These skills appear across multiple class setups or provide useful options for specific trial encounters. Choose them around your assigned targets, mechanics and group coverage. You do not need every skill listed here on your bars at once.

Elemental Susceptibility – Applies Major Breach and repeatedly inflicts Burning, Chilled and Concussion, inflicting Minor Maim, Minor Vulnerability and your Frost Staff’s Minor Brittle interactions. Frost Blockade also applies Minor Breach to Chilled enemies. Maintain it on your  priority target. Let its duration run before refreshing it to avoid unnecessary Magicka costs.

Elemental Blockade – Maintains your back-bar Crusher enchantment while you work on the front bar. With a Frost Staff, it also snares enemies, applies Minor Breach to Chilled targets and provides a group projectile damage shield. Position the wall beneath the enemies you need to debuff with Crusher.

Inner Rage – A ranged taunt for securing dangerous adds, secondary bosses or a target during a tank swap. Its Radiate synergy provides additional Flame damage for the group. Use it on targets assigned to you; avoid taking the Main Tank’s boss unless a swap or emergency requires it.

Razor Caltrops – Applies AoE Major Breach and slows enemies, making it useful for add waves and large stacks. Cast it where the enemies will gather. As an Assault ability, it also activates Powerful Assault when you cast it in combat while wearing the set.

Pulsar – Primarily used on add waves to apply Minor Mangle, reducing the Max Health of non-elite enemies. Frost Pulsar also provides group Minor Protection and helps spread Chilled, especially with a Charged Frost Staff. This supports Minor Maim, Minor Brittle and Minor Breach through Frost Blockade. Use it once enemies are grouped so the cast reaches as much of the pack as possible.

Resolving Vigor – Provides a self-heal over time and grants Minor Resolve, increasing your resistances. Useful when you lack Minor Resolve. As an Assault ability, it also activates Powerful Assault when cast in combat with the set active. The heal only affects you, but nearby group members can still receive the set’s damage buff. 

Revealing Flare – Slotted for Major Protection on the active bar, providing damage reduction without another skill to maintain. It also contributes to the Magicka Aid passive, increasing Magicka Recovery for each Support ability slotted on that bar. Its reveal effect is unnecessary in trials; the slot is used for its defensive and sustain benefits.

Defensive Stance – While slotted on your one hand and shield bar, increases block mitigation and reduces Block Cost. Useful when your role involves sustained blocking or several hard-hitting enemies. Casting it also provides a Max Health-scaling shield and reflects an eligible direct-damage projectile, but the passive bonuses are the main reason to slot it.

Crushing Shock – Interrupts enemy casts from range, letting you handle an assigned interrupt without leaving your position to Bash. Slot it when a trial mechanic requires reliable ranged interrupts. Its damage and potential status effects are secondary benefits.

Exhilarating Drain – A channelled Vampire skill that heals for a percentage of your missing Health and generates 5 Ultimate each second for three seconds. Useful during safe periods when faster Ultimate generation supports your group. You cannot maintain block while channelling, so stop immediately if you need to defend, move or handle a mechanic. Consider the costs of Vampirism before adding it solely for Ultimate generation.

Race Against Time – Provides a short Major Expedition speed boost, removes snares and immobilisations, and briefly grants immunity to them. Useful for reaching add spawns, moving between positions or handling movement mechanics when your class lacks a suitable speed skill. Its Minor Force is a secondary benefit for a tank.

Rapid Maneuver – Grants Major Expedition to you and nearby group members. Use it when the strategy requires group movement support rather than just personal speed. Its Stamina cost is substantial, so plan casts around upcoming blocking and mechanics. As an Assault ability, it can also activate Powerful Assault in combat when the set is active.

Ultimates

Aggressive Horn – Increases group Max Magicka and Stamina and provides Major Force for a damage window. It is a situational choice when the group lacks reliable Major Force coverage. If an Arcanist already maintains it through Ink-Scribe’s Verve, coordinate whether Horn’s remaining benefits justify the Ultimate slot and cost.

Replenishing Barrier – Provides a large shield to you and nearby group members, helping the group through dangerous damage or recovery phases. Each ward that dissolves restores Magicka to you. It is also useful as a passive slot for the Magicka Aid passive, even when you normally cast your other Ultimate.

