The Elder Scrolls Online Classes
There are SIX classes in The Elder Scrolls Online from which to choose. You can be a Dragonknight, Templar, Nightblade, Sorcerer, Warden, or Necromancer. Each of these classes has THREE individual skill lines that make it unique from the rest. These skills vary in visual style, application, and the effects seen during combat or in-game mechanics.
There are three traditional roles in ESO which include a tank, a healer, and a damage dealer. However, the choices for creating a character are endless. Unlike traditional MMORPGs, The Elder Scrolls Online does NOT restrict you to a specific role per class. Instead, every single class in the game can play every single role. Tanks can help with dps and heals. Healers can do damage. DPS can contribute to heals or be tanky. The ONLY difference is YOUR playstyle and how YOU build it. Play your own way. Any class, any race, any role – the choice is yours.
There are countless millions of options in the game so testing what you like before pigeonholing yourself into one way or no way (the typical linear mindset of lesser games in the genre) is the key to maximum enjoyment in the game.
I have multiple builds of each class in various different playstyles each carefully designed and stress-tested to Nirn and back in a huge amount of REAL in-game situations in order to deliver to you fully functioning, successful, content viable builds for players of ALL experience levels!!
Decide which class is the most appealing to you, and then check out the builds I have to offer!
Which class is best for YOU?
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Meet The Dragonknight
The Dragonknight thrives in the heart of battle burning foes with cleansing flames and withstanding almost any assault. With skills like Molten Lava, Dragon Blood, and Fiery Grip, the Dragonknight allows you to win the war!
The Dragonknight class is a base game class. Dragonknights are extremely diverse with excellent melee abilities and ranged casting abilities.
Draw from the power of the earth and mythical dragons while overpowering enemies with ferocious fire spells. Dragonknights use the ancient Akaviri martial arts and wield fiery magic.
According to the lore book “Mythical Beast, Real Powers” by Drusus Ovicula, those fearless mortals who fought legendary dragons became ‘Dragonknights’. They are said to be able to wrap themselves in flame without being burned and can form a loop of flaming chain to draw a target near. Some are even said to be able to literally breathe fire!
Dragonknight Skills
Ardent Flame
Unleash your fury with relentless Fire and Poison abilities that deal devastating damage over time and intensify your attacks.
Ardent Flame Skills
Skill 1: Lava Whip
Skill 2: Searing Strike
Skill 3: Fiery Breath
Skill 4: Fiery Grip
Skill 5: Inferno
Ultimate: Dragonknight Standard
Draconic Power
Harness the power of the ancient Dragons to strengthen your defenses, surround yourself in protective scales, and leap into battle with unstoppable ferocity.
Draconic Power Skills
Skill 1: Spiked Armor
Skill 2: Dark Talons
Skill 3: Dragon Blood
Skill 4: Protective Scale
Skill 5: Inhale
Ultimate: Dragon Leap
Earthen Heart
Draw from the power of the earth to empower you and your allies, stun your foes, and encase yourself in damaging molten lava.
Earthen Heart Skills
Skill 1: Stonefist
Skill 2: Molten Weapons
Skill 3: Obsidian Shield
Skill 4: Petrify
Skill 5: Ash Cloud
Ultimate: Magma Armor
Dragonknight Builds
Toxicity
Toxicity – Stamina Dragonknight PVE Build Written guide and video updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3QqqPLGSrM This stamina Dragonknight build is primarily for END GAME content and the advanced player. Lesser experienced players, if they have the gear and understanding of the class, WILL perform exceptionally well
Almost Immortal Warrior
ALMOST Immortal Warrior – PVE Dragonknight Tank Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. The Almost Immortal Warrior Tank build for the Elder Scrolls Online made it all the way to Oblivion!! After almost 5 years of constantly adapting per patch
Burn
Burn – Magicka Dragonknight PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. This Magicka Dragonknight is for ALL players and for ALL content, YES even the hardest modes and content in the game! There are several different options for gear regardless
Meet The Templar
Templars use the power of the burning sun to deal massive damage to their enemies. With skills like Binding Javelin, Solar Barrage, and Radiating Aura, the Templar deals massive damage to their enemies while restoring health, magicka, and stamina to their allies.
The Templar class is a base game class. The Templar is an extraordinary choice for healing but it’s also capable of tanking and outputting high dps.
