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One Bar Magicka Templar Solo Build - ESO Guide

Solo One Bar Magicka Pure Class Templar
Up to date for: Update 51 - 1st October 2026
Last changed: Update 51 - 1st October 2026
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One Bar Magicka Templar (MagPlar) Solo Build for ESO Update 51. is a very strong spammable thanks to the Class Mastery, and is a very strong execute. This build uses a single skill bar, so you don't need to manage bar swapping.

This setup soloed Moon Hunter Keep with 3 Misfortunes. I reached 58,237 DPS on the 6 million Target Dummy.

Works for all kinds of solo content - overland at any Challenge Difficulty up to Vestige, World Bosses, Maelstrom Arena, Vateshran Hollows, early arcs in Infinite Archive, and Veteran Dungeon soloing.

There's also a two bar version of this build - the Magicka Templar Solo Build.

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Skills

  • now costs 3240 Magicka instead of being free

Gear

  • now works in Overland
  • now places its area 3.5 meters in front of you instead of at a random point within 5 meters, reduces its radius from 4.5 to 4 meters, and places the area directly under you while stationary

Templar

  • now grants 2974 Armor instead of
  • now grants 2% Armor plus another 2% per Templar ability slotted. It also grants Weapon and Spell Damage equal to 0.4% of total Armor plus 75 per Templar ability slotted, with no cap.
  • increases to 1600 damage from 1400
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Simulated Parse Tables

I built a simulator that takes the current setup from the guide and plays it through the listed rotation. It uses the listed gear, skills, Champion Points, race, food, potions, target armor and target health. It tracks skill casts, light attacks, DoT ticks, cooldowns, execute scaling, crits and status effect rolls.

Most comparison tables use deterministic rolls on a 15 million HP target unless the row says 6m, random, or real CMX. There is no 15 million Target Dummy in ESO. I use that health value because the 6 million dummy dies too fast, so random crits, status effects and execute timing can move the DPS by a lot.

For comparison tables I keep the setup identical and change one thing at a time. That makes the tables better for comparing options than random dummy parses, where one run can get better crits, different status effects or a better execute window.

The baseline sim uses and .

Run Simulated DPS Notes
15m deterministic sim
56.4k DPS
Used for most comparison tables
6m deterministic sim
55.8k DPS
Same setup on real dummy health
Real 6m CMX parse
58.2k DPS
Recorded in game
100 random 6m sims
Lowest 54.1k DPS
Highest 57.9k DPS
This is why random parses are unreliable when crits and status effects roll differently
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Class Mastery

Class Masteries are a system where each class picks 2 of 5 passive bonuses (Class Mastery Points, not Skill Points). Activating subclassing disables Class Mastery, so it's a tradeoff between keeping your native skill lines or subclassing.

Default

Templar Class Mastery

Judgment's Brand

Judgement follows in the wake of your radiance.

When rank 2 of deals damage, your Templar abilities gain 1600 damage done for 3.1 seconds. This bonus is halved against players.

Notes

Simply the best damage option.

Templar Class Mastery

Bright Harbinger

Light's banner instills hope. You are its bearer.

Upgrades rank 2 of to also grant Bright Harbinger for the duration, which grants 300 Weapon and Spell Damage to allies and doubles for you.

Notes

Simply the best damage option.

Situational

Templar Class Mastery

Devout Guardian

Radiant is the shield that pushes back the dark.

While is active, you gain a damage shield for 6 seconds, up to once every 6 seconds. The shield absorbs up to Damage Shield and provides 300 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery while active. If the shield breaks, you gain 10 Ultimate.

Damage Shield

Coefficient20% Max Health
TagsDamage ShieldSingle TargetDirect

Notes

Replace with if you need more survivability.

Templar Class Mastery

Steadfast Candescence

Your conviction is unwavering. Light gives no quarter.

now activates and refreshes itself while Bracing. Increases the amount of damage you can block by 20% while stationary.

Notes

Replace with in fights where you need Block Mitigation.

Not worth it

Templar Class Mastery

Bastion of Light

Light consecrates the ground on which you tread.

is now applied while you are in your own and , and while and are active.

While is active, you heal for Health every 1 second. If you are at full Health after being healed from this effect while in combat, you also gain 2 Ultimate.

Health

Coefficient8% Max Health
Tick RateEvery 1s
TagsHealingSingle TargetHoT

Notes

Not useful for this setup.

