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Powerful Magicka Arcanist Healer Build for ESO

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Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Arcanist Builds, Healer Builds

This powerful Magicka Arcanist Healer focuses on providing resources, great group buffs, shields and massive raw healing! This build can easily keep up with healing in the most difficult endgame content including Veteran Trial and Dungeon Hard-Modes!

Remember that you can always use other sets and skills. Ultimately, optimization should always be guided by keeping the rest of your group as well as the encounters in mind.

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What you will learn in this healer build guide:

  • The best item sets to use with the Arcanist Healer 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.

Arcanist Class Overview

The Arcanist Class is an extremely powerful way to play in The Elder Scrolls Online. Arcanists have many similarities with other classes in ESO such as dedicated Class Skill lines for DPS, for Healing, and for Tanking. Arcanists are also extremely unique in that they make use of a powerful new game mechanic called Crux. For a more detailed guide be sure to review our ESO Arcanist Class Guide located here.

The Arcanist class is available to players who have purchased the Necrom Chapter. You can also buy the class directly for 1,500 Crowns (roughly $15). Therefore, this is not a base game class and will require you to spend extra money to unlock. However, it is worth it for serious ESO players as it remains one of the best classes overall!

Arcanist Healer Primary Sets

First, the Perfected Pillager’s Profit set, found in the Veteran Dreadsail Reef Trial, is a staple for healers in endgame content. When you cast an Ultimate, a portion of the Ultimate cost is distributed to your group members as Ultimate generation over 10s. This allows DPS and other support players to cast their Ultimates more frequently, greatly increasing buff and debuff uptimes as well as damage output. Remember that you can also get the non-Perfected version of this set by running the Trial in Normal —129 Magicka Recovery is all you will miss out on. If you plan on playing healing or support builds at all in ESO, this is a set you can’t skip on.

Next, Reawakened Hierophant, found in the Infinite Archive, is a must-have that only Arcanists can wear. It grants buffs to your group members based on the number of Crux you have: 1 gives a damage shield for extra tankiness; 2 give Minor Heroism for more Ultimate generation; and 3 give Major Protection reducing damage taken by 10%. All these are extremely valuable, and the set is extremely easy to farm, solo or duo, as the Infinite Archive is part of the base game: repeating the first 2 Arcs is faster than running a Dungeon or a Trial, and you won’t encounter difficult enemies.

For our Monster Set, Ozezan the Inferno provides an Armor buff when you overheal a target as well as Minor Vitality when healing, greatly increasing survivability of your group. It can be acquired by defeating the last boss of the Veteran Scrivener’s Hall Dungeon.

Our necklace, Pearls of Ehlnofey, is a mythic from the Markarth DLC. The leads can easily be acquired by completing base game content. The item grants you Ultimate for using healing abilities while your Magicka pool is below 50%. This is an essential mythic for Healers and it perfectly complements Pillager’s Profit.

Lastly, we use 1 piece of the Armor of the Trainee because we have a spare slot and the extra 1454 Maximum Health is always welcome in difficult content.

eso pillagers profit

Perfected Pillager’s Profit

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 4% Healing Done
(3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(5 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery, Casting an Ultimate ability while in combat grants 5% of Ultimate spent, up to a max of 20, as Ultimate to up to 11 other group members within 12 meters every 2 seconds over 10 seconds. Group members can only be affected by this set once every 45 seconds.

Reawakened Hierophant

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 731 Maximum Magicka, Adds 731 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 731 Maximum Magicka, Adds 731 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 731 Maximum Magicka, Adds 731 Maximum Stamina
(5 items) Casting a non-Ultimate Curative Runeform ability grants an effect for 6 seconds to your affected allies based on how many Crux you had. At 1 Crux, allies gain a damage shield that absorbs 3598 damage. At 2 Crux, allies gain Minor Heroism, granting 1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds. At 3 Crux, allies gain Major Protection, reducing damage taken by 10%.

eso ozezan the inferno

Ozezan The Inferno

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(2 items) Overhealing yourself or an ally grants them 4272 Armor for 1.1 seconds. Healing yourself or an ally grants them Minor Vitality for 1.1 seconds, increasing their healing received by 8%.

