Templar Healer Build - ESO Guide

• Radiating Regeneration - Generally the strongest and most reliable healing skill for mobile fights. It automatically targets the three lowest-Health allies within 28 meters, follows them wherever they move, and procs various effects such as the From the Brink Champion Point, guaranteeing a large shield when a target drops below 25% Health. In dungeons, this is a staple skill that should be double-cast whenever possible to maximize coverage. In trials, however, its value is lower, as maintaining 100% uptime on all 12 group members would require four casts every 10 seconds, making it too resource and GCD intensive for most fights. That said, Radiating Regeneration remains extremely valuable during mechanics where the group must leave the usual ground-based healing-over-time effects. Examples include Asylum Sanctorium, Lucent Citadel second boss Hard Mode, and numerous dungeon fights. It also excels during trial trash packs, where it can be spammed while moving between pulls, ensuring everyone has a heal-over-time effect active before combat begins.
• Mystic Orb - A core support skill thanks to its Combustion synergy, which restores a large amount of resources to allies who activate it. While you do not need to cast Mystic Orb every 10 seconds, you should cast it at least once every 20 seconds, as Combustion has a 20-second synergy cooldown. Beyond its utility, Mystic Orb also provides passive damage over its duration, and the synergy itself deals respectable damage when activated by group members.

  Why Mystic Orb over Energy Orb? Mystic Orb has a lower Magicka cost, making it easier to sustain, and its synergy is particularly effective in short fights such as trial trash packs. When multiple DDs activate the Combustion synergy on a tightly stacked group of enemies, it contributes a significant amount of additional burst damage. While Energy Orb offers extra healing, that healing is generally less reliable, and its synergy is often consumed by players who are already at full Health, reducing its overall value. That said, Energy Orb remains a perfectly viable option, and you are not going to go wrong by using it if your group benefits from the additional healing.

• Combat Prayer - The main burst heal with additional utility. Provides an AoE burst heal, Minor Resolve, and Minor Berserk. During heal check, Combat Prayer is your main spammable AoE burst heal, combined with pre-buffed underlying heals. It is also your main panic burst heal when someone is rapidly losing health. Before spamming Prayer, ideally place your Extended Ritual, Echoing Vigor, and other HoTs to be ticking on allies during the heal mechanic. If all DDs are running Camouflaged Hunter, as is often the case in dungeons, swap it to Blessing of Restoration.
• Purifying Light - Your primary source of the Bright Harbinger Class Mastery and Illuminate passives. It should generally be the first ability you cast when combat begins and must be refreshed at least once every 20 seconds to maintain both buffs. While primarily used for its buffs, Purifying Light also creates a surprisingly strong healing-over-time effect after it explodes. Due to its relatively small radius, this healing is most beneficial for the tank or other melee players standing close to the target. Ideally, cast Purifying Light every 6 seconds. Doing so perfectly aligns with the skill's duration and allows you to consistently proc the Prism passive, providing additional Ultimate generation throughout the fight.
• Healing Springs/Illustrious Healing - The most reliable generic ground heal, useful for all heal checks where the group is remotely stacked. Either morph works. Since sustain is quite good in current builds, my personal recommendation is Illustrious Healing.
• Reviving Barrier - The strongest defensive group Ultimate in the game for safe trifectas and progression groups for its combination of shield strength + cost + heal + affecting all 12 players. It is easily possible to maintain 100% uptime on Barrier with this build, recasting it before the previous shield expires. The value provided by a single Barrier cast can be very high, and will make countless fights significantly easier.
• Overflowing Altar - A staple skill in trials, with at least one healer expected to slot it in virtually every fight. If the other healer is already providing Overflowing Altar, you should replace it with another skill, as only one is generally needed. Overflowing Altar provides one of the strongest defensive synergies in the game, allowing allies to instantly heal for 60% of their maximum Health when activated, while also applying Minor Lifesteal to enemies within its area.

  In dungeons, however, Overflowing Altar is more of a luxury, as bar space is often limited and other skills typically provide greater overall value. It lost value with the release of the Arcanist and the shift towards the beam meta, as the DDs have to interrupt their beam in order to pick up the Altar synergy. During a split-second decision when there is high incoming damage, the reaction time to consciously interrupt the beam + spam X to proc Altar is noticeably longer than spamming X between normal casts. Altar is a very strong synergy nonetheless, especially for the tank, and will save lives, but if your group includes beam-based builds, consider swapping this out for a more consistent heal.