Skill Setups

Base Setup

A base setup that will work for most situations and which should be your starting point when making situational setups.

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Puncturing SweepMorph of Puncturing Strikes Slot 1: Restoring Aura
Slot 2: Radiant GloryMorph of Radiant Destruction
Slot 3: Power of the LightMorph of Backlash
Slot 4: Channeled FocusMorph of Rune Focus
Slot 5: Solar Barrage Morph of Solar Flare
Ultimate: Everlasting SweepMorph of Radial Sweep
  • - a spammable that will heal you for 25% of the damage done and deals full damage in an AoE
  • - an execute to which you should switch when your enemy is below 27% HP. It'll heal you for 15% of the damage done
  • - an ability that deals a lot of damage and applies the status effect. applies and grants you 100 Weapon and Spell Damage for 4 seconds. is also going to proc the passive, granting you for 20 seconds, which increases your Spell Damage by 10%
  • - an ability that places a rune on the ground and grants you for 25 seconds, which is an extremely important defensive buff. It's also going to restore your Magicka and heal you for 2% of your Max Health every second, which increases to 6% if you're standing inside of the rune
  • - a 22 second DoT effect which deals damage around you and increases your damage done with class abilities by 5%
  • - an ultimate that deals AoE damage around you and continues to deal damage for 10 seconds, increasing by 2 seconds for each enemy hit
  • - an ability you can keep slotted on your backbar to gain its passive benefits. It will grant you , and , increasing all your recoveries by 15%
  • replaces in Instanced fights

is the first skill you should replace in Overland. is the first skill you should replace in Instanced fights. If a situational skill says it replaces something else, follow that instead.

  • - your source of which you'll need for Instanced content, because enemies there have more armor. You'll also have to switch to a Destruction Staff to use it
  • - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics. The it provides will also reduce all of your damage taken. It can also be used in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with , and
  • - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
  • - a source of AoE which can be used instead of in AoE fights
  • - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants , reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
  • - snare removal which will be crucial for some fights
  • - a decent ground DoT which cleanses 2 debuffs when cast. It becomes worth it whenever a fight has some important debuff you need to cleanse
  • - a 10 second ground DoT which will grant you a synergy which restores 3960 Stamina and Magicka when used
  • Wield Soul ( , , ) - never the ideal skill but it can be your source of if you want to use a weapon type different than Destruction Staff for roleplay reasons
  • - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight
Rotation Simulated Parse Damage Change
Priority List
56.4k DPS
Baseline
Static Rotation
56.2k DPS
-0.3%

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.

  • 1.
  • 2. (if Instanced)
  • 3.
  • 4. if it's ready
  • 5. (if Overland)
  • 6. below 27% HP
  • 7.

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat.

Final Setups

A few examples of final setups you could end up with after applying the situational skills to the base setup.

A setup for dealing with trash packs.

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Puncturing SweepMorph of Puncturing Strikes Slot 1: Restoring Aura
Slot 2: Radiant GloryMorph of Radiant Destruction
Slot 3: Silver LeashMorph of Silver Bolts
Slot 4: Channeled FocusMorph of Rune Focus
Slot 5: Solar Barrage Morph of Solar Flare
Ultimate: Everlasting SweepMorph of Radial Sweep

What Changes

Changes compared to the Base Setup.

  • replaces

Additional Info

  • replaces in Instanced fights

Skill Setup Comparison

Setup Simulated Parse Damage Change
Oakensoul
68.9k DPS
+22.2%
Base
56.4k DPS
Baseline

Passives

Some trees are only needed when using situational skills. For example, Fighters Guild provides nothing without .

Class

Weapon

Armor

Guild

Alliance War

Racial

Craft

Class - Aedric Spear

Piercing Spear - High Priority

Spear Wall - High Priority

Burning Light - High Priority

Balanced Warrior - High Priority

Gear

Overland (Base) is your starting point and works for most situations. Crafted is a beginner version using only craftable sets. Instanced is a swap for Arenas and Dungeons where enemies have higher armor.

Switching gear for trash packs isn't worth it unless you're using gear-swap addons.

is the default because of its healing. You can replace it with for more damage, but you lose a lot of survivability.