Temporal Guard – Slotted primarily for Minor Protection on the active bar. Having a Psijic Order ability slotted also enables Concentrated Barrier’s passive shield while blocking. You normally preserve your Ultimate for group support; casting Temporal Guard rewinds your position and resources, which can disrupt tank positioning.

Key Passive & Gear Interactions

Magicka Aid benefits each bar separately, so Revealing Flare and Replenishing Barrier only contribute recovery while their bar is active. Temporal Guard or Race Against Time enables Concentrated Barrier on its respective bar; that shield recharges after you spend time without blocking.

Assault skills can activate Powerful Assault, while normal Ultimate casts can activate sets such as War Machine or Pillager’s Profit when equipped and ready. If you use Cryptcanon Vestments, your Ultimate becomes a resource transfer instead of casting the listed skill, so you cannot rely on Horn or Barrier’s normal effects.

Runic Sunder – A ranged Stamina taunt that generates Crux, applies Minor Maim and steals 2,200 Armor from the enemy. This armor reduction provides additional group damage support. While slotted, it also reduces your damage taken by 2% per active Crux. Use it on your main targets: it applies a taunt, so don’t cast it to debuff the Main Tank’s boss.

Audacious Runemend – Heals yourself or an ally in front of you and generates Crux, letting you rebuild Crux for Tidal Chakram or Impervious Runeward without taunting another enemy. Its healing and overhealing contributes towards Ink-Scribe’s Verve, helping maintain group Major Force. Healing a target below 50% Health also grants them Minor Heroism for six seconds. Generating Crux activates Hideous Clarity for Magicka and Stamina returns. The skill costs whichever resource has the higher maximum, so watch your Stamina when using it alongside blocking and Tidal Chakram. 

Impervious Runeward – Your main defensive shield and an important self-heal when used with Crux. Both the shield and healing scale with Max Health, making it particularly effective against hard-hitting secondary bosses and priority adds. Its strongest shield lasts only one second, so cast it immediately before a dangerous hit. Consuming Crux provides healing and activates Implacable Outcome for additional Ultimate generation. Its healing and overhealing contributes towards Ink-Scribe’s Verve.

Runeguard of Still Waters – Combines group Minor Resolve, personal Minor Protection and an automatic Max Health–scaling heal when you take damage below 50% Health. It also immobilises nearby enemies after a short delay, helping keep adds stacked for group damage. The defensive effects remain useful against bosses that cannot be immobilised. Refresh it after its emergency heal consumes Minor Protection when you need that protection restored.

Tidal Chakram – Provides shields to yourself or up to four allies in front of you, consuming Crux to add healing while those shields remain. This healing and overhealing helps activate Ink-Scribe’s Verve, making the skill particularly valuable when you are responsible for Major Force. Aim it towards allies and rebuild Crux between casts. Its cost uses whichever maximum resource is higher, so it will usually spend Stamina on this tank setup.

Cruxweaver Armor – Maintains Major Resolve and generates Crux when you take damage, while applying Minor Breach to attackers. Keep it active whenever you are handling enemies. With Erudite’s Rigor, taking damage also applies Minor Cowardice, grants group Major Vitality and generates Ultimate based on your active Crux.

Zenas’ Empowering Disc – Provides Minor Courage alongside Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect and Minor Endurance, supporting group damage and recovery. Place it where your group can enter the area; its buffs remain for up to ten seconds after they leave, making this morph useful when mechanics require movement. It also keeps a Curative Runeforms ability on your back bar for Intricate Runeforms.

Gibbering Shelter – Primarily slotted for Wellspring of the Abyss, which increases Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery for each Soldier of Apocrypha ability on your active bar. This adds sustain without requiring another cast. When needed, the Ultimate provides strong personal shielding and grants shields to nearby allies as you take damage, making it useful when handling dangerous adds close to the group.

