I'll second what @etchedpixels said about templars. My magplar right now is my favorite DD for PVE as its so versatile. It might be the easiest DD to play in PVE. But I could see a bosmer stamblde ganker being strong for PVP, especially Imperial City

Nic727 wrote: »

I guess I’m gonna start two characters and see what I like the best.

At the moment I have a Bosmer Templar, but my character is glitched and I can be easily kill by starting area NPC… And I’m level 40…

I will try Imperial Templar/Warden or Bosmer Templar/Warden.

Just not too sure which class. I mostly play now/arrow and one handed/shield (could go dual sword) and I want to heal people with the possibility to deal more damage than what I do at the moment. It’s a bit harder to play a mixed build… Is Warden easier for a stamina/magicka build?

The ESO slogan may be "play as you like" but the game mechanics simply don't make hybrid builds that effective except for tanking. You can however build a stamina healer although it'll be weaker on heals than a typical magicka dps.

With a templar it's hard to get to work well as a pure healer because the class healing skills are all magicka based, but as a sideline you can run almost entirely stamina skills for damage and so be able to drop heals as you fight. The fact it's magicka skill based and you have lots of skills that don't need a resto staff does make templar interesting for tanks that also carry heals.

Wardens can be true stamina healers using a mix of stamina and magicka skills to balance out the character. Whilst it's build from before this update take a look at things like

https://dottzgaming.com/build/vigorspam-warden-healer-pve-build/

That build is a pure healer and buffer with a fancy gear and all the skills, but for the general game content you can see it is a guide to the sort of skills you can run in combination with your bow. If I remember rightly the endless hail bow skill (and variants) will proc the winters respite set as well.

A stam healer is good enough to do normal trials and most vet dungeons. As stam warden running green lotus with a good uptime and dealing lots of damage can also take a chunk of pressure off healers. So unless you are worried about hard end game content you'll be just fine.

Sword/board healers are unusual in PvE - but common in PvP often using sword/board and restro staff so still magicka based. In PvE sword/board plus something tends to be more about soloing harder content - so you've got a defensive bar to fall back onto.

I second etchedpixels, too.

Additional:
Do the guild dailies, incl. undaunted, to get the skills and passives.
Do public dungeons to complete your sets book for sets giving crit. Like mother's sorrow.
Try maelstrom arena. Getting the mealstrom flame stave is not that awful as it was. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/406521/traits-and-maelstrom-staves

Go for skyshards and do some stories for skill points.

Nic727 wrote: »

Ok I just started playing. Build a new Warden Wood elf.

Where do you see stamina healer with Warden or Templar since all skills require magicka?

I don’t play with staffs and mostly with weapons requiring stamina attack. So it’s kind of mandatory to split skills between magicka and stamina.

The game starts a lot of skills as magicka skills and when you get them to rank 4 some have two morphs one of which is stamina based. They don't all work that way. Some stay magicka only, some are stamina only (including echoing vigour for stamina healing). Fungal growth becomes soothing spores and is your spammable heal.

You also have a magicka and stamina pool even if you put any points into one. If you are not using both pools you are missing out on a lot of resources. Thus it's quite usual to have some magicka skills on stamina toon. A magicka heal on a stamina character can in fact be very useful because when you run out of stamina is when you are in trouble. In the case of a stamina healer you've got echoing vigour and soothing spores as stamina, plus a bunch of heals that are magicka but long duration so cheap to cast, and a bunch of debuff/buff skills (which for a healer are important) like growning swarn and lotus, plus long duration ones you can cast from your magicka pool. You can also use winters respite weapons and jewellery for a healing circle.

The same theory is used the other way - some magicka healers carry the stamina echoing vigor skill so they can at least put out some heals if they are low on magicka and need to get it back.

The other way people build weapon wielding magicka users is a bit different. They stack class skills not weapon skills on the bars and dual wield daggers. That gives them much weaker light attacks but as you level up dual wield you get twin blade and blunt to rank ii. That gives you 4% extra critical damage and another 1624 crit which offsets the weaker light attacks.

Stamina healing does tend to get into some strange build choices because it's not really the way the game was built. A stamina damage dealer who can heal on the side is rather easier to achieve and to be honest for most non vet content a lot more useful.

If I'm remembering my ancient history reading right, the original four classes (templar, sorc, DK, and nightblade) were not designed with stamina builds in mind, which is why so few morphs lean to the stamina side. Warden and necromancer were added to the game later, so they were designed to be more flexible and friendlier to stamina builds.

Ok thank you!

Kind of complicated to be optimal in ESO lol.

I just started an Imperial Warden. I will go full stamina since I can also heal people.

However, I was also thinking of redistributing my attribute points for my current Templar, but I don’t use staff and my playstyle is more about melee weapon (stamina) and healing (magicka Templar or Magicka/Stamina Warden). I could put all my attribute point into magicka, but I guess my melee attack would be very bad and couldn’t use any weapon skills.

So I think Stamina Warden would be the best choice for me, but I love how Templar skills looks like compared to fungus/Morrowind visual of Warden.

I also looked at skills there https://eso-u.com/skills/browser/Warden::Winter's Embrace and 75% of morphs are magicka only. Still better than Templar (90%).

Also, just to see, I thought Dragonknight was mostly stamina, but looks like it also use lot of magicka skills. Now I just feel like Zenimax want us to play full magicka…