Powerful Nightblade Healer Build for ESO – Elder Scrolls Online

Table of Contents

• Dungeon & Trial Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Nightblade Subclassing
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Magicka Nightblade Healer Build PvE “Illusion” for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Illusion Healer Build is made for Dungeons & Trials. If you are new to ESO, please make sure to also check out:

• New Player Beginners Guide
• Magicka Nightblade Beginners Guide
• Healer Beginner Guide
• Endgame Healer Sets

Nightblade Healer setups are very powerful. Nightblades have very good skills that support healing in general. Refreshing Path is a very strong heal over time and Healthy Offering gives you access to a insane burst heal. More info further below in the skills section.

In addition, we also utilize the Bolstering Darkness ultimate, which applies Major Protection damage reduction to all of our group members, they just have to make sure to get the protection buff walking into the circle and then they are free to go wherever they want and keep the Major Protection buff as long as the ultimate is up.

• Dungeon & Trial Build
• Insane Resource Management
• Insane Healing Output
• Group Support
• Buff/Debuff Setup
• Light Armor

Dungeon & Trial Setup Nightblade Healer Build

In this section, we are going to take a look at the ESO Nightblade Healer Build setup.

5x Spell Power Cure, 5x Powerful Assault, 2x Symphony of Blades, 1x Perfected Grand Rejuvenation on a Breton with Clockwork Citrus Filet buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
• Buffed: In combat, buff food, Raid Target Dummy buffs, Spell Power Potion, Powerful Assault, Spell Power Cure active.

Gear for the Nightblade Healer

Gear Setup 1

• We are using a frost staff with a frost glyph on the back bar to keep procing Minor Maim and Minor Brittle as well as providing a shield to allies.
• Make sure to use Powerful Assault on Jewelry and the backbar weapon. This is a medium armor set and therefore we need to use jewelry and weapon, otherwise we can’t run light armor on the other pieces.

Gear Setup 2 Beginner

For the beginner setup, any trait of the sets works, if you want the perfect traits follow the main gear setup. Most important is that you get the sets complete to benefit from the bonus of each set.

Where can I get the gear?

Spell Power Cure: White-Gold Tower
Powerful Assault: Tel Var Merchant Imperial City or Guild Stores
Symphony of Blades: vDepths of Malatar Dungeon, Undaunted Vendor
Sentinel of Rkguamz: vDarkshade Caverns I, Maj Undaunted Chest
Perfected Grand Rejuvenation (Master Resto): vDragonstar Arena
Grand Rejuvenation (Master Resto): Dragonstar Arena
Transformative Hope: nSanity’s Edge Trial
Perfected Transformative Hope: vSanity’s Edge Trial
Seducer: Craftable
Kagrenac’s Hope: Craftable In the Earth Forge
Spaulder of Ruin: Antiquity

Skills

Remember, Healers often need to change a few skills out during runs, especially in Trials. So this setup is not maced into stone, adjust it to your needs.

• It is important that Echoing Vigor is on the back bar, because the Powerful Assault set is only active on the back bar.

Skill explanation:

• Radiating Regeneration: Very strong heal over time that you have to keep up all the time.
• Combat Prayer: This is your main spammable as a healer, it needs to be on the group members all the time to heal them and increase their damage by 5%.
• Illustrious Healing: Very strong heal over time, always keep it up.
• Lotus Fan: Is used to apply Minor Vulnerability to the enemy, increasing their damage taken.
• Healthy Offering: Use this to gain the 5% healing done boost. This is also one of the strongest burst heals in the game that you can use.
• Bolstering Darkness: Applies Major Protection on you and group members. You can walk out of it once you have the buff and it will stay on you till the ultimate disappears.
• Refreshing Path: Heals for a lot at the same time, make sure to keep this on the ground all the times.
• Elemental Blockade: Blockade of Frost grants a damage shields (Frost Safeguard) to protect you and allies from projectiles and immobilizes Chilled enemies.
• Echoing Vigor: Strong area of effect heal over time and also activates the Powerful Assault set in combat.
• Energy Orb: Always make sure that an Orb is present so your group members can activate the synergy for resources.
• Siphoning Attacks: While slotted on either bar, when you deal damage you restore resources once every second. You can also activate the skill to trade Health into Mag/Stam.
• Aggressive Warhorn: This is your main Ultimate, it buffs the groups resources and increases the critical damage modifier for 10 seconds.

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. The Scribing Skills aren’t a must have. There are some viable options that you can use in certain situations.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing system.

Base Scribing Skill useful to our build:

• Restoration Staff: Mender’s Bond
• Destruction Staff: Elemental Explosion (Dazing Explosion)

To unlock the Mender’s Bond skill you need to reach level 25 in the Restoration Staff skill line. To unlock the Elemental Explosion skill, you need to reach level 25 in the Destruction Staff skill line.