Gear SlotSetWeight/TypeTraitEnchantment
HeadHead Light
ShouldersShoulders Light
ChestChest Medium
HandsHands Light
BeltBelt Light
LegsLegs Light
BootsBoots Light
NecklaceNecklace Jewelry
RingRing Jewelry
RingRing Jewelry
Frontbar Main HandFrontbar Main Hand Dagger
Frontbar Off HandFrontbar Off Hand Dagger

Fallback Gear

Look here You don't need the Archive gear. The Crafted set is about 6.1% less damage.
(Crafted)
About 6.1% less damage
Body
Aetheric Lancer - Class Set (Infinite Archive)

If you don't have it, use in order

  1. - Crafted
Chest, Weapons and Jewelry
Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted

There are no fallbacks because Tide-Born Wildstalker is crafted.

Monster Helm
Slimecraw - Monster Set (Wayrest Sewers I)

Alternatives

  1. - Direfrost Keep
  2. - Scalecaller Peak
  3. - Moongrave Fane
  4. - Stone Garden
  5. - Bedlam Veil
  6. - Night Market
Slivers of the Null Arca

is 0.6% stronger than in the Instanced setup and 0.3% stronger in Overland, but it requires a Perfected Trial set.

Use the Penetration Calculator to fine-tune your penetration for different content. Overland enemies have 9,100 armor while Instanced enemies (Arenas and Dungeons) have 18,200.

Tool Penetration Calculator Check your total armor penetration in ESO and see exactly how much DPS you're losing. Find out if you've hit the penetration cap for the type of content you're doing.

Gear Set Comparisons

Damage comparison for the set options.

Instanced Enemy - 18,200 Armor

All of these use 6 Light / 1 Medium.

Weapons + Jewelry

Compares + X weapons and jewelry set.

Source
Set Source Simulated Parse Damage Change
Trial - Lucent Citadel
56.6k DPS
+0.4%
Crafted
56.4k DPS
Baseline
Trial - Dreadsail Reef
56.8k DPS
+0.8%
Trial - Sanity's Edge
Interrupt 61.4k DPS
No Interrupt 55.6k DPS
+8.9% -1.3%
Dungeon - Frostvault
55.1k DPS
-2.3%
Trial - Lucent Citadel
54.3k DPS
-3.7%
Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave
53.9k DPS
-4.4%
Crafted
54.7k DPS
-2.9%
PvP - Cyrodiil
53.5k DPS
-5.1%
Crafted
53.0k DPS
-6.0%
Dungeon - Falkreath Hold
52.2k DPS
-7.3%
Trial - Rockgrove
Soul 57.4k DPS
No Soul 51.9k DPS
+1.9% -8.0%
Overland - Deshaan
51.5k DPS
-8.6%
Overland - West Weald
51.3k DPS
-9.1%
Crafted
3 Stacks 53.0k DPS
0 Stacks 51.3k DPS
-6.0% -9.0%
Crafted
51.1k DPS
-9.3%
Overland - Wrothgar
51.0k DPS
-9.4%
Crafted
51.3k DPS
-9.0%
Overland - Blackwood
51.0k DPS
-9.6%

Front Bar Weapons

This comparison uses the Overland setup. Daggers are the default weapon, and the other frontbar weapons keep the same skills.

Front Bar Weapon Simulated Parse Damage Change
Dual Wield Daggers
60.1k DPS
Baseline
Lightning Staff
59.5k DPS
-1.1%
Bow
58.4k DPS
-2.9%
Greatsword
56.6k DPS
-5.8%
Inferno Staff
56.0k DPS
-6.9%
Ice Staff
55.5k DPS
-7.7%
One Handed and Shield
54.3k DPS
-9.7%
Restoration Staff
53.9k DPS
-10.4%

Daggers use and . Every one-weapon option uses a weapon. One Handed and Shield uses a one handed weapon plus a shield.

Situational Swaps

Alternative setups for different goals and content types.

Content-Specific Swaps

  • Use in fights where you can kill an add every 30 seconds.
  • Use in fights where you can interrupt something at least once every 30 seconds.

Additional Tips

  • You can change some or all of the enchants to ones for very hard hitting bosses
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Champion Points

Unlock Order

Warfare
6% Direct Damage
Because more than 60% of your damage is Direct
6% Single Target Damage
Because more than 60% of your damage is Single Target
8% Critical Damage and Healing
Next strongest CP damage-wise
205 Weapon and Spell Damage
Next strongest CP damage-wise
More Mitigation
Replace + with 2 mitigation CPs: , , , or (depending on the type of damage the Boss deals to you).
More Healing
is a decent Champion Point if you need more HPS.
Fitness
1400 Max Health
Survivability
1500 Magicka on kills
Sustain
90 Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery
Sustain
1731 Armor
Survivability
Block Mitigation
Use in fights where you block a lot and don't have to move much
Movement Speed
Use in fights where you have to move a lot
Sustain in fights with lots of adds
Use if you need more Stamina in fights with lots of adds
Craft
20% Movement Speed out of combat
Useful utility
Quality of Life
The Craft tree is non-combat utility. Steed's Blessing is the only slottable that matters for actual content, giving you extra movement speed between fights.

