Powerful ESO Templar Tank Build – Elder Scrolls Online

Table of Contents

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

Welcome to the ESO Templar Tank Build PvE “Paladin”. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Templar Tank Build PvE “Paladin” is optimized for Dungeons & Trials.

Other Tank Guides:

• All Tank Guides
• Beginner’s Tanking Guide
• Advanced Tanking Guide
• Endgame Tank Sets

The ESO Templar tank benefits from the Radiant Ward skill which shields us from enemies. We also have the possibility to cleanse most debuffs from us with Extended Ritual and provide our allies with a nice synergy that also allows them to cleanse negative effects.

The Restoring Focus skill provides us with a high amount of resistance and also heals us at the same time. Of course there are other skills, more in the skills section of the build.

• Dungeon & Trials Build
• Tank/Support Build
• Heavy Armor
• Great Sustain
• Easy Survivability
• Great Self Healing
• Insane Shielding

Dungeon & Trial Setup Templar Tank Build

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

5x Turning Tide, 5x Powerful Assault, 2x Nazaray, Puncturing Remedy with Bewitched Sugar Skills on a Nord.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff-food active.
• Buffed: In combat, Raid Target Dummy buffs, Tri-Stat Potions, 2x Puncturing Remedy, Restoring Focus active.

Gear Templar Tank Build ESO

Gear Setup

Gear Combo: Combining the sets Turning Tide and Nazaray creates a powerful combo. You can apply Major Vulnerability with Turning Tide and then activate an ultimate to proc Nazaray to get a very extended duration on the Major Vulnerability debuff. Basically increasing the damage output for the whole group for a long duration. If you have 500 ultimate points saved up you get an additional 25 seconds of Major Vulnerability, increasing the total time to 35 seconds!

Backbar Weapon: We use a Frost staff as a base back bar weapon, because of the Ancient Knowledge passive. However, you can also use a Lightning Staff or another sword and board if you wish to do so.

Puncturing Remedy: If you don’t have access to the Puncturing Remedy set you can simply use Powerful Assault on the frontbar too.

Powerful Assault: We only back bar this set because we use the Echoing Vigor skill on the back bar to apply the buff to yourself and allies.

Lucent Echoes: If you use Lucent Echoes make sure to swap out Nazaray for another Monster Set.

Beginner Gear Setup

This beginner setup is here for people who do not have access to the other setup now. You can ask a friend to craft Fortified Brass and Torug’s Pact for you. You could also use Plague Doctor instead of Torug’s Pact as it is very cheap and available in the Guild Stores.

Where can I get the gear?

Turning Tide: Shipwright’s Regret dungeon
Powerful Assault: Imperial City Vault, Guildstores
Puncturing Remedy: nDragonstar Arena
Perfected Puncturing Remedy: vDragonstar Arena
Nazaray: vShipwright’s Regret dungeon, Undaunted Enclave rewards.
Fortified Brass: Craftable
Torug’s Pact: Craftable
Night’s Silence: Craftable
Plague Doctor: Deshaan, Guildstore

Skills ESO Templar Tank Build

Make sure to adjust your skills to your needs, this setup is not maced into stone, make sure to adjust skills depending on the situation of a fight.

Skills Explanation:

• Radiant Ward: With a base Health of 45,5k the Radiant Ward will give us a 13.6k shield. The shield size increases further depending on how many enemies are in close vicinity.
• Heroic Slash: Debuffs the enemy with a 5% damage reduction debuff and also gives you Minor Heroism, increasing your Ultimate generation.
• Pierce Armor: Your main taunt, also debuffs the enemy with Major Fracture and Major Breach, reducing Spell and Physical Resistance by 5948.
• Living Dark: Every time we get hit by an enemy we restore health and snare the enemy at the same time.
• Spell Symmetry: If you use Spell Symmetry you restore 3000 Magicka and your next magicka ability that you use gets a reduced cost of 25% this lasts 5 seconds.
  IMPORTANT: Be aware that when you use the skill, that all shields and healing will be cut in half for the next 4 seconds.
• Aggressive Warhorn: Your main Ultimate, to buff the group with 10% more max resources and crit damage boost.
• Extended Ritual: Cleanses up to 5 debuffs on you and also has a small heal over time. Also places a synergy on the ground for your allies.
• Echoing Vigor: Applies an AoE heal and also activates the set Powerful Assault.
• Elemental Blockade: If you are using a frost staff, this can proc Minor Brittle and Minor Maim on the enemy, which increases enemy critical damage taken and reduces enemy damage. Also provides a small shield to allies.
• Inner Rage: This is your ranged taunt, in case you can not get to a mob fast enough.
• Restoring Focus: Make sure to keep this ability active all the time. It gives you Major Resolve, increasing both Armor and Spell Resistance by 5948, plus an extra 8% healing and damage mitigation.
• Remembrance: If you get into a tricky situation, you can use the Remembrance Ultimate which heals you and your team for a lot and also applies Major Protection to you.

Other optional Skills:

• Silver Leash: This morph now chains enemies towards you. Be careful when you use it, because it costs Stamina.
• Shield Discipline (Ultimate): You can also use this Ultimate instead of the Remembrance Ultimate.

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 for tank builds.

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:

• World: Soul Burst and Wield Soul
• Mages Guild: Ulfsild’s Contingency
• Fighters Guild: Torchbearer

The skills are unlocked by:

• Soul Burst: Complete Final ESO Scribing Quest
• Wield Soul: Complete ESO Scribing Tutorial Quest
• Ulfsild’s Contingency: Reach Mages Guild Rank 5
• Torchbearer: Reach Fighters Guild Rank 5

Soul Burst (Leashing Burst)

Soul Burst turns into Leashing Burst by adding the following scripts below. This is an AoE centered around you and pulls all targets to you, reduces their movement speed and interrupts casting enemies. Great against trash packs.