Pearls of Ehlnofey

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) When you attempt to use resources to cast a healing ability while in combat and your dominant resource is under 50%, gain 3 Ultimate.

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Armor Of The Trainee

LVL 50 – CP 160

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

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Arcanist Healer Alternate Sets

For alternatives, and if you’re not quite ready for trials yet or you’re missing some DLCs, you can still use Reawakened Hierophant. Easier to farm than Dungeon sets, it’s a versatile option that remains relevant throughout your journey to endgame content, so it’s definitely a worthwhile investment of your time.

This combines well with Combat Physician from Wayrest Sewers I and II. The set grants targets a damage shield when you critically heal them. This is something you can also use in endgame and that can be useful when figuring out mechanics or clearing very difficult content such as Hard-Mode Trials.

If you’re looking for alternative Monster Sets, Symphony of Blades, from Depths of Malatar, is a staple for healing and provides a lot of resource sustain to your group. Otherwise, Sentinel Of Rkugamz, from Dark Shade Caverns, is a great base game option: it provides a flat buff to your healing and also heals and gives resources back.

Lastly, you can use the (Perfected) Grand Rejuvenation Restoration Staff from the Dragonstar Arena to replace the mythic and 1-pc Trainee. If you don’t have the staff collected, simply use a Reawakened Hierophant Restoration Staff, making the set active on both bars.

Combat Physician

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
(4 items) Adds 657 Spell Critical
(5 items) When you critically heal yourself or an ally, you grant your target a damage shield that absorbs 4308 damage for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds per target.

eso symphony of blades

Symphony Of Blades

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 4% Healing Done
(2 items) When you heal an ally who is under 50% of their primary resource, grant them Meridia’s Favor, which restores 570 Magicka or Stamina every 1 second for 6 seconds. This effect can occur every 18 seconds per target. The resource returned is based off the target’s highest maximum resource.

eso sentinel of rkugamz

Sentinel Of Rkugamz

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 4% Healing Done
(2 items) When you heal yourself or an ally you summon a Dwemer spider that heals for 1000 Health and restores 125 Magicka and Stamina to you and your allies within 5 meters every 1 second for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

Grand Rejuvenation

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) The initial heal of Grand Healing invigorates you and group members affected for 6 seconds, restoring 224 Magicka and Stamina every 2 seconds.

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Arcanist Healer Primary Set Load Out

Weapon/ArmorSetTraitWeightGlyph
Main Hand: Restoration StaffReawakened HierophantDecisive or PoweredNABerserker
Backup: Lightning Staff(Perfected) Pillager’s ProfitInfusedNAReduce Power
HeadOzezan the InfernoDivinesMediumMagicka
ShoulderOzezan the InfernoDivinesLightMagicka
ChestReawakened HierophantDivinesHeavyMagicka
WaistTraineeDivinesLightMagicka
Gloves(Perfected) Pillager’s ProfitDivinesLightMagicka
Legs(Perfected) Pillager’s ProfitDivinesLightMagicka
Feet(Perfected) Pillager’s ProfitDivinesLightMagicka
NecklacePearls of EhlnofeyInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost
Ring 1Reawakened HierophantInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost
Ring 2Reawakened HierophantInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost

Arcanist Healer Alternate Set Load Out

Weapon/ArmorSetTraitWeightGlyph
Main Hand: Restoration Staff(Perfected) Grand RejuvenationDecisive or PoweredNABerserker
Backup: Lightning StaffReawakened HierophantInfusedNAReduce Power
HeadSymphony of BladesDivinesMediumMagicka
ShoulderSymphony of BladesDivinesLightMagicka
ChestReawakened HierophantDivinesHeavyMagicka
WaistCombat PhysicianDivinesLightMagicka
GlovesCombat PhysicianDivinesLightMagicka
LegsCombat PhysicianDivinesLightMagicka
FeetCombat PhysicianDivinesLightMagicka
NecklaceCombat PhysicianInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost
Ring 1Reawakened HierophantInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost
Ring 2Reawakened HierophantInfusedNASpell Damage or Reduce Spell Cost

Best Arcanist Healer Attributes

The most important attribute for a Arcanist Healer is Magicka. Players want to stack as much magicka as possible to help with the power of your spells, increase size of damage shield, and gives you more resources until you run out of magicka. Most players should be at least 18,000 health if not 22,000 health in Veteran Dungeons or Trials. Therefore, you may need to adjust attributes or a health glyph as you progress and do more hardcore PvE content. Until then, use 64 attributes into magicka, 0 for health, and 0 for stamina.

