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Contents

  • Changelog
    • Updates
  • Training
    • Advice for New Adventurers
    • Races and Factions
      • Overview
      • Factions
      • Character Races
      • Classes
        • Overview
        • Dragonknight
        • Nightblade
        • Sorcerer
        • Templar
        • Warden (New Class)
          • Overview
          • Green Balance
          • Winter’s Embrace
    • Leveling
      • Leveling
    • Attributes
      • Overview
      • Active Effects
      • Buffs and Debuffs
        • About the Buff/Debuff System
        • Aegis
        • Berserk
        • Brutality
        • Empower
        • Endurance
        • Evasion
        • Expedition
        • Force
        • Fortitude
        • Gallop
        • Heroism
        • Intellect
        • Mending
        • Prophecy
        • Protection
        • Resolve
        • Savagery
        • Slayer
        • Sorcery
        • Toughness
        • Vitality
        • Ward
        • Applying Debuffs
      • Mundus Stones
    • Champions
      • The Champion System
      • Passive Effects
        • About Passive Abilities
        • Constellation Group: The Thief
        • Constellation Group: The Mage
        • Constellation Group: The Warrior
    • Curses: Vampires and Werewolves
      • Overview
      • Vampirism
      • Lycanthropy
      • Obtaining Curses
      • Removing Curses
    • Skills
      • Overview
      • Weapon Skill Lines
        • Overview
        • Two-Handed
        • One Hand and Shield
        • Dual Wield
        • Bow
        • Destruction Staff
        • Restoration Staff
      • Armor Skill Lines
        • Overview
        • Light Armor
        • Medium Armor
        • Heavy Armor
      • World Skill Lines
        • Soul Magic
        • Legerdemain
        • Vampire
        • Werewolf
      • Guild Skill Lines
        • Fighters Guild
        • Mages Guild
        • Undaunted
        • Thieves Guild
        • Dark Brotherhood
      • Alliance War Skill Lines
        • Assault
        • Support
        • Racial Skill Lines
        • Craft Skill Lines
    • Archetypes
      • Overview
      • Magicka DPS
        • The Mage
        • The Flameblade
        • The Bloodmage
        • The Fanatic
        • The Naturalist
      • Stamina DPS
        • The Assassin
        • The Beastmaster
        • The Depraved
        • The Tempest
        • The Zealot
      • Tanks
        • The Crusader
        • The Dragonscale
        • The Stormshield
        • The Icebreaker
        • The Reaper
      • Healers
        • The Devoted
        • The Druid
        • The Invoker
        • The Flamekeeper
        • The Shadowpriest
  • Combat, Crafting, and Activities
    • Combat
      • Initial Combat Tactics
      • Additional Combat Tactics
      • Damage Types and Potency
      • Crowd Control: Vulnerabilities and Death
    • Stealth and Sneaking
      • Sneaking
      • Stealth Combat: Sneak Attacks
    • Group Activities
      • Winning Friends
      • Influencing People (Know Your Role)
    • Player Guilds
      • About Player Guilds
    • The Alliance War (PvP)
      • About the Alliance War
      • Joining a Campaign
      • Alliance Border Keeps
      • Alliance Points and Rankings
      • Campaign Score
      • Alliance Bonuses
      • Exploring Cyrodiil
      • Capture Points
      • Siege and Defend
      • Temples and the Elder Scrolls
      • Types of Quests
      • Imperial City DLC
    • Morrowind: Battlegrounds (PvPvP)
      • Overview
      • Game Modes
      • Battlefields
      • Rewards and Medals
    • Crafting
      • Crafting Professions
      • Seeking Inspiration
      • Certification and Crafting Writs
      • Traits
      • Crafting Sites and Sets
      • Morrowind Crafting Motifs and Sets
    • Crafting Professions
      • Overview
      • Alchemy
      • Blacksmithing
      • Clothing
      • Enchanting
      • Provisioning
      • Woodworking
      • Equipment Professions: Your Gear’s Life Cycle
      • Power-Leveling