• Focus Script
  • Pull
• Signature Script
  • Hunter’s Snare
• Affix Script
  • Interrupt

Wield Soul (Leashing Soul)

Wield Soul turns into Leashing Soul by adding the following scripts below. With our Scribing Scripts, we taunt the enemy and pull them to us. We also restore resources and apply Major Cowardice on the enemy, reducing their damage by a large amount.

• Focus Script
  • Pull
• Signature Script
  • Druid’s Resurgence
• Affix Script
  • Cowardice

Ulfsild’s Contingency (Warding Contingency)

Ulfsild’s Contingency turns into Warding Contingency by adding the following scripts below. You apply a rune to yourself. When an enemy hits you the rune triggers and grants a damage shield to you and allies. It also reduces damage by 8% and grants you Minor Protection, reducing damage even further by 5%.

• Focus Script
  • Damage Shield
• Signature Script
  • Gladiator’s Tenacity
• Affix Script
  • Protection

Torchbearer (Heroic Torch)

Torchbearer turns into Heroic Torch by adding the following scripts below. It generates 1 Ultimate to you and your allies with every sweep. It also reduces damage taken by 30% for a short duration and grants Minor Heroism, generating 1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds.

• Focus Script
  • Generate Ultimate
• Signature Script
  • Gladiator’s Tenacity
• Affix Script
  • Heroism

Champion Points for the ESO Templar Tank Build

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Important:

• Warfare Tree: This tree gives you a mix between damage, healing and damage mitigation.
• Fitness Tree: This tree gives you extra health, sustain and defensive buffs.
• Craft Tree: This tree is mostly optional, nothing really “impacts” combat, therefore you can pick whatever you prefer, or use the preset below.
• Perks: Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Templar Tank Build PvE

Buff-food

In general, most Tanks like to go with max resource buff foods such as the Bewitched Sugar Skulls or the cheaper version Longfin pasty with Melon Sauce. However, you could also use Jewels of Misrule which provides Health and a lot of Magicka and Stamina recovery.

Longfin pasty with Melon Sauce
(Max Health+Max Stamina+Max Magicka)

Bewitched Sugar Skulls

The Bewitched Sugar Skulls is a slightly more advanced version than Longfin Pasty with Melon sauce that has a bit higher stats and also includes health recovery, it costs more though.

You can also visit the Buff Food and Drinks Overview Page for more information on all food and drinks.

Mundus Stone

The Lord is a good Mundus Stone to increase maximum Health. However, you can also use other available Mundus Stones if you don’t need the extra Health. For an overview of all the Mundus Stones in ESO you can check out the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Lord Mundus Stone (Max Health)

Race

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

Nord
Argonian
Imperial
Orc
Redguard
Dark Elf

Potions

For hard content I recommend using crafted or crown store Tri-Stat potions.

Tri-Stat Potion
(Health, Stamina, Magicka)
(Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower)

Passives

• Aedric Spear: Piercing Spear, Spear Wall, Burning Light, Balanced Warrior
• Dawn’s Wrath: Enduring Rays, Prism, Illuminate, Restoring Spirit
• Restoring Light: Mending, Sacred Ground, Master Ritualist, Light Weaver
• One Hand and Shield: Fortress, Sword and Board, Deadly Bash, Deflect Bolts, Battlefield Mobility
• Destruction Staff: Penetrating Magic, Elemental Force, Ancient Knowledge, Destruction Expert (Note: Do not activate Tri Focus passive)
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut, Revitalize, Rapid Mending
• Medium Armor: If you have spare skillpoints, max out this skill line too.
• Light Armor: If you have spare skillpoints, max out this skill line too.
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

You have to make sure to have a bit more Stamina than Magicka. Because of the Synergies you pick up give you back whatever stat is higher. You can change this to your liking, if you do not need that much health, get more stamina.

14 Magicka, 40 Health, 10 Stamina

Resource Management for the Templar Tank

Restoring Focus increases our resistances and returns Stamina every second. Always keep this one active, it is your most important damage mitigation and resource management skill.

Repentance allows us to drain corpses if we need resources. It boosts our Stamina by 3000 per corpse and also heals us for 3500 per corpse.

Spell Symmetry returns Magicka, you can use this as much as you want, but be careful that your Healer is healing you. Because you loose Health while using this.

Energy Orb is a skill that Healers use to throw into the group. You can use the synergy this skill provides to regain around 4000 resources. Our max Stamina is a bit higher than our Max Magicka, that is because you will get resources depending on your higher max Stamina or Magicka. And because we are a tank, Stamina is definitely more important.

Heavy Attacks restore a big amount of stamina, if you hit an off-balanced enemy it gives twice the amount back. You don’t need to permablock, try to find time to do Heavy Attacks in your rotation.

Potions are also a key to manage your resources well, I recommend using Tri-Stat potions to regain all three resources at the same time. Further below you will learn how to craft the right potions.

• Restoring Focus
• Repentance
• Spell Symmetry
• Heavy Attacks
• Potions
• Orbs (Undaunted skill-line)

Choosing an Argonian as a race for your tank will also increase sustain due to the Resourceful racial passive.

ESO Templar 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 Templar Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Templar build!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Templar Tank Build for ESO

Update Log for the ESO Templar Tank Build

11.08.2019 Updated the Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter, Templar Tank Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC, Elsweyr Chapter.
20.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
08.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
20.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
29.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
26.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
11.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
01.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points and 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.
12.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
09.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
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.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for Necrom Update 40.
08.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
23.05.2024 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.
28.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

Tags: Health Templar Tank Build, Templar Tank Build, Templar Tank Build PvE.

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