Leveling a Templar with Restoration Staff

vpy

My Templar is at level 7 (< 2 weeks old ESO player )
He is Stam with Bow.
He is pretty good with 1 versus 2 mobs but has trouble with 1 versus 3.
Recently in ESO head I found that there is a weapon called Restoration staff.
I would like to know how good is resto staff leveling (i can switch him to full magicka) for Templar with respect to survivability.
Since this is my first toon I would like to stop and smell the roses and I am in no hurry to ding max level or see endgame content.

b)

I noticed that based on the alliances each of the race has different starting zones.
Does this mean that each character (for example daggerfall covenant) has a completely different story/quests till max level from another faction (say ebonheart or aldmeri) ?

Eshelmen

May I ask why you're using a Magicka based weapon with a stamina Templar?

Your healing damage with the restoration staff will be extremely low. Stick to stamina based weapons. Hybrid builds don't usually work and if they did, not right now at such a low level.
You'll eventually unlock vigor in the Alliance line, this will be one of if not your main source for emergency healing as a stamplar
Sword and board, 2 handed sword or dual wield would be the best bet...

IronCrystal

Eshelmen wrote: »

May I ask why you're using a Magicka based weapon with a stamina Templar?

Your healing damage with the restoration staff will be extremely low. Stick to stamina based weapons. Hybrid builds don't usually work.
You'll eventually unlock vigor in the Alliance line, this will be one of if not your main source for healing as a stamplar

Bow and sword and board, or dual wield would be the best bet...

He stated he can switch to be magicka based if its good.

I will say however, the resto staff will help you stay alive by providing heals, but you aren't gonna get much damage out of it. If you want to be magicka based, I recommend destro staff or dual wield swords, but destro might be easier at lower levels.

danno8

If you switch to full magicka, just slot Puncturing Sweeps and you can level up whatever weapon line you want.

I would really not recommend slotting Resto Staff if you are trying to be a Stamplar.

edit: In regards to the Alliance thing, with the "One Tamriel" update you can gondo any quests anywhere in the world now. And yes, all the quests are different with the exception of the "You are the Vestige" story line.

Eshelmen

IronCrystal wrote: »

Eshelmen wrote: »

May I ask why you're using a Magicka based weapon with a stamina Templar?

Your healing damage with the restoration staff will be extremely low. Stick to stamina based weapons. Hybrid builds don't usually work.
You'll eventually unlock vigor in the Alliance line, this will be one of if not your main source for healing as a stamplar

Bow and sword and board, or dual wield would be the best bet...

He stated he can switch to be magicka based if its good.

I will say however, the resto staff will help you stay alive by providing heals, but you aren't gonna get much damage out of it. If you want to be magicka based, I recommend destro staff or dual wield swords, but destro might be easier at lower levels.

This can be confusing as a new player. Switch here, switch there. OP is better off in the long run just creating a magplar, with specific race traits beneficial towards Magicka.(every bit of help adds up) Even if OP chooses to not follow the recommended play style, it's worth at least letting them know ahead of time.

KingYogi415

You need a magic race.

Either breton or high elf.

Leave your level 7 stamplar. (Hopefully redgaurd) for later.

You cant level very well with a healing staff.. You go destro and backbar the healing staff.

Cheers!

Alchemical

I would recommend Magicka for Templar. I leveled my first Templar stamina ages ago and didn't much like it, though I know they're better now. I just leveled a magicka one however and found my sustain and crowd control are both much better, which will help you deal with a large number of mobs.

From Aedric Spear take Puncturing Strikes, morph it into Puncturing Sweep and it'll heal you + do tidy AoE damage. You shouldn't have to put anything into health with this as your major spamable, since you will constantly be healing yourself.

From Dawn's Wrath take Sun Fire, morph it into Reflective Light to apply an AoE DoT. Also get the Dawn's Wrath ultimate 'Nova', it's one of the best for damage hands down.

From Restoring Light take Rushed Ceremony, its heal does work on you not just other people. As long as you have magicka to spare this can keep you up between your potion CDs. You don't need to morph it unless you're going to heal group content, the unmorphed skill does fine for an emergency self-heal.

That alone honestly should be enough to level you from 1-50 and leaves two slots on your bar for leveling weapons or other skill lines. You don't need to get much more complicated for questing. When you start getting champion points then it's a matter of using google and finding a decent guide that'll explain the various builds to you (or you can just copy/past the 'best' one).

