ESO Nightblade PvP Healer Build

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

This build has been updated for the Update 41 patch, Scions of Ithelia for the Elder Scrolls Online.

Why Should You Play ESO Nightblade PvP Healer Build?

The Nightblade class shines in PvP healing, and our ESO Nightblade PvP Healer Build utilizes all unique class abilities and their advantages. The Nightblades don’t have a reputation as good healers, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Nightblade PvP Healer Features and Mechanics

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

• Class – Nightblade
• Weapon One – Restoration staff
• Weapon Two – Sword and Board
• Armor Types: 2 Light, 3 Medium, 2 Heavy
• Race: Argonian
• Infection: Vampire Stage 3
• Attributes: 32 Magicka, 32 Health
• Mundus Stone: Ritual

Skills

Bar One: Restoration Staff for Healing

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Great heal over time that procs various gear sets. Consider this a must to keep at all times.

Illustrious Healing (Morph of Grand Healing | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – A large area of effect DoT heal for you and your allies which lasts 12 seconds.

Combat Prayer (Morph of Blessing of Protection | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Great healing buff for all classes

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

Funnel Health (Morph of Strife | Skill Line : Siphoning) – Causes magicka damage to the target and heals you or 2 other nearby allies for 50% of the damage inflicted every 2 seconds for 10 seconds.

Life Giver (Morph of Panacea | Skill Line : Restoration Staff) – Insane survivability for you or the group with mobility and low cost.

Bar Two: Sword and Shield for Defensive and burst healing

Weapon Choices

1. Restoration Staff
2. Ice Staff
3. Sword and Shield

Siphoning Attacks (Morph of Siphoning Strikes | Skill Line : Siphoning) – After casting, your light and heavy attacks heal you, and give you back magicka resources

Blinding Flare (Morph of Revealing Flare | Skill Line : Support) – This gives us 10% damage reduction and is great counter gank.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – Helpful mobility skill. It teleports you on a short distance, giving you an extremely powerful tool.

Refreshing Path (Morph of Path of Darkness | Skill Line : Shadow) – Grants Major Expedition to yourself and allies within the AoE. Also double as a heal over time ability, for as long as the player(s) remains in the area.

Healthy Offering (Morph of Malevolent Offering | Skill Line : Siphoning) – On cast you sacrifice your own health to heal yourself of an ally. After casting, you also gain Minor Mending for 8 seconds, increasing your healing done by 8%.

Reviving Barrier (Morph of Barrier | Skill Line : Support) – Casting grants a shield which protects yourself and nearby group members with wards that each absorb up to 11620 damage for 30 seconds. The wards also heal you and your group members for 5370 Health over 15 seconds.

Passives Skills

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

• Aedric Spear (class skill line)
• Dawn’s Wrath (class skill line)
• Restoring Light (class skill line)
• Restoration Staff (weapon skill line)
• Sword and Board (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor
• Undaunted
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use
• Infection: Vampire

Gear 1

Small Group Content

Ideally used with a 2-6 player group.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Ozezan the Inferno	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Ozezan the Inferno	Divines	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Divines	Magicka
Boots	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Armor of the Trainee	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Powered	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Mara’s Balm	Powered	Stamina Recovery
Secondary	Shield	Mara’s Balm	Sturdy	Health
Necklace		Pearls of Ehlnofey	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Mara’s Balm	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Mara’s Balm	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Monster and Mythic

Ozezan the Inferno = monster helm from update 37, Scribes of Fate in Scriverner’s Hall dungeon. 

• Why? This provides exceptional defensive capabilities if you run multiple heals over time.

Flex Options

• Earthgore: = gives a burst heal, mini negate and cleanse.
• Engine Guardian: = good resource sustain
• Magma Incarnate = great group utility
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Nightflame = AoE heal

Pearls of Ehlnofey = this mythic requires DLC and Scrying. It provides an unbelievable ultimate generation. 

• Why? This mythic provides an unbelievable amount of ultimate generation.

Flex Options:

• Torc of Tonal Constancy = great for resource sustain
• Markyn Ring of Majesty = increases your weapon and spell, adds resistances

Gear sets

Mara’s Balm = Defensive set, Obtained from the Rewards of the Worthy coffers

• WHY? one of the strongest defensive sets in the game even post-nerf in update 37. Additionally, this provides a free cleanse every 30 seconds making you extremely tanky.  Swap if you prefer something else in heavy armor.

Phoenix Moth Theurge = buff set, that comes from overland Firesong DLC Galen and Y’ffelon zone or bought from the traders. 

• This set provides incredible group utility and helps sustain stamina.

FLEX OPTIONS BUFF SET

• Rallying Cry = great group utility setup
• Gossamer = great buff set major evasion to group
• Sanctuary = ideal when you want raw healing
• Almalexia’s Mercy = incredible HPS if you have high magicka
• Hiti’s Hearth = reduce block and dodge plus a heal
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction

FLEX OPTIONS DEFNESIVE SET

• Ironblood = most mitigation possible
• Grace of Gloom = God tier survivability but from healing which scales off max health and major evasion proc
• Mark of the Pariah = good for armor keep on body all times
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction
• Wretched Vitality = great resource sustain
• Daedric Trickery = craftable defensive set

Trainee = Comes from base game starter island overland zones or sold at guild traders.  This set simply gives you extra stats and is easy to obtain.