Bring justice to Tamriel with cleansing light as a Templar calling on the unlimited power of the sun to destroy your enemies and restore yourself and your allies. Templars are beacons to their allies and blinding threats to their enemies.
According to the lore book “Aura of the Righteous” by Ptolus the Bright, the Priests and Resolutes of Stendarr adapted his glowing fit to smite, defend, and heal. Offensively, the gift manifests as a piercing beam of light. It may also take a form of a diffusing aura that mitigates attacks. The last form is that of a glowing tool meant for cleansing and healing.
Templar Skills
Aedric Spear
Bring holy vengeance with relentless, powerful weapons formed of hard light that can deal magic damage, stun your enemies, and support your allies.
Aedric Spear Skills
Skill 1: Puncturing Strikes
Skill 2: Piercing Javelin
Skill 3: Focused Charge
Skill 4: Spear Shards
Skill 5: Sun Shield
Ultimate: Radial Sweep
Dawn’s Wrath
Unleash the unyielding power of the sun to bathe your enemies in flame and deal massive damage. Empower your attacks and weaken your foes in radiant heat.
Dawn’s Wrath Skills
Skill 1: Sun Fire
Skill 2: Solar Flare
Skill 3: Backlash
Skill 4: Eclipse
Skill 5: Radiant Destruction
Ultimate: Nova
Restoring Light
Restore and protect your allies with the ower of the Aedra’s sacred light. Consecrate the ground and turn the tide of battle with spells that cleanse and protect your team from attack.
Restoring Light Skills
Skill 1: Rushed Ceremony
Skill 2: Healing Ritual
Skill 3: Restoring Aura
Skill 4: Cleansing Ritual
Skill 5: Rune Focus
Ultimate: Rite of Passage
Templar Builds
Lazy Tank
Lazy Tank – PVE Templar Tank Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. The LAZY TANK is finally here, thanks to some BIG changes in the Waking Flame DLC! Generally, people have issues with Templar tanking because of their tool kit.
Off Balance
Off Balance – Magicka Templar PVE Build Written guide and video updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3aKzVnS6-M This PVE Templar magicka DPS build was made for players of all skill levels. Of course, the more advanced player will get more out of it but this will perform
Cleric
The Cleric – PVE Templar Healer Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. If you have played fantasy RPGs or MMORPGs or even tabletop fantasy games in the last 20-30 years, you will know that MOST of the time, generally, HEALER-type
Meet the Sorcerer
Sorcerers use conjuration and destruction spells to hurl lightning bolts, wield dark magic, and summon Daedric combat followers from Oblivion.
The Sorcerer class is a base game class. This powerful caster mainly uses magicka skills to destroy or weaken enemies.
Unlimited power is at the Sorcerer’s fingertips calling powerful lighting strikes, supporting allies, and suppressing enemies. The horrors of Oblivion and the power of lightning itself are at your command.
According to the lore book “On The Utility Of Shock Magic” by Vanus Galerion, the mage can cloak himself in an aura of lightning that will turn aside certain physical and magical attacks.
Sorcerer Skills
Daedric Summoning
Summon terrors from the realm of Oblivion to assault your enemies, and conjure potent armor and shields to keep yourself and your minions in the fight.
Daedric Summoning Skills
Skill 1: Summon Unstable Familiar
Skill 2: Daedric Curse
Skill 3: Summon Winged Twilight
Skill 4: Conjured Ward
Skill 5: Bound Armor
Ultimate: Summon Storm Atronach
Dark Magic
Support your allies and suppress your enemies with insidious but powerful abilities that can immobilize, silence, and even dispel your foes’ own magical abilities.
Dark Magic Skills
Skill 1: Crystal Shard
Skill 2: Encase
Skill 3: Rune Prison
Skill 4: Dark Exchange
Skill 5: Daedric Mines
Ultimate: Negate Magic
Storm Calling
Hurl lightning strikes to deal massive shock damages, thunder across the battlefield, and wreak havoc upon your foes from afar.