Mender’s Bond

Our Mender’s Bond version tethers yourself to an ally and transfers 10% of the damage the allied player or companions take to you. Heals the ally and other allies when they leave the beam for a huge amount. Additonally, also grants Minor Courage increasing Weapon and Spell Damage by 215. Spell Power Cure already provides us with Major Courage (430 Weap/Spell Damage) and Powerful Assault has a unique buff to give even more Weapon and Spell Damage. This way we fully maximize group support!

Mender’s Bond is a great choice because with our spec it heals for such an insane amount and only requires your allies to touch the beam once.

• Focus Script
  • Mitigation (Transfers 10% of damage)
• Signature Script
  • Sage’s Remedy (30k Health over 5 seconds)
• Affix Script
  • Courage (Minor Courage, 215 Weap/Spell Damage)

Elemental Explosion (Dazing Explosion)

Elemental Explosion turns into Dazing Explosion when we add the scripts below, it is an AoE skill. It allows us to stun enemies for 5 seconds and restores 441 Magicka per enemy hit, basically giving back the cost of the spell when you hit 6 enemies. Most importantly, it applies Minor Brittle to all enemies, increasing their Critical Damage taken by 10%. This debuff is often hard to get. The Stun and Minor Brittle are great effects when you throw the AOE into trash mobs!

• Focus Script
  • Stun (Stuns enemies)
• Signature Script
  • Druid’s Resurgence (Restore Magicka)
• Affix Script
  • Brittle (Applies Brittle to the enemy, increasing their Crit Damage taken)

Champion Points for the ESO Nightblade Healer Build

Important Info for Magicka Nightblade Healer Build PvE

Buff-food

Clockwork Citrus Filet (Max Health, Max Magicka, Magicka Recovery, Health Recovery)
or
Witchmothers Potent Brew (Max Health, Max Magicka, Magicka Recovery)

For more information on how to obtain the consumable and what the current prices are for it please visit the Clockwork Citrus Filet and Witchmothers Potent Brew page.

Alternatively you can also use Tri Stat Buff food if you need the extra stamina resources, good buff foods are Bewitched Sugar Skulls or Longfin Pasty with Melon Sauce.

You can find a full list of all buff food and drinks on the Food and Drinks Overview Page.

Mundus Stone

The Atronach gives us a lot of extra Magicka Recovery which we need to keep using abilities, make sure to get it! You can find a full list of all Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Atronach Mundus Stone ( Increased Magicka Recovery)

Race

Any race that has magicka based passives will work with this build. You can find more information about racial passives in the ESO Race Overview page.

Breton
High Elf
Argonian
Dark Elf
Khajiit
Orc

Potions

Spell Power Potions
(Spell-crit, Spell Damage, Magicka)
(Cornflower, Ladys Smock, Water Hyacinth)

Passives

• Assassination: Hemorrhage
• Shadow: Refreshing Shadows, Shadow Barrier, Dark Vigor, Dark Veil
• Siphoning: Catalyst, Magicka Flood, Soul Siphoner, Transfer
• Destruction Staff: Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert
• Restoration Staff: Essence Drain, Restoration Expert, Cycle of Life, Absorb, Restoration Master
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Heavy Armor: All if you have enough skill points.
• Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Optional:

If you are planning to use skills from the Mages Guild and Psijic Order, just make sure to not forget to activate the passives.

Attributes

64 Magicka, 0 Health, 0 Stamina

Resource Management for the Nightblade Healer

We have more than enough Magicka Recovery to be able to sustain without any issues thanks to passives and the Siphoning Attacks skill. Using Clockwork Citrus Filet (or Witchmothers Potent Brew) in combination with two Magicka Recovery Glyphs and the Atronach Mundus Stone which also boosts our Magicka Recovery, we get to a pretty good high Magicka Recovery. Also do not forget to Heavy Attack, because Resto Staves give you 30% more resources back!

• Siphoning Attacks
• Magicka Recovery Glyph
• Cost Reduction Glyph
• Heavy Attacks
• Witchmothers Brew Drink

ESO Nightblade Subclassing Build Options

ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.

Take a look at our ESO Nightblade Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Nightblade build!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Nightblade Healer Build for ESO

Lets take a look at the outfit style of the Nightblade Healer Build for ESO. You can find a few images here and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Dwarven: Epaulets
• Swordthane: Gloves, Breeches, Robe, Sash, Shoes, Staff
• Dyes: Patron’s Gold, Void Pitch
• Hair Style: Pulled Back Hurl Cluster
• Head Markings: Sunken Eyes with Insect Legs
• Facial Hair: Dark Emphasis Eyelashes
• Major Adornments: Pact Dragonclaw Circlet

Update Log for the Nightblade Healer Build

Below you can find the update log for the ESO Nightblade Healer Build.

11.08.2019 Updated Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter. Magicka Nightblade Healer Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
20.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
20.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
20.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
31.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
04.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
27.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
11.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
01.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points & Buff Food links, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
18.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
03.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
10.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
09.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC.
24.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
09.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
30.05.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
26.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC U41, Gold Road Chapter
22.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
28.10.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
27.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

Tags: Nightblade Healer, Nightblade Support, NB Healer, NB Support, Nightblade Healer Build

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