Resonating Glyphic – An offensive support Ultimate that provides nearby allies with healing and up to 200 Weapon and Spell Damage. You and your allies strengthen this morph by damaging the glyphic, so place it where the group can power it up and remain within its area. Its healing contributes towards Ink-Scribe’s Verve, while casting it can activate gear sets that trigger on Ultimate use.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Erudite’s Rigor – Adds group Major Vitality, enemy Minor Cowardice and Ultimate generation to your armor skill when you take damage, with a two-second cooldown. Holding more Crux increases the Ultimate returned. Its value depends on actively handling enemies, so expect less benefit during phases where nothing is attacking you.
• Ink-Scribe’s Verve – Healing or overhealing a combined 100,000 Health in combat generates Crux and grants group Major Force for ten seconds. Tidal Chakram, Resonating Glyphic and self healing help reach this threshold. Positioning and healing output determines uptime.
• Fate Realigned – An alternative when Major Force is already covered. It upgrades Implacable Outcome to generate maximum Crux up to once every fifteen seconds, helping rebuild Crux after using your shield or healing skills.
• Hideous Clarity & Implacable Outcome – Generating Crux restores Magicka and Stamina, while consuming it generates Ultimate on an eight-second cooldown. This makes rebuilding and spending Crux useful for both sustain and Ultimate generation.
• Aegis of the Unseen & Circumvented Fate – Keeping a beneficial Soldier of Apocrypha ability active grants additional Armor. Casting Arcanist abilities also maintains group Minor Evasion, reducing damage from area attacks.
• Intricate Runeforms & Erudition – A Curative Runeforms ability on your active bar improves shield strength and reduces shield costs, while Erudition increases Magicka and Stamina Recovery.

Hearth and Home – Provides a Max Health–scaling heal over time, granting healed allies Minor Heroism and Minor Fortitude while they remain inside. You also gain Major Protection within the area, while enemies are heavily snared. Place it where you can benefit from its protection without disrupting enemy positioning, ideally overlapping nearby allies to support their Ultimate generation. When your role separates you from the group, it remains useful for personal healing and defence.

Blood of the Elder Dragon – Combines a burst heal for yourself and nearby allies with Major Fortitude and Minor Courage for healed targets. Casting it also activates Elder Dragon, granting group Minor Brutality. This makes it useful for maintaining group buffs as well as recovering Health, provided allies are within range. The current morph scales with offensive stats rather than Max Health; if group coverage is already handled and personal survival takes priority, Blood of the Green Dragon is an alternative.

Magma Fist – Used when you are assigned to maintain Heat Shock, increasing the target’s damage taken from all sources. Build three stacks on the priority enemy, then refresh before the seven-second effect expires. Its frequent Stamina cost competes with blocking, dodging and other skills, so only carry this responsibility when your group needs it. Casting it also contributes to Ultimate generation through Blessing at the Peak. If another DK maintains Heat Shock, this becomes a flexible slot.

Earthshield Mantle – Provides Major Resolve and a short Max Health–scaling damage shield. It is particularly useful when handling enemies away from the group, where you may lose access to a Warden’s Frost Cloak. As an Earthen Heart skill, it also activates Blessing at the Peak in combat and enables Mountain Giant on that bar.

Igneous Weapons – Supplies group Major Brutality, increasing Weapon and Spell Damage, alongside an additional Flame damage effect from Light and Heavy Attacks. Its long duration makes it convenient for covering this buff and allowing group members to choose different potions. Refresh it before it expires rather than repeatedly casting it. It also provides an Earthen Heart ability on your back bar for passive interactions, although its value depends on what the group already covers.

Protect the Brood – Combines personal Major Expedition with projectile damage reduction for yourself and nearby group members, plus group Minor Protection. Use it to move between enemies, reach priority adds or protect nearby allies during projectile-heavy mechanics. Casting it also activates Elder Dragon for Minor Brutality. Its protection requires casting; simply slotting it does not grant Minor Protection.