Storm Calling Skills
Skill 1: Mages’ Fury
Skill 2: Lightning Form
Skill 3: Lightning Splash
Skill 4: Surge
Skill 5: Bolt Escape
Ultimate: Overload
Sorcerer Builds
Easy Sorc
Easy Sorc – Magicka Sorcerer PVE Build Written guide and video updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPk6VTQNzU EASY MODE! That’s right, the easiest to use Sorcerer build in the game built with quite possibly the highest AOE available, with solid sustain and survival. This is built for
Cleave
Cleave – Stamina Sorcerer PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. It has been a very long time since I updated a stam sorc build but I think the wait was worth it! Instead of following the traditional “dual wield
The Vampire
The Vampire – Magicka Sorcerer PVP Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. VAMPIRE! So many builds out there take advantage of vampire or werewolf but there are two major differences between the two skill lines “generally”. Most of the time
Meet the Nightblade
Attack from the shadows, drain the health from your enemy, then vanish into the void of darkness with the Nightblade. With skills like Teleport Strike, Surprise Attack, and Swallowing Soul, the Nightblade is a powerful outlaw.
The Nightblade class is a base game class. Relying on stealth, blades, and speed, Nightblades thrive on both conflict and misfortune.
According to the lore book “Stepping Through Shadows” by the Glimmering Foxbot, Nightblades trust their luck to survive but have developed the traditional magical art skill to ‘step through shadows’ by mastering translocation.
Nightblade Skills
Assassination
Stike with terrible lethality and leave your foes debilitated, or worse, with abilities that deal massive damage and weaken them for the final blow.
Assassination Skills
Skill 1: Assassin’s Blade
Skill 2: Teleport Strike
Skill 3: Blur
Skill 4: Mark Target
Skill 5: Grim Focus
Ultimate: Death Stroke
Shadow
Embrace the shadows to find the perfect moment to strike or slip away without notice. Terrify your enemies with fearsome spirits and relentless shades.
Shadow Skills
Skill 1: Veiled Strike
Skill 2: Shadow Cloak
Skill 3: Path of Darkness
Skill 4: Aspect of Terror
Skill 5: Summon Shade
Ultimate: Consuming Darkness
Siphoning
Weaken your foes and grant them a slow death with lethal abilities that drain the enemy of their life while also healing you and your allies.
Siphoning Skills
Skill 1: Strife
Skill 2: Malevolent Offering
Skill 3: Cripple
Skill 4: Siphoning Strikes
Skill 5: Drain Power
Ultimate: Soul Shred
Nightblade Builds
Sting
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Ninja
The Ninja – Criminal Nightblade Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. Ever wanted to benefit from a life of crime in The Elder Scrolls Online? Ever wanted to revisit the real Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild playstyles you enjoyed in
Flawless
Flawless – Magicka Nightblade PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. The Magicka Nightblade known as ‘Flawless’ for the Elder Scrolls Online is finally here updated as Flawless ISH !!! I waited a LONG time to release this build originally
Meet The Warden
The Warden is often called the Defender of Nature. With skills like Leeching Vines, Subterranean Assault, and Wild Guardian this class uses nature to its advantage and can summon animal companions!
The Warden class is not a base game class. It was introduced in 2017 with the Morrowind Chapter and its class can be purchased as an upgrade through the Crown Store for 1500 crowns. The Warden is an all-around and versatile class choice. Tank, Healer, DPS, even a well-balanced hybrid are all easily accomplished with the Warden.
Wardens are defenders of nature, and master storytellers whose green tales become magical reality. They wield frost spells against enemies and summon animals to aid them. Wardens have strong healing and damage potential making it a well-balanced class that can easily fit into any role.
According to the lore book “Who Are The Wardens?” by Lady Cinnabar of Taneth, Wardens have a close guardian connection with the god Y’ffre, the deity of song and forest. Wardens are willing and able to shed blood to protect the wilds. There are many reports of Wardens attacking foes that have done harm to their realm.
Wardens draw upon their natural environments and can change the shape of reality itself by using abilities traditionally thought to be either Alteration or Conjuration. Wardens of all races protect Tamriel’s wilderness using nature’s bounty of both plant and animal life in order to survive.
Warden Skills
Animal Companions
Call forth beastes to strike your enemies and empower your attacks, including shrieking cliff racers, monstrous bears, and swarms of stinging fetcherflies.
Animal Companion Skills
Skill 1: Dive
Skill 2: Scorch
Skill 3: Swarm
Skill 4: Betty Netch
Skill 5: Falcon’s Swiftness
Ultimate: Feral Guardian
Green Balance
Maintain balance on the battlefield by drawing from nature to shroud your allies in soothing vines, sprout healing flowers from the earth, and even summon an enchanted forest.
