ESO Templar Class Guide
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The Templar in The Elder Scrolls Online is a versatile class capable of excelling as a damage dealer, healer, or tank. With its holy-themed abilities, the Templar channels the power of light and the sun to smite enemies, protect allies, and restore health. This ESO Templar class guide provides a full breakdown of skills, morphs, passives, and ultimates so you can maximize your effectiveness across all roles in both PvE and PvP.
The Templar class offers three distinct skill lines—Aedric Spear, Dawn’s Wrath, and Restoring Light. Each skill line specializes in different aspects of gameplay. Aedric Spear delivers high damage and crowd control, Dawn’s Wrath focuses on fiery magic and debuffs to weaken opponents, and Restoring Light empowers you with some of the strongest healing and support tools in the game.
Whether you’re burning down bosses with Puncturing Sweep and Solar Barrage, controlling groups with Blazing Spear, or keeping your team alive with Breath of Life and Healing Ritual, this page outlines every ability, passive, and ultimate in one place for quick reference.
Aedric Spear
Aedric SpearAedric Spear is the offensive line of the Templar, delivering piercing strikes and AoE control. Abilities like Puncturing Sweep and Blazing Spear are staples for DPS rotations, while passives improve damage, critical chance, and survivability.
Dawn’s Wrath
Dawn’s Wrath harnesses the sun’s power to burn enemies and weaken them with powerful debuffs. Skills like Solar Barrage and Eclipse deal damage and suppress foes, while passives enhance group damage and resource management.
Restoring Light
Restoring Light is the Templar’s dedicated healing and support tree. It offers some of the strongest healing in ESO with abilities like Breath of Life and Healing Ritual, alongside powerful passives that boost Magicka recovery and group sustain.
The Templar excels in every role — damage, healing, and tanking — thanks to its balanced toolkit of offensive, defensive, and restorative abilities. For optimized setups across all playstyles, visit our ESO Templar Builds page.