Standard of Might – Provides allies inside the banner with 300 Weapon and Spell Damage and 10% damage reduction, with additional offensive and defensive benefits for you. Place it where the group can remain within its area during a useful damage window. Casting it restores resources through The Storm Voice and activates Lead from the Front, combining group support with personal sustain. When you are positioned away from the group, consider whether another Ultimate would provide more value.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Lead from the Front – Activating The Storm Voice through an Ultimate cast grants nearby group members Major Berserk and Major Protection. Duration increases with Ultimate spent, so coordinate your cast with group damage windows and remain within range of the players you intend to buff.
• Resolute Defense – Builds additional block mitigation while you remain blocking and gives blocked attacks a chance to restore Stamina. Useful during sustained pressure from multiple enemies, but it does not replace careful resource management.
• Inexorable Descent – An alternative for less block-intensive situations. It adds healing and shield strength to your Landslide stacks, which build through dealing damage while an Earthen Heart ability is active.
• The Storm Voice – Casting an Ultimate restores Health, Magicka and Stamina based on Ultimate spent, with stronger returns from having more DK abilities slotted. Plan Ultimate use around both group requirements and your resource needs.
• Elder Dragon & Burnished Scales – Casting Blood of the Elder Dragon or Protect the Brood maintains group Minor Brutality. Burnished Scales adds block mitigation, helping you withstand dangerous targets.
• Blessing at the Peak & Mountain Giant – Earthen Heart casts or damage generate Ultimate on a six-second cooldown. With an Earthen Heart skill slotted, fully charged Heavy Attacks also restore additional Stamina and apply Off Balance. Magma Fist provides regular opportunities to trigger the Ultimate passive.
• Combustion & A Soul Ablaze – Applying Burning restores Magicka and Stamina while an Ardent Flame ability is slotted. Elemental Susceptibility supplies Burning. A Soul Ablaze increases healing received.
• A group coverage detail: these bars do not apply Traumatic Burns. If you are responsible for the additional 5% Flame damage taken debuff, add an appropriate Ardent Flame damage skill, such as Burning Embers, and maintain its application alongside your other duties.

Necrotic Potency – Converts nearby corpses into Ultimate and a Max Health–scaling heal over time, while reducing damage taken by 3% when slotted. Use it after enemies die, when Spirit Guardian leaves a corpse, or when your armor skill or Mastery enables another consumption opportunity. This helps rebuild Glacial Colossus between group damage windows. Consuming a corpse also activates Corpse Consumption for additional Ultimate, subject to that passive’s cooldown.

Hungry Scythe – Your main burst heal, with additional healing for each extra enemy hit and a heal over time afterwards. All of its healing scales with Max Health, making it particularly effective when holding several adds. You must damage an enemy to receive the healing, so keep a target within reach. With Veil’s Forfeit, its direct self-heal can also enable corpse consumption when you heal yourself below the Mastery’s Health threshold.

Agony Totem – Provides nearby allies with Minor Protection, applies Major Cowardice to enemies inside its area and periodically fears susceptible enemies in place. Place it within your established add stack to reduce incoming damage and help keep enemies controlled. Against bosses, its defensive effects remain useful even when the fear cannot affect them. The Pure Agony synergy adds group damage and gives allies another synergy to activate.

Summoner’s Armor – Maintains both Major and Minor Resolve, giving you reliable resistance buffs when your role takes you away from the group. It also reduces Spirit Guardian’s cost. Casting it in combat enables you to use a corpse-consuming ability on yourself, with a ten-second cooldown on that effect, providing another opportunity for Necrotic Potency.

Spirit Guardian – Provides regular healing and transfers 10% of your incoming damage to the spirit, making it valuable when holding a secondary boss or dangerous adds. While active, it also enables Undead Confederate for additional recovery. It leaves a corpse when it expires in combat, which you can consume with Necrotic Potency.

Glacial Colossus – Your main group damage Ultimate, applying Major Vulnerability to enemies hit and stunning susceptible enemies with its final smash. This morph provides a longer debuff than Pestilent Colossus, making it better suited to maintaining coverage. Veil’s Forfeit extends its seventeen-second Major Vulnerability to 25.5 seconds, with subsequent smashes refreshing the application. Coordinate casts around group damage windows and other sources of Major Vulnerability; high uptime depends on rebuilding Ultimate quickly enough between casts.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Veil’s Forfeit – Extends the Major Vulnerability you apply by 50%. Directly healing a target below 66% Health in combat also allows you to use a corpse-consuming ability against them within ten seconds. This creates consumption opportunities without requiring an enemy to die, helping support Necrotic Potency and your Ultimate generation.
• Pound of Flesh – Taking damage has a chance to heal you and restore a percentage of your missing Stamina, with the chance increasing as your Health falls. Its healing scales with Max Health. This is useful under sustained pressure, but treat it as supporting sustain rather than a guaranteed resource return.
• Corpse Consumption – Consuming a corpse grants ten additional Ultimate on a sixteen-second cooldown. This works alongside Necrotic Potency’s own Ultimate return, making regular consumption valuable even during encounters with few enemy deaths.
• Disdain Harm & Last Gasp – Keeping a Bone Tyrant ability active reduces damage taken from damage-over-time abilities by 15%, while Last Gasp increases Max Health. These benefits are particularly useful for Off Tanking persistent damage and also support your Health-scaling heals.
• Death Gleaning & Health Avarice – With a Bone Tyrant skill slotted, nearby enemy deaths restore Magicka and Stamina. Each Bone Tyrant skill on your active bar also increases healing received, making your front bar particularly comfortable when managing damage.
• Undead Confederate & Near-Death Experience – An active Spirit Guardian increases Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery. Having it slotted also enables increased healing Critical Chance against wounded targets through Near-Death Experience.

