ESO Stamina Templar PVP Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Stamina 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).

ESO Stamina Templar PvP Build Gameplay

The Stamplar has no trouble surviving, and stamina gives you a wider range of build choices than magicka does. Templars do have weaker mobility and sustain, but you can solve weaker mobility with the Vampire skill Elusive Mist and resource sustain problems with the monster helm Roksa the Warped.

The Stamplar also has fantastic healing via Honor the Dead and Living Dark and has the strongest execution skill in the game. You use your magicka pool for healing and range damage, while utilizing your stamina for DoTs and bursts. Speaking of burst, you have one of the strongest bursting tools in the game with Power of the Light. When you get a feel for the Templar, you can start to stack other damage sources with your Power of the Light burst to surprise players before they can heal up.

Templar Class Pros

• Best Execute – Radiant Glory is the best execute in the game, and it heals you based on damage done.
• Beginner Friendly – You can survive with little effort, holding block and spamming Breath of Life.
• One-vs-One – Experienced duelers can one-vs-one nearly any class.

Templar Class Cons

• Weak Sustain – Templars suffer from weak sustain and take multiple skills or sets to carry their resources.
• Lower Mobility – This is yet another class that has terrible innate mobility.
• Constant Buff Cycling – Like the Necro, you need to constantly buff to avoid lower resources, damage, or health.

ESO Stamina Templar PvP Build Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the PvP Stamina Templar in the Elder Scrolls Online:

• Class – Templar
• Weapon One – Dual Wield
• Weapon Two – Frost Staff
• Armor Types: 3 Heavy, 1 Medium, 3 Light
• Armor Set 1: Essence Thief
• Armor Set 2: Rallying Cry
• Monster Helm: Roksa the Warped
• Mythic: Markyn Ring of Majesty
• Race: Imperial
• Infection: Stage 3
• Attributes: 32 Health 32 Stamina
• Mundus Stone: Apprentice
• Best Grimoires: Traveling Knife, Soul Burst

Skills

Front Bar

Biting Jabs (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – This is your main spammable.

Toppling Charge (Morph of Focused Charge | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – This is a guaranteed stun that you can use to drop an enemy’s block.

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – The best execute in the game that doubles as a heal.

Living Dark (Morph of Eclipse | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Insane heal that restores health when you take damage.

Power of the Light (Morph of Backlash | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Deals two “pops” of damage, allowing you to time the second with other sources of damage for huge burst potential.

Dawnbreaker of Smiting (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – AOE stun if you need to drop a cheap ultimate on especially mobile targets.

Back Bar

Restoring Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Major Resolve armor buff.

Elemental Susceptibility (Morph of Weakness to Elements | Skill Line : Destruction Staff) – Huge penetration buff, also dealing great damage.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Cleanses negative effects.

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

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Great self healing that doesn’t require a resto staff.

Shooting Star (Morph of Meteor | Skill Line : Mages Guild) – Offensive ultimate that you can time with a stun to drop your target’s block. If you time these with Power of the Light and start using your execute, you can instantly kill a lot of targets.

Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO Stamina Templar PvP Build

Traveling Knife and Soul Burst are the two best Grimoires (skills) for a Stamina 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.

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 Lingering Torment(signature script), Courage (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

Below are the passive skill lines that add power without requiring a skill slot while playing the ESO PvP Stamina Templar Build. Consider taking all the skill passives in the skill tree listed below:

• Aedric Spear (class skill line)
• Dawn’s Wrath (class skill line)
• Restoring Light (class skill line)
• Destruction Staff (weapon skill line)
• Dual Wield (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor
• Undaunted
• Mage’s Guild
• Fight’s Guild
• Vampirism (stage 3)
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Gear – Best in Slot

This build is for solo players wanting the most damage and survivability possible.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	Heavy	Order’s Wrath	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Order’s Wrath	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	Heavy	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	Light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Order’s Wrath	Nirnhoned	Poison
Secondary	Axe	Order’s Wrath	Sharpened	Fire
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Rallying Cry	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Rallying Cry	Infused	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Bloodthirsty	Spell Damage

Monster Helms and Mythic

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

Markyn Ring of Majesty: Obtained through the Antiquities System. Click here for lead locations. Great damage and armor without being slowed.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Ozezan the Inferno: Incredible defensive set paired with heals over time.
• Gaze of Sithis: Mythic option that makes you much tankier though lacks the “ultimate” burst setup.
• Zaan: Truly god-tier for dueling or general single target dps monster helm.
• Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Incredible mythic option for damage, as long as you can mitigate the slow.
• Death Dealer’s Fete: High max stats which equates good damage and survivability.
• Maarselok: This monster helm provides the best damage proc set with high DoT pressure.
• Torc of Tonal Constancy: Solid resource sustain mythic, but you’re better off getting your sustain from other places.

Gear Sets

• Order’s Wrath: Craftable set in the High Isle. Gives great burst damage without the food requirement of Back-Alley Gourmand.
• Rallying Cry: Great group and solo utility set with a bonus that increases your offensive and defensive potential.
• Armor of the Trainee: Obtained in overland starter areas or from trader. Added stats with a one-piece item set.

Alternative Sets

• Phoenix Moth Theurge: Strong back bar choice when healing yourself.
• Powerful Assault: Great set to add damage to you and your group and the buff stacks with Rallying Cry.
• Robes of the Hist: Great back bar healing set alternate to Mara’s Balm.
• Shattered Fate: Good craftable set that you can use for penetration bonus with five piece.
• Mara’s Balm: Good defensive set on the body.

