ESO Magicka Templar PvP Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Magicka Templar PvP Build, skills, gear, champion points, and more!

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

Magicka Templar PvP Gameplay in ESO

The ESO Magicka Templar PvP Build is ideal for players looking for maximum survivability with high burst potential. Magplar PvP is a great place to start because it’s simple yet effective and has a main spammable damage ability that also heals you.

Templar Class Pros

• Best Execute: Radiant Glory is the pinnacle of ranged executes, providing powerful damage and healing based on damage dealt.
• Beginner Friendly: Magplars are excellent choices for newcomers to PvP, offering innate toughness, a unique cleanse ability, and burst healing.
• One-vs-One Prowess: Experienced duelists can excel in one-vs-one encounters against nearly any class. The Magplar’s toolkit provides ample opportunities for offense and defense, making it a formidable opponent in duels and small-scale engagements.

Templar Class Cons

• Weak Sustain: Templars struggle with resource management, requiring multiple skills or sets to maintain their resources in prolonged fights. This can leave them vulnerable to resource depletion and subsequent loss of effectiveness.
• Lower Mobility: Like many other classes, Templars suffer from poor innate mobility. This limitation can hinder their ability to maneuver effectively in fast-paced combat situations, making them susceptible to being kited or overwhelmed by faster opponents.
• Constant Buff Cycling: Maintaining optimal performance as a Magplar requires frequent cycling of buffs to maximize resource management, damage output, and survivability. This constant need for buff management can be demanding and distract from other aspects of combat.

Playing a Magicka Templar in PvP revolves around leveraging your resilience, healing abilities, and versatile toolkit to outlast and outmaneuver your opponents. Whether engaging in close-quarters combat or skirmishing from range, the key is to capitalize on your strengths while mitigating your weaknesses.

ESO Magicka Templar PvP Features

• Class: Templar
• Primary Weapon: Dual Wield
• Secondary Weapon: Frost Staff
• Armor Types: 3 Light, 1 Medium, 3 Heavy
• Race: High Elf
• Attributes: 32 Health, 32 Magicka
• Infection: Vampire Stage 3
• Mundus Stone: Atronach
• Best Grimoires: Traveling Knife, Soul Burst

Skill Setup 1: Melee

Skill Bars for Melee Build Front Bar

Use dual wield on front bar.

Toppling Charge (Morph of Focused Charge | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Gap closer and stun.

Solar Barrage (Morph of Solar Flare | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Deals damage in melee range.

Living Dark (Morph of Eclipse | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Defensive bubble that heals you.

Puncturing Sweep (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Main spammable that also heals you based on damage done.

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Use to execute lower health targets.

Crescent Sweep (Morph of Radial Sweep | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Low cost ultimate for burst.

Back Bar

Use frost staff or sword and shield.

Channeled Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Armor buff through Major Resolve and resource sustain.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Cleanse and massive aoe heal over time.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – Mobility tool, also giving you Major Expedition and Major Evasion, mitigating additional damage.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Healing over time that also applies Minor Resolve.

Honor The Dead (Morph of Rushed Ceremony | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Burst single target heal.

Swarming Scion (Morph of Blood Scion | Skill Line : Vampire) – Damage dealing survivability ultimate.

Gear 1 – Melee

Use if you want a melee aggressive build and check skills to match above for ESO Magicka Templar PvP build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Soulshine	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Soulshine	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	Light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Magicka
Boots	Heavy	Soulshine	Well-fitted	Magicka
Belt	Light	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Magicka
Weapon One	Mace	Soulshine	Nirnhoned	Shock
Secondary	Axe	Soulshine	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Rallying Cry	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Sea-Serpent’s Coil	Infused	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Rallying Cry	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage

• Roksa the Warped: best in slot resource sustain when running vampire you can use Bewitch Sugar Skulls food for a bigger stat pool.
• Soulshine: Great heavy armor set that boosts our weapon damage when using the channel and applies when we switch the back bar.
• Rallying Cry: An incredible five-piece set that makes us a more defensible and big boost to weapon and spell damage.
• Armor of the Trainee: Added stats with a one-piece item set.
• Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Obtained through Mythic System, click here for lead locations. Used because it’s essentially two five-piece damage sets in one, with nearly zero drawbacks if using Vampire Form.

Skills: Setup 2 Range

Front Bar

Binding Javelin (Morph of Piercing Javelin | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Used as a stun which cannot be blocked. Use just before meteor or POTL pops for huge combo damage.

Power of the Light (Morph of Backlash | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Burst damage, procs minor spell damage bonus and reduces armor. This is your killing tool as it soaks up damage like a balloon. After 6 seconds, a percentage of the amount of damage you’ve done is released for huge burst. The trick to killing players is to fill up the damage, stun and beam. This morph is stamina based and procs our gear set.