• Extended Ritual - The defining multi-purpose skill of the Templar. It provides the Purify synergy to every other group member, cleansing negative effects, healing allies, and restoring resources through the Undaunted Command passive. It is also one of the most valuable synergies in the game for maintaining Roar of Alkosh uptime, as it is one of the few synergies that all 12 group members can activate independently without competing for it. Extended Ritual heals all players inside of it over time, has a large radius, long duration, and a low cost for what it offers. Most importantly, Extended Ritual activates the Bastion of Light Class Mastery, one of the strongest Ultimate-generating passives available. This enables powerful strategies such as frequent Barrier casts and is a major reason why Templars excel as support healers. Overall, Extended Ritual is by far the strongest ability in the Templar's toolkit and should be slotted in every fight. Keep it active at all times, and whenever possible, remain inside your own Extended Ritual to benefit from Bastion of Light. If you need to reposition, recast it at your new location to maintain the buffs.
• Elemental Blockade - Your primary source of applying Off Balance and maintaining 100% uptime on your back-bar weapon enchantment. Do not cast Elemental Blockade immediately upon entering combat; save Off-Balance for the third or fourth cast, once DDs have applied their DoTs. The exception is fully pre-buffed bosses, where pre-casting Elemental Blockade is better. Off Balance is one of the most important debuffs you can provide, increasing group damage in several ways. Most notably, many damage dealers run the Exploiter Champion Point passive, which increases their damage against Off-Balance enemies by 10%. This is especially impactful during trash packs, where fights are short and maximizing burst damage is critical. In addition, certain classes (most notably the Dragonknight) gain significant benefits when attacking Off-Balance targets. In trials, only one healer or tank needs to be responsible for maintaining Off Balance on each boss or trash pack, so coordinate this role with your group.
• Echoing Vigor - Your most reliable and versatile heal overall. Echoing Vigor is consistent and sticky, following targets regardless of positioning. Its large range also makes it easy to hit multiple allies. If on Powerful Assault, cast it twice in trials (once in dungeons) every 15 seconds together with Elemental Blockade. 15 seconds is the timer of Powerful Assault, despite Echoing Vigor lasting 16 seconds. Note that the Powerful Assault uses smart target prioritization, meaning subsequent casts will search for members without the PA buff and give it to them. The same is not true for Echoing Vigor - it always heals the 6 closest allies to you. For this reason, you need to reposition yourself between Echoing Vigor casts if you want to catch all members with the heal.
• Radiant Aura - A 60 second buff providing Minor Endurance, Minor Fortitude, and Minor Intellect, affecting all 12 players. By far the cheapest, longest-lasting, most reliable source of providing these useful buffs in a trial setting, the Templar is usually responsible for all three. In dungeons this skill is generally not used as the fights are on-average shorter and the bar space is much tighter. If your group needs the recovery buffs, it is better suited for one of the scribed skills, such as Ulfsild's Contingency, to provide this buff.
• Aggressive Horn - The only offensive group ultimate available to the Templar. Provides a unique 10% resource buff, and Major Force. Since Update 50, any optimized group will have Major Force provided by an Arcanist through the Ink Scribe's Verve Class Mastery. One group member still should ideally keep the Horn's resource buff, and the Templar can do a good job at that as well. The resource buff will not only boost damage by a decent amount, but also provide additional sustain. In dungeons this ultimate is far more common on the Templar simply because there is nothing better.

The best skills to replace with situational options are usually Overflowing Altar, Radiant Aura, Echoing Vigor, Illustrious Healing, or Radiating Regeneration.