    • Homestead
      • Obtaining Your First Home
      • Example Costs and Sizes of Homes
      • Morrowind Homes
      • Furnishing Your Home
      • Homestead Visiting and Visitors
    • Other Activities
      • Exploration
      • Material Gathering
  • Adventuring Across Tamriel
    • Introduction
    • Currency and Holiday Events
    • Merchants and Services
      • Banks and Moneylenders
      • Crafting Stations
      • Dye Stations
      • Fences
      • Merchants
      • Navigators
      • Shrines
      • Stables
    • Making Money
      • Ways to Earn Money
    • Crime and Punishment
      • The Crimes
      • Infamy Meter
      • Stealth
      • Pickpocket
      • Lockpicking
      • Breaking and Entering
      • Theft
      • Safeboxes
      • Killing Livestock
      • Smuggling Contraband
      • Assault and Murder
      • Aiding in a Crime
      • Tamriel Guards: Paying Your Bounty
      • Outlaws Refuge
      • Treasure
      • Thieves Troves
      • Helpful Skills
    • Mounts
      • Mounts and Stables
    • Items of Note and Interest
      • Item Storage
      • Currency
      • Weapons
      • Apparel
      • Consumables
      • Crafting Materials
      • Miscellaneous
    • Factions (Major and Minor)
      • Major Guilds
      • Minor Factions
    • Locations
      • Provinces and Zones
      • Cities
      • Wayshrines
      • Housing
      • Navigators (Boatswains and Caravans)
      • Merchants
      • Crafting Stations
      • Crafting Sets
      • Guild Traders
      • Banks
      • Stables
      • Dye Station
      • Outlaws Refuge
      • Guild Halls
      • Shrines
      • Striking Locales
      • Settlements, Groves, Towns, Campfires
      • Museums
      • Dungeons
      • Group Bosses
      • Special Events
      • Dolmens (Dark Anchors)
      • Ayleid or Aetherial Wells
      • Mundus Stone
      • Cyrodiil Locations
      • Imperial City Locations
    • Dark Anchors (Dolmens)
      • About Dark Anchors
    • A Trove of Tamriel Tips
      • Skyshards
      • Tips
      • Glossary
  • Quests
    • Quest Map
    • Quest Types
      • Introduction
      • Main Story Quests
      • Aldmeri Dominion Story Quests
      • Daggerfall Covenant Story Quests
      • Ebonheart Pact Story Quests
      • Alliance War Quests (PvP)
      • Cyrodiil Quests (PvE)
      • Imperial City Quests (DLC)
      • Dark Brotherhood Quests (DLC)
      • Fighters Guild Quests
      • Mages Guild Quests
      • Thieves Guild Quests
      • Undaunted Quests
      • Aldmeri Dominion Side Quests
      • Daggerfall Covenant Side Quests
      • Ebonheart Pact Side Quests
      • Coldharbour Side Quests
      • Craglorn Quests
      • Wrothgar Quests
      • World Encounters
      • Crafting Quests
      • Holiday Events
      • Miscellaneous
    • Vvardenfell Main Story Quests
      • Broken Bonds (Tutorial)
      • Divine Conundrum
      • Divine Inquiries
      • Divine Delusions
      • Divine Intervention
      • Divine Disaster
      • Divine Restoration
      • Divine Blessings
    • Morag Tong Side Story Quests
      • Fleeing the Past
      • Of Faith and Family
      • A Purposeful Writ
      • Family Reunion
    • Telvanni Side Story Quests
      • A Hireling of House Telvanni
      • Rising to Retainer
      • Objections and Obstacles
      • The Magister Makes a Move
      • The Heart of a Telvanni
    • Vvardenfell Quests
      • A Melodic Mistake
      • Hatching a Plan
      • Haunted Grounds
      • Reclaiming Vos
      • At Any Cost
      • Ancestral Ties
      • If the Spell Fits
      • Bound by Love
      • The Memory Stone
      • Ancestral Adversity
      • Like Blood from a Stone
      • Nothing to Sneeze At
      • The Scarlet Judge
      • Breaking Through the Fog
      • An Armiger’s Duty
      • A Web of Troubles
    • Vector Quests
      • About Vector Quests
      • Ashlander Relations
      • A Friend in Need
      • A Late Delivery
      • For Glory!
      • To Tel Fyr
      • Crafting Consumables Certification
      • Crafting Equipment Certification
