For too long the magical discipline of Necromancy has been disregarded as a mere subset of Conjuration, or worse, dismissed outright because it is ‘evil.’ It heals now!”
– Orryn the Black, probably

Class: Necromancer
Role: Healer-tank

Hey, you thought Ring of the Wild Hunt makes you fast? Wait until you see this!

Gear

Sets

Aetherial Ascension – This set alone gives us the ability to hit the armor cap (33k). Coupled with ability to heal yourself, it makes you almost indestructible vs 1 opponent. Downside is harsh, but…
Snow Treaders – …but we negate almost every part of it with Snow Threaders, except stun. To make things even funnier, we add Charging Maneuver to our skill list (+45%), 3x Swift traits (+18%/+21%), and The Steed (+10%) mundus. Total speed max = 176%, which cannot be lowered.
Monster set 1pc, magica regen
Vesture of Darloc Brae – we are not planning to deal damage, so we can infinitely crouch, and we plan to use a lot of magica. This set will provide us both with magica and stamina regen, in insane amounts.

Armor types

5pc heavy, 1pc mid, 1pc light – maximize armor and stat pools.

Enchantments & Traits

Mana enchantments everywhere, tri-stat enchaments on biggest pieces if you can afford them.
Impenetrable trait on armor.
Spell Damage enchantments on jewelry.
Swift trait on jewelry.
Defending trait on both weapons – good part of hitting armor cap.

Food & Drinks

Bewitched Sugar Skulls – max out stat pools. Need magica for healing power, need health to survive, and stamina use is pretty dire - Charging Maneuver + stun break will eat the whole stamina pool, buffed. HP regen is neat with potions.
(Best, but costs a lot) Health + Physical def + Magickal def potion, crafted – gives another 5k armor. Now you can ask “why do you need another 5k armor if you already hit the cap?”. Well, it is PvP, opponents have penetration.
(Good option) PvP vendor health pots – solid option too. Sparing stamina on stun breaks will allow you to use Charging Maneuver more often. They cost way less than what you earn in PvP.
(Cheap) magica pots – it’s not like your magica is limitless, so chugging magica pots while spamming harder wouldn’t hurt.

Attributes

Vampire stage 1 – we don’t have spare resources, and we don’t want to screw health regen, but we need vampire skill Dark Stalker.
Steed mundus – speed is a cheap way to reduce incoming damage. HP regen isn’t high here, but can be boosted by HP potions listed above.
(Notable mentions) Atronach mundus – if you lack sustain, this is your best fix.

Magicka	Health	Stamina
64	0	0

Skills

Math

One may ask why is that so important to be at armor cap. True, armor rating scales linearly, so 660 armor is always 1% mitigation. But.

Let’s say you have 10% mitigation and you go up to 20% mitigation.
You will now take (1-0.2)/(1-0.1)=0.89 damage, or 11% less.

Now if you have 40% mitigation and you go up to 50%:
You will now take (1-0.5)/(1-0.4)=0.83 damage, or 17% less.

So higher you go, more value it means.

Now you might question yourself “why do I need to go above armor cap then?”.
The answer is “Because PvP: people do run penetrations”.

Magicka users will have ~5k pen just from Concentration. Another 6k from Elemental Drain if they use Wrath of Elements. And they can bump it even higher with Sharpened weapon trait.

As for stamina, you can see math section of Mend-Paw Habasi.

So you can’t get way too high - unless stacking armors made you totally useless and not impactful.

I’m playing High Elf, but best races here would probably be Nord (+armor), Breton (+magres, sustain), Argonian (heal power, sustain).

Tips

If you are low on stamina, you can stand still to regenerate it faster.
Make sure you always crouch. Resurrection will cancel crouch. Can’t capture flags or pick up relic/ball in crouch, so turn it off only for those ocassions.
Put AoE HoTs in advance.

Gameplay videos

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