• Solar Barrage - An alternative to Purifying Light in trash packs and fights where Purifying provides little value. The main advantage of Solar Barrage is that it can be pre-cast before a fight for the Bright Harbinger Class Mastery and Illuminate passive, ensuring other skills can be prioritized upon entering combat.
• Channeled Focus - A Templar class skill for Magicka sustain, healing, and resistances. Slot it when sustain is an issue. You do not have to stand inside the rune to benefit from the Magicka gain. In dungeons the skill has extra utility due to Major Resolve being a rarer buff. In some fights like vAS front kiting where you will be outside of the range of the Warden's Expansive Frost Cloak, this skill gains high value survivability-wise.
• Luminous Shards - A resource-restoring skill that shares the same synergy and cooldown as Mystic Orb's Combustion, but restores both resources and can be cast at range. Useful for fights where one of the tanks is far from the group outside of the Orb's reach, and the tank is struggling with sustain.
• Ritual of Rebirth - An AoE burst heal similar to Combat Prayer that heals 6 allies per cast in an area around you. Generally inferior to the Combat Prayer but it is easier to use due to not requiring any aiming. Also heals a single ally outside of the skill's radius.
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Damage Shield/Growing Impact/Protection) - A highly versatile Scribed skill that excels at proactive healing through shield spam. Each cast applies a large AoE damage shield and an aura buff to up to six nearby allies, with targets determined by proximity. It also has excellent synergy with the shield provided by Soul Burst. The third Script can be adjusted to supply whichever group buff your composition is missing. In dungeons, Growing Impact should be replaced with Class Flourish, as you will be catching all members with the buff anyway.

  Shield spam is one of the strongest forms of proactive healing. Rather than simply restoring Health after damage is taken, shields effectively increase an ally's Health pool, making them significantly more tanky against heavy burst damage and preventable one-shot mechanics. When maintained consistently, this approach often outperforms traditional healing-over-time effects in fights with frequent burst damage. The primary drawback is coverage. Outside of Barrier, there is no reliable spammable shield that instantly affects all 12 group members. Maintaining high shield uptime therefore requires frequent repositioning and repeated casts to keep nearby allies protected.

