ESO Classes List - Elder Scrolls Online Classes

Welcome to Classes List for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). In this article we will take a look at all the Elder Scrolls Online classes. During character creation you can choose between six different ESO classes:

Sorcerer
Nightblade
Templar
Dragonknight
Warden (DLC)
Necromancer (DLC)

Each class has three unique skill-lines. In addition, each class also has access to a multitude of other non class skill-lines. All of them have a very unique own playstyle. Unlike most other MMOs all the ESO classes can fulfill any role: Magicka DPS, Stamina DPS, Tank, Healer.

Please visit the respective ESO class category for a full list of powerful builds: Sorcerer Builds, Nightblade Builds, Templar Builds, Dragonknight Builds, Warden Builds, Necromancer Builds.

The Sorcerer Class in ESO

The Sorcerer class in ESO can use conjuration and destruction spells to hurl lightning bolts, wield dark magic to snare and stun, and summon Daedric combat followers from Oblivion.

The horrors of Oblivion and the power of lightning itself are yours to command with the Sorcerer Class. As a Sorcerer, unlimited power is at your fingertips, allowing you to call powerful lightning strikes from above, support your allies, suppress your enemies, or overwhelm your foes with Daedric monsters.

When wielding the full strength of the Sorcerer Class, all will fear your power.

Please visit the Sorcerer Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Sorcerer Skill-lines

The Sorcerer class has three unique skill-lines like all the other ESO classes. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Daedric Summoning, Dark Magic and Storm Calling skill-lines.

Daedric Summoning

Summon terrors from the realm of Oblivion to assault your enemies, and conjure potent armor and shields to keep yourself and your minions in the fight.

The Sorcerer class Daedric Summoning skill-line is focused on damage abilities.

Dark Magic

Support your allies and suppress your enemies with insidious-but-powerful abilities that can immobilize, silence, and even dispel your foes’ own magical effects.

The Sorcerer class Dark Magic skill-line is focused on damage, healing and support abilities.

Storm Calling

Hurl lightning strikes to deal massive shock damage, thunder across the battlefield, and wreak havoc upon your foes from afar.

The Sorcerer class Storm Calling skill-line is focused on mobility, healing and damage abilities.

Sorcerer Class Synergies

The ESO Sorcerer class has two class specific synergies, the Charged Lightning and Conduit synergy. Synergies are additional effects that some abilities offer.

Charged Lightning Synergy

Charged Lightning is a Synergy effect created by a Sorcerer ally using Summon Storm Atronach or one of its morphs Greater Storm Atronach or Summon Charged Atronach. By pressing the synergyize button, you use Charged Lightning to give a Major Berserk buff to you and the Atronach, increasing the damage of all your attacks.

Conduit Synergy

Conduit is a Synergy effect created by a Sorcerer ally using Lightning Splash or one of its morphs Lightning Flood or Liquid Lightning. By pressing the synergize button, you use Conduit to deal additional damage to enemies affected by the Lightning Splash.

Sorcerer Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Sorcerer class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Sorcerer in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Sorcerer. ESO classes can often be played in both direction, both magicka and stamina variants are viable and play very different.

For more Sorcerer gameplay videos, you can also visit the Sorcerer Youtube Playlist.

Sorcerer Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Sorcerer Class Builds

The Meta Sorcerer builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Sorcerer builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Sorcerer Class Builds

The PvE Solo Sorcerer builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Sorcerer Class Builds

The PvP Solo Sorcerer builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Sorcerer Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Sorcerer guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Sorcerer class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

The Nightblade Class

The Nightblade Class is relying variously on stealth, blades, and speed, Nightblades thrive on conflict and misfortune, trusting to their luck and cunning to survive.

Attack from the shadows, drain your foes’ health, and vanish into the void with the Nightblade Class. The shadows truly are your greatest weapon as you wield abilities that deal devastating damage at any range and siphon your victim’s lifeforce to your allies.

