ESO Best Healer Subclassing Combinations: Top Skill Lines for Unbeatable Support

by JFFK · May 29, 2025

Welcome to our ESO Best Healer Subclassing Combinations: Top Skill Lines for Unbeatable Support article on the most powerful Healer subclass combinations on the Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Update 46! Healing in The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is a vital role, and with the introduction of subclassing, players now have unprecedented flexibility in creating powerful and unique healer subclass combinations.

Whether you’re tackling challenging ESO PVE trials, or veteran dungeons, optimizing your healer subclass combinations is key to success. This article explores the best ESO healer combinations for the current Update 46 meta, focusing on synergistic skill lines that provide unbeatable support, massive ultimate generation, and crucial group buffs. Learn about essential ESO healer skills and passive abilities to maximize your healing output and ensure your group’s survival.

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Best ESO class combinations for healing

Similarly to tanks, there isn’t a single, universally optimal setup. With subclassing, healers should choose skill lines that provide essential buffs and ultimate generation. You can pick the Nord race for its Stalwart passive to boost healer ultimate generation even more.

Nightblade, Warden, Templar: A Powerful and Versatile Subclass Healer for Update 46

Type: PVE Healer for Trials & Dungeons

Nightblade –

Siphoning

Warden –

Green Balance

Templar–

Restoring Light

Combining subclass skill lines from Nightblade, Warden, Templar creates a healer capable of excelling in multiple areas. Nightblades Siphoning lays the foundation for incredible ultimate generation, allowing frequent use of powerful ultimate abilities like Aggressive Horn or Barrier. Wardens Green Balance provides essential group healing and defensive buffs like Minor Toughness. Templars Restoring Light complements this with strong AoE healing, the ability to cleanse harmful effects (Extended Ritual), provide sustain buffs, and even offer some defensive utility. This subclass combination allows your healer to generate ultimate at a high rate while also covering core healing responsibilities and providing important group buffs that might not be consistently sourced from other roles in the evolving Update 46 meta. This is a versatile subclass combination for a healer that is suitable for various content, including veteran dungeons and initial hard mode trial clears.

Siphoning (Nightblade) Skill Line Explained

The Nightblade’s Siphoning skill line is widely considered a crucial and often mandatory choice for healers in the Update 46 subclassing system. The Siphoning skill line is a cornerstone of healer builds in Update 46 due to its unparalleled Ultimate Generation capabilities, significantly enhanced by the Catalyst passive and the use of reduced potion cooldown glyphs. It also provides crucial Sustain through skills like Siphoning Attacks and the Magicka Flood passive, alongside valuable healing from Soul Siphoner, Healthy Offering, and the Soul Siphon ultimate.

Siphoning Ultimate
- Soul Siphon ultimate is a powerful burst heal which can be used in challenging encounters with heal checks. It heals quickly and provides Major Vitality to the group.
Siphoning Skills
- Siphoning Strikes is used for sustain and proccing passives for ultimate generation.
- Healthy Offering A strong Range Burst heal.
- Debilitate is decent for proccing the Overcharged status effects which restores a small amount of Magicka and applies the Minor Magickasteal debuff.
Siphoning passives
- Transfer procs after casting a Siphoning Skill, generating 2 Ultimate.
- Catalyst is a strong passive that grants 30 Ultimate when consuming a potion.
- Magicka Flood increases max Magicka and Stamina by 8% when a Siphoning ability is slotted.

Green Balance (Warden) Skill Line Explained

Wardens Green Balance skill line is typically slotted by one of the two healers in a trial. This skill line grants access to key abilities such as Budding Seeds and Secluded Grove, which contribute to healing and support. The ultimate ability, Secluded Grove, is a valuable tool for handling tough heal checks in challenging content. Furthermore, Green Balance is the primary source for the Minor Toughness group buff, which healers are expected to provide. The skill line also offers sustain and healing passives, including Sustaining Seeds, which notably functions with any healing ability.

Green Balance Ultimate
- Secluded Grove (and morphs) is useful for situations requiring a lot of healing.
Green Balance Skills
- Budding Seeds Provides a good amount of healing.
Green Balance Passives
- Maturation provides the crucial Minor Toughness buff for the group, increasing Max Health by 10%.
- Emerald Moss Increases healing done with Green Balance abilities by 5% per slotted Green Balance ability.
- Nature’s Gift When you heal an ally with a Green Balance ability, you gain 277 Magicka or 277 Stamina, whichever resource pool is lower.

Restoring Light (Templar) Skill Line Explained

Templars Restoring Light Skill Line is a way for healers to provide essential healing and buffs, such as Minor Mending from Extended Ritual and Minor Recoveries from Radiant Aura, especially if other classes aren’t providing them reliably.

