ESO Arcanist PvP Healer Build

This guide gives gear, skills, champion points, and consumables for an ESO Arcanist PvP Healer Build!

This build has been updated for the Update 40 patch of the Elder Scrolls Online.

Why Should You Play the ESO Arcanist PvP Healer Build?

The ESO Arcanist PvP 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 the burst healing ability, thus can be hard to manage for beginners. However, as long as you have the class passives unlocked, that should not be too much of an issue.

Below is a general PvP Guide that can help anyone understand and developer their PvP knowledge and skill. This video is applicable for every build and should be viewed if you want general ESO PvP knowledge that applies to all aspects, Battlegrounds, Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

Pros	Cons
Great shields with extra healing	Weak Resource sustain
Good at applying buffs and debuffs	Lack the Burst Heal
Good survivability

ESO Arcanist PvP Healer Build Playstyle

The healing in PvP is different from PvE. Your purpose is to provide support, buffs and healing to you and your group and to be the tankiest player on the battlefield. If you want to survive in ESO PvP, you must keep your buffs and healing over time at all times rolling. As a result, the build provides tools within the gear and skills to help you achieve all your tasks as a healer.

Use the following rotation as the starter point. After, apply your buffs on cooldown for the best, highest healing and survivability. Use the environment to your advantage. Never stay in an open field, exposing yourself to damage makes you easy to target and kill. Hide behind objects to lower the pressure. If they can’t see you, they can’t hit you!

Resources and Sustain

With this Healer Arcanist Build, you should have plenty of resources. However, if you run out of magica, do a heavy attack and return to your rotation. Try to use both resource pools (stamina and magicka) to sustain. 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.

Arcanist’s Unique Playstyle

As an Arcanist, you’ll need to generate and consume Cruxes to constantly enhance your stats, so keep close attention to it. The Evolving Runemend skill is the crux builder that also gives you damage reduction for each crux. Next, you’ll be using skills that consume Cruxes, such as Impervious Runeward for an extra shield and healing, also Chakram of Destiny or Tentacular Dread. Your goal is to build up 3x Cruxes, reduce the damage taken, and increase the healing thanks to passives and abilities.

Lastly, always use suggested food and potions. They will improve your survivability and provide more healing per second to your group. Switch the Mundus Stone and skills in and out until you achieve what works best for you!

Skills

Gear 1

Small Group Content

Ideally used with a 2-6 player group.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Magica
Chest	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Almalexia’s Mercy	Well-fitted	Magica
Boots	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Well-fitted	Magica
Belt	light	Almalexia’s Mercy	Well-fitted	Magica
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Perfected Precise Regeneration	Powered	Life Drain Enchantment
Weapon Two	Ice Staff	Mara’s Balm	Defending	Weapon and Spell Damage
Necklace		Almalexia’s Mercy	Infused	Magica Recovery
Ring 1		Almalexia’s Mercy	Infused	Magica Recovery
Ring 2		Almalexia’s Mercy	Infused	Magica Recovery

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Roksa the Warped: found in Bal Sunnar Veteran Dungeon, shoulder from Undaunted vendor. Scribes of Fate DLC.

• Why? Provides better resource sustain which the Arcanist struggles with.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Engine Guardian = Great base game sustain option.
2. Balorgh =best to use for burst ultimate.
3. Valkyn Skoria = great proc damage set if using long lasting channel Fatecarver.

Almalexia’s Mercy: found in Cyrodiil zone, From Cropsford Elite Gear Vendor

• WHY? Good extra healing set

Mara’s Balm: Obtained thru Rewards of the Worth set that can bought from traders.

• WHY? The best overall for pure survivability

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Rallying Cry = great group utility set as well as strong solo with a bonus that increased your offensive and defensive potential.
2. Daedric Trickery = a great craftable defensive back bar option because of the major buffs.
3. Grace of Gloom = God tier survivability but from healing which scales off max health and major evasion proc
4. Powerful Assault = group utility and weapon damage that stacks with Rallying Cry.
5. Robes of the Hist = great back bar healing set alternate to Mara’s Balm.

Perfected Precise Regeneration = obtained in Veteran Maelstrom Arena

• WHY? okay option if you lack resource sustain

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = good 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

Race

Attributes

Mundus Stone

Champion Points

Consumables

Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch

Type: Foods

BEST FOR SUSTAIN: Increase Max Health by 4312, Health Recovery by 406 and Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 369 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Frost Mirriam (1), Perfect Roe (1), Red Meat (1), Tomato (1), White Cap (1)

Jewels of Misrule

Type: Foods

CHEAP SUSTAIN OPTION: Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 357 and Max Health by 3927 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level. Ingredients: Bervez Juice (1), Lotus (1), Mint (1), Rose (1), Columbine (1)

Tri-Restoration Potion or Essence of Health (tri-stat)

Type: Potions

Restore 7329 Health, 6618 Magicka, and 6618 Stamina immediately. Grants Major Fortitude, Major Intellect, and Major Endurance which increase your Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower

Passives

• Class Passives
• Weapon Passives
  • Restoration Staff
  • Destruction Staff
• Armor Passives
  • Light
  • Medium
  • Heavy
• Guild Passives
  • Fighters Guild
  • Undaunted
  • Mages Guild
  • Psijic Order
• Alliance Passives
  • Assault
  • Support
• World Passives
  • Soul Magic

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