• Soul Burst (Damage Shield, Anchorite's Potency, Courage/Resolve) - Another exceptional Scribed support skill that complements Ulfsild's Contingency. It grants Minor Courage (or another flexible buff, depending on your chosen Scripts), applies a large AoE damage shield to up to six nearby allies, and provides additional Ultimate generation through Anchorite's Potency. Soul Burst should be pre-cast before boss pulls and while moving between trash packs. Combined with pre-applied HoTs effects such as Echoing Vigor and Radiating Regeneration, shield spam is often safer and more reliable than repeatedly casting Combat Prayer in dungeon content, as a single shield cast immediately protects all nearby allies instead of only healing damage after it has already occurred. When used together, Soul Burst and Ulfsild's Contingency can maintain consistent shields of around 20,000 strength on nearby group members. This makes them exceptionally powerful for progression, no-death, and trifecta runs. A good example is Blackrose Prison, where most deaths are caused by sudden bursts of damage rather than sustained pressure. In fights like these, shield spam directly counters that and is generally the recommended approach.
• Trample (Frost Damage, Assassin's Misery, Heroism) - The most important skill for Ultimate generation in dungeons. Has low value in trials, where a Warden support will be providing Major Heroism via the Bountiful Harvest Class Mastery. When Major Heroism is not provided from another source, aim for 100% Trample uptime, as it is a crucial buff that directly improves either damage or survivability depending on the Ultimate used. In fights with many adds, including trash pulls, aim Trample into the group to proc AoE Concussion, leading to AoE Off-Balance through Elemental Blockade, buffing the group damage by 10% via the Exploiter champion point.
• Trample (Frost Damage, Immobilizing Strike, Off Balance) - Another versatile way to use the Trample skill in trials. The Immobilizing Strike + Off Balance variant is mostly used on trash packs for instant Off-Balance, rather than having to cast Elemental Blockade additionally. The immobilize part is a flex spot. Immobilizing enemies that the tanks chain will help keep everything stacked a little bit faster, and alleviate immobilize duty from them.
• Banner Bearer (Shock Damage, Druid's Resurgence, Courage) - Provides a powerful passive buff to the entire group. Grants a 6% direct damage buff, 139 Magicka/Stamina Recovery, and Minor Courage as long as the allies stand within 8 meters of the Banner holder. It affects up to 6 group members and needs to be slotted on both bars. Damage dealers are often the ones wearing Banner in trials, but in dungeons it is often the case that none have it, making you the next best choice. In case Banner is covered by other group members, feel free to remove yours as only one buff is active per player. Always make sure you have at least 1 Banner per dungeon and 2 per trial. If your group has another source of Minor Courage, consider swapping it out for Minor Heroism.
• Energy Orb - When every source of healing matters, replace the Mystic Orb with Energy Orb for extra healing. If timed right, the heal from the Combustion synergy can be very beneficial during certain mechanics. The heal over time part of the Energy Orb should not be relied upon, as the range is small and the Orb dynamically moves out of the group.
• Blessing of Restoration - Use this morph instead of Combat Prayer when all DDs are running Camouflaged Hunter, as the Minor Berserk portion is not needed anymore. More common in dungeons.
• Crushing Shock - A ranged interrupt required for certain fights, such as the second boss in Bal Sunnar, back kiter in Asylum Sanctorium, or Ansuul in Sanity's Edge.
• Mystic Guard - A powerful damage mitigating tool to combat some of the high pressure situations on tanks. In some trial fights, a healer might be on guard duty, such as Dreadsail Reef 2nd boss HM. Generally unnecessary, but it can help if the Tank is struggling on especially difficult bosses, such as Stone Garden HM. Overall, no fight absolutely requires Guard, but if your tank is struggling, you'd be surprised how much of a difference a Guard can make. It comes at a noticeable cost of 2 skill slots.
• Efficient Purge - A straightforward skill, removing 3 negative effects from group members. Useful for purging certain mechanics, such as the fire DoT from the second boss in Lep Seclusa, totems on the first boss in Kyne's Aegis, poison from Netches and Archers in Blackrose Prison, breath from the last boss in Lair of Maarselok, etc.
• Propelling Shield - Situationally useful when the group struggles with specific mechanics, such as the second boss in Bal Sunnar. The range on Crushing Shock alone is not enough without stepping into darkness, but Propelling Shield allows safe interrupts from within the protective circle. Generally unnecessary, as the healer can usually step into the darkness and survive while interrupting.
• Race Against Time - Useful in highly mobile fights, such as the final boss in Castle Thorn.
• Charging Maneuver - Same as Race Against Time, but a stronger buff for the whole group. Has a very high Stamina cost. In fights where being mobile in specific phases is important, such as Tideborn Taleria in Dreadsail Reef, Kazpian in Ossein Cage, or Xalvakka in Rockgrove, one support will usually be on Maneuver duty. Always a useful skill in trash packs as well. Pairs well with Martial Knowledge to dump Stamina for better buff uptimes.
• Wield Soul (Pull/Druid's Resurgence/Cowardice or Maim) - A chain ability useful in certain fights for grouping and soft taunting adds together. Silver Leash is the non-scribed alternative.
• Travelling Knife (Multi-Target / Assassin's Misery / Off Balance) - An alternative way to provide AoE Off-Balance on-demand, as well as a strong debuff on the boss, increasing the status effect chance of all allies by 100%. Since virtually every DD nowadays applies at the very minimum a few status effects such as poisoned and burning, it boosts group DPS by a non-negligible amount. It pairs well with Martial Knowledge on boss fights, as the knife allows the user to dump their stamina quickly and consistently.
• Quick Cloak - A selfish flex spot skill which gives Major Expedition, Major Evasion, and auto procs the dual wield enchantments on cooldown without having to light attack or swap bars. It provides a lot of tankiness and high mobility on-demand, but does not benefit the group directly.

As with all healer rotations, priorities are dynamic and depend entirely on the fight. During low-pressure situations, prioritize buffs over healing. During heavy incoming damage, prioritize healing instead. If someone is dying, cast Combat Prayer on them and re-apply HoTs as soon as possible.

Example rotation

Similar to damage dealers, healers should maintain a rotation of buffs, debuffs, and heals. Try to cast one skill per second, with a light attack weaved in-between, though you will not be as punished for missing light attacks as a damage dealer. It is often said that healers "parse in reverse" compared to DDs - heals first, then buffs/debuffs (or buffs first if the fight has no incoming damage at the start), then resource-buffing skills - but the basic principle of casting one skill per second and maintaining a rotation does not change. Practice the rotation on a dummy to build muscle memory. While it will not perfectly replicate real gameplay, developing habits such as drinking potions on cooldown and maintaining 100% uptime on crucial buffs will significantly improve your performance in real content.