Race

For solo you need both damage and survivability, so every race brings something to the table. I use Nord because in difficult solo content the armor racial is worth the DPS trade-off.

Nord
Nord
The tankiest race. Nord is also what I use for soloing Veteran Hard Mode DLC Dungeons. provides around 5-7% damage mitigation depending on your current armor, making difficult content easier to survive without sacrificing much damage.
Rugged 2600 armor
Stalwart 1500 Max Stamina, 0.5 Ultimate per second
Resist Frost 1000 Max Health, 4620 Frost Resistance
Race Simulated Parse Damage Change
Khajiit
59.2k DPS
+5.0%
High Elf
58.4k DPS
+3.7%
Dark Elf
58.2k DPS
+3.3%
Orc
57.3k DPS
+1.7%
Breton
56.6k DPS
+0.4%
Nord
56.4k DPS
Baseline
Wood Elf
56.3k DPS
0.0%
Argonian
56.3k DPS
0.0%
Redguard
56.1k DPS
-0.4%
Imperial
56.1k DPS
-0.4%

Mundus

  • Default

    5.53% Critical Chance(9.04% with 7 )
    Use most of the time. It increases your Critical Chance
  • Difficult Content

    2744 Armor(4489 with 7 )
    Consider switching for extremely difficult dungeons. It increases your Armor

Attributes

For most content you should put all 64 points into Magicka. For difficult content you should devote as many attribute points as necessary to Health - for some content you'll be able to get away with 32 Health 32 Magicka, for the extremely difficult stuff you'll need 64 Health.

Health
0
Stamina
0
Magicka
64
All points into Magicka. Use it for most content
Health
32
Stamina
0
Magicka
32
Split evenly between Health and Magicka. Use this whenever you start to struggle
Health
64
Stamina
0
Magicka
0
All points into Health. Use this for very difficult fights
Attributes Simulated Parse Damage Change
64 Magicka
56.4k DPS
Baseline
32 Health / 32 Magicka
54.7k DPS
-2.9%
64 Health
53.8k DPS
-4.6%

Food

Your sustain can vary greatly because it's impacted by your armor weight composition, your race and how much blocking/dodge rolling you're required to do in a certain fight. Choose the food with more recoveries if you can't sustain

  • Default

    Max Health +5,395 Magicka Recovery +493
    The default option. You need the Magicka Recovery to sustain.
  • Full Damage

    Max Health +3,326 Max Magicka +3,080 Health Recovery +406 Magicka Recovery +338
    If your sustain is good enough, this gives you additional Max Magicka for more damage at the cost of some Recovery compared to .
  • Full Damage

    Max Health +5,414 Max Magicka +4,938
    The strongest damage food, but you'll most likely only be able to sustain with it as a Breton due to the lack of Magicka Recovery.
    Cheaper alternative
    Difference Max Health +5,395 −19 Max Magicka +4,936 −2
  • Sustain

    Max Health +4,312 Health Recovery +406 Stamina Recovery +369 Magicka Recovery +369
    Use it when a fight requires a lot of blocking or dodge rolling and you need additional Stamina Recovery.
    Cheaper alternative
    Difference Max Health +3,927 −385 Health Recovery — −406 Stamina Recovery +357 −12 Magicka Recovery +357 −12

Potions

  • Default

    Restore Magicka
    Use the (Increase Power, Critical, Restore Magicka). They'll greatly improve your sustain and provide and which are crucial.
    Craft with: Corn Flower Dragonthorn Lady's Smock
  • Oakensoul

    Restore Magicka Restore Stamina
    Use when running the setup. Oakensoul already provides and so you don't need them from potions, and restoring Stamina on top of Magicka will help with blocking and dodge rolling. You also get short bursts of from it.
    Craft with: Fossilized Verminous Bones Columbine Lady's Smock

