
Sorcden 100K Permanent Pet Build For Update 46
Season of the Worm Cult
Introduction
Welcome to the latest Pet Sorc build for ESO. This pet sorcerer utilises subclassing to include the Warden's Bear Ultimate, so it has three permanent pets. My goal was not to fill the screen with pets, of which around seven is possible, but to create a build with permanent pets (ie no summoned by procs or skills) that could travel Tamriel with you and yet still do the maximum possible damage. I am certain that the damage of this build cannot as yet be bettered but if you think you know a way to improve it please do let me know.
Here is the Superstar layout for the build showing everything you need to know to make this very fun Sorcden work for you in ESO. (Ignore the back bar skills, I just hadn't bothered taking them off).

Build Discussion
Sets
I have tested multiple different sets and at the time of writing (July 2025) Null Arca and Sergeant's Mail together give the most damage. A secondary choice which will reach 96K is Noble Dualist and coming from Blessed Crucible is much easier to get than Null Arca.




Slivers of the Null Arca
Slivers of the Null Arca is a medium armor set in the Elder Scrolls Online that can be obtained in Lucent Citadel. It is part of the Gold Road DLC pack. Every 4 seconds this set fires a crystal at the enemy that does physical damage. This set will do a little more damage than the Noble Dualist set. Note: The perfected version of this set will add a little more weapon and spell damage (129) and should therefore see a light increase in damage.
Noble Dualist (non-trial set)
Light Set from Blessed Crucible Dungeon
Providing you are within melee range (7 metres) once every 15 seconds you can increase your heavy attack damage by over 2000 per attack with Noble Dualist. The other lines in this set are ok although the first bonus for increased stamina is mostly useless to us as a magicka sorcden sadly, if a similar set is introduced in the future with another magicka line or even better a crit line that would be a no brainer swap-out. A very easy set to farm and I bet most of you have it already.
Sergeant's Mail
Heavy Set from Wayrest Sewers
This is standard fare for all HA sorcs for years, giving up to 2580 damage to your heavy attack builds, only one other bonus is of much use to us and the downside is this set is a heavy set, so it's best to use this set on jewellery and weapons as we want to maintain our penetration and crit damage from the light and medium sets. Again another very easy set to farm if you don't already have it.
Slimecraw One Piece
Also from Wayrest sewers is the Slimecraw mask, use light weight to gain the full effect from the Undaunted Mettle passive, boosting your magicka by 6% as you will have some pieces of each weight equipped. This used to be the #1 choice as before update 46 it had the highest crit of any one piece, it has been nerfed somewhat but is still a good choice.
Oakensoul Ring
This mythic is absolutely vital for this build. If I take off the Oakensoul ring and run another parse the damage will be around 30K less! The amount of buffs it provides is amazing and nothing comes close. It does restrict you to one bar but that doesn't matter in this case as in order to have 3 pets out all the time you need to utilise 6 of your two-bar skills, this doesn't leave enough skills to make up for this missing buffs from oakensoul, even with the new HA mythic from update 46, Rakkhat's Voidmantle. This is the most tedious item to farm for the build, but again I bet many of you already have this mythic as it's so damn useful and is usually top of every player's mythic list.
Conclusion
If you follow this build as laid out in the superstar infographic above you will be able to achieve 100K possibly more, the rotation is easy, the build is easy to use being one bar, it has great survivability and can be used in any content at any level (bar one fight in cloudrest which may see you die because you can't swap bars when required).
Here is the Combat Metrics parse for the 100 K run I did.

Results from Veteran Hard Mode Hel Ra Citadel June 29th 2025. The Shock and Claws build is the top damage dealer. This is on the Mage, the final boss in hard mode. Note this would have been even higher had I not got stun locked and killed twice. According to the graph the build peaked at over 150K! (note this was on the build with Noble Dualist equipped, not Null Arca, otherwise it would have been a little higher).

