Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Templar Builds, Solo Builds, One Bar Builds, Best Subclassing Builds
The GOD MODE Build is a Solo Magicka Templar build for ESO that showcases the ultra powerful Templar class in its most simple form – a one bar build. This build is now updated for both Class Mastery and Subclassing.
What you will learn in this One Bar Magicka Templar build guide:
- The best item sets to use with the Magicka Templar One Bar Build, and why they are important.
- How the skills work, synergies with the gear, and your rotation.
- The best consumables, race, and mundus, and most importantly, why you should select them.
This guide has been updated for The Elder Scrolls Online Update 50.
- Templar Class Overview
- Best One Bar Sets
- Alternate Sets
- One Bar Load Out
- Alternate Load Out
- Load Out – No Mythic
- Race
- Mundus Stone
- Food/Drink
- Potions
- Pure Templar Skills
- Templar Class Mastery
- Pure Class Passives
- Subclassing Build Skill Lines
- Subclassing Skills – One Bar Setup
- Templar Skills Explanation
- Magicka Templar Rotation
- Subclassing Passive Skills
- Champion Points –
- Update Log
- More Templar Builds For ESO
Templar Class Overview
The Templar Class is an extremely powerful way to play in The Elder Scrolls Online. Templars have powerful Class Skill lines great for DPS, Healing, Tanking and playing Solo. Templars are a great choice for any build due to their many great damage and defensive options.
For a more detailed guide be sure to review our ESO Templar Class Guide located here.
Best Magicka Templar One Bar Sets
Tide-Born Wildstalker is a powerful set focused on buffing Direct Damage. This will buff all of our main damage sources including Puncturing Sweeps.
I also recommend using updated Aetheric Lancer set which is a templar Class Set from Infinite Archive. This set boosts your damage while also giving a powerful damage proc effect.
The Oakensoul Ring is the new go-to Mythic Item that packs a punch for one bar builds. delivering many powerful Major and Minor buffs.
Finally, one piece of Kra’gh is going to be best in slot for attempting instanced content such as soloing dungeons or trials.
Tide-Born Wildstalker
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 1497 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) Increases your direct damage done to monsters by 12%.
Aetheric Lancer
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Dealing damage with Burning Light twice within 30 seconds creates a 5 meter area for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 3 seconds.
While in the area, dealing damage with an Aedric Spear ability launches a spear at your target, dealing 3800 Magic Damage and applying Sundered and increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 300 for 10 seconds. The damage scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
The Oakensoul Ring
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) While equipped, you are unable to swap between your Primary and Backup Weapon Sets and gain Minor Berserk, Minor Courage, Major Brutality, Major Sorcery, Major Prophecy, Major Savagery, Minor Force, Minor Protection, Major Resolve, Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect, Minor Endurance, Minor Heroism, Minor Aegis, Minor Slayer and Empower.
Volcanic stone for Firesong. Gems for Eldertide. With Stonelore craftsmanship to bind them together. This ring is the Draoife Incarnate. The might of the druids, in the palm of your hand.
Kra’gh
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance to spawn dreugh limbs that create shockwaves in front of you dealing 249 Physical damage every 0.6 seconds for 2.4 seconds. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
Oakensoul Ring Lead Locations
Getting the Oakensoul Ring in ESO is easier than you might think! Check out our full Oakensoul Ring Guide.
Magicka Templar One Bar Alternate Sets
The Deadly Strike set can still be used on this build for a strong buff to Templar’s Puncturing Sweep. Another easily crafted option is going to be the Order’s Wrath set. Either of these can be used to replace Aetheric Lancer as some players may not like the proc effect.
Rather than use a Mythic you can instead use a full Monster Set like Iceheart which has a powerful damage shield and even more Critical Chance.
Slimecraw can be used for even more Critical Chance and will be preferable for Overland content where enemies have lower armor requiring less penetration overall.
Deadly Strike
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Increase the damage your Damage Over Time and Channeled Abilities do by 15%.
Order’s Wrath
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 943 Critical Chance, Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 8%.
Iceheart
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(2 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 5000 damage for 6 seconds. While the damage shield holds, you deal 500 Frost Damage to all enemies within 5 meters of you every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds.