      • A Call for Aid
    • Daily Quests
      • Ald’ruhn Daily Relic-Preservation Quests
      • Ald’ruhn Daily Beast Hunt
      • Consumables Crafting Writs
      • Equipment Crafting Writs
      • Vivec City Group Boss Daily Quests
      • Vivec City Delve Daily Quests
    • Vivec City Museum Quests
      • The Ancestral Tombs
      • The Lost Library
    • Guild Quests
      • Fighters Guild: Anchors from the Harbour
      • Mages Guild: Long Lost Lore
      • Dark Brotherhood: Voices in the Dark
      • Thieves Guild: Partners In Crime
    • Delve Quests
      • A Smuggler’s Last Stand
      • A Hidden Harvest
      • A Dangerous Breed
    • Public Dungeon Quests
      • Echoes of a Fallen House
      • Forgotten Wastes Group Event
      • The Heart’s Desire
      • Nchuleftingth Group Event
    • Trial Quests
      • Forging the Future
      • Unique Monsters
      • Boss Fight 1: Hunter-Killer Fabricants
      • Boss Fight 2: Pinnacle Factotum
      • Boss Fight 3: Archcustodian
      • Boss Fight 4: Refabrication Committee Reactor, Reclaimer, and Reducer
      • Boss Fight 5: Assembly General
  • Interactive Maps
    • West Gash
    • Grazelands
    • Bitter Coast
    • Ashlands
    • Azura Coast (North)
    • Molag Amur
    • Ascadian Isles
    • Azura Coast (South)
  • The Atlas of Morrowind
    • Overview
    • Bitter Coast
      • Region Overview
      • Bitter Coast Collectibles Map
      • Bitter Coast Quest Map
      • Bitter Coast Fishing Map
      • Arenim Manor
      • Mallapi Cave
      • Aleft
      • Addadshashanammu
      • Ashalmimilkala
      • Hlormaren Stronghold
      • Ashurnibibi
      • Ahemmusa Camp
      • Shulk Ore Mine
      • Rethan Manor
      • Fishing Hovel
      • Zainsipilu
      • Firemoth Island
      • Sarys Ancestral Tomb
      • Andrano Ancestral Tomb
      • Seyda Neen Wayshrine
      • Seyda Neen
    • West Gash
      • Region Overview
      • West Gash Quest Map
      • West Gash Fishing Map
      • Yasammidan
      • Arkngthunch-Sturdumz
      • Ald Velothi Harbor House
      • Ashalmawia
      • Urshilaku Camp
      • Urshilaku Camp Wayshrine
      • Mysterious Ruin (Bethamez)
      • Maelkashishi
      • Drivam’s House (Gnisis)
      • Gnisis
      • Gnisis Wayshrine
      • Berandas
      • Salothan’s Council
      • Dushariran
      • Veloth Ancestral Tomb
      • Ashimanu Cave
      • West Gash Wayshrine
      • Randas Ancestral Tomb
      • Ularra
      • Khartag Point
      • Red Exile Camp
      • Hleran Ancestral Tomb
      • Ald’ruhn Wayshrine
      • Ald’ruhn
      • Mallapi Cave Back Tunnels
      • Ramimilk
      • Red Exile Tent
      • Kudanat Mine
      • Redoran Garrison
      • Nilthog’s Hollow
      • Assarnatamat
      • Boundary Bridge
      • Balmora
      • Balmora Wayshrine
    • Ascadian Isles
      • Region Overview
      • Ascadian Isles Collectibles Map
      • Ascadian Isles Quest Map
      • Ascadian Isles Fishing Map
      • Vassir-Didanat Mine
      • Foyada Quarry (INACCESSIBLE) (Arkngthand)
      • Fishing Lodge
      • Amaya Lake Manor
      • Mistress Dren’s Residence
      • Amaya Lake Docks
      • Ruined Ancestral Tomb
      • Quarry Bridge and Dam
      • Bal Ur
      • Suran Wayshrine
      • Suran
      • Inanius Egg Mine
      • Master Kharekh’s Residence
      • Ald Sotha
      • Vivec City Wayshrine
      • Vivec City
    • Ashlands
      • Region Overview
      • Ashlands Collectibles Map
      • Ashlands Fishing Map
      • Ashurnabitashpi
      • Ald Carac
      • Llando Ancestral Tomb
      • Falasmaryon
      • Valenvaryon
      • Ebernanit
      • Forgotten Wastes
      • Indaren Ancestral Tomb
      • Zergonipal
      • Valley of the Wind Wayshrine
      • Cavern of the Incarnate
    • Grazelands
      • Region Overview
      • Grazelands Collectibles Map
      • Grazelands Quest Map
      • Grazelands Fishing Map
      • Kushtashpi
      • Northern Farmstead
      • Poacher’s Treehouse
      • Vos
      • Tel Mora Wayshrine
      • Nchuleft
      • Scavenger’s Ruin