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Best single target execute for PvP, to be used around 40% health or lower. Make sure you’re in back and not interrupted.

Dark Flare (Morph of Solar Flare | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – A hard-hitting range spammable that will lead into your combo meteor, javelin beam. The channel hits hard if landed correctly, and it debuffs healing.

Living Dark (Morph of Eclipse | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Incredible healing per second and much less resources intensive to maintain.

Shooting Star (Morph of Meteor | Skill Line : Mages Guild) – Ranged bursty ultimate combined with Javelin to stun/drop block for massive nuke.

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Back Bar

Channeled Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – This skill will give you resource sustain and your armor buff. You’ll also get nice healing standing in the small rune IF you have a high health pool. I’d recommend newer players or folks unfamiliar with PvP to run max HP due to this ability and Living Dark scaling off max health.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Strong AoE heal and cleanse. Consider this your flex spot, just use spell damage/critical potions if your resources are good.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – You have two choices for mobility skills Race Against Time vs Elusive Mist in Stage 3 Vampire. Mist provides the greatest survivability combined with the Undeath passive HOWEVER, you’ll have to manage your resources more effectively. I currently prefer the benefits of a stage three vampire, but swap to RAT if you don’t like it.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Good burst heal and it gives minor armor buff to be combined with major.

Honor The Dead (Morph of Rushed Ceremony | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Great burst heal that gives a bit of sustain back. The trick is to not relay on this ability unless you are very low. You’ll want heals from your rune, bubble, and ritual to do the majority of the work as this gets costly especially in no CP situations.

Practiced Incantation (Morph of Rite of Passage | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – God mode Healing. Swap in whatever defensive ultimate here.

Gear 2 – Range

This is my go-to for playing high MMR battlegrounds, outnumbered PvP, and Imperial City Sewers with the ESO Magicka Templar:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Daedric Trickery	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Light	Snake in the Stars	Well-fitted	Magicka
Boots	Light	Snake in the Stars	Well-fitted	Magicka
Belt	Light	Snake in the Stars	Well-fitted	Magicka
Weapon One	Fire Staff	Snake in the Stars	Sharpened	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Ice Staff	Daedric Trickery	Powered	Escapist’s Poison IX
Necklace		Sea-Serpent’s Coil	Infused	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Daedric Trickery	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Daedric Trickery	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage

Monster Helm & Mythic

Roksa the Warped: Obtained in Veteran Bal Sunnar dungeon, Scribes of Fate DLC. Used to counter the weak resource sustain of the magplar. Gives great resource sustain without the Engine Guardian droid.

Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Obtained through the Antiquities System, click here for lead locations. Used because it’s essentially two five-piece damage sets in one, with nearly zero drawbacks if using Vampire Form.

Armor of the Trainee: Obtained in overland starter areas or guild trader. Added stats with a one-piece item set.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Balorgh: Incredible burst if you don’t struggle with resources.
• Engine Guardian: Easier to obtain than Roksa, great sustain and tanky monster helm.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty: Great all-around defensive and offensive mythic.
• Torc of Tonal Constancy: Great resource sustain mythic, though it is a bit overkill with the other sustain pieces already in this build.

Gear Sets

Daedric Trickery: Craftable in Vvardenfell Morrowind. Great defensive set that can trigger major buffs while on your front bar.

Snake in the Stars: Obtained from Cyrodiil Rewards of Worthy mail or bought from Guild Traders. This will debuff targets healing alongside the Dark Flare debuff, making it much easier to kill players stacking heals.

Alternatives

• Mara’s Balm : Great survivability set.
• Rallying Cry: Great offensive and defensive set, though it comes in light armor.
• Robes of the Hist: Similar to Mara’s but less relevant now.
• Wretched Vitality: Great resource sustain set if you struggle.
• Powerful Assault: Great set to add damage to you and your group and the buff stacks with Rallying Cry.
• Deadly Strikes: Great damage increase to channels like Radiant Oppression, Dark Flare and Sweeps if you use those skills.
• Way of Fire: Great burst armor set, though it comes in heavy.
• War Maiden: Great for raw damage on magicka abilities, which is most of ours on the front bar.
• Order’s Wrath: Craftable set that gives great damage overall and is easy to obtain.
• Soulshine: Good spell damage if using dark flare/sweeps/beam frequently to proc it.

Armor of the Trainee: Obtained in overland starter areas or guild trader. Added stats with a one-piece item set.