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Zerging Gear Set-up

This setup sacrifices survivability and assumes you have a larger group.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Earthgore	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Earthgore	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Trainee	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Sturdy	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Sturdy	Magicka
Boots	medium	Snow Treaders	Sturdy	Magicka
Belt	medium	Trainee	Well-fitted	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Powered	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Blessing of the Potentates	Powered	Stamina Recovery
Secondary	Shield	Blessing of the Potentates	Sturdy	Health
Necklace		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Spell Power Cure	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Monster Helm:

Earthgore: obtained in Bloodroot Forge

• Why? gives a burst heal, mini negate and cleanse.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Engine Guardian: = good resource sustain
• Magma Incarnate = great group utility
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal

Gear Sets:

Phoenix Moth Theurge = this set comes from overland Firesong DLC Galen and Y’ffelon zone or bought from the traders.  This set provides incredible group utility and helps sustain stamina.

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

• WHY? Major courage adds tons of damage and this set is mobile.

FLEX OPTIONS BUFF SET

• Rallying Cry = great group utility setup
• Gossamer = great buff set major evasion to group
• Sanctuary = ideal when you want raw healing
• Almalexia’s Mercy = incredible HPS if you have high magicka
• Hiti’s Hearth = reduce block and dodge plus a heal
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction

Mara’s Balm = PvP Rewards of the worthy boxes

• WHY? one of the strongest defensive sets in the game even post-nerf in update 37. Additionally, this provides a free cleanse every 15 seconds making you extremely tanky.  Swap if you prefer something else in heavy armor.

FLEX OPTIONS DEFNESIVES

• Ironblood = most mitigation possible
• Grace of Gloom = God tier survivability but from healing which scales off max health and major evasion proc
• Mark of the Pariah = good for armor keep on body all times
• Buffer of the Swift = awesome damage reduction
• Wretched Vitality = great resource sustain
• Daedric Trickery = craftable defensive set

Blessing of the Potentates: Cyrodiil, Vlastarus Elite Gear Vendor

• WHY? great cost reduction after casting combat pray

FLEX OPTION

• Blessing of the Potentates: = great damage reduction set
• Perfected Timeless Blessing = great cost reduction after casting combat pray
• Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = great if using healing springs
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = easy to obtain and boost sustain

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No-Proc PvP

Meant for no proc no CP PvP campaigns in Cyrodiil

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Domihaus	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	medium	Swarm Mothers	Well-fitted	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Boots	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Belt	light	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration Staff	Amber Plasm	Powered	Spell damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Amber Plasm	Powered	Escapist’s Poison IX
Secondary	Shield	Amber Plasm	Sturdy	Magicka
Necklace		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Triune	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Magicka Recovery

Monster Helm

Domihaus: obtained in Falkreath Hold & Swarm Mother

• Why? massive 1pc bonuses give you huge stat pools.

FLEX OPTION

• Magma Incarnate = for extra recovery
• Earthgore = for increase healing %

Gear Sets:

Mark of the Pariah: obtained in overland Orsinium or bought from traders.

• Why? great mitigation set on at all times that’s very easy to obtain.

Amber Plasm: obtained in Ruins of Mazzatun dungeon Shadows of the Hist DLC.

• Why? Carries your resource sustain in no CP.

Race

The best race choices for the Nightlbade PvP Healer:

1. Argonian: God tier tanky making it a perfect fit for being that annoying healer that just won’t die.
2. Breton: The best burst magicka sustain race in the game.

Attributes

Consider splitting your attributes into 32 health and 32 magicka. You should reach at least 32,000 health inside your PvP context. Adjust if not reaching those numbers.

Mundus Stone

The Ritual is the best Mundus Stone for PvP Healer Builds because it increases healing effectiveness by 8%.

Champion Points – ESO Nightblade PvP Healer Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Liquid Efficiency	Ironclad	Boundless Vitality
Gifted Rider	Soothing Tide	Bracing Anchor
Steed’s Blessing	Rejuvenator	Celerity
War Mount	Focused Mending	Pain’s Refuge

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 Nightblade PvP Healer:

1. Eldritch Insight – 10
2. Mastered Curation – sub constellation – Blessed – 10
3. Soothing Tide (slottable) 50
4. Rejuvenator (slottable) 50
5. Focused Mending (slottable) 50
6. Staving death – sub con – quick recovery – 10
7. Staving death – sub con – ironclad –(slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 230 CP (690 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Precision 20
2. Piercing 20
3. Tireless discipline 20
4. Eldritch insight 10
5. Blessed 10
6. Quick recovery 20
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 530 spent 1,590 total spent.

Fitness Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Fitness Champion Point selections for the ESO Nightblade PvP Healer:

1. Boundless Vitality (slottable) 50
2. Sprinter – 10
3. Wind Chaser – sub constellation – Hasty – 8
4. Wind Chaser – sub constellation – Celerity (slottable) – 50
5. Tireless Guardian – 10
6. Walking Fortress – sub constellation – nimble protector – 3
7. Walking Fortress – sub constellation – Bracing Anchor (slottable) – 50
8. Hero’s Vigor – 10
9. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation –  Mystic Tenacity – 10
10. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation – Pain’s Refuge (slottable) – 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 251 CP (753 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 30
3. Sprinter 10
4. Defiance 20
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless guardian 10
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 3
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 542 cp spent 1,626 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the ESO Nightblade PvP Healer:

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

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

Escapist’s Poison IX

Type: Poisons

Immobilizes your target and grants you unstoppable, rendering you immune to control effects for 1.6 seconds. This poison will also break you free of ongoing control effects. Inflects hindrance to your target and grants you major expedition, reducing their movement speed by 40% and increasing your movement speed by 30% for 2.3 seconds. Drains stamina from your target, increasing the cost of their stamina abilities by 10% and restores 238 stamina per second to you for 2.3 seconds. (10s cooldown). Ingredients: Columbine, Namira’s Rot, Wormwood

Build Summary – ESO Nightblade PvP Healer

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