The Cleric – ESO Templar Healer Build
This written guide supports the full Cleric Templar Healer Build video.
Watch the complete breakdown on YouTube here:
➤ View the Cleric Healer Build Video Guide
Build Overview
Looking for the best Templar healer build in The Elder Scrolls Online? This ESO Cleric healer setup redefines the healer role — combining heavy armor protection, exceptional resource management, and the new Recovery Convergence set to create the ultimate protector. Whether you’re healing in ESO trials, veteran dungeons, or solo arenas, this Templar healer build delivers unmatched sustain and group support.
✨ Highlights
- Recovery Convergence – Overhealing allies restores 6886 stamina & magicka every 20s, replacing synergy bubbles.
- Spell Power Cure – Group-wide Major Courage uptime to boost DPS.
- Earthgore – Burst emergency healing to prevent wipes.
- Guardian Savior – Faster resurrections to keep your group going just incase something goes wrong.
💡 The Design Philosophy
Most players assume healers must wear light armor — but that’s a myth. Light armor has zero passives that directly boost healing. Meanwhile, medium armor adds healing and damage bonuses, and heavy armor gives survival, sustain, and the restoration staff synergies needed for enormous heals.
This build embraces the true cleric fantasy: a war-priest healer who stands in heavy armor sharing the frontlines with tanks. You heal harder, live longer, and keep your group alive through chaos where fragile light-armor healers would crumble.
⚔ Subclassing Power
Subclassing makes this build shine. By combining Templar Restoring Light skills with Warden Green Balance healing and Arcanist Curative Runeforms, the Cleric becomes a sustain engine. Overhealing constantly triggers Recovery Convergence, flooding the group with magicka and stamina while your stacked heals keep everyone safe.
🛡 Why Heavy Armor Healers Rule
Heavy armor lets you survive mechanics that would instantly delete traditional light armor healers. You gain high resistances, more health, and strong sustain from passives. And thanks to Major Mending from heavy attacks, your healing output increases by 16% on demand.
A one-hand & shield back bar adds extra defensive skills for chaotic fights, allowing you to tank brief moments without sacrificing your healing role.
🔥 The Ultimate Protector
- Massive resource gain from heavy attacks + armor passives
- Layered HoTs with powerful burst heals
- Fast, safe resurrections with HoTs ticking
- Natural damage shields for better group survival
- Effortless sustain for allies via Recovery Convergence
- Protective ultimates to stabilize dangerous fights
This ESO Templar healer build works in all content — normal dungeons, veteran trials, arenas, and more. It embodies what a cleric should be: a healer who cannot be broken.
Fashion First - The Cleric Build Style Guide
As demonstrated in the video, our fabulous setup and dress choice for The Cleric is as follows:
| Slot | Weight | Style |
|---|---|---|
| Helmet | Heavy | Telvanni |
| Shoulders | Heavy | Arkthzand Armory |
| Chest | Heavy | Aldmeri |
| Gloves | Heavy | Arkthzand Armory |
| Belt | Heavy | Aldmeri |
| Legs | Heavy | Aldmeri |
| Boots | Heavy | Aldmeri |
| Weapon 1 | Staff | Ebonshadow |
| Weapon 2 | Mace | Arkthzand Armory |
| Weapon 3 | Shield | Wayward Guardian |
🎨 The two colors we are using are Legate’s Black and Windhelm Steel.
The Cleric Build Skills
This healer setup blends Restoring Light, Green Balance, and Curative Runeforms to create one of the most powerful healing combinations ever seen in ESO. With strong healing-over-time, sustain mechanics, and defensive group buffs, The Cleric ensures your allies are always protected.
Front Bar – Restoration Staff
| Slot | Icon | Skill | Skill Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Budding Seeds | Warden (Green Balance) |
| 2 |  | Evolving Runemend | Arcanist (Curative Runeforms) |
| 3 |  | Curative Surge | Arcanist (Curative Runeforms) |
| 4 |  | Fortifying Banner | Scribing |
| 5 |  | Healing Springs | Weapon (Restoration Staff) |
| Ultimate |  | Enchanted Forest | Warden (Green Balance) |
Back Bar – One Hand & Shield
| Slot | Icon | Skill | Skill Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Extended Ritual | Templar (Restoring Light) |
| 2 |  | Channeled Focus | Templar (Restoring Light) |
| 3 |  | Repentance / Pierce Armor | Restoring Light / One Hand & Shield |
| 4 | | Fortifying Banner | Scribing |
| 5 |  | Reconstructive Domain | Arcanist (Curative Runeforms) |
| Ultimate |  | Glyphic of Tides / Spell Wall | Arcanist (Curative Runeforms) / One Hand & Shield |
Note: Fortifying Banner is crafted via Scribing using the Mitigation, War Mage’s Defense, and Resolve scripts.
Class Synergy – The Cleric’s Power Trio
The Cleric healer is built on the unique synergy of three powerful class skill lines:
- Restoring Light – from the Templar, providing core ground-based healing and sustain tools like Extended Ritual and Channeled Focus.
- Green Balance – from the Warden, delivering massive healing-over-time and a group-saving ultimate, Enchanted Forest.
- Curative Runeforms – from the Arcanist, amplifying group sustain, buffing and healing through Evolving Runemend, Reconstructive Domain, and Curative Surge.
Together, these three lines make The Cleric one of the most versatile and powerful healers ESO has ever seen. Over-time heals, sustain mechanics, and protective buffs ensure your group not only survives but thrives.
🏆 ESO Champion Points Explained – Maximize Your Power!
Looking to master the Champion Point system in The Elder Scrolls Online? Whether you're new to CP or trying to optimize for DPS, tanking, or healing, understanding how to spend your points efficiently is essential for dominating PvE and PvP content.