No-Proc No CP

This setup is made for Cyrodiil Campaigns or IC that doesn’t allow proc sets.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	War Maiden	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Mark of Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Mark of Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Heavy	Mark of Pariah	Well-fitted	Magicka
Boots	Light	War Maiden	Well-fitted	Magicka
Belt	Light	War Maiden	Well-fitted	Magicka
Weapon One	Fire Staff	War Maiden	Sharpened	Poison
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Blessing of the Potentates	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Torc of Tonal Constancy	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Mark of Pariah	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Mark of Pariah	Infused	Spell Damage

• Magma Incarnate: Monster set helmet obtained from Veteran Dread Cellar dungeon (Blackwood zone), Waking Flame DLC. Shoulders obtained from Vendor: Urgarlag Chief-bane (Undaunted Pledge Master). Great sustain for a one-piece item set.
• Mark of the Pariah: Obtained from Wrothgar overland, Orsinium DLC or bought from traders. Most tankiness from a 5pc in no proc PvP.
• War Maiden: Obtained in overland Morrowind zone or bought from traders. Great damage that applies to nearly all damage abilities. Flex in Deadly if you want to do just Jabs.
• Blessing of Potentates: Obtained in Cyrodiil Vlastarus Elite Gear Vendor or bought from traders. Great damage reduction two-piece.
• Torc or Tonal Constancy: Obtained from the Antiquities system with incredible resource sustain.

Skill 3 – Bomber

Front Bar

Focused Charge (Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Gap closer and stun.

Solar Barrage (Morph of Solar Flare | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Increases the damage of your other Templar skills and deals AOE damage.

Living Dark (Morph of Eclipse | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Restores health when you take direct damage from other players.

Puncturing Sweep (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Main spammable that also heals you.

Whirling Blades (Morph of Whirlwind | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – AOE spammable that doubles as an execute.

Dawnbreaker of Smiting (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – Conal AOE ultimate that also stuns enemies.

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Back Bar

Channeled Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Restores magicka every second and gives you Major Resolve.

Blazing Spear (Morph of Spear Shards | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Delayed AOE damage and synergy to allies.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – Mobility skill used for disengaging or gap closing.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Minor Resolve armor buff and heal over time.

Honor The Dead (Morph of Rushed Ceremony | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Burst heal.

Solar Prison (Morph of Nova | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Big AOE ultimate that you drop when bombing.

Gear 3 – Bomber

This is for high burst damage and multi-kills

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Balorg	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Balorg	Divines	Magicka
Chest	Heavy	Trainee	Divines	Prismatic
Legs	Medium	Plaguebreak	Divines	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Plaguebreak	Divines	Magicka
Boots	Medium	Plaguebreak	Divines	Magicka
Belt	Light	Dark Convergence	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Dagger	Plaguebreak	Precise	Damage Health
Secondary	Dagger	Plaguebreak	Precise	Damage Health
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Dark Convergence	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Dark Convergence	Infused	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Infused	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Dark Convergence	Infused	Spell Damage

• Balorgh: Gives us the most bang for the buck and you can save up 500 ultimate for a total nuclear DB.
• Dark Convergence: Still the best pull set for bombing outside of Nightblade.
• Plaguebreak: Great medium armor set for bombing that allows us to sustain Whirling Blades.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty: Great all around defensive and offensive mythic.
• Armor of the Trainee: Obtained in overland starter areas or trader.

Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO Magicka Templar PvP Build

Traveling Knife and Soul Burst are the two best Grimoires (skills) for a Magicka Templar PvP build. Traveling Knife gives you a ranged bleed attack that acts like Rending Slashes but doesn’t require Master Dual Wield to be effective. Moreover, Traveling Knife can be given a stun in the focus script for classes lacking a ranged stun. Soul Burst is a helpful crowd control and buff skill. You can immobilize, pull, or snare targets and get your favorite minor buffs. There are other scripting combinations you can run, but it all depends on your chosen playstyle. Just make sure you’re not choosing buffs or debuffs that are already sourced through the build.

Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Traveling Knife (dual wield) – Bleed or Stun (focus script), Lingering Torment or Assassin’s Misery (signature script), Berserk or Vulnerability (Affix Script)
• Soul Burst (soul magic) – Immobilize or Pull (focus script), Class Mastery or Hunter’s Snare (signature script), Courage or Expedition (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.

Race

The best racial choice for the Magplar PvP build is below:

1. High Elf: Gain resource sustain passive, max magicka, and weapon and spell damage. The downside of High Elf is a lack of stamina or flame resistance.
2. Dark Elf: Gain max magicka, stamina, and weapon and spell damage. The flame resistance is also helpful and considered the strongest overall PVE DPS race.
3. Khajiit: This race gets recovery, max stats, and critical damage and healing. The Khajiit is a great option if you aren’t over the critical damage cap of 125%, but it loses effectiveness in larger group content.

