DPS Healer

A hybrid for random dungeon queues: about 25k healing per second and the key healer buffs while dealing 61k damage. For 4-player content only.

Update 51PvE · HealerSubclassedAdvancedLast reviewed 2026-10-27

Overview

Buffs and debuffs you bring in trials

Your group gets

Major CourageMinor CourageMinor ToughnessPowerful Assault

Enemies get

Minor LifestealOff Balance

You get

Minor BerserkMinor ForceMajor BrutalityMajor Savagery

Skill Setups

This build is for 4-player dungeons only, so it has one Dungeon setup. For trials, pick a pure-class healer from the tier list.

No fixed rotation, just priorities. Keep Echoing Vigor up all the time for Powerful Assault, Soul Burst at least every 20 seconds for Minor Courage, and Energy Orb every 20 seconds for its synergy. Between those: Recuperative Treatise, Crescent Sweep if the fight is about to end, Elemental Blockade, The Languid Eye when you have the Ultimate, Cephaliarch's Flail until you have 3 Crux, then Pragmatic Fatecarver.

What this setup brings

Your group gets

Major CourageMinor CourageMinor ToughnessPowerful Assault

Enemies get

Minor LifestealOff Balance

You get

Minor BerserkMinor ForceMajor BrutalityMajor Savagery

Front bar

Dual Wield · Spell Power Cure

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Back bar

Lightning staff · Powerful Assault

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Slot	Skill	Why it's slotted
Front 1	Cephaliarch's Flail Herald of the Tome Cast time: 0.3 seconds·Cost: 2,984 Stamina Area spammable: builds Crux, heals you when it hits, and enemies take 5% more damage from you.	Area spammable: builds Crux, heals you when it hits, and enemies take 5% more damage from you.
Front 2	Pragmatic Fatecarver Herald of the Tome Channel time: 4.5 seconds·Cost: 630 Magicka / 1s Your Crux spender: full damage in a 22-meter beam, and a big shield while you channel.	Your Crux spender: full damage in a 22-meter beam, and a big shield while you channel.
Front 3	Recuperative Treatise Herald of the Tome Cast time: Instant·Duration: 30 seconds·Cost: 4,455 Magicka Damage, a Crux when your beam ends, and sustain. Pre-cast it.	Damage, a Crux when your beam ends, and sustain. Pre-cast it.
Front 4	Budding Seeds Green Balance Cast time: Instant·Range: 28 metres·Duration: 6 seconds·Cost: 2,430 Magicka Cheap area heal over time; recast it to bloom early for a direct heal. Procs Nature's Gift for sustain.	Cheap area heal over time; recast it to bloom early for a direct heal. Procs Nature's Gift for sustain.
Front 5	Camouflaged Hunter Fighters Guild Cast time: Instant·Duration: 5 seconds·Cost: 5,130 Stamina Minor Berserk after a flanking crit, and Slayer's 3% Weapon and Spell Damage while slotted.	Minor Berserk after a flanking crit, and Slayer's 3% Weapon and Spell Damage while slotted.
Front R	Crescent Sweep Aedric Spear Cast time: 0.3 seconds·Duration: 6 seconds·Cost: 75 Ultimate Slotted for Piercing Spear's 12% Critical Damage. Only cast it when the fight is about to end; otherwise save for The Languid Eye.	Slotted for Piercing Spear's 12% Critical Damage. Only cast it when the fight is about to end; otherwise save for The Languid Eye.
Back 1	Energy Orb Undaunted Cast time: Instant·Duration: 10 seconds·Cost: 3,780 Magicka Area heal over time with the Combustion synergy, which restores 3,960 of an ally's main resource. Cast it every 20 seconds.	Area heal over time with the Combustion synergy, which restores 3,960 of an ally's main resource. Cast it every 20 seconds.
Back 2	Overflowing Altar Undaunted Cast time: Instant·Duration: 30 seconds·Cost: 4,050 Health Trials, one healer only: Minor Lifesteal on the boss, and a Blood Feast synergy that heals for 65% of Max Health.	Trials, one healer only: Minor Lifesteal on the boss, and a Blood Feast synergy that heals for 65% of Max Health.
Back 3	Soul Burst Scribed as Healing Burst Cast time: Instant·Cost: 4,568 Magicka Scribed burst heal with a 10-second heal over time and 20 seconds of group Minor Courage. Your flex slot when a fight needs something else.	Scribed burst heal with a 10-second heal over time and 20 seconds of group Minor Courage. Your flex slot when a fight needs something else.
Back 4	Elemental Blockade Destruction Staff Cast time: Instant·Duration: 15 seconds·Cost: 2,970 Magicka Keeps procing your Berserker enchant, and sets Concussed enemies Off Balance.	Keeps procing your Berserker enchant, and sets Concussed enemies Off Balance.
Back 5	Echoing Vigor Assault Cast time: Instant·Duration: 16 seconds·Cost: 2,984 Stamina Big group heal over time for 16 seconds, and the Assault skill that triggers Powerful Assault. Recast it as it ends.	Big group heal over time for 16 seconds, and the Assault skill that triggers Powerful Assault. Recast it as it ends.
Back R	The Languid Eye Herald of the Tome Cast time: Instant·Range: 15 metres·Duration: 6 seconds·Cost: 175 Ultimate Your damage Ultimate: a beam over 6 seconds that you can steer by pressing it again.	Your damage Ultimate: a beam over 6 seconds that you can steer by pressing it again.