Surprise Attack – Primarily used to support the Nocturnal Inspiration Class Mastery rather than add personal damage. Its guaranteed Critical Strike gives you a reliable way to activate Hemorrhage and create an opportunity for additional Ultimate generation. It also applies Sundered and sets enemies Off Balance when struck from their flank. Use it between essential tank duties.

Siphoning Attacks – Your main sustain tool. While slotted on either bar, dealing damage provides healing and restores Magicka and Stamina once per second, so keep damage effects such as Elemental Blockade active. Casting it exchanges Health for an immediate resource return and activates the Transfer passive. With Share the Spoils, that cast also supplies group resources and Ultimate. Use it regularly when safe, but avoid spending Health immediately before a dangerous mechanic.

Dark Cloak – Provides a short Max Health–scaling heal over time, with substantially stronger healing while blocking. It also grants Minor Protection while slotted on either bar, giving you constant damage reduction without needing to cast it for that buff. Use the heal during sustained pressure. Casting it activates Shadow Barrier for Major Resolve, while slotting it increases your front-bar Max Health through Dark Vigor.

Mirage – Maintains Major Evasion and Minor Resolve, making it particularly useful against area damage during busy trial phases. Taking direct damage while it is active also reduces the cost of your next Roll Dodge, helping with mechanics that require dodging. As a Shadow ability, casting it activates Shadow Barrier for Major Resolve. Maintain it rather than repeatedly recasting it before its effects expire.

Refreshing Path – Combines healing over time with group Major Expedition, Minor Endurance and Minor Intellect. Place it where nearby allies can benefit, or along your route when moving between enemies. Its recovery buffs support the group during longer encounters, while the speed boost helps with repositioning and mechanics. Casting it also maintains Shadow Barrier, and its healing provides opportunities for Critical Heals that can activate Hemorrhage when an Assassination skill is slotted on your active bar.

Mass Hysteria – An add-control skill that fears nearby susceptible enemies and applies AoE Major Cowardice, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage. Use it once enemies are positioned to reduce their damage on the group. It also activates Shadow Barrier and adds front-bar Max Health through Dark Vigor.

Soul Harvest – Primarily slotted for its passive ten Ultimate whenever you land a killing blow, which works while it is slotted on either bar. This makes it useful during add waves, although you must secure the kill rather than simply damage the enemy. It also supplies an Assassination skill on your front bar for Hemorrhage and Nocturnal Inspiration. Normally, preserve your Ultimate for the group support effect assigned to your setup.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Nocturnal Inspiration – Upgrades Hemorrhage to give its activations a chance to generate additional Ultimate, based on your Weapon Critical Chance. Surprise Attack provides reliable Critical Strikes, while damage and healing effects offer further opportunities. The Ultimate return is chance-based, not guaranteed on every critical.
• Share the Spoils – Upgrades Transfer so its activation grants group members 250 Magicka and Stamina and two Ultimate, while doubling your own Ultimate return to four. Casting Siphoning Attacks in combat activates this interaction, subject to Transfer’s four-second cooldown.
• Cutthroat’s Focus – An trial-specific alternative. Casting a Nightblade skill while blocking creates a brief dodge window, and dodging an enemy’s attack increases that enemy’s damage taken. It is valuable when you can maintain it on important targets, but does not automatically cover the Main Tank’s boss.
• Hemorrhage & Pressure Points – Critical damage or healing grants group Minor Savagery while an Assassination ability is slotted on your active bar. Pressure Points increases Critical Chance for each Nightblade skill slotted.
• Catalyst & Transfer – Drinking a potion generates 22 Ultimate, while casting Siphoning Attacks in combat activates Transfer. Regular potion use and carefully timed Siphoning casts help rebuild your group support Ultimate between mechanics.
• Magicka Flood – Having Siphoning Attacks on your active bar increases Max Magicka and Stamina by 6%. Its own passive resource returns work on both bars, but this separate passive requires a Siphoning skill on the bar you are using.
• Shadow Barrier & Dark Vigor – Casting Shadow skills maintains Major Resolve, with Heavy Armor extending its duration. Each Shadow skill slotted also increases Max Health on that bar, improving survivability and Dark Cloak’s healing.