As the Nightblade class, all of Tamriel fears your deadly unseen strike.

Please visit the Nightblade Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Nightblade Skill-lines

The Nightblade class has three unique skill-lines like all other ESO classes. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Assassination, Shadow and Siphoning skill-lines.

Assassination

Strike with terrible lethality and leave your foes debilitated or worse with abilities that deal massive damage and weaken them for the final blow.

The Nightblade class Assassination skill-line is focused on offensive abilities.

Shadow

Embrace the shadows to find the perfect moment to strike or slip away without notice. Terrify your enemies with fearsome spirits and relentless shades.

The Nightblade class Shadow skill-line is focused on offensive and stealth based abilities.

Siphoning

Weaken your foes and grant them a slow death with lethal abilities that drain the enemy of their life while also healing you and your allies.

The Nightblade class Siphoning skill-line is focused on offensive, healing and support abilities.

Nightblade Class Synergies

The Nightblade class in ESO has two class specific synergies, the Hidden Refresh and Soul Leech synergy. Synergies are additional effects that some abilities offer.

Hidden Refresh Synergy

Hidden Refresh is a Synergy effect created by a Nightblade ally using Consuming Darkness or its morphs Bolstering Darkness and Veil of Blades. By pressing the synergize button, you use Hidden Refresh to heal yourself immediately, increasing your move speed as well as briefly going into stealth. Hidden Refresh is only available if you are low on health.

Soul Leech Synergy

Soul Leech is a Synergy effect created by a Nightblade ally using Soul Shred or one of its morphs Soul Siphon and Soul Tether. By pressing the synergize button, you use Soul Leech to deal additional damage to the nearest enemy in a small radius near you and heal yourself for the amount of damage caused.

Nightblade Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Nightblade class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Nightblade in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Nightblade.

For more Nightblade gameplay videos, you can also visit the Nightblade Youtube Playlist.

Nightblade Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Nightblade Class Builds

The Meta Nightblade builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Nightblade builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Nightblade Class Builds

The PvE Solo Nightblade builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Nightblade Class Builds

The PvP Solo Nightblade builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Nightblade Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Nightblade guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Nightblade class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

The Templar Class

The Templar class in ESO call upon the power of light and the burning sun to deal massive damage to their enemies while restoring health, magicka, and stamina to their allies.

Seeking darkness whether it might be found, the Templar is a beacon to their allies and a blinding threat to their foes. As a Templar, you must bring justice to Tamriel in the form of cleansing light. Call forth the limitless power of the sun to obliterate your enemies and restore yourself and your allies in radiant light.

When playing the Templar class, you’ll always light the way.

Please visit the Templar Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Templar Skill-lines

The Templar class has three unique class skill-lines like all the other ESO classes. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Aedric Spear, Dawn’s Wrath and Restoring Light skill-lines.

Aedric Spear

Bring holy vengeance with relentless, powerful weapons formed of hard light that can deal magic damage, stun your enemies, and support your allies.

The Templar class Aedric Spear skill-line is focused on offensive abilities.

Dawn’s Wrath

Unleash the unyielding power of the sun to bathe your enemies in flame and deal massive damage. Empower your attacks and weaken your foes in radiant heat.

The Templar class Dawn’s Wrath skill-line is focused on offensive abilities.

Restoring Light

Restore and protect your allies with the power of the Aedra’s sacred light. Consecrate the ground and turn the tide of battle with spells that cleanse and protect your team from attack.

The Templar class Restoring Light skill-line is focused on healing and support abilities.

Templar Class Synergies

The Templar class in ESO has five specific synergies, Gravity Crush, Supernova, Blessed Shards, Holy Shards and Purify. Some of them are variations that only slightly differentiate. Synergies are additional effects taht some abilities offer.

Blessed & Luminous Shards Synergy

Blessed Shards is a Synergy effect created by a Templar ally using the base skill Spear Shards or the morph Blazing Spear. By pressing the synergize button, you use Blessed Shards to restore some of your Stamina or Magicka (whichever maximum is higher).