Parses

All parses are recorded on the 6 million Target Dummy

Instanced
58,237 DPS
Regular
41,261 DPS
Oakensoul
47,065 DPS
Overland
33,124 DPS
Instanced
58,237DPS
6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch
Update 51
Armor
6 Light / 1 Medium
Gear Setup
Instanced
Skill Setup
Instanced
Potion
Magicka Power Potion
Food
Orzorga's Red Frothgar
Mundus
Race
Nord
CMX Parse
CMX Setup
Recording
Regular
41,261DPS
6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch
Update 49
Armor
6 Light / 1 Medium
Gear Setup
Regular
Skill Setup
Regular
Potion
Spell Power Potion
Food
None
Mundus
Race
Nord
Using Regular setup
CMX Parse
CMX Setup
Recording
Oakensoul
47,065DPS
6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch
Update 49
Armor
6 Light / 1 Medium
Gear Setup
Oakensoul
Skill Setup
Oakensoul
Potion
Spell Power Potion
Food
None
Mundus
Race
Nord
Using Oakensoul setup
CMX Parse
CMX Setup
Recording
Overland
33,124DPS
6mil Skeleton Dummy
Patch
Update 49
Armor
6 Light / 1 Medium
Gear Setup
Overland
Skill Setup
Overland
Potion
Spell Power Potion
Food
None
Mundus
Race
Nord
Using Overland setup which is heavily underpenning on the Skeleton Dummy. This parse is just to show the rotation, not for comparison
CMX Parse
CMX Setup
Recording

Gameplay

Moon Hunter Keep
Solo Dungeon
Falkreath Hold
Dungeon
Castle Thorn
Dungeon
Vateshran Hollows
Arena
Oakenclaw
World Boss
Cradle of Shadows
Dungeon
Moon Hunter Keep
Solo Dungeon 3 Misfortunes
Falkreath Hold
Dungeon Veteran Hard Mode
Castle Thorn
Dungeon Veteran
Vateshran Hollows
Arena Veteran
Oakenclaw
World Boss
Cradle of Shadows
Dungeon Veteran Hard Mode
Moon Hunter Keep 3 Misfortunes Log
Patch: Update 51 PTS
Falkreath Hold Veteran Hard Mode Log
Patch: Update 49
Castle Thorn Veteran Log
Patch: Update 49
Vateshran Hollows Veteran Log
Patch: Update 49
Oakenclaw Log
Patch: Update 49
Cradle of Shadows Veteran Hard Mode
Patch: Update 44

Fashion

Outfit
One Bar Magicka Templar fashion screenshot
Slot Style Dyes
Head Lucent Sentinel HelmLucent Sentinel Helm
Divine Gold
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Shoulders Lucent Sentinel PauldronsLucent Sentinel Pauldrons
Divine Gold
Chest Ancient Daedric JerkinAncient Daedric Jerkin
Thalmor Black
Divine Gold
Fire Drake's Flame
Hands Annihilarch's Chosen GauntletsAnnihilarch's Chosen Gauntlets
Divine Gold
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Belt Meridian GirdleMeridian Girdle
Divine Gold
Legs Nighthollow GreavesNighthollow Greaves
Divine Gold
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Feet Annihilarch's Chosen SabatonsAnnihilarch's Chosen Sabatons
Divine Gold
Thalmor Black
Thalmor Black
Frontbar Main Hand Ancestral High Elf SwordAncestral High Elf Sword
Julianos White
Divine Gold
Fire Drake's Flame
Frontbar Off Hand Ancestral High Elf SwordAncestral High Elf Sword
Julianos White
Divine Gold
Fire Drake's Flame
One Bar Magicka Templar fashion screenshot

FAQ

Yes. In Instanced content Lightning Staff does the most damage, followed by Ice Staff (-2.3%), Inferno Staff (-3.5%) and Dual Wield Daggers (-3.6%). Bow (-7.4%), Greatsword (-9.2%), One Handed and Shield (-13.0%) and Restoration Staff (-13.5%) lose more. If you use anything other than a Destruction Staff, you'll need with the Breach script as your source of Major Breach instead of .

No, you don't need a different setup. Use the Instanced skill and gear setups from this guide for both Maelstrom Arena and Vateshran Hollows.

Khajiit is the best race for damage, doing about 5% more than Nord in the simulated parses. Nord is the best race for survivability, providing around 5-7% damage mitigation through the racial passive.

Yes, is classified as Direct Damage.

is better for difficult content because of the healing it provides. does more damage (about 22% in the simulated comparison) but has much worse survivability.

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