ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build

ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build is intended for the new or returning player who wants a solid Arcanist build to complete any content.

This build has been updated for the Updated 42, the Gold Road Chapter of the Elder Scrolls Online (ESO).

Why Should You Play ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build?

The ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build is an incredible class to play in the group. This build has many shields. As a result, great survivability. Arcanist’s Crux system makes a unique playstyle with three well-equipped skill trees and complete tools for good damage, healing, and survivability. Yet, the Arcanist’s downside can be a weak resource sustain and lack of meta gear sets.

In ESO, the Arcanist Healer PvE is perfect for everyone looking for a unique playstyle with a complete set of tools for group gameplay. If powerful tomes of Hermaeus Mora this build is for you!

ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build Playstyle

Use the following rotation as the starter point. After, apply your buffs on cooldown for the best, highest healing, and survivability. Healing is about keeping up all your buffs, healing over time, and buffing your teammates. Arcanist Healer has a lot of good group tools in its toolkit, so make sure to take advantage of them. Certain 5-piece gear sets require a fully-charge heavy attack to proc extra effect e.g. Roaring Opportunist or Stone-Talker’s Oath.

Take advantage of your passives and game mechanics

Additionally, thanks to the destruction staff passive Elemental Force, you have double chances to apply the so-called status effect. Also, Cycle of Life passive makes your fully-charged Heavy Attacks with restoration staff to restore 30% more Magicka. And because of Essence Drain passive, you gain Major Mending for 4 seconds after completing a fully-charged Heavy Attack, increasing your healing done by 16%. As a result, it’s important to keep heavy attacks in your rotation fully charged to keep uptime high.

Resources and Sustain

If you run out of magicka, do a heavy attack and return to your rotation. Remember that a heavy attack on off-balance enemies will return double the resources. While casting your abilities, be sure to do light and heavy attacks in between, as both help you regenerate ultimate, proc weapon enchantments and specific healer set bonuses. Also, always use the suggested food and potions as they significantly increase your damage, survivability, and resource sustain.

Magicka Arcanist PvE Healer Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build in the Elder Scrolls Online:

• Class – Arcanist
• Weapon One – Restoration staff
• Weapon Two – Destruction Staff
• Armor Types: Light
• Race: Breton
• Attributes: 64 Magicka
• Mundus Stone: Atronach

Skills Setup 1: Trial Skills

Front Bar: Restoration Staff

We use restoration staff for main healing abilities.

Combat Prayer (Morph of Blessing of Protection | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Very important AoE heal that applies Minor Berserk and Minor Resolve, increasing damage output and resistance for you and your allies. Apply these buffs up as much as possible, so use ability as your main spammable.

Illustrious Healing (Morph of Grand Healing | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Great AoE heal over time ability with a big radius. Keep this heal up, especially when stationary. Also used to proc sets requiring a ground cast ability.

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Great multi-targeting heal over time ability, especially for mobile encounters, also helps to proc specific healer sets. Spam ability to cover more targets if needed.

Tidal Chakram (Morph of Chakram Shields | Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Used a spammable shield ability that hits four targets and consumes a crux.

Echoing Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Use this as a stamina based heal to proc Powerful Assault. We put this on our front bar in trials loadout since back bar is for Pillager’s.

Gibbering Shelter (Morph of Gibbering Shield | Skill Line : Soldier of Apocrypha) – This is your huge damage shield that acts similar to barrier but can be better. Use this when taking pressure.

Back Bar: Destruction Staff – Ice Staff

Healers can use all three options, and the choice depends on the situation and content you are trying to complete. For beginners, I advise using lightning staff if you want easier heavy attack channelling or using Ice staff for extra block mitigation and shield if you struggle with survivability.

• Ice staff
• Inferno Staff
• Lightning Staff

Rune of the Colorless Pool (Morph of Rune of Eldritch Horror | Skill Line : Soldier of Apocrypha) – This is a useful debuff skill, single target ideally used on bosses. It procs minor vulnerability and minor brittle. Consider this your back bar flex spot. If you need a burst heal, put on Evolving Runemend here.

Runeguard of Freedom (Morph of Runic Defense | Skill Line : Soldier of Apocrypha) – This skill gives the entire group minor resolve. If you’re playing with a warden using the Frost Cloak skill, your group will have major and minor resolve making everyone much more sturdy.

Energy Orb (Morph of Necrotic Orb | Skill Line : Undaunted) – Main resource sustain synergy for your allies, and also provides a strong AoE heal over time. Keep the orb active and in the proximity of your allies as much as possible

Zenas’ Empowering Disc (Morph of Arcanist’s Domain | Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Another great utility skill, applies Minor Courage, Fortitude, Intellect and Endurance to you and your allies.

