Ultimate Stamina Templar Beginner Build For ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Templar Builds, Beginner Builds

This beginner build for the Stamina Templar class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started, with TONS of AOE Damage, Sustain and Healing!

What you will learn in this build guide:

• The best item sets to use with the Beginner Templar, and why they are important.
• How the skills work, synergize 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 51.

ESO Beginner Stamina Templar Introduction

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.

Stamina Templar Beginner Build Primary Sets

Our main 5-piece set on this build is Shadow Of The Red Mountain, a powerful medium armor damage set that summons volcanoes!

Spriggan’s Thorns is another fantastic base game set that increases Weapon and Spell Damage, Max Stamina, and Penetration.

For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.

Shadow Of The Red Mountain

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal damage with a weapon, you spawn a volcano that erupts after 1 second, launching liquid hot lava at the closest enemy dealing 1800 Flame damage. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Spriggan’s Thorns

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration

Armor Of The Trainee

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina

Stamina Templar Beginner Build Alternate Sets

For alternative sets, Hexos Ward makes soloing difficult content easy with its massive damage shield. Briarheart is another great damage option that also provides some decent self-healing.

Hexos Ward

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Dealing direct Critical Damage grants you a damage shield that absorbs up to 12305 damage for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds.

Briarheart

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 450 for 10 seconds. While this effect is active your Critical Strikes heal you for 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.

Sample Gear Loadout

Stamina Templar Beginner Attributes

The best attribute for a Stamina Templar is Stamina because it increase the effectiveness of our skills. Additionally, increased stamina can increase the size of a damage and healing spells. It’s best to pick one attribute pool and “stack” for optimal damage and resource sustain. Therefore, I recommend 64 stamina, 0 health, and 0 magicka.

Stamina Templar Beginner Race

Orc or Dark Elf will be ideal for more damage, while Nord is a favorite option for the extra defense and ultimate generation. The most common choice for meta end game is Dark Elf because of the spell and weapon damage and two resource pools. Khajiit is great for critical damage, but is weaker in high-end PvE content. Meanwhile, the Orc and Redguard are two great choices for better resource sustain.

For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Stamina Templar Beginner Mundus

The best mundus stone for a stamina Templar build is the Lover due to Physical Penetration. Unlike light armor builds that favor magicka skills, medium armor lacks offensive penetration. Therefore, this is the best stat for a beginner or playing solo. As you start to play in group PvE content, swap to the Thief especially with coordinated tanks and healers. The cap for Veteran enemies is 18,200, if you go over that, the stats are wasted.

The Lover

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Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744

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With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489

Stamina Templar Beginner Food & Drink

The best drink, food, consumable for the stamina Templar is Dubious Camoran Throne because it gives stats across the board. This drink is easy to get from vendors and increases your max stamina, health, and grants stamina recovery. As a new player, you desperately need resource sustain as well as damage, which is why this is selected. Later as you advance, other food is used like “bi-stat” which forgoes stamina recovery for higher max stats. But, this comes with a big downside and that is weak sustain and not recommended right away.

Dubious Camoran Throne

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Increase Stamina Recovery by 315, Max Stamina by 2856 and Max Health by 3094 for 2 hours.

These effects are scaled based on your level.

A dessert cocktail of jagga, rotmeth, and sweetbread puree. Definitely Green Pact compliant.

Stamina Templar Beginner Potions

The best Stamina potions for the Stamina Templar are the base potions that give you Stamina recovery. The recover, with medicinal use passive from alchemy, can run 47.5 seconds. With potion cooldown only last 45 seconds, you can maintain 100% up time on an additional 20% recovery. As you advance, tri-potions (all three stats), spell power potions (buffs and recovery), or even heroism potions (ultimate generation buff) can be used. However, consider using these right now depending on your level and don’t be shy about drinking them.

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Basic Stamina Potions

Sample Skills

Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Whirling Blades: AOE damage skill that acts as execute the lower the HP of the enemy.
2. Blood Craze: a high powered single target DOT that should be placed on priority mob.
3. Power Of The Light: a good single target burst skill that soaks up damage then explodes after a short time.
4. Biting Jabs: AOE and Single target spammable attack that should be used when DOTs are all up.
5. Camouflaged Hunter: this skill is slotted purely to gain critical buff and minor berserk.
6. ULT: Empowering Sweep: low cost ultimate that does decent burst damage in front of you.

Backup Weapon: TWO HANDED – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Stampede: this is your gap closer that also hits hard and leaves a powerful DOT at target.
2. Barbed Trap: a good single target DOT that also gives minor Force and Hemorrhaging status effect.
3. Carve: this is a good AOE DOT that can be placed on multiple target and stack in effectiveness with more swipes.
4. Restoring Focus: armor buff that also triggers increased resource sustain.
5. Repentance or Living Dark: use repentance for better resource sustain and Living Dark for better survivability.
6. ULT: Solar Prison or Solar Disturbance: large AOE ultimate that lowers damage on targets within radius

Sample Rotation

Rotation: Start on the backbar by casting Stampede, Barbed Trap, Carve x2, Restoring Focus. Bar Swap.

Cast Blood Craze, Power Of The Light, Biting Jabs x4, Power Of The Light, Biting Jabs x 4, then Bar Swap back.

Replace one cast of Biting Jabs with Empowering Sweep when ready.

Tips: Remember to Light Attack in between each skill. After the first rotation, Carve should only need to be recast once. Use Living Dark if you are taking too much damage or use Repentance for sustain against groups of enemies.

Important Passives

1. Spear Wall
2. Prism
3. Illuminate
4. Burning Light
5. Sacred Ground
6. Wind Walker
7. Dexterity
8. Twin Blade And Blunt
9. Balanced Blade
10. Agility

Stamina 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

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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

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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.

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