Green Balance Skills
Skill 1: Fungal Growth
Skill 2: Healing Seed
Skill 3: Living Vines
Skill 4: Lotus Flower
Skill 5: Nature’s Grasp
Ultimate: Secluded Grove
Winter’s Embrace
Wield powerful frost magic spells to bolster your defenses and enfeeble your enemies, hindering them in withering, unrelenting cold.
Winter’s Embrace Skills
Skill 1: Frost Cloak
Skill 2: Impaling Shards
Skill 3: Arctic Wind
Skill 4: Crystallized Shield
Skill 5: Frozen Gate
Ultimate: Sleet Storm
Warden Builds
Nature’s Bounty
Nature’s Bounty – Warden Tank/DPS Hybrid PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPjPd8OdoI This is the new PVE tank build for the Warden class. He is built to do everything a tank should be able to do…It can taunt, hold agro, survive, control the
Yogi
Yogi – Stamina Warden PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant FINALLY! A strong, sustainable, VIABLE bow/bow build! Many have tried and wondered “can you play using double bow”? YES of course you can but it was always somewhat difficult
Hist Keeper
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Meet the Necromancer
The Necromancer is a master of death itself. With skills like Ruinous Scythe, Venom Skull, and Braided Tether this class is sustainable with plenty of damage.
The Necromancer class is not a base game class. It was introduced in June 2019 with the Elsweyr chapter and its class can be purchased as an upgrade through the Crown Store for 1500 crowns.
Master the dark arts. Necromancers manipulate souls to raise the dead and empower them. Weave ghastly spells to both cause harm and to heal.
Control the battlefield with the bones of the departed while bending and breaking the dead to create impenetrable barriers. Necromancers can also resurrect defeated allies.
Necromancer Skills
Grave Lord
Imbue the dead with frost, fire, and lightning to bring ruin upon your enemies. Raise the relentless undead and allow your fallen enemies to intensify your unyielding assault.
Grave Lord Skills
Skill 1: Flame Skull
Skill 2: Blast Bones
Skill 3: Boneyard
Skill 4: Skeletal Arcanist
Skill 5: Shocking Siphon
Ultimate: Frozen Colossus
Bone Tyrant
Bend and break the dead to your will and use their remains to create impenetrable barriers and extend your own life. Control the battlefield with the bones of the departed.
Bone Tyrant Skills
Skill 1: Death Scythe
Skill 2: Bone Armor
Skill 3: Bitter Harvest
Skill 4: Bone Totem
Skill 5: Grave Grasp
Ultimate: Bone Goliath Transformation
Living Death
Draw from the power of life and death to replenish and restore your allies. Resurrect your defeated comrades and keep them in the light.
Living Death Skills
Skill 1: Render Flesh
Skill 2: Expunge
Skill 3: Life Amid Death
Skill 4: Spirit Mender
Skill 5: Restoring Tether
Ultimate: Reanimate
Necromancer Builds
Harvester
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Malcolm
Malcolm – Necromancer PVE Tank Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. This tank is designed to be able to build ultimate faster than any other build in the Elder Scrolls Online! The primary role for this regardless of being able
The Lich
The Lich – Magicka Necromancer PVE Build Written guide updated for The Lost Depths DLC: Q3 2022 Older video but still relevant. What do we call this? Magcro? mMag necro? Magromancer?! Pick your poison, I’m sticking with Mag Necro, regardless of the term used to describe it, this class is
Meet the Arcanist
The arcanist will be introduced in Update 40 and the Necrom chapter scheduled for release in June of 2023. As more details become available, we will add them here!
Arcanist Skills
Coming Soon
The arcanist class will be coming with Update 40 and the Necrom chapter scheduled for release in June of 2023. As soon as more information is available, it will be updated here.
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Ultimate:
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Passives
Arcanist Builds
Arcanist Builds will be coming soon. In the meantime, be sure to check out these great builds for other classes.
Polar Express
Polar Express – One Bar Magicka Warden Build Written guide and video updated for The Firesong DLC: Q4 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGfbPqDBV8 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Warden Class was EASY!?… Stop ‘wondering’ you are in the RIGHT PLACE!! This build “Polar Express” has been carefully
Lazy Bones
LAZY BONES! – One Bar Necromancer Build Written guide and video updated for The Firesong DLC: Q4 2022 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Necromancer Class was EASY!?… Stop ‘wondering’ you are in the RIGHT PLACE!! This build “Lazy Bones” has been carefully designed to
B.O.B.B.Y.
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