Blockade of Frost (Morph of Wall of Elements | Skill Line : Destruction Staff) – Ground cast AoE ability, primarily used to apply status effects that debuff and weapon enchant, making it ideal to use Lighting or Ice staff.

Aggressive Horn (Morph of War Horn | Skill Line : Assault) – One of the most important ultimate abilities for a support role. Grants Major Force increases critical damage by 20%, and also increases Max Magicka and Stamina by 10% for you and your group members. Prioritize use of this ultimate, it provides a huge damage boost to your group, and coordinate with other support roles if possible to keep a high uptime.

Skills Setup 2: Dungeon Skills

Front Bar: Restoration Staff

We use restoration staff for main healing abilities.

Combat Prayer (Morph of Blessing of Protection | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Burst heal and buffs

Illustrious Healing (Morph of Grand Healing | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – AoE heal.

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Healing over time.

Chakram Shields (Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Huge damage shield and spammable in dungeons.

Evolving Runemend (Morph of Runemend | Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Burst healing for high mobility encounters.

Glyphic of the Tides (Morph of Vitalizing Glyphic | Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Used for massive AoE healing great for dungeons.

Back Bar: Destruction Staff – Ice Staff

Healers can use all three options, and the choice depends on the situation and content you are trying to complete. For beginners, I advise using lightning staff if you want easier heavy attack channelling or using Ice staff for extra block mitigation and shield if you struggle with survivability.

• Ice staff
• Inferno Staff
• Lightning Staff

Echoing Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Back bar proc on this build.

Runeguard of Freedom (Morph of Runic Defense | Skill Line : Soldier of Apocrypha) – Use for minor resolve.

Energy Orb (Morph of Necrotic Orb | Skill Line : Undaunted) – Resource sustain.

Zenas’ Empowering Disc (Morph of Arcanist’s Domain | Skill Line : Curative Runeforms) – Used for buffs.

Elemental Blockade (Morph of Wall of Elements | Skill Line : Destruction Staff) – Used for debuffs.

Aggressive Horn (Morph of War Horn | Skill Line : Assault) – Used for burst damage ultimate.

Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO PvE Healer Build

Mender’s Bond and Torchbearer are the best Grimoires (skills) for the Arcanist PvE Healer build.  Mender’s Bond gives minor courage; big heals, and a shield. Torchbearer changed into healing torch grants heroism and damage reduction. This frees up the group to stop running herosim potions and is a huge boon to the group. Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Mender’s Bond (Restoration Staff): Damage Shield (focus script), Sage’s Remedy (signature script), Courage (affix script).
• Torchbearer (Fighters Guild): Healing (focus script), Gladiator’s Tenacity (signature script), and Heroism (affix script).

The Scribing System utilizes one of 11 new skills from the Gold Road Chapter called Grimoires.  With Grimoires, you can customize spells via Scripts.  The scribing feature requires the purchase of the Gold Road Chapter (sponsored link).  To learn more about scribing, check out our full guide here.

Passives Skills

Consider taking all of the passives in the below skill trees to increase your builds performance without slotting any skills:

• Curative Runeforms (class skill line)
• Herald of the Tome (class skill line)
• Soldier of Apocrypha (class skill line)
• Restoration Staff (weapon skill line)
• Destruction Staff (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Undaunted
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Gear Setup 1: Trials Best in Slot

Best in Slot Trials setup for PvE healer, though requires constant bar swaps.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Nazaray	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Nazaray	Divines	Magicka
Chest	medium	Armor of the Trainee	Divines	Magicka
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Perfected Pillager’s Profit	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Spell Power Cure	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Weapon Two	Lighting staff	Perfected Pillager’s Profit	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Pearl of Ehlnofey	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Perfected Pillager’s Profit	Infused	Reduce Spell Cost
Ring 2		Perfected Pillager’s Profit	Infused	Reduce Spell Cost

Check your uptime on Spell Power Cure; if low, drop the Mythic and slot Spell Power Cure on five pieces on the body. You should have high uptime on Major Courage, but check with ESO logs or visually. Moreover, swap out the Spell Power Cure set for another light set if your secondary healer is running it.