Restoring Light Ultimate
- Rite of Passage (and morphs) is a valuable ultimate for handling tough heal checks.
Restoring Light Skills
- Extended Ritual is a great ground Heal over Time effect that cleanses harmful effects, provides the Purify synergy, and grants Minor Mending.
- Radiant Aura provides Minor Intellect and Minor Endurance sustain buffs for 60 seconds.
- Channeled Focus increases your resistances and restores magicka.
Restoring Light Passives
- Mending increases all of your healing done up to 13% based on your target’s missing health,
- Light Weaver When you heal an ally under 50% Health, you grant them 2 Ultimate. Activating an ability with a cast or channel time while in combat causes you to automatically block all attacks at no cost for 2 seconds, up to once every 15 seconds.
- Sacred Ground While standing in your own Cleansing Ritual, Rune Focus, or Rite of Passage area effects and for up to 4 seconds after leaving them you gain Minor Mending, increasing your healing done by 8%. Also increases the amount of damage you can block by 10% for the duration.

Healer Subclass combination: Nightblade, Arcanist, Sorcerer – The Ultimate Machine

Type: PVE Healer for Trials & Dungeons when you need to cast ultimates often

Nightblade –

Siphoning

Arcanist –

Curative Runeforms

Sorcerer –

Daedric Sum moning

By stacking both ultimate generation and cost reduction, the Nightblade, Arcanist, Sorcerer Subclassing healer can accumulate ultimate quickly and spend less of it per cast. Together, Siphoning, Curative Runeforms and Daedric Sum moning skill lines, combined with gear sets like Blessings of Potentates and the Shieldmaster Champion Point, and the use of reduced potion cooldown glyphs, allow a healer to drastically reduce the cost of key ultimates and generate ultimate at a high rate.

This differs from builds focused on generating ultimate for sets requiring higher thresholds, instead prioritizing the frequency of ultimate use for direct group support via powerful ultimate effects like Barrier which can save your group in tough situations. For example, combining Siphoning, Daedric Summoning, Curative Runeforms, Potentates, and Shieldmaster can reduce the cost of Barrier from 250 to around 143 ultimate.

Siphoning (Nightblade) Skill Line Explained

Siphoning Ultimate
- Soul Siphon ultimate is a powerful burst heal which can be used in challenging encounters with heal checks. It heals quickly and provides Major Vitality to the group.
Siphoning Skills
- Siphoning Strikes is used for sustain and proccing passives for ultimate generation.
- Healthy Offering A strong Range Burst heal.
- Debilitate is decent for proccing the Overcharged status effects which restores a small amount of Magicka and applies the Minor Magickasteal debuff.
Siphoning passives
- Transfer procs after casting a Siphoning Skill, generating 2 Ultimate.
- Catalyst is a strong passive that grants 30 Ultimate when consuming a potion.
- Magicka Flood increases max Magicka and Stamina by 8% when a Siphoning ability is slotted.

Curative Runeforms (Arcanist) Skill Line Explained

Arcanist Curative Runeforms is just an okay choice for healers in end game due to Zena’s Empowering Disc now applying to 6 people instead of 12. Curative Runeforms can be used in situations where you want to cast the Barrier ultimate as often as possible to mitigate damage.

Curative Runeforms Skills
- Zenas’ Empowering Disc Grants the first 6 people that enter it: Minor Courage, Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect, and Minor Endurance.
Curative Runeforms Passives
- Intricate Runeforms passive reduces the cost and increases the strength of your damage shields by 10%.
- Healing Tides passive increases Healing Done per Crux by 2/4%
- Erudition passive increases Magicka and Stamina Recovery by 18%

Daedric Summoning (Sorcerer) Skill Line Explained

For healers, the Sorcerer Daedric Summoning skill line is primarily valuable for its passive ultimate cost reduction, providing Major Berserk through the Charged Atronach ultimate, boosting maximum resources, and potentially offering minor sustain buffs and damage reduction passives. This makes it a strong option for a healer role focused on maximizing ultimate uptime and providing a key group buffs.

Daedric Summoning Ultimate
- Summon Charged Atronach ultimate can be used to grant your group Major Berserk, a potent damage buff.
Daedric Summoning Skills
- Bound Aegis / Bound Armaments skill can be used to activate the Expert Summoner Passive.
Daedric Summoning Passives
- Power Stone passive Reduces the cost of your Ultimate abilities by 15%.
- Expert Summoner passive increases your Max Magicka and Stamina by 5% (does not require an active pet)

Other Healer Subclass Skill Lines to consider

Bone Tyrant (Necromancer) Skill Line

The ultimate generated through Necromancers Bone Tyrant Skill Line (and other sources like Siphoning) is valuable for casting more ultimates like Barrier or Storm Atronach from Sorcerers Daedric Summoning. This ultimate generation is particularly strong in situations with many enemies or trash pulls where corpses are readily available.

Bone Tyrant Skills
- Necrotic Potency, contributes to ultimate generation by consuming corpses.
Bone Tyrant Passives
- Last Gasp increases your Max Health by 2412.
- Death Gleaning provides sustain by restoring 666 Magicka and Stamina on nearby enemy deaths.

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