Luminous Shards is a Synergy effect created by a Templar ally using the Luminous Shards morph of the base Spear Shards skill. By pressing the synergize button, you use Luminous Shards to restore Magicka and Stamina.

Supernova & Gravity Crush Synergy

Supernova is a Synergy effect created by a Templar ally using the base skill Nova or the morph Solar Disturbance. By pressing the synergize button, you use Supernova to deal additional damage to nearby enemies, knocking them down and stunning them.

Gravity Crush is a Synergy effect created by a Templar ally using the Solar Prison morph of the Nova base skill. By pressing the synergize button, you use Gravity Crush to deal additional extra damage to nearby enemies, knocking them down and stunning them.

Purify Synergy

Purify is a Synergy effect created by a Templar ally using Cleaning Ritual or its morphs Extended Ritual and Ritual of Retribution. By pressing the synergize button, you use Purify to immediately heal and remove harmful effects from yourself. Purify only becomes available if you have a harmful effect on you.

Templar Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Templar class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Templar in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Templar.

For more Templar gameplay videos, you can also visit the Templar Youtube Playlist.

Templar Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Templar Class Builds

The Meta Templar builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Templar builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Templar Class Builds

The PvE Solo Templar builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Templar Class Builds

The PvP Solo Templar builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Templar Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Templar guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Templar class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

The Dragonknight Class

Skillful masters-at-arms, the Dragonknight class uses the ancient Akaviri martial arts tradition of battle-spirit and wield fearsome magic.

Burn your foes in cleansing flame and withstand almost any assault with the Dragonknight, a fiery, unrelenting Class that thrives in the heart of battle. The Dragonknight Class in ESO allows you to win the war of attrition with abilities that draw power from both the earth and the beasts of myth while overpowering your foes with ferocious Fire spells.

With the Dragonknight, you bring ruin in the form of molten metal and fire.

Please visit the Dragonknight Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Dragonknight Skill-lines

The Dragonknight class has three unique class skill-lines like any of the other ESO classes. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Ardent Flame, Draconic Power and Earthen Heart skill-lines.

Ardent Flame

Unleash your fury with relentless Fire and Poison abilities that deal devastating damage over time and intensify your attacks.

The Dragonknight class Ardent Flame skill-line is focused on offensive abilities.

Draconic Power

Harness the power of the ancient Dragons to strengthen your defenses, surround yourself in protective scales, and leap into battle with unstoppable ferocity.

The Dragonknight class Draconic Power skill-line has a bit of everything, be it damage, healing, defensive and support abilities.

Earthen Heart

Draw from the power of the earth to empower your and your allies, stun your foes, and encase yourself in damaging molten lava.

The Dragonknight class Earthen Heart skill-line is focused on mobility, healing and damage abilities.

Dragonknight Class Synergies

The Dragonknight class in ESO has two class specific synergies, the Shacke and Ignite synergy. Synergies are additional effects that some abilities offer.

Shackle Synergy

Shackle is a Synergy effect created by a Dragonknight ally using Dragonknight Standard or one of its morphs Shifting Standard or Standard of Might. By pressing the synergize button, you use Shackle to immobilize and deal additional damage to enemies within the Dragonknight Standard’s area of effect.

Ignite Synergy

Ignite is a Synergy effect created by a Dragonknight ally using Dark Talons or one of its morphs Burning Talons or Choking Talons. By pressing the synergize button, you activate Ignite to deal flame damage to all enemies held within the the talons.

Dragonknight Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Dragonknight class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Dragonknight in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Dragonknight.

For more Dragonknight gameplay videos, you can also visit the Dragonknight Youtube Playlist.

Dragonknight Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Dragonknight Class Builds

The Meta Dragonknight builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Dragonknight builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Dragonknight Class Builds

The PvE Solo Dragonknight builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Dragonknight Class Builds

The PvP Solo Dragonknight builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Dragonknight Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Dragonknight guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Dragonknight class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

The Warden Class

The Warden class in ESO is the defender of the Green, master storytellers whose nature tales become magical reality.