Monster Helm

Nazaray: obtained in Shiepwright’s Regret, Ascending Tide DLC. Useful to increase major and minor debuffs when using an ultimate.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Symphony of Blades: Great resource sustain for the entire group
• Sentinel of Rkugamz: Beginner resource sustain set.
• Nightflame = good HPS
• Earthgore = AoE burst heal
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Troll King= niche set for specific trials

Gear Sets

Perfected Pillager’s Profit: obtained in Dreadsail Reef trial, high Isle Chapter. Useful for using a back bar ultimate and feeding ultimate to other players.

Spell Power Cure: obtained from base game White Gold Tower dungeon. This grants major courage, and it’s mobile, though only on one bar, requiring constant bar swaps for high-up time.

Armor of the Trainee: obtained from traders or starter zones like Bal Foyen and Bleakrock Isle. Useful when running a mythic to get an extra bit of health.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Stone-Talker’s Oath= great back bar sustain set
• Perfected Vestments of Olorime = longer lastly, major courage though not mobile
• Z’en’s Redress = niche setup that adds tons of damage
• Powerful Assault: = great increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops on the back bar
• Hollowfang Thirst= another sustain set that can be back bared
• Perfected Saxhleel Champion = great burst damage when combined with a barrier
• Spell Power Cure = major courage and it’s mobile
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Way of Martial Knowledge = great overall DPS added set

Mythic

Pearl of Ehlnofey: obtained through Mythic system in Markarth DLC. Useful to spam ultimate and feed other players with Pillager’s Profit.

Alternative: drop Pearl and Trainee and use an arena weapon.

• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation: the best all-around resource sustain 2pc weapon.
• Perfected Timelss Blessing = good sustain option but you’ll need combat pray
• Force Overflow = good but you’ll need to use the skill force siphon
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = okay option if you lack anything to use

Gear Setup 2: Trials ROJO

Use the ROJO setup as a good alternative gear option but not meta currently.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Legs	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Perfected Grand Rejuvenation	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Weapon Two	Frost > Fire > Lighting	Roaring Opportunist	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Magicka Recovery

• Symphony of Blades: obtained in Depths of Malatar dungeon Wrathstone DLC. Great resource sustain for the entire group.
• Perfected Roaring Opportunist: obtained in Kyne’s Aegis trial Greymoor DLC. The combination of RO/Jorv = enormous DPS for your entire group.
• Jorvuld’s Guidance: obtained in Scalecaller Peak dungeon Dragon Bones DLC. Adds duration to buffs and is helpful when paired with Roaring Opportunitst for burning bosses.
• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation: obtained in Veteran Dragonstar Arena. The best all-around resource sustains 2pc weapon.

Gear Setup 3: Dungeons

This is meant for hard-mode dungeons for huge DPS burst windows.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Perfected Grand Rejuvenation	Powered	Weapon/Spell Damage
Weapon Two	Frost > Fire > Lighting	Master Architect	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Master Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Master Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Master Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage

Use this in four-player content where you need to burn a boss with back bar ultimate.

• Master Architect: Boost your entire team’s DPS for brief time. Found in Halls of Fabrications, Morrowid DLC Trial.
• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation: Provides resource sustain circle. Found in Dragonstar Arena, Base game, Craglorn.
• Spell Power Cure: Gives the party massive boost in damage with heals over time. Found in White-Gold Tower dungeon, Imperial City.
• Symphony of Blades: Provides the party resource sustain. Helm found in Depths of Malatar, Wrathstone DLC.

Gear Setup 4: Beginners

This setup is great for beginners who do not have access to trials gear.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Winter’s Respite	Infused	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Winter’s Respite	Divines	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Armor of the Seducer	Infused	Magicka
Legs	medium	Armor of the Seducer	Infused	Magicka
Gloves	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Willpower	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Weapon Two	Lightning Staff	Willpower	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Winter’s Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Winter’s Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Winter’s Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery

Use this healer gear setup when just starting or if you lack gear suggested above.

• Winter’s Respite: Creates powerful area heal circle. Obtained in Overland, Wester Skyrim DLC Greymoor.
• Willpower: Adds massive magicka with two pieces. Obtained in Imperial City or daily dungeon rewards.
• Armor of the Seducer: Used for resource sustain. Craftable with 3 traits learned in base game zones Deshaan, Grahtwood, Stormhaven.

Race

The best race choices for the Magicka Templar PvE Healer:

1. Breton: Insane sustainability lacks spell damage or increased healing.
2. Argonian: Great for pure healing and survival, lacks sustain and has less Max Magicka.

Attributes

The best choice is 64 magicka, which increases damage, healing, and shields.

Mundus Stone

The Atronach is the best Mundus Stone for PvE Healer Builds because it increases Magicka recovery.