O_LYKOS

I suggest playing magicka. This way you can switch between using restoration staff for healing and destruction staff for dps.
Typically a healer would use the restoration staff. I suggest slotting one restoration staff skill on your bar while levelling to level up the skill line for the future.

Check out deltias gaming. He does good build videos for every class. And they are not all based off of what is the current best in slot gear. The builds videos and information on his website will give you very good idea on how to build your character/s. And also how to use them.

Tabbycat

As others have said, magicka Templars are very easy to level. You have a lot of self healing abilities and not too shabby damage abilities. It's also a very forgiving class to play as mistakes will rarely get you killed.

NewBlacksmurf

Restore is only for healing so it's not correct to ask how to level as resto

U have two skill lines outside of healing for a Templar that mix and match for very good dmg if your magic based.

Resto is just good if you want two healing bars.

Rainwhisper

Eshelmen wrote: »

You'll eventually unlock vigor in the Alliance line, this will be one of if not your main source for emergency healing as a stamplar

This is only true if he decides to PvP.

idk

VPY, if you are having issues with survival I suggest going full magika.

The jabs morph for magika will heal you for a percentage of damage done. That alone will help. Stay magika and since your only level 7 roll a new character as a Altimer (High Elf) or a Breton. You have barely started so starting a new character would be fine and can save the stamina one for later once your comfortable with ESO combat.

Level up with a destro staff and restro staff.

Beyond that I have no idea what specific questions you would have.

MakoFore

its confusing at first getting new players heads around the magicka and stamina builds...i wanted to run 2hand and destro - but people talked me out of it early on and i didnt understand why. sucks there is that kind of limitation simply because they designed damage to scale off of max magicka.

idk

MakoFore wrote: »

its confusing at first getting new players heads around the magicka and stamina builds...i wanted to run 2hand and destro - but people talked me out of it early on and i didnt understand why. sucks there is that kind of limitation simply because they designed damage to scale off of max magicka.

@MakoFore

Stam skills scale off stam. For a stam build no ability that costs stam. Ultimates scales off the largest stat pools.

Sinolai

vpy wrote: »

My Templar is at level 7 (< 2 weeks old ESO player )
He is Stam with Bow.
He is pretty good with 1 versus 2 mobs but has trouble with 1 versus 3.
Recently in ESO head I found that there is a weapon called Restoration staff.
I would like to know how good is resto staff leveling (i can switch him to full magicka) for Templar with respect to survivability.
Since this is my first toon I would like to stop and smell the roses and I am in no hurry to ding max level or see endgame content.

b)

I noticed that based on the alliances each of the race has different starting zones.
Does this mean that each character (for example daggerfall covenant) has a completely different story/quests till max level from another faction (say ebonheart or aldmeri) ?

The race doesn't really matter unless you want to be the best of the best of the ebst and min/max everything. Breton or Altmer get's a minor boost to their magicka pool, regen and damage but it's still rather insignificant and even redguard magicka build can do any end game content. Unfortunately bows in this game are not meant to work as your primary weapon. It's usually in the back bar for buffs and range dps when you are not able to get in melee range. If you want to stay stamina dual wield is the best weapon tree for you. You may also want to equip a few pieces of heavy armor to increase your survavility.

If you want to respec to magicka, you dont really even need the restoration staff in templar solo play. You already have a healing skill line.

Enslaved

You can level anything with templar. Equip that spear skill and that is it. If needed, use rushed ceremony or its morphs to heal. Templar is most broken class atm and can 1v50 mobs easy.

starkerealm

Sinolai wrote: »

The race doesn't really matter unless you want to be the best of the best of the ebst and min/max everything.Breton or Altmer get's a minor boost to their magicka pool, regen and damage but it's still rather insignificant and even redguard magicka build can do any end game content.

In general, I agree with this, except, while your racial choice isn't significant to what you can do with a build, it can affect how the build, "feels," while playing. It's usually something you'll start to notice around level 15-25. So, not much of an issue for someone who's completely new to the game.

Sinolai wrote: »

Unfortunately bows in this game are not meant to work as your primary weapon.

I'm not sure it's intended. I think bows are supposed to be a viable weapon, on par with any other choice, but they do fall short of that.