Manipulate the wilds and summon powerful beasts with the Warden, a versatile Class in ESO that draws from the power of nature itself. When playing a Warden character, you can unleash the fury of the wilds upon unsuspecting intruders, wrap your allies in the healing power of the Green, and encase yourself in impenetrable, protective frost.

As a Warden, Tamriel’s beasts and wilds are yours to command.

Please visit the Warden Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Warden Skill-lines

The Warden class has three class skill-lines like every other class in ESO. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Animal Companions, Green Balance and Winter’s Embrace skill-lines.

Animal Companions

Call forth beasts to strike your enemies and empower your attacks, including shrieking cliff racers, monstrous bears, and swarms of stinging fetcherflies.

The Warden class Animal Companions skill-line is focused on damage abilities.

Green Balance

Maintain balance on the battlefield by drawing from nature to shroud your allies in soothing vines, sprout healing flowers from the earth, and even summon an enchanted forest.

The Warden class Green Balance skill-line is focused on healing abilities.

Winter’s Embrace

Wield powerful frost magic spells to bolster your defenses and enfeeble your enemies, hindering them in withering, unrelenting cold.

The Warden class Winter’s Embrace skill-line is focused on defensive and damage abilities.

Warden Class Synergies

The Warden Class in ESO has two class specific synergies, the Frozen Retreat and Harvest synergy. Synergies are additional effects taht some abilities offer.

Frozen Retreat Synergy

Frozen Retreat is a Synergy effect created by a Warden ally using the Frozen Retreat ability. By pressing the synergize button, you use Frozen Retreat to travel back to the Warden who created the sigil escaping combat in a time of need.

Harvest Synergy

Harvest is a Synergy effect created by a Warden ally using Healing Seed or its morphs Budding Seed and Corrupting Pollen. By pressing the synergize button, you Harvest the synergy to heal yourself over time.

Warden Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Warden class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Warden in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Warden.

For more Warden gameplay videos, you can also visit the Warden Youtube Playlist.

Warden Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Warden Class Builds

The Meta Warden Builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Warden Builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Warden Class Builds

The PvE Solo Warden Builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Warden Class Builds

The PvP Solo Warden builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Warden Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Warden guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Warden class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

The Necromancer Class

Masters of death, the Necromancer class in ESO can call upon corpses to serve as undead thralls and weave ghastly spells to both harm, heal and defend.

All of Tamriel’s dead are a resource for you to manipulate and exploit, as nothing is forbidden for those who seek to master the dark arts. The Necromancer Class in ESO brings a unique style of play to The Elder Scrolls Online, allowing you to summon the undead and make use of corpses to overwhelm your enemies and empower your attacks.

When playing as a Necromancer, death itself is a weapon.

Please visit the Necromancer Class Builds Category for advice on class builds.

The Necromancer Skill-lines

The Necromancer class has three class skill-lines like every other class in ESO. Below you can find a quick introduction to the Grave Lord, Bone Tyrant and Living Death skill-lines.

Grave Lord

Imbue the dead with frost, fire, and lightning to bring ruin upon your enemies. Raise the relentless undead and allow your fallen enemies to intensify your unyielding assault.

The Necromancer class Grave Lord skill-line is focused on damage abilities.

Bone Tyrant

Bend and break the dead to your will and use their remains to create impenetrable barriers and extend your own life. Control the battlefield with the bones of the departed.

The Necromancer class Bone Tyrant skill-line is focused on defensive abilities.

Living Death

Draw from the power of life and death to replenish and restore your allies. Resurrect your defeated comrades and keep them in the fight.

The Necromancer class Living Death skill-line is focused on healing abilities.

Necromancer Class Synergies

The Necromancer class in ESO has two class specific synergies, the Grave Robber and Pure Agony synergy. Synergies are additional effects that some abilities offer.