The Champion System unlocks after level 50 and allows players to continue progressing by earning Champion Points (CP). These points enhance your character through three color-coded constellations:
- Warfare (Blue) – Boosts combat power like DPS, healing, critical chance, penetration, as well as healing and resistances.
- Fitness (Red) – Focuses on survivability with resistance, recovery, dodge, and block improvements.
- Craft (Green) – Offers utility bonuses including movement speed, gold gain, and crafting perks.
Not sure how to spend your CP? Xynode Gaming has you covered with the ultimate ESO Champion Points guide video. Learn which CP nodes matter most, which to skip, and how to build for peak performance in dungeons, trials, and solo content.
- Wrathful Strikes
- Master-at-Arms
- Weapon's Expert
- Deadly Aim
Steed's Blessing
This tree is passive, so simply unlock what you can over time. They don't really benefit combat directly.
- Boundless Vitality
- Bloody Renewal
- Fortified
- Siphoning Spells
Learn the full ESO Champion Points system in the full mechanics breakdown video: ▶ Watch the Champion Points Explained Video
🌀 The Cleric Rotation & Gameplay
Generally speaking, a healer does not follow a traditional “rotation.” Healing in The Elder Scrolls Online is one of the most active roles in the game. Dynamic events can happen at any time, and your awareness, positioning, and reaction speed will always matter more than rigid skill order.
That said, there are several buffs and healing-over-time abilities you should maintain at all times:
- Fortifying Banner – should be active at all times during combat. Turn it off outside of fights to conserve resources.
- Channeled Focus – keep it down for sustainability, and defensive bonuses.
- Extended Ritual – maintain for cleansing and healing-over-time.
- Reconstructive Domain and Healing Springs – your core ground HoTs. Note: Healing Springs can be aimed at range to cover distant allies.
- Budding Seeds – refresh often for AoE burst heals.
- Heavy Attacks – always weave them in. They grant Major Mending and restore resources.
Maintaining Evolving Runemend also generates Crux, empowering all your heals. With Crux stacks, your Curative Surge beam becomes a powerful emergency heal, capable of instantly saving allies.
⚡ TL;DR
Maintain floor HoTs at all times, always heavy attack to keep Major Mending, and drop burst heals when needed to cover spikes. The Cleric thrives on proactive healing, sustain, and quick reactions — not rigid rotations.
Potions, Poisons, & Food
🧪 Potion Ingredients
You can use Tri-Stat Potions if you are running degeneration, or if you prefer a squishier, higher-damage setup as mentioned in the video, you can instead use Spell Power Potions.
Tri-Stat Potions
Spell Power Potions
🍲 Food (Max Health + Max Magicka)
Use any two-stat food that gives Max Health and Max Magicka. All three recipes listed below offer identical bonuses — choose whichever is cheapest or easiest for you to craft!
- Mistral Banana-Bunny Hash
Ingredients: Small Game , Bananas , Seasoning - Melon-Baked Parmesan Pork
Ingredients: White Meat , Melon , Cheese - Solitude Salmon-Millet Soup
Ingredients: Fish , Tomato , Millet
The Cleric Build Gear Setup
The Cleric build is one of the most powerful healer setups in The Elder Scrolls Online, combining insane sustain, resource return, and group support with some of the strongest healing tools in the game. This setup ensures survivability, buffs, and protection for every situation — from dungeons to trials.
| Slot | Gear Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Bogdan the Nightflame / Ozezan the Inferno | Medium | Divines | Magicka |
| Shoulders | Bogdan the Nightflame / Ozezan the Inferno | Medium | Divines | Magicka |
| Chest | Lunar Bastion | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Waist | Lunar Bastion | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Hands | Lunar Bastion | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Legs | Lunar Bastion | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Feet | Lunar Bastion | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Ring 1 | Recovery Convergence | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Recovery Convergence | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Necklace | Recovery Convergence | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Recovery Convergence | Restoration Staff | Powered | Weapon / Spell Dmg |
| Weapon 2 | Recovery Convergence / Master | 1 Handed | Defending / Powered | Reduce Weapon/Spell Dmg |
| Weapon 3 | Recovery Convergence / Master | Shield | Reinforced | Magicka |
Note: If you are very experienced and choose to slot a taunt on your back bar (Pierce Armor), then the Sword and Shield should be the Master’s Weapons. This allows you to cap resistances with little effort while also healing from your taunt, effectively letting you play two roles at once when the situation calls for it.
Beginner Gear Alternative
| Slot | Gear Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Bogdan the Nightflame / Chokethorn | Medium | Divines | Magicka |
| Shoulders | Bogdan the Nightflame / Chokethorn | Medium | Divines | Magicka |
| Chest | Seducer | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Waist | Seducer | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Hands | Seducer | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Legs | Seducer | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Feet | Seducer | Heavy | Divines | Magicka |
| Ring 1 | Combat Physician | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Combat Physician | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Necklace | Combat Physician | Jewelry | Arcane | Spell Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Combat Physician | Restoration Staff | Powered | Weapon / Spell Dmg |
| Weapon 2 | Combat Physician | 1 Handed | Defending / Powered | Reduce Weapon/Spell Dmg |
| Weapon 3 | Combat Physician | Shield | Reinforced | Magicka |
This beginner setup does not carry the same strength or proc speed as the endgame version when it comes to damage shields or resource gain. However, it is still very effective and stays true to The Cleric build’s design. In this setup, remove the Banner for Energy Orb. On the back bar you gain a free slot, which means you can run a taunt (Pierce Armor) alongside Repentance if needed. Over time, aim to upgrade into the main Cleric gear setup — even running trials on normal mode will get you the gold-standard gear, and you will not be disappointed!
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