Champion Points – ESO Arcanist PvE Healer Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Treasure Hunter	Soothing Tide	Boundless Vitality
Liquid Efficiency	Swift Renewal	Fortified
Rationer	Rejuvenator	Spirit Mastery
Steed’s Blessing	Enlivening Overflow	Rejuvenation

Warfare Constellation Champion Points

Below is a step-by-step method for slotting your champion points in the Warfare tree (blue).  We have used the minimum possible to reach 4 slottable selections all maxed out.  If you have more CP, consider taking more in the passives for optimal performance.

Below are recommended Warfare Champion Point selections for the Magicka Arcanist PvE Healer Build:

1. Eldritch insight 10
2. Mastered Curation sub-constellation – blessed10
3. Mastered Curation sub-constellation Enlivening overflow (slottable) 50
4. Soothing tide (slottable) 50
5. Rejuvenator (slottable) 50
6. Swift renewal (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 220 CP (660 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Precision 20
2. Eldritch Insight 10
3. Tireless Discipline 20
4. Blessed 10
5. Quick recovery 20
6. Elemental Aegis 20
7. Hardy 20
8. Piercing 20
9. Flawless ritual 40
10. War mage 30
11. Battle mastery 40
12. Mighty 30
13. Preparation 20

This would max out the Warfare tree with all active and passive champion points at 530 spent 1,590 total spent.

Fitness Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Fitness Champion Point selections for the Magicka Arcanist PvE Healer Build:

1. Bondless vitality (slottable) 50
2. Fortified (slottable) 50
3. Rejuvenation (slottable) 50
4. Sprinter 10
5. Wind chaser – sub-constellation – hasty 8
6. Hero’s Vigar 10
7. Piercing gaze 10
8. Tempered soul 25
9. Spirit mastery (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 253 CP (759 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Sprinter 10
2. Hero’s Vigar 10
3. Tumbling 30
4. Defiance 20
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless guardian 10
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble Protector 6
9. Mystic tenacity 50
10. Tempered soul 25
11. Piercing gaze 20
12. Savage defense 30
13. Bashing brutality 20

This would max out the fitness tree with all active passive champion points at 522 cp spent and 1,566 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the Magicka Arcanist PvE Healer Build:

1. Steed’s blessing – (slottable)50
2. Breakfall 10
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Rationer (slottable) 30
6. Liquid efficiency (slottable) 75
7. Treasure hunter (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 240CP (720 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance.

1. Steadfast enchantment 40cp
2. Breakfall 40 cp
3. Wanderer 60
4. Fortunes favor 50
5. Friends in low places 25
6. Out of sight 30
7. Fleet of Phantom 40
8. Soul’s reservoir 33
9. Gilded fingers 50
10. Fortunes favor 40
11. Inspiration boost 45

This would max out the crafting tree with all active passive champion points at 693 cp spent and 2,079 total spent.

Consumables

Clockwork Citrus Filet and Essence of Spell Power are the best consumables for a PVE Healer in the ESO. Clockwork gives you a balance of health and recovery, which is helpful for most healers. You can use Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl if you’re using the ROJO setup or already have good sustain. Bewitch Sugar Skulls is helpful if you need stamina spamming Echoing Vigor. Spell Power Potions are used to source your major buffs and increase recovery. Below are our recommended food and potion choices:

• Clockwork Citrus Filet – Increases max health, health recovery, max magicka, and magicka recovery. Crafted with Provisioning ingredients of Red Meat, Lemon, Frost Mirriam, and Perfect Roe.
• Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl – increases max health and max magicka. Crafted with Provisioning ingredients of Clam Gall, Fish, Honey, and Rice.
• Witchmother’s Potent Brew – Increases max magicka, max health, and magicka recovery. Crafted with Provisioning ingredients of Nightshade, Bervez Juice, Rice, and Small Game.
• Bewitched Sugar Skulls (tri-max stats) – increases max health, stamina, magicka, and health recovery. Crafted with provisioning from ingredients of Scrib Jelly, Flour, Columbine, Bervez Juice, and Honey.
• Essence of Spell Power – grants major critical, major spell power buff, and magicka recovery. Crafted with alchemy from ingredients such as Corn Flower, Lady’s Smock, and Luminous Russula (other combinations).
• Tri-Pots – grants immediate health, stamina and magicka, along with tri-recovery. Crafted with Alchemy from ingredients of Bugloss, Columbine, and Mountain Flower.

Build Summary – Arcanist PvE Healer Build

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