Pure Agony Synergy

Pure Agony is a Synergy effect created by a Necromancer using Agony Totem. By pressing the Synergy button, you can use Pure Agony to deal damage over time to enemies in the area and apply Minor Vulnverability to them, causing them to take more damage.

Grave Robber Synergy

Grave Robber is a Synergy effect created by a Necromancer using Boneyard or one of its morphs. By pressing the Synergy button, you can use Grave Robber to deal additional damage to enemies in the area and heal the Necromancer who granted the synergy based on the damage done.

Necromancer Class Gameplay Showcase

Below you can find two gameplay videos of the Necromancer class. On the left side you can see a Magicka Necromancer in action and on the right side you can see a Stamina Necromancer.

For more Necromancer gameplay videos, you can also visit the Necromancer Youtube Playlist.

The Necromancer Story in ESO

Both reviled and feared by the people of Tamriel, Necromancers are masters of the dark arts. While most spellcasters study in well-lit libraries and guild halls, Necromancers delve deep into forbidden tomes and crumbling mausoleums, pushing the boundaries of magical praxis in secret.

With practice and fierce application of will, these grim mages can reanimate skeletons, summon ghostly thralls, and channel souls arcane power into terrifying spells that both harm and heal. The Necromancer’s power over life and death is absolute. Those fools who stand against them in life will surely serve then in death.

Warning: Using certain Necromancer abilities in ESO in a town is a criminal act. Citizens and guards will react accordingly.

Major Crimes as Necromancer

Major Crimes as a Necromancer in ESO are serious offenses that, if witnessed will significantly increase your Bounty and Heat. These crimes include:

Assault: Inflicting unprovoked physical harm upon a citizen of Tamriel.
Murder: Slaying an innocent citizen of Tamriel.
Necromany: Public desecration of the dead. Not every Necromancer abilitiy is criminal – but if there’s dead body involved, it likely is.

Practicing necromancy in Tamriel is a criminal act. In most cases, mages caught casting necromantic spells can feign ignorance or insist that the spell originates from a different school of magic.

Some spells, however, are too horrific to overlook. Any necromantic abilitiy marked as a Criminal Act is a major crime and will offend the locals and alert the guards.

These abilities include:

Blastbones and its morphs. Summoning an exploding skeleton is obviously necromancy.
Skeletal Mage and its morphs. The arrival of skeletal minin always indicates that necromancer lurks nearby.
Frozen Colossus and its morphs. Only a necromancer could conjure up such an undead behemoth.
Bone Goliath and its morphs. This ability transforms you into a massive skeletal horror – a prime example of advanced necromancy.
Spirit Mender and its morphs. Conjuring a wrath, no matter how friendly, clearly qualifies as necromancy.

Necromancer Class Builds

PvE Dungeon & Trial META Necromancer Class Builds

The Meta Necromancer builds listed below are meant to be played in a group. The Meta Necromancer builds have a very cookie cutter approach and rely heavily on other group members.

PvE Solo Necromancer Class Builds

The PvE Solo Necromancer builds are optimized for solo gameplay. The builds below have a good balance between damage, survivability, healing and movement. Everything you need to get through ESO alone. Of course, you can also use these solo builds in a group, especially useful in random groups.

PvP Solo Necromancer Class Builds

The PvP Solo Necromancer builds do have both a Cyrodiil and a Battlegrounds setup. You can play with these builds alone, but it is recommend to always join a group to increase your odds of survival.

Beginner Necromancer Class Guides & Builds

The Beginner Necromancer guides and builds are meant for new players. They introduce you to the Necromancer class and give you a good starting point for your adventure in ESO.

Conclusion ESO Classes

Contrary to most other MMOs, ESO classes can play any of the available roles. This creates very unique situations where you can play however and whatever you want. This also leads to endless possibilities and is also the reason why character development is so strong in ESO. On top of that the very in depth outfit/fashion system adds to the uniqueness of any character.

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