capabilities.

Attribute Points & Mundus

Allocate all Points(64) to Magicka. Pick the Lover as your boon for better Offensive Penetration.

Sigil of Imperial Retreat ESO

The Imperial City is a dangerous zone. You lose half of the Tel Var you carry if you die there, so do not forget to bank often! Use a Sigil of Imperial Retreat to return fast to your Alliance Base. You can buy the Sigils from the Tel Var General Merchant in your Alliance Base for 10,000 Alliance Points each.