64 Magicka

0 Health

0 Stamina

Best Arcanist Healer Race

Many healers run into the same problem: not having enough Magicka or Magicka Recovery. To help deal with these common healer issues, Breton makes the most sense. Breton Passives will reduce the cost of our healing skills and increase Magicka Recovery making this Race the best overall choice. If you are more experienced and know how to tackle these problems, you can run a Khajiit to maximize critical healing or Argonian for the bonus to healing done.

In optimized trial groups, you will have a lot of buffs greatly increasing your Weapon and Spell damage, making Dark Elf and High Elf the best races for healing.

Finally, since many groups favor sets that revolve around casting ultimates —such as Pearls of Ehlnofey, Pillager’s Profit, Master Architect, Saxhleel Champion and Nazaray— playing a Nord can prove to be an excellent option for healers.

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

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Best Arcanist Healer Mundus

The best Mundus Stone for a healer is the Apprentice due to the increase in Spell Damage. This helps with your overall healing power and damage. Some other choices are below:

  • Atronach: increase magicka recovery per. Use this if you still struggle with resource sustain.
  • Ritual: increase healing effectiveness. Can use if you’re purely healing doing no damage.
  • Thief: increases your critical strike chance. This can be used if you want damage and healing bonus
  • Mage: increases your max magicka pool. Use this if an item set scales off of max magicka.

Best Arcanist Healer Food & Drink Buff

The best consumable buff for the Arcanist Healer build is Clockwork Citrus Filet. This buff grants max health, health recovery, max magicka, and magicka recovery. It gives you everything you need to resource sustain with extra health for survival. An alternative is Witchmother’s Potent Brew. This is a cheaper and easy to find on Guild Traders version of Clockwork Citrus Filet. Not as powerful, but affordable!

Clockwork Citrus Filet

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 Arcanist Healer Potions

The best potions for the Arcanist Healer build are Spell Power Potions. These potions grant you spell power, and spell critical buff. That helps free up skills on your bar and consume potions on cooldown to keep 100% uptime on these buffs. With the Medicinal Use passive in the alchemy skill tree, you can increase the duration of your potions effects. Essentially, the duration last 47.5 seconds with a cooldown of 45 seconds. Therefore, this passive becomes critical to obtain to keep higher uptime on buffs.

Tincture or Sip of Magicka
Dram of Magicka
Potion of Magicka
Solution of Magicka
Elixir, Panacea, Distillate, or Essence of Magicka

Spell Power Potions

Arcanist Healer Skills

Main Weapon: RESTORATION STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

  1. Radiating Regeneration
  2. Combat Prayer
  3. Chakram of Destiny
  4. Illustirous Healing
  5. Rune of the Colorless Pool
  6. ULT: Replenishing Barrier

Backup Weapon: LIGHTNING STAFF – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

  1. Echoing Vigor
  2. Zenas’ Empowering Disc
  3. Elemental Blockade
  4. Spiteward of the Lucid Mind
  5. Energy Orb
  6. ULT: Aggressive War Horn

Arcanist Healer Skill Explanation

Front Bar – Restoration Staff

  1. Radiating Regeneration: healing over time, 5 seconds, can spam pre-pull to apply to multiple targets.
  2. Combat Prayer: buffs everyone it touches with minor berserk and minor resolve, position behind party to ensure you reach every.
  3. Chakram of Destiny: spammable heal that creates a crux recasting consecutively increases strength of shield.
  4. Illustrious Healing: ground based AOE heal that you want to place on healer and or DPS in a large circle.
  5. Rune of the Colorless Pool: 15 meter single target debuff that applies minor Vulnerability and Minor Brittle for 20 seconds.
  6. ULT: Replenishing Barrier: AOE defensive ultimate that gives a shield and when they resolve you restore magicka and ultimate.