Slimecraw
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(2 items) Adds 113 Critical Chance, Gain Minor Berserk at all times, increasing your damage done by 5%
Best Solo Templar One Bar Load Out
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Aetheric Lancer Lightning Staff | Precise | NA | Shock Damage |
| Backup | None | NA | NA | NA |
| Head | Kra’gh | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Chest | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Waist | Aetheric Lancer | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Feet | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Aetheric Lancer | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 1 | Aetheric Lancer | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Oakensoul Ring | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
Best Solo Templar Alternate Load Out
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Deadly Strike or Order’s Wrath Lightning Staff | Precise | NA | Absorb Magic |
| Backup | None | NA | NA | NA |
| Head | Slimecraw | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Chest | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Waist | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Deadly Strike or Order’s Wrath | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Feet | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Deadly Strike or Order’s Wrath | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 1 | Deadly Strike or Order’s Wrath | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Oakensoul Ring | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
Best Solo Templar Load Out – No Mythic
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Aetheric Lancer Lightning Staff | Precise | NA | Shock Damage |
| Backup | None | NA | NA | NA |
| Head | Iceheart | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Shoulder | Iceheart | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Chest | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Heavy | Magicka |
| Waist | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Gloves | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Legs | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Medium | Magicka |
| Feet | Tide-Born Wildstalker | Divines | Light | Magicka |
| Necklace | Aetheric Lancer | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 1 | Aetheric Lancer | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Ring 2 | Aetheric Lancer | Bloodthirsty | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
Best Magicka Templar One Bar Race
I recommend the High Elf race for this solo Magicka Templar build thanks to their great sustain and damage reduction passives, along with Max Magicka and Weapon and Spell Damage. Khajiit is another favorite race for this build because of their higher Critical Damage and Healing. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
Best Magicka Templar One Bar Mundus Stone
The best Mundus Stone for this Magicka Templar One Bar build is the Thief Mundus, as this increases your Critical Chance, letting all of your skills potentially do more damage and healing. This is even more important on classes like the Templar because your main spammable DPS skill, Puncturing Sweep, heals for more, when you deal more damage, increasing your survivability as well!
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167
If soloing purely instanced content like Dungeons and trials then swap to the Lover Mundus to make sure you have enough penetration to deal with enemies higher armor values.
The Lover
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489
Best Magicka Templar One Bar Food/Drink
The best Food/Drink option for a Magicka Templar One Bar Build is Clockwork Citrus Filet. This buff increases your Max Magicka, important for dealing more damage, Magicka Recovery for better sustain, Max Health for better survival and even Health Recovery for better recovery still.
A cheaper option if you don’t want to spend as much Gold would be to use Witchmother’s Potent Brew instead as this has all of the same bonuses minus the extra Health Recovery, but often for much cheaper.
Clockwork Citrus Filet
Increase Max Health by 3326, Health Recovery by 406, Max Magicka by 3080 and Magicka Recovery by 338 for 2 hours.
Ingredients: Red Meat, Lemon, Frost Mirriam, Perfect Roe
Witchmother’s potent brew
Increase Max Magicka by 2856, Max Health by 3094, and Magicka Recovery by 315 for 2 hours.
These effects are scaled based on your level.
Ingredients: Nightshade, Bervez Juice, Rice, Small Game
Best One Bar Magicka Templar Potions
Thanks to using the Oakensoul Ring on this build, we have all of the most important buffs taken care of, allowing for flexibility with potions. If you want the absolute best potions for challenging content that would Tri Stat Potions, which restore Health, Magicka and Stamina while also increasing your Magicka Recovery, Stamina Recovery and Health Recovery. These are by far the best as they give you a flood of resources, but they can be expensive.
For a cheaper option for easy content, simply use basic Magicka potions and you will be fine.
Tri-Stat Potions
Basic Magicka Potions
Pure Templar Skills – One Bar Set Up
This build can be run as a Pure Templar build to take advantage of class mastery or a subclassing build. Both options are presented below.
For those that prefer the Pure Magicka Templar Build, here are the recommended skills:
Main Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Elemental Drain
- Solar Barrage
- Radiant Ward or Radiant Glory
- Puncturing Sweep
- Channeled Focus
- ULT: Shooting Star
Magicka Templar Class Mastery
Players that reach level 50 in ESO while also fully reaching Rank 50 for their class skill lines and not subclassing can use 2 Class Mastery passives to improve their build. For the Templar class I recommend Bright Harbinger for the increased Weapon and Spell damage applied to Illuminate and Judgment’s Brand which increases the damage of your Templar abilities by 1400 after dealing damage with Burning Light.
Bright Harbinger
Light’s banner instills hope. You are its bearer.
Effect
Upgrades rank 2 of Illuminate to also grant Bright Harbinger for the duration, which grants 300 Weapon and Spell Damage to allies and doubles for you.
Judgment’s Brand
Judgement follows in the wake of your radiance.
Effect
When rank 2 of Burning Light deals damage, your Templar abilities gain 1400 damage done for 3.1 seconds. This bonus is halved against players.