      • Pyroclastic Flow (Zainab Camp)
      • Dubdil Alar Tower
      • Zainab Camp
      • Sethan Ancestral Tomb
      • Aralen Ancestral Tomb
      • Pulk
      • An Unfortunate Experiment
      • Rubble-Filled Door
      • The Shoreline Farmstead
      • Falensarano Ruins
    • Molag Amur
      • Region Overview
      • Molag Amur Collectibles Map
      • Molag Amur Quest Map
      • Molag Amur Fishing Map
      • Library of Andule
      • Gimothran Ancestral Tomb
      • Zalkin-Sul
      • Mzanchend
      • Dulo Ancestral Tomb
      • Galom Daeus
      • Missir-Dadalit Egg Mine
      • Nchuleftingth Wayshrine
      • Nchuleftingth
      • Tusenend
      • Camp and Pyroclastic Flow
      • Sulipund Grange
      • Foyada Quarry
      • Ashunartes
      • Marandus
      • Vandus Ancestral Tomb
      • Erabenimsun Camp
      • Mountain Pass Tent (Mount Kand)
      • Alas Ancestral Tomb (Mount Kand)
      • Mountain Pass Ravine (Mount Kand)
      • Lower Mountain Arches (Mount Kand)
      • Inanius Egg Mine Back Entrance
      • Telasero
      • Red Exile Campsite
      • Dreudurai Glass Mine
      • Helan Ancestral Tomb
      • Molag Mar
      • Molag Mar Wayshrine
    • Azura’s Coast
      • Region Overview
      • Azura’s Coast (North) Map
      • Azura’s Coast (South) Map
      • Black Snail Smugglers’ Isle
      • Tel Mora
      • Esutanamus
      • Pinsun
      • Hanud Tower
      • Vassamsi Grotto and Mine
      • Hlervi Ancestral Tomb
      • Yansirramus
      • Tel Aruhn
      • Sadrith Mora
      • Sadrith Mora Wayshrine
      • Sadrith Mora Dock and Slave Field
      • Anudnabia
      • Halls of Fabrication (Tel Fyr)
      • Dreloth Ancestral Tomb
      • Kaushtarari
      • Tel Galen
      • Andalen Ancestral Tomb
      • Matus-Akin Egg Mine
      • Holamayan Monastery
      • Shashpilamat
      • Nchardumz (North)
      • Nchardumz (Southeast)
      • Almurbalarammi
      • Barilzar’s Tower
      • Red Exile Rock Camp
      • Grave Marker
      • Shrine of Azura
      • Mzahnch
      • Lady Laurent’s Camp
      • Bal Fell
      • Red Exile Toadstool Camp
      • Zaintiraris
      • Hlaalu Ancestral Tomb
      • Mawia
      • Abebaal Egg Mine (Abandoned)
      • Marvani Ancestral Tomb
      • Shipwreck Cove
      • Tel Branora Wayshrine
      • Tel Branora
      • Beran Ancestral Tomb
  • Bestiary
    • Overview
    • New Base Mob Enemies
    • Daedric Shrine Special Enemies
    • Vvardenfell Quest Enemies
    • Delve Quest Bosses
    • Public Dungeon Quest Enemies
    • Ald’ruhn Daily Beast Hunt Enemies
    • Delve Bosses
    • Forgotten Wastes Public Dungeon Champions
    • Nchuleftingth Public Dungeon Champions
    • Public Dungeon Group Event Enemies
    • Group Bosses
  • Appendices
    • Collections
    • Crafting Motifs
    • Crafting Sets
    • Equipment Sets
    • Furnishing Plans
      • Overiew
      • Furnishing Blueprints
      • Furnishing Designs
      • Furnishing Diagrams
      • Furnishing Formulas
      • Furnishing Patterns
      • Furnishing Praxes
    • Quest Rewards
    • Rare Fish
    • Survey Reports
    • Treasure Maps
    • Ancestral Tombs
    • Daedric Ruins
    • Housing
    • Merchants and Crafting Stations
    • Sermons
    • Shrines of the Seven Graces
    • Skyshards
  • Achievements
    • Overview of In-Game Achievements
    • Main Story Quests
    • Vvardenfell Quests
    • Ald’ruhn Daily Quests
    • Explore Vvardenfell
    • Public Dungeons
    • Ancestral Tombs Hunter
    • Tribunal Preacher
    • Morrowind Master Angler
    • Morrowind Skyshard Hunter
    • Morrowind Crafting Styles
    • The Pilgrim’s Path
    • Daedric Explorer
    • Strider Caravaner
    • Cliff Striders’ Bane
    • Group Bosses
    • Halls of Fabrication
    • Savior of Morrowind
    • Battlegrounds
    • Achievement Furnishings
    • Battlegrounds Achievement Furnishings
    • Console Achievements and Trophies
    • Xbox One Challenges
  • Concept Art
    • Locations
    • Vivec Statues
    • Dwarven Colossus
    • Armors and Weapons
    • Enemies