Vibrant Shroud – Combines healing for yourself and nearby allies with Minor Vitality, while applying AoE Major Maim to enemies in front of you. This helps reduce pressure when handling several dangerous adds or a secondary boss. Casting it also activates Exploitation for group Offensive Penetration and provides an opportunity to trigger Calculated Defense. Aim it to cover the main enemies and nearby allies, refreshing its effects when needed rather than repeatedly casting this expensive skill.

Bound Aegis – Provides Minor Protection and Minor Resolve while slotted on either bar, giving you reliable defensive benefits without another upkeep cast. Activate it before dangerous blockable attacks for a substantial increase to block mitigation, with duration influenced by your resistances. Its active effect also enables Daedric Protection for additional damage reduction. Use it for heavy attacks and sustained block phases; increased block mitigation does not protect against unblockable damage.

Boundless Storm – Maintains Major Resolve and grants a short Major Expedition boost when cast, helping you move between enemies and collect priority targets. Its nearby damage continues while you handle other duties, making it convenient during add waves. Casting it also provides an opportunity to activate Calculated Defense. Maintain the resistance buff throughout combat, but avoid repeatedly refreshing its long duration solely for movement unless the mechanic requires it.

Liquid Lightning – Primarily used for its Conduit synergy and additional group utility. Unlike many synergy skills, you can activate your own Conduit, giving you access to Undaunted Command’s Health, Magicka and Stamina returns when other players’ synergies are unavailable. Allies can also use it for additional damage and their own synergy interactions. Place it where you or the group can reach the synergy safely. Casting it also helps maintain Calculated Defense’s group buff.

Summon Charged Atronach – Provides AoE damage, guaranteed Concussion against enemies hit and a synergy that grants nearby allies Major Berserk. Place it near the group during a useful damage window and ensure someone activates Charged Lightning: casting the Ultimate alone does not grant Major Berserk. The Charged morph is particularly useful against stacked adds, spreading Concussion and its associated Minor Vulnerability. Coordinate its use with other Sorcerers and Dragonknights using Lead from the Front to avoid duplicating the same group buff.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Calculated Defense – Beginning a Sorcerer ability creates a brief Max Health–scaling shield. If it survives, you and nearby group members gain 6% Weapon and Spell Damage for twenty seconds. Your regular class casts provide opportunities to refresh this buff, but incoming damage can break the shield and prevent its application. Check coverage when you’re away from the group.
• Conservation of Energy – Expands Blood Magic to work with abilities that have a cost, excluding abilities with a cost per tick, and adds Magicka and Stamina returns when it activates. This lets your shared tank skills contribute to sustain alongside your class abilities. Resource returns scale with your maximum resources.
• Blood Magic – Provides a Max Health–scaling self-heal when activated below full Health. At full Health, it instead increases whichever maximum resource is higher for ten seconds. Conservation of Energy broadens access to these effects, helping support both survival and resource management.
• Exploitation – Activating Vibrant Shroud grants the group 2,974 Offensive Penetration for twenty seconds. This is an important reason to include a Dark Magic skill, even when you do not immediately need its healing.
• Unholy Knowledge & Persistence – Unholy Knowledge reduces the costs of non-core combat abilities. After blocking an attack, Persistence reduces the cost of your next resource-costing ability, helping make necessary skill casts more efficient during defensive phases.
• Power Stone & Daedric Protection – Power Stone reduces Ultimate costs, allowing more frequent group support casts. Daedric Protection reduces damage taken while a Daedric Summoning ability is active; Bound Aegis’s activated effect is one way to maintain it during dangerous moments.
• Expert Summoner – Increases Max Magicka and Stamina. Its additional Max Health benefit requires a permanent summoned combat pet, which these bars do not include; the Atronach ultimate does not satisfy that requirement.
• Capacitor & Expert Mage – Capacitor increases Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery. Expert Mage adds Weapon and Spell Damage for each Sorcerer skill on your active bar, supporting abilities that scale with offensive stats, including Vibrant Shroud’s healing.