Pure Class Magicka Templar Passives
Class Passives
- Piercing Spear
- Spear Wall
- Burning Light
- Balanced Warrior
- Enduring Rays
- Prism
- Illuminate
- Restoring Spirit
- Mending
- Sacred Ground
Weapon Passives
Armor Passives
- Grace
- Evocation
- Spell Warding
- Prodigy
- Concentration
- Dexterity
- Wind Walker
- Agility
- Athletics
- Resolve
- Constitution
- Juggernaut
- Revitalize
- Rapid Mending
Guild Passives
Racial
Other
Best Magicka Templar Subclassing Build Skill Lines
This build can also Subclassing for improved effectiveness and utility. Check out the video above to preview the Subclassed One Bar Magicka Templar. The recommended skill lines for this build are:
Best Magicka Templar Subclassing Skills – One Bar Setup
Main Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Fetcher Infection
- Deep Fissure
- Radiant Ward
- Puncturing Sweep
- Merciless Resolve
- ULT: Soul Harvest or Dawnbreaker Of Smiting
Subclassing Magicka Templar Skills Explanation
- Fetcher Infection: this powerful damage over time skill also debuffs enemies with Minor Vulnerability, increasing their damage taken.
- Deep Fissure: deals AOE magic damage, plus massively debuffs enemy armor with both Major Breach and Minor Breach, resulting in nearly 10K armor removed!
- Radiant Ward: this powerful damage shield skill increases in strength the more enemies you, deals damage, and can even heal you back with the right Champion Points slotted!
- Puncturing Sweep: this is your main DPS spammable skill, doing huge damage to enemies in front of you while also healing you back.
- Merciless Resolve: use this for a quick burst of damage and a burst heal.
- ULT: Soul Harvest: this is your best damage ultimate, increasing all of the damage you do against a target for 6 seconds while also generating bonus ultimate for every enemy defeated.
- ULT: Dawnbreaker Of Smiting: use this Fighter’s Guild ultimate ability if you need more AOE damage plus a stun, which can be useful for knocking down groups of enemies before they can damage you.
Subclassing Magicka Templar Rotation
Start by casting Deep Fissure, then Fetcher infection to debuff your enemy. Follow up with Puncturing Sweep x5 combined with light attacks. Do this to fill up Merciless Resolved stacks, then fire off the Spectral Bow proc. Use your Soul Harvest ultimate for even more damage against a single target.
Subclassing Templar Passive Skills
Class Passives
- Piercing Spear
- Spear Wall
- Burning Light
- Balanced Warrior
- Master Assassin
- Executioner
- Pressure Points
- Hemorrhage
- Bond With Nature
- Savage Beast
- Flourish
- Advanced Species
Weapon Passives
Armor Passives
- Grace
- Evocation
- Spell Warding
- Prodigy
- Concentration
- Dexterity
- Wind Walker
- Agility
- Athletics
- Resolve
- Constitution
- Juggernaut
- Revitalize
- Rapid Mending
Guild Passives
Racial
Other
Champion Points
Below you will find the recommended Active and Passive Champion Point Stars for this build, broken down into 300, 600, 900, and 1200 CP ranges.
For more information on Champion Points click on a Star name below or browse our detailed Champion Points Guides.
Constellation Descriptions:
Craft TREE
The Green Craft Constellation is focused on crafting and utility-centered upgrades.
Warfare TREE
The Blue Warfare Constellation focuses primarily on increasing player damage, healing and defenses
Fitness TREE
The Red Fitness Constellation is focused on character survival and sustain.
– 300 Champion Points –
GREEN
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
RED
– 600 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 10 Fortune’s Favor
- 10 Wanderer
- 50 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer
BLUE
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 10 Sprinter
- 8 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Siphoning Spells (Slot)
– 900 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 10 Fortune’s Favor
- 10 Wanderer
- 50 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer
- 50 Treasure Hunter
- 30 Master Gatherer (Slot)
- 20 Gifted Rider (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Reaving Blows (Slot)
- 20 Eldritch Insight
- 20 Tireless Discipline
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 10 Sprinter
- 8 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Siphoning Spells (Slot)
- 10 Shield Master
- 50 Bastion (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
– 1200 Champion Points –
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 10 Fortune’s Favor
- 10 Wanderer
- 50 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer
- 50 Treasure Hunter
- 30 Master Gatherer (Slot)
- 50 Gifted Rider (Slot)
- 75 War Mount (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Master-At-Arms (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Reaving Blows (Slot)
- 20 Eldritch Insight
- 20 Tireless Discipline
- 20 Quick Recovery
- 20 Preparation
- 20 Elemental Aegis
- 20 Hardy
- 40 Flawless Ritual
- 30 War Mage
RED
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Fortified (Slot)
- 20 Sprinter
- 16 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Siphoning Spells (Slot)
- 10 Shield Master
- 50 Bastion (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 30 Fortification
Update Log
- July 30, 2026 – updated for ESO Update 50
- June 15, 2026 – created Class Mastery passives section
- May 6, 2026 – Updated Green Champion Points
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