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Guide › Training › Skills › Weapon Skill Lines

Restoration Staff

Maximum Rank: Restoration Staff Rank 50

Maximum Investment: 22 Skill Points

Unlocking and Progressing Restoration Staff

The Restoration Staff skill line is unlocked when you strike a killing blow while holding a Restoration Staff.

Progress the skill line by earning Experience with one or more Restoration Staff abilities slotted on your Action Bar.

Slotting multiple Restoration Staff abilities accelerates skill line progression.

The Restoration Staff skill line allows any character to serve as a group Healer, but it also features options for damage shields and defensive buffs. It won’t do much for DPS, but this skill line is a great option for any player interested in survivability or group support.

Restoration Staff abilities are Magicka-based, so focus on Maximum Magicka, Magicka Recovery, Spell Damage, and Spell Critical if you want to make the most of this this skill line.

Ultimate Ability

Panacea

Panacea is a heal-over-time ability that can affect you or a nearby ally. The base ability offers a powerful healing effect, but the available morphs add some very useful defensive buffs.

As Ultimate Abilities go, Panacea has a low casting cost. With regular use, this ability can do a lot of healing over the course of an encounter.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Life Giver

Also automatically casts Regeneration, Blessing of Protection, and Steadfast Ward.

Light’s Champion

Any friendly target healed gains Major Force and Major Protection, increasing Critical Damage and reducing damage taken.

Active Abilities

Grand Healing

Grand Healing is an area-of-effect ability that combines an instant heal with a heal-over-time effect. It has great range and a moderate radius, making it one of the skill line’s better options for group healing.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Illustrious Healing

Increases the duration.

Healing Springs

You restore Magicka for each friendly target initially healed.

Regeneration

Regeneration allows you to grant yourself and up to two nearby allies a lengthy heal-over-time effect. It restores a significant amount of Health, but the effect’s duration means that it’s best used as a preventative measure or a secondary source of healing.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Rapid Regeneration

The heal-over-time effect is shorter, but ticks faster and more often.

Mutagen

If you or your allies are low on Health, the heal-over-time effect is consumed to heal immediately and remove a harmful effect.

Blessing of Protection

Blessing of Protection is an instant area-of-effect heal that also grants Minor Resolve and Minor Ward, temporarily boosting Physical and Spell Resistance by 1320. It only affects the area in front of you, so positioning is key.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Blessing of Restoration

Increases the size, healing done, and duration.

Combat Prayer

Also grants Minor Berserk, increasing the damage done by you and your allies.

Steadfast Ward

Casting Steadfast Ward places a damage shield on you or the lowest-Health ally around you. The shield’s strength increases based on how much Health the target is missing, making Steadfast Ward an outstanding emergency support ability.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Ward Ally

Casts two shields instead of one, with one shield always on you.

Healing Ward

Heals the target upon cast and when the shield expires.

Force Siphon

Force Siphon applies Minor Lifesteal to an enemy, granting small bursts of healing to all of the target’s attackers. Though it has a bit of a cast time, it features a lengthy duration and a fairly low Magicka cost. Unless a teammate has a similar ability, consider Force Siphon for some low-maintenance group support.

Available Morphs
Icon Name New Effect

Siphon Spirit

Also applies Minor Magickasteal to the enemy.

Quick Siphon

Removes the cast time.

Passive Abilities

The Restoration Staff skill line features five Passive Abilities, each of which has two ranks.

None of the Restoration Staff Passive Abilities are tied to specific abilities, and they’re all very useful. If you use any Restoration Staff abilities, it’s highly recommended that you invest in all available Passives.

Passive Requirements

You can only benefit from a Restoration Staff Passive Ability while a Restoration Staff is equipped.

Restoration Staff Passive Abilities

Name Effect
Essence Drain A fully charged heavy attack grants Major Mending, temporarily increasing your healing done by 25%. You also heal yourself or a target ally for a percentage of the damage inflicted by the final hit of the fully charged heavy attack.
Restoration Expert Increases your healing done on low-Health allies.
Cycle of Life Restores additional Magicka when you complete a heavy attack.
Absorb Restores Magicka when you block a spell.
Restoration Master Increases healing with Restoration Staff spells.

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