Radiant Aura – Provides Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect and Minor Endurance to you while slotted on either bar, increasing Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery. Casting it extends those buffs to nearby group members for one minute, making it useful when your group does not already have reliable coverage. The Stamina Recovery helps between blocking phases; it does not restore Stamina while you hold block.

Extended Ritual – Cleanses up to five harmful effects from you and places a large healing area for you and nearby allies. Allies can activate its Purify synergy to cleanse themselves and receive an additional heal. Standing inside your own Ritual also activates Sacred Ground, improving healing and block mitigation. Its cleanse only removes effects that can be purged, so it cannot bypass every trial mechanic.

Purifying Light – Used on bosses mainly to activate Illuminate, Bright Harbinger and Prism, providing group armor, Weapon and Spell Damage, and personal Ultimate generation. When its damage mark expires, it leaves a healing effect around the target, adding support for nearby players. Allow the mark to finish before refreshing it, and prioritise maintaining your group buffs over repeatedly casting it for damage.

Restoring Focus – Your main source of Major Resolve, with direct Stamina return and a Max Health–scaling heal. The Stamina return continues while blocking, making it particularly valuable when holding several enemies or managing sustained pressure. Standing inside the rune significantly strengthens its healing and activates Sacred Ground, but the resistance buff and Stamina return remain useful when mechanics require you to move.

Blazing Spear – Included on the bar to activate Spear Wall, granting Minor Protection and Minor Berserk when cast, while also providing an ally with a resource synergy. Its initial hit immobilises susceptible enemies, giving it additional value when used during add phases. Place it near allies who can use Blessed Shards to restore whichever of their maximum resources is higher. You cannot activate your own synergy with this morph. It provides these benefits without moving you away from your assigned position.

Living Dark – A defensive option for add pulls that heals you when you take direct damage, with a short cooldown between healing triggers. This is useful when several enemies are attacking you, although damage-over-time ticks do not trigger the heal. Casting it also activates the same Dawn’s Wrath passive and Mastery benefits as Purifying Light, allowing the add setup to maintain your group buffs while gaining a more defensive skill.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Illuminate + Bright Harbinger – Casting Purifying Light or Living Dark grants nearby group members additional armor through Illuminate. Bright Harbinger adds 300 Weapon and Spell Damage for allies and 600 for you. Maintain this through whichever Dawn’s Wrath skill your current setup uses.
• Prism – Casting a Dawn’s Wrath ability in combat generates 3 Ultimate, with a six-second cooldown. Purifying Light and Living Dark activate it naturally, but repeated casts inside that cooldown do not generate additional Ultimate.
• Sacred Ground + Steadfast Candescence – Your own Extended Ritual and Restoring Focus activate Sacred Ground when you stand inside them, granting Minor Mending and increased block mitigation. Steadfast Candescence also activates or refreshes Sacred Ground while blocking and strengthens its block mitigation while you remain stationary. This is especially useful when holding dangerous targets in a fixed position.
• Spear Wall – Casting Blazing Spear grants Minor Protection and Minor Berserk for six seconds.
• Balanced Warrior – Provides additional armor based on the number of Templar abilities slotted on your active bar. Your resistance total can therefore change when swapping bars or replacing class skills with general abilities.
• Mending + Light Weaver – Mending improves healing on wounded targets. Light Weaver grants Ultimate to allies you heal below 50% Health with Restoring Light abilities, allowing Extended Ritual to provide additional ultimate support.
• Restoring Spirit – Reduces the Health, Magicka, Stamina and Ultimate costs of your abilities, supporting sustain. This does not reduce block cost, so blocking still needs to be managed separately.