Attributes

You should aim to reach 32,000 health; therefore, we recommend a 32 health and 32 magicka attribute split.

Mundus Stone

The best mundus stone is the Atronach for resource sustain. You can use Thief or Apprentice if your damage is low.

Passives Skills – ESO Magicka Templar PVP Build

Below are the best passive skills for ESO Magicka Templar PvP Build, which add power without taking up a bar space:

• Aedric Spear (Class Skill Line)
• Dawn’s Wrath (Class Skill Line)
• Restoring Light (Class Skill Line)
• Dual Wield (Weapon Skill Line)
• Frost Staff (Weapon Skill Line)
• Light, Medium, and Heavy Armor
• Fighter’s Guild
• Mage’s Guild
• Undaunted
• Psijic Guild
• Alchemy Medicinal
• Race
• Assault Alliance
• Alliance Support
• Vampire

Champion Points – ESO Magicka Templar PVP Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Gifted Rider	Duelist’s Rebuff	Juggernaut
War Mount	Ironclad	Slippery
Liquid Efficiency	Deadly Aim	Celerity
Steed’s Blessing	Fighting Finesse	Fortified

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 ESO Magicka Templar PvP:

1. Precision 10
2. Extended might – sub – con – piercing 10
3. Fighting Finesse (slottable) 50
4. Deadly aim (slottable) 50
5. Tireless discipline 10
6. Staving death – sub con – quick recovery – 10
7. Staving death – sub con – ironclad –(slottable) 50
8. Duelist’s rebuff (slottable) 50

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

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

This would max out the Warfare tree with all active and passive champion points at 520 spent 1,560 total spent.

Fitness Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Fitness Champion Point selections for the ESO Magicka Templar PvP:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Tumbling 15
3. Survivor’s spite – sub con – mystic tenacity 10
4. Celerity (slottable) 50
5. Defiance 10
6. slippery (slottable) 50
7. juggernaut (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 235 CP (705 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance.  

1. Hero’s vigor 10
2. Tumbling 15
3. Sprinter 20
4. Defiance 10
5. Hasty 16
6. Tireless guardian 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 6
9. Mystic tenacity 40
10. Tempered soul 50
11. Piercing gaze 30
12. Savage defense  30
13. Bashing brutality 20

This would max out the fitness tree with all active passive champion points at 582 cp spent 1,746 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the ESO Magicka Templar PvP:

1. Steed’s blessing – (slottable) 50
2. Breakfall 10
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Rationer 10
6. Liquid efficiency (slottable) 75
7. Treasure hunter 50
8. Master gatherer 15
9. Gifted rider (slottable) 100
10. War mount (slottable) 120

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 455CP (1365 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 10
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
12. Infamous 30

This would max out the crafting tree with all active passive champion points at 898 cp spent 2,694 total spent.

Consumables

The best consumables for the Magicka Templar PvP build are Bewitch Sugar Skulls food and Essence of Spell Power. Bewitched Sugar Skulls give a massive boost to overall stats but sacrifices recovery. If you struggle with recovery, use Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch or cheaper Jewels of Misrule. The Essence of Spell Power potions are your source of major spell damage and critical chance buffs with the alchemy passive Medicinal Use. Immovability potions are also helpful. Below are our recommended food and potion choices:

• Bewitched Sugar Skulls: Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Scrib Jelly, Flour, Columbine, Bervez Juice, and Honey.
  • Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch (recovery): Increase Max Health, Health Recovery, and Stamina and Magicka Recovery (effects are scaled based on your level). Ingredients: Red Meat, Tomato, White Cap, Frost Mirriam, and Perfect Roe.
  • Jewels of Misrule (cheap): Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery and Max Health for 2 hours. Ingredients: Rose, Mint, Lotus, Columbine, and Bervez Juice.
• Essence of Spell Power: Restore 7329 Magicka immediately. Grants Major Intellect, increasing your Magicka Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. Grants Major Sorcery and Prophecy, increasing your spell damage and spell critical rating (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Lady’s Smock, Corn Flower, Water Hyacinth.
  • Essence of Immovability: Restores health and stamina and is immune to knockback effects. Ingredients Namria’s Rot, Columbine, and Mountain Flower.
• Escapist’s Poison IX: Immobilizes your target and grants you unstoppable, rendering you immune to control effects for 1.6 seconds. Ingredients: Columbine, Namira’s Rot, Wormwood.

Build Summary – ESO Magicka Templar PVP Build

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