Back Bar – Lighting Staff

  1. Echoing Vigor: stamina heal over time that heals allies and can trigger sets and skills
  2. Zenas’ Empowering Disc: CRITICAL skill as it sources Minor Courage and buffs all resource sustain even after you leave!
  3. Elemental Blockade: used as strong AOE damage over time that triggers status effects
  4. Spiteward of the Lucid Mind: selfish shield that consume crush to heal yourself and refund cost (spam if in trouble).
  5. Energy Orb: a floating ball that heals allies as it travels through them and they can trigger synergy for more healing and resource sustain.
  6. ULT: Aggressive War Horn: burst team ultimate, boost max stats and grants 20% more critical damage for 10 seconds.

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Buffs

Your primary focus on this Arcanist Healer build is to make sure everyone in your group stays alive by stacking damage shields and healing-over-time. This builds provides a lot of valuable buffs and debuffs, enhancing your group’s damage output and survivability. Make sure to recast skills regularly for high uptimes.

Focus on building Ultimate fast by maintaining your Magicka pool below 50% with the Pearls of Ehlnofey. This strategy ensures high uptimes of Major Force from your Ultimate, while also providing significant Ultimate-generation to the rest of your group through the Pillager’s Profit set, greatly enhancing overall damage output. You can also cast a Crux-consuming skill every 8s to maximize Ultimate-generation though the Implacable Outcome passive.

Rotation

Backup Bar: Energy Orb → Echoing Vigor→ Zenas’ Empowering Disc → Elemental Blockade

Main Bar: Combat Prayer → Rune of the Colorless Pool → Illustrious Healing → Chakram of Destiny → Radiating Regeneration

Notes

  • Spiteward of the Lucid Mind is a cheap Crux-consumer that enhances self-survivability, especially during encounter mechanics that require leaving your AOE heals in order to reposition or kite. Additionally, it gives you control over the bonus provided by the Reawakened Hierophant set.
  • As an Arcanist Healer, there are many ways to build Crux, yet limited ways to spend them. Hence risking underutilizing some of the class passives. An alternative to Spiteward of the Lucid Mind is to rearrange your Skill Bars and slot Cascading Fortune on your Main Bar: it can be a very powerful burst heal over time and resource sustain tool, but its need for aiming can make it clunky in content and you will rarely get to use it for its full 4.5s duration.
  • Debuff as many enemies as possible using Rune of the Colorless Pool, only after your Tank is done with Crowd Control (CC) as you risk stunning them and giving them CC Immunity.
  • The Aggressive Horn Ultimate gives a massive buff, Major Force, which increases your group’s critical damage by a further 20%. It’s important to announce when you use it so that other support players can save their Warhorns until yours expires for continuous uptime on the damage boost.
  • Glyphic of the Tides and Gibbering Shelter are also good Ultimates to slot on your Front Bar instead of Replenishing Barrier.
  • If you would rather use Tri-Pots instead of Spell Power Potions, you can slot Inner Light instead of Radiating Regeneration and Recuperative Treatise instead of Spiteward of the Lucid Mind.
  • Spiteward of the Lucid Mind is your selfish survivability skill and Crux-consumer, it can be replaced for whatever utility you lack: Bone Surge for a Synergy and a shield, Crushing Shock for a ranged-interrupt, Evolving Runemend to build Crux faster, Overflowing Altar for Minor Lifesteal, etc.

Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Racial

Other

ESO Arcanist Healer 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 Arcanist Healer build I recommend Ink-Scribe’s Verve which grants you and your group members Major Force and Erudite’s Rigor which grants you 1 Ultimate for every Crux you have and gives you and your group Major Vitality.

eso arcanist ink-scribes verve

Ink-Scribe’s Verve

Illuminate body and mind with glimmering ink.

Effect

While in combat, when you heal or overheal a total of 100000 Health, you generate a Crux and grant you and your group members Major Force for 10 seconds, increasing Critical Damage by 20%.

eso arcanist erudites rigor

Erudite’s Rigor

Master the archaic and forge new runes of conflict.

Effect

Upgrades Fatewoven Armor to inflict Minor Cowardice on your attacker while granting Major Vitality to you and your group for 4 seconds. You gain 1 Ultimate for every Crux you have.

These effects can occur once every 2 seconds.

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

RED

– 600 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 900 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 1200 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

Update Log

  • June 8, 2026 – created Class Mastery passives section
  • May 6, 2026 – Updated Green Champion Points

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