Gripping Shards – Primarily used to apply Chilled through its continuing Frost Damage, activating Tundra’s Maw to provide Major Brittle and increase enemies’ Critical Damage taken by 20%. Keep it active while holding targets within range to maintain reliable coverage. It also immobilises susceptible adds, although many trial enemies are immune. If your role keeps you away from the target, use Winter’s Revenge for its ranged placement instead.

Budding Seeds – Provides ongoing healing to you and allies within its area, followed by a larger heal when it blooms. Its frequent healing ticks can activate Nature’s Gift through overhealing, restoring your resources and triggering Bountiful Harvest for group Major Heroism and additional resource returns. It also maintains Minor Toughness through Maturation and provides a Harvest healing synergy. Place it under the group and refresh after it blooms; reactivate early when an immediate heal is needed.

Polar Wind – Your main burst heal, followed by healing over time, with an additional initial heal for a nearby ally. It scales with Max Health, making it particularly effective on a tank and useful when supporting the Main Tank or another nearby player. It can provide Minor Toughness through Maturation, but it is a Winter’s Embrace ability, so its healing does not activate Nature’s Gift or Bountiful Harvest.

Expansive Frost Cloak – Provides Major Resolve to you and nearby group members, increasing Physical and Spell Resistance. Its large radius and reduced cost make it well suited to an Off Tank who needs to maintain group coverage. Refresh it before the buff expires and check that separated players are within range when you cast.

Bull Netch – A free sustain skill that directly restores Stamina over time, including while blocking. It also periodically removes a negative effect and provides you personal damage buffs. Keeping it active helps fund blocking, dodging and Stamina-based utility skills. Casting it in combat activates Savage Beast when available, while slotting it enables Flourish on your back bar.

Deceptive Predator – Provides Major Expedition and temporary immunity to snares and immobilisations, helping you reach adds, complete movement mechanics and return to the group. While slotted, it grants Minor Evasion, reducing incoming area damage on that bar. It also enables Flourish and activates Savage Beast when cast in combat, combining movement, defence and passive sustain in one slot.

Feral Guardian – Primarily a passive slot to enable Flourish on your bar, increasing Magicka and Stamina Recovery without occupying a regular skill slot. You do not need to summon the bear for this benefit; preserve your Ultimate for your assigned support ability.

Key passive and Class Mastery interactions:

• Tundra’s Maw + Glacial Presence – Tundra’s Maw makes your Chilled applications also apply Major Brittle, increasing enemies’ Critical Damage taken by 20%. Glacial Presence improves your chance to apply Chilled. Gripping Shards, Elemental Susceptibility and Frost Pulsar provide opportunities to maintain this short debuff.
• Nature’s Gift + Bountiful Harvest – Overhealing yourself or an ally with a Green Balance ability activates Nature’s Gift, restoring your Magicka and Stamina. Bountiful Harvest adds group resource returns and three seconds of Major Heroism, with its additional effects available once every two seconds. Budding Seeds is the Green Balance healing source in these bars.
• Maturation – Your heals grant their recipients Minor Toughness, increasing Max Health by 10% for 20 seconds. Both Polar Wind and Corrupting Pollen contribute, but maintaining group coverage requires your healing to reach the relevant players.
• Flourish – Having an Animal Companions ability slotted increases Magicka and Stamina Recovery by 20% on that bar.
• Savage Beast – Casting an Animal Companions ability in combat generates 4 Ultimate, once every eight seconds. Bull Netch and Deceptive Predator activate it during normal use; simply slotting Feral Guardian does not.
• Frozen Armor + Piercing Cold – Frozen Armor increases resistances for each Winter’s Embrace ability on your active bar, while Piercing Cold improves block mitigation.
• Icy Aura – With a Winter’s Embrace ability slotted, direct attacks from enemies in melee range build Bite of Winter stacks. At five stacks, the attacker receives Major Maim. This provides additional damage reduction while holding melee enemies, but requires repeated hits to activate.
• Accelerated Growth – Healing yourself or an ally below 40% Health with a Green Balance ability grants Major Mending. Budding Seeds can activate this when its heal lands; Polar Wind cannot trigger it.