One Bar Heavy Attack Templar DPS Build - ESO Guide

• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock, Lingering Torment, Force) - your source of crucial Empower buff, which increases damage done by Heavy Attacks by 70%. Since Ulfsild's Contingency is a Mages Guild skill, it will trigger the Might of the Guild passive, which grants you Empower for 10 seconds. It also deals decent damage in an AoE and grants you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. Ulfsild's Contingency is delayed until the next skill cast but whenever it's needed you can activate it early by bashing your enemy. If you cast this ability as you're finishing your Heavy Attack, the Empower you gain from it will start working just in time to boost the final tick of that Heavy Attack you just finished
• Blazing Spear - a 10 second ground DoT which has to be slotted to trigger Aedric Spear skill line's passives
• Merciless Resolve - an ability that will cause your Light and Heavy Attacks to generate stacks. You can spend 5 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range. It also grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy
• Camouflaged Hunter - this ability will grant you the Minor Berserk buff which increases your damage done by 5% for 5 seconds after you deal Critical Damage from enemy's flank, which has a very wide radius. It will also trigger the Slayer passive, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 3%.
• Banner Bearer (Magic, Cavalier's Charge, Heroism) - increases your Magical damage done by 6%, grants Weapon Damage based on your movement speed and grants Minor Heroism, increasing your ultimate generation. You can use the Class Mastery instead of Cavalier's Charge if your base class is Templar
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Concealed Weapon - an ability that will passively grant us 15% movement speed, which will grant us 90 Weapon and Spell Damage thanks to the Cavalier's Charge script on Banner Bearer

Whenever you need to slot situational skills, replace Camouflaged Hunter

• Elemental Blockade - your source of Off Balance if supports aren't providing it. It requires enemies to be Concussed, so you'll have to use Shock enchant to proc it or rely on your teammates for that.
• Hurricane - an ability that deals decent damage. increases your Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive and grants you Major Resolve, increasing your armor. Usually Major Resolve should be provided by your tank, but if it isn't, you can use Hurricane instead and it's only a slight DPS loss compared to Camouflaged Hunter because Hurricane itself deals really good damage
• Critical Surge - a very strong self-heal. Use it when you need a self-heal because you're assigned to some duty which puts you far away from your group, or if your healers are bad. It also increases your Weapon and Spell Damage through the Expert Mage passive
• Inner Light - an alternative for Camouflaged Hunter when Minor Berserk is provided by healers. Instead of 3% Weapon and Spell Damage and Minor Berserk, it provides 7% Max Magicka. 5% from the ability itself and 2% from the Magicka Controller passive
• Radiant Ward - a defensive alternative to Blazing Spear. You'll lose out on a strong DoT, but you'll keep access to Aedric Spear skill line's passives. Radiant Ward is a damage shield that also deals AoE damage around you when used.

Priority List

This is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh.

If you're tracking the Off Balance debuff, you should cancel your Heavy Attack when there's around 1-2 seconds left on the Off Balance Immunity. This way the next Heavy Attack you start will finish its channel during Off Balance and you'll be able to fit 3 Heavy Attacks during a single Off Balance window

• 1. Ulfsild's Contingency if your Empower is out or if it's going to run out by the end of the Heavy Attack you're channeling
• 2. Soul Harvest whenever it's ready
• 3. Blazing Spear
• 4. Merciless Resolve if you have at least 5 stacks
• 5. Ulfsild's Contingency as a filler

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Banner Bearer