Scribing

Scribed skill

Healing Burst

Soul Burst · Healing / Sage's Remedy / Courage

Cast time

Instant

Target

Area

Radius

8 metres

Cost

4,568 Magicka

Healing

Focus script: Heals you and your allies for 5,666 Health.

Sage's Remedy

Signature script: Heals for 3,775 Health over 10 seconds.

Courage

Affix script: Grants Minor Courage for 20 seconds, increasing Weapon and Spell Damage by 215.

A group burst heal, a 10-second heal over time, and Minor Courage for 20 seconds.

Open the Dungeon setup in the Build Editor to change skills, gear and stats.

Flex skills

Swap these in when the fight or your group calls for it.

• Aggressive Horn

  In place of The Languid Eye when your group is strong: Major Force and Max resources for everyone beat your own damage.

• Reviving Barrier

  In place of The Languid Eye when the group needs help surviving.

• Crushing Shock

  In Soul Burst's slot for fights that need a ranged interrupt.

Passives

The passives that shape this build. They come with the skill lines, so there's nothing to slot.

• Fated Fortune

  Herald of the Tome: Crux generation boosts your Critical Damage and Healing.

• Nature's Gift

  Green Balance overheals restore Magicka and Stamina. Budding Seeds keeps it going.

• Maturation

  Minor Toughness for everyone you heal.

• Piercing Spear

  12% Critical Damage while an Aedric Spear skill is slotted.

• Slayer

  3% Weapon and Spell Damage while Camouflaged Hunter is slotted.

Gear

Six Medium pieces and one Light belt. Powerful Assault on the body and lightning staff, and Spell Power Cure on the belt, rings and daggers, so your heals give Major Courage. Nerien'eth is the damage monster set; swap to Ozezan the Inferno or The Blind to lean into support. Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet works because this build never Light or Heavy Attacks for damage. A Shock enchant on a dagger can supply Concussion if nobody else does.

Pick a set for each block. The build's recommended gear is selected to start with.

Reset

Monster set

Monster set

Head and shoulders

Nerien'ethDamage monster set: Weapon and Spell Damage, and Lich crystals that explode on enemies · RecommendedOzezan the InfernoMinor Vitality on every healMinor VitalitySymphony of BladesGroup sustainHealing an ally who is low on Magicka or Stamina restores it over 6 secondsThe BlindCrit-heal shieldsMinor ForceNazarayLonger debuffs when you ultCasting an Ultimate stretches out the debuffs already on nearby enemies

Buffs and debuffs with this gear

Gold entries come from your gear; the rest come from your skills and passives.

