Which ia better

ArchGrizzlyOp

Which would be better a Dark elf Templar or argoina Templar?

Please tell mw your views and why?

Allyhoo811

Altmer, Breton, or Dunmer are probably the best races (from a min/max) perspective for healer/magicka dps characters. The Altmer is probably the top pick with the current game meta and they are even getting a slight boost in the next major update. Argonians are currently considered to have the worst racial passives by most people and they don't look to be getting much help in the next big update.

With that said, racial passives are not a huge deal unless you are the type of person who wants to be top of the leaderboard in endgame content (and therefore min/max everything). And since the developers can always change the racial passives or the game mechanics that make them desirable/useless, you should ultimately choose what you won't mind looking at after 100s of hours of gameplay.

Ranique

argonian is a bit bad for any class and setup and mostly used by roleplayers.

a: Increases experience gain with the Restoration Staff Skill Line by 15%.
re: worthless cause you get to max easily.

b: Increases swimming speed by 50% and when you drink a potion, you recover 6% of your Health, Magicka and Stamina
re: swimming speed is worthless. The rest is too small to make any difference, specially cause potions are expensive.

c: Increases Maximum Health by 3% and Poison and Disease resistance by 23.
re: poison and disease damage is not an issue in ESO. The increased health is self support, while a good templar is supposed to support all.

d: Increases healing received by 6%.
re: templars are the ones dealing healing. This would be nice if it was increasing the healing you do. Now it is worthless.

ArchGrizzlyOp

I mean Argonians for the second option

Sorry

MTibbs89

If you're focusing on healing, probably the Argonian with their bonus to Healing Staves. If you're going for raw power/damage output, probably the Dunmer (Dark Elf), with their bonus to fire damage.

OzJohnD

The healing staff bonus is redundant, as is all equipment leveling racials ... you will be maxed out in your weapons of choice by about lvl 40 anyway

you want to choose racials based on longer term value for your character

MTibbs89

I was, of course, referring to early-game. In the end, as with all TES games, it really doesn't matter what race you play. You play what you like most.

thunderwell

I'm assuming you mean Dunmer Templar vs Argonian Templar?
Based on racial bonuses, Argonians would make better healers if you're planning on grouping a lot.
Dunmer have a fire resistance and fire (spell or all damage?) bonus.

If you're choosing because of racial bonuses, go for the race that boosts the skills you will be using the most.
Otherwise, I'll give you the "make and play what you want" speech.

ArchGrizzlyOp

Okay Thank you people, I have the explorers pack so I just prefer to play the races the belong to that faction. But in general what is the best race for a Dps/healing Templar I've been using a high elf a lot but a end game and new game I just feel weak and not being able to heal people much. So what do people think?

OzJohnD

Breton (given you don't have access to Imperial)

Atlaz

Technically Tall Elf but I always preferred making Bretons in past games including this one. Unless you plan on going for a stamina build in which case your best bet is Redguard.