Warden Healer Build for ESO – Elder Scrolls Online

“Blossom”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Trials & Dungeons Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Blackrose Prison Arena Setup
• Build Video
• Update Log

Introduction

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

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

Wardens can be really good healers as they have a dedicated healing skill-tree. They also have access to Minor Vulnerability through Fetcher Infection which can be a good boost to damage for the whole group.

• Dungeons, Arenas & Trials Build
• Insane Healing
• Insane Sustain
• Light Armor
• Group Support

Changes to the previous Version

In the Markarth DLC U28 the build received some changes:

• Minor Berserk: Decreased to 5%, down from 8%.
• Minor Vulnerability: Decreased to 5%, down from 8%.

The new restoration staff from the Vateshran Arena called Force Overflow is also a good ability altering weapon healers can use.

Resource Management

The Blue Betty helps quite a lot with sustain, that is the first thing you need to remember and keep up 100% of the time. Restoration Staff heavy attacks return also a lot of resources, combine that with Tenacity Champion Points Perk that increases resource return on heavy attacks and another 30% from the Restoration Staff Passives and you get insane numbers! I also recommend using potions on cooldown.

• Blue Betty
• Clockwork Citrus Filet (Witchmothers Brew Drink)
• Magicka Recovery Glyph
• Potions
• Heavy Attacks

Trials & Dungeons Setup

5x Perf. Olorime, 5x Hollowfang, 2x Symphony of Blades on a Breton with Clockwork buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat
• Buffed: Spell Power Potion and Major Courage and Minor Toughness were active when I took the screenshot.

Gear

Gear Setup 1

Perfected Vestments of Olorime: vCloudrest
Vestments of Olorime: Cloudrest
Hollowfang Thirst: Moongrave Fane
Sentinel of Rkguamz: vDarkshade Caverns I, Maj Undaunted Chest
Perfected Grand Rejuvenation (Master Resto): vDragonstar Arena
Grand Rejuvenation (Master Resto): Dragonstar Arena
Seducer: Craftable
Kagrenac’s Hope: Craftable In the Earth Forge
Spell Power Cure: White-Gold Tower

Skills

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.
• Enchanted Growth: This is mainly here to apply Minor Intellect and Minor Endurance to the group and it also can apply Minor Toughness.
• Blue Betty: Keep this up as its your most effective resource management tool.
• Enchanted Forest: Only use this in “oh crap” moments. It is always better to use Warhorn to support your group with more max resources and crit modifier.
• Budding Seeds: Summon a field of flowers which blooms after 6 seconds, healing you and your allies in the area. The ability can be activated a second time to instantly trigger the heal.
• Elemental Blockade: Keep this on the ground as much as possible, when that Elemental Shock Blockade is on the ground with your charged trait, concussion and off balance will almost proc on cooldown, increasing group DPS by a lot.
• Elemental Drain: This ability needs to be on the enemy as much as possible, it debuffs their Spell Resistance and gives Magicka Steal to your whole group, increasing sustain by a lot.
• Energy Orb: Always make sure that an Orb is present so your group members can activate the synergy for resources.
• Fetcher Infection: Keep this debuff on the enemy, applies Minor Vulnerability, increase damage taken on enemies by 5%-
• Expansive Frost Cloak: (Optional instead of Fetcher Infection) Gives your group Major Resistance buffs, that way they will take less damage if hit by an enemy.
• Aggressive Warhorn: This is your main Ultimate, it buffs the groups resources and increases the critical damage modifier for 10 seconds.

Champion Points

If you need optimized defensive Champion Points for a specific trial I recommend checking out my Maximize Damage Mitigation in Trials Article.

• Calculator: In case you need help distributing your Champion Points, make sure to check out the Champion Points Calculator!

Champion Points [810]

The Ritual
23 Thaumaturge
The Atronach
The Apprentice
100 Blessed, 72 Elfborn, 26 Spell Erosion, 49 Elemental Expert
The Shadow
28 Tumbling, 44 Shadow Ward
The Lover
75 Arcanist, 75 Tenacity
The Tower
40 Warlord, 8 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spell Shield

Champion Points [600]

The Ritual
The Atronach
The Apprentice
100 Blessed, 72 Elfborn, 27 Elemental Expert, 1 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
10 Tumbling, 39 Shadow Ward
The Lover
75 Arcanist, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
27 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed
61 Ironclad, 18 Spell Shield

Champion Points [300]

The Ritual
The Atronach
The Apprentice
56 Blessed, 40 Elfborn, 4 Spell Erosion
The Shadow
The Lover
49 Arcanist, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
2 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
23 Hardy, 23 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed
31 Ironclad

Important Info for Magicka Warden Healer Build PvE

Buff-food

Ideally you want to use the Clockwork Citrus Filet as it provides you with a little bit extra Magicka and Health. However, that food is quite expensive, the other option is Witchmother’s Potent Brew that has similar stats.

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

Mundus Stone

The Atronach gives us a lot of extra Magicka Recovery which we need to keep using abilities, make sure to get it!

The Atronach ( Increased Magicka Recovery)

Race

You can find more information about racial passives in the ESO Race Overview page.

Breton (Recommended, best sustain)
High Elf
Argonian
Dark Elf
Khajiit

Potions

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

Passives

• Animal Companion: Bond with Nature, Savage Beast, Flourish
• Green Balance: Accelerated Growth, Nature’s Gift, Emerald Moss, Maturation
• Winter’s Embrace: Icy Aura
• Destruction Staff: Tri Focus, 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: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• 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

All into Magicka

Build Video

You can check out the Build Video from Vana to get a good idea of how to build your Warden Healer. The build may not be identical with this one on the website here.

Update Log