Your group gets

Minor CourageMinor ToughnessPowerful AssaultMajor Courage

Enemies get

Minor LifestealOff Balance

You get

Minor BerserkMajor BrutalityMajor SavageryMinor Force

Slots

Slot	Set	Type	Trait	Enchant
Head	Nerien'eth Medium (monster)	Medium (monster)	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Nerien'eth Medium (monster)	Medium (monster)	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Powerful Assault Medium	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Powerful Assault Medium	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Waist	Spell Power Cure Light	Light	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Powerful Assault Medium	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Feet	Powerful Assault Medium	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Neck	Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet Jewellery	Jewellery	Infused	Increase Magical Harm
Ring 1	Spell Power Cure Jewellery	Jewellery	Infused	Increase Magical Harm
Ring 2	Spell Power Cure Jewellery	Jewellery	Infused	Increase Magical Harm
Front: main hand	Spell Power Cure Dagger (one-handed)	Dagger (one-handed)	Nirnhoned	Flame
Front: off hand	Spell Power Cure Dagger (one-handed)	Dagger (one-handed)	Precise	Poison
Back bar	Powerful Assault Lightning staff (two-handed)	Lightning staff (two-handed)	Infused	Berserker

Sturdy and Divines are interchangeable on armour. Tri-Stat glyphs on jewellery are a fine swap if you need more resources.

What the sets do

Nerien'ethMonster

2 pieces · Crypt of Hearts II (veteran) + Undaunted chest

• (1 item)Adds 129 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage.
• (2 items)When you deal direct damage, you have a 15% chance to conjure a Lich crystal that explodes after 2 seconds, dealing 1360 Magic damage to all enemies within 4 meters. Once every 3 seconds.

Powerful AssaultPvP

4 front / 6 back · Imperial City Tel Var merchants

Full bonus on the back bar only.

• (2 items)Adds 1206 Max Health.
• (3 items)Adds 1096 Max Stamina.
• (4 items)Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage.
• (5 items)When you cast an Assault ability in combat, you and up to 5 group members within 12m gain 307 Weapon and Spell Damage for 15 seconds.

Spell Power CureDungeon

5 front / 3 back · White-Gold Tower

Full bonus on the front bar only.

• (2 items)Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka.
• (3 items)Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka.
• (4 items)Adds 129 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage.
• (5 items)When you overheal yourself or an ally, you give the target Major Courage for 5 seconds which increases their Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 430.

Velothi Ur-Mage's AmuletMythic

1 piece · Antiquities: Telvanni Peninsula

• (1 item)Adds 1650 Offensive Penetration.
• (1 item)Increase your damage done to monsters by 15%, gain Minor Force at all times, and reduce your total damage done with Light and Heavy Attacks by 99%.

Alternative sets

• Ozezan the Inferno

  Support monster set: group Armor and Minor Vitality instead of damage.

• The Blind

  Shields, and Critical Chance that helps both your damage and heals.

Champion Points

Slottable stars only. Spend passive points in each tree along the path to these stars.

Good swaps

• Rejuvenator

  More Weapon and Spell Damage for heals, in place of Wrathful Strikes when the group needs more healing.

Race

• Khajiit

  Critical Damage and all-round stats: the best race for 4-player content.

• secondDark Elf

  Max Magicka, Stamina and Weapon Damage. Better in trials, but this build is for dungeons.

Mundus

• The Thief

  Critical Chance, for both damage and heals.

Attributes

Food

• bestOrzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch

  Max Health with Health, Stamina and Magicka Recovery: you spend both Stamina and Magicka.

• cheaperJewels of Misrule

  Almost as good and easier to get.

Potions

• Essence of Health

  Tri-Stat: restores Health, Stamina and Magicka for both halves of the rotation.

Gameplay

1. 1Pre-cast Recuperative Treatise before the pull.
2. 2Keep Echoing Vigor up all the time, cast Soul Burst at least every 20 seconds for Minor Courage, and Energy Orb every 20 seconds for its synergy.
3. 3Drop Budding Seeds and Overflowing Altar where the group stands, and recast Seeds to bloom it when someone drops low.
4. 4Between heals: Elemental Blockade, The Languid Eye when you have the Ultimate, Cephaliarch's Flail until 3 Crux, then Pragmatic Fatecarver.
5. 5Cast Crescent Sweep only when the fight is about to end and another Languid Eye won't come up in time.

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