Gear 2 – No Proc PvP Cyrodiil and Imperial City

Meant for specific rule sets

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Deadly Strike	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Deadly Strike	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Deadly Strike	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	Heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	2h or Dual Wield	Deadly Strike	Sharpened	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Blessing of Potentates	Powered	Escapist’s Poison IX
Necklace		Torc of Tonal Constancy	Infused	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	Swift	Weapon Damage

• Magma Incarnate: Great sustain for a one-piece item set.
• Mark of the Pariah: Best survivability set in no-proc PvP.
• Deadly Strike: Huge damage increase for no proc PvP.
• Blessing of Potentates: Great damage reduction two-piece.
• Torc or Tonal Constancy: The best value for resource sustain and works in no proc.

Skill 2 – Two-Handed

Skill 2 – Two-Handed

Front Bar

Power of the Light (Morph of Backlash | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Delayed burst damage.

Biting Jabs (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Main spammable and source of weapon damage.

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

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Strongest execute in the game, allowing you to focus and pick off low health targets.

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

Crescent Sweep (Morph of Radial Sweep | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Massive AOE ultimate that’s cheap and deals consistent damage.

Back Bar

Restoring Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Source of Major Resolve and stamina sustain.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – Mobility skill.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Massive AOE healing that also cleanses negative effects.

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

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

Swarming Scion (Morph of Blood Scion | Skill Line : Vampire) – Insane offensive and defensive ultimate.

Gear setup 3: Two-Handed

Best with Two-Handed for huge single-target damage

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	Heavy	Way of Fire	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Heavy	Way of Fire	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	Heavy	Way of Fire	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	Light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Maul	Way of Fire	Sharpened	Fire Damage
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Rallying Cry	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Rallying Cry	Infused	Prismatic Recovery
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Infused	Weapon Damage

• Markyn Ring of Majesty: Great all-around defensive and offensive mythic which goes in a ring slot.
• Rallying Cry: Great back bar defensive set.
• Way of Fire: Insane burst damage single target.
• Roksa the Warped: Insane resource sustain when using Stage 3 Vampire.
• Armor of the Trainee: Overland one-piece increased max stats.

Skills 3 – Melee Jabs

Skill Set 1 Front Bar Duel Wield

Binding Javelin (Morph of Piercing Javelin | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – On demand stun.

Solar Barrage (Morph of Solar Flare | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Buffs our core abilities and good AOE damage.

Living Dark (Morph of Eclipse | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Bubble heal when taking damage.

Biting Jabs (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Main spammable.

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Single target beam.

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

Skill Set 2 Back Bar Frost Staff

Restoring Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Major Resolve armor buff.

Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill Line : Vampire) – This mobility tool allows us to keep up with anyone on the battlefield. If you don’t like vampire, you can use Race Against Time instead.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – Cleanses negative effects.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Great self healing that doesn’t require a resto staff thus back bar Frost or Sword and Shield mitigation.

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

Swarming Scion (Morph of Blood Scion | Skill Line : Vampire) – Offensive and defensive ultimate.

Gear – Melee Jabs

Use this when using Biting Jabs main spammable

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

• Roksa the Warped: Best in slot resource sustain when playing vampire.
• Soulshine: Great heavy armor set that boosts our weapon damage when using the channel and applies when we switch the back bar.
• Rallying Cry: Great defensive and offense set with group benefit.
• Armor of the Trainee: Obtained in overland starter areas or guild trader. Added stats with a one-piece item set.

Race

1. Imperial: Increasing stamina and health and reducing costs helps sustain resources.
2. Orc: Gain max stamina, health, and weapon and spell damage. It also reduces the cost of sprint and increases your movement speed.
3. Dark Elf: Good max stats and weapon and spell damage.

Attributes

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

Mundus Stone

The apprentice is the best mundus stone for the Templar due to the increasing spell damage and passive that boosts spell damage.

Champion Points – ESO Stamina Templar PvP Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Steed’s Blessing	Fighting Finesse	Fortified
War Mount	Focused Mending	Pain’s Refuge
Gifted Rider	Master-at-Arms	Celerity
Liquid Efficiency	Ironclad	Survival Instincts

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 Stamina Templar PvP Build:

1. Precision 10
2. Extended Might – sub constellation – piercing 10
3. Extended Might – sub constellation – Master-at-arms (slottable) 50
4. Mastered curation – sub constellation – blessed 10
5. Focused mending (slottable) 50
6. Eldritch insight 10
7. Staving death – sub constellation – quick recovery 10
8. Staving death – sub constellation – Ironclad (slottable) 50
9. Duelist’s rebuff (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 250 CP (750 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 20
4. Eldritch insight 20
5. Blessed 20
6. Quick recovery 20
7. Flawless ritual 40
8. War mage 30
9. Battle mastery 40
10. Mighty 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 Stamina Templar PvP Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Sprinter 10
3. Wind chaser – sub constellation – hasty 8
4. Wind chaser – sub constellation – celerity (slottable) 50
5. Hero’s vigor 10
6. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation– mystic tenacity 10
7. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation –  pain’s refuge (slottable) 50
8. Survival instincts 50 (slottable)

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 238 CP (714 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 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 6
9. Mystic tenacity 50
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 532 cp spent 1,596 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

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

1. Steed’s blessing – 50(slottable)
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 – ESO Stamina Templar PvP Build

The best consumables for the Stamina Templar PvP build are Bewitched Sugar Skulls food and Essence of Health tri-stat potions. 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 health or Tri-stat potions is the best to passively give you a flood of resources and tri-recovery with alchemy 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 Health (tri-stat): 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.
  • Essecene 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 Stamina Templar PvP Build

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