The BEST and WORST Classes for PvE In The Elder Scrolls Online (2024) 

As a freak who loves necromancer on every role..much offence taken!

I don’t know if anyone in chat ever had a chance to play with Nefas but during the Elsweyr Chapter he ran as random with my guild. It was obvious we had several inexperienced players. Instead of being an elitist and bailing he was awesome to play with. He helped teach mechanics and stuck through multiple wipes. Great guy.

You have the right voice for radio. Like a cool jazz station.

my god i wish ZoS would add a Veteran Overland OPTION

rip werewolf

I challenge anyone to solo the one Murkmire world boss, Walks-Like-Thunder. :-D

Absolutely love how you break it down. Professional ❤ thank you

As a freak who loves necromancer I hate to agree lol, you were VERY spot on! Specially after my Plaguebreak Set was nerf to PvP only... sad day that was! I wish they go for quantity instead of quality, just give use a morph with flaming cone skull barrage AoE or make our blast bones work like a lesser Animate Blastbones that animates all corpses in the area around you to attack and explode... Give one Super morph to Summon the full Colossus that follows you and smashes things before becoming a Bomb and exploding! IMO they should go with fun crazy with the class! Necromacer as I understand it was never about balance or fairness (Just lower the damage or something to balance it, but make them a walking disposable army etc)!

Does anyone know what sets i should run for templar?

You would still rank a Templar healer over a Blade? Most end-game groups are running a Warden with either and Arc, Blade, or recently Cro with the new trial?

Necromancer has been in a slump for the past year. That said, I imagine the developers are aware of this. They will likely implement some changes with the fall update. I personally hope they balance magicka and Stam a bit more so both can be equally viable for PvE DPS.

I would like to see a PvP one with ball group, small group, 1vX, 1v1 and bg

Completely agree DK healing can be S tier especially in some situations where there is a LOT of incoming damage healing buffs from major and minor vitality and access to easy major mending + shields what it not to like? Combine with Archive set BBW and or blind set and you r heals and shields are STUPID with bastion CP + major and minor vitality and the set bonuses barriers hit 70K ish and the heals are also buffed for barrier and healing shield when you have a heal check type situation tough to beat

My dude you have the best tier list voice I have ever heard.

it sounds like we need a sets tier list vs a class tier list since all classes can complete all content as long as they are properly geared.

Dude, i picked Templar as my 1 and only class, and it just S tiered everything x. x

Unless you are score pushing a vet trial none of this matters. Play what your heart desires.

The sorcerer is my favourite class, so when I decided to try healing and tanking, I chose the sorcerer. I only ever learned to tank or a sorcerer. I have a necro tank, but have not put in the time and effort to really learn how to tank veteran content. I don't tank that often, but I have managed to complete a few hard mode DLC dungeons on my sorc tank. I do more healing than tanking. I feel I can comfortably heal veteran trials. I only have a sorcerer and nightblade healers. I mostly use my sorcerer. I like the latest sorcerer changes. Now, I no longer use the Twilight Matriarch. Vibrant Shroud is pretty good. Still getting used to Daedric Refuge. I get good numbers with it, but I'm not sure how really useful it is considering it is hard to set up and your group needs to understand how to use it. I have a nightblade healer only because I had a hard time playing a DPS with it when I was a beginner, so I changed it to a healer. It was popular for a while with the ultigen build. It's the only setup I have on my nightblade. I'm fine with it. I just don't use it as often as my sorcerer. As for DPS, I personally find that my stam warden is my best DPS character in content. I found a rotation that I'm really comfortable with. It's a bow/bow build with good ranged capability. I find I play better with ranged characters than melee characters even though most of the time I am in melee. Just not having to always be in melee makes me more relaxed. That and a rotation I really am comfortable with makes this my best DPS in content. I also really like playing my mag necromancer. I just find that my build with only BB and DOTs is just cool. It has good cleave. Just that a lot of my damage are ground DOTs, so it has trouble with mobile fights. It also lacks good burst damage. I have a stam and mag sorcerer as well as it is my favourite class. I do really like my stam sorc. It uses an off meta build with 2H on both bars. I find I perform better with this setup than a DW/2H setup. I do have a trash setup that uses DW/2H. My boss setup is 2H/2H. I also have a ranged setup using double bows as well for fights where having ranged capability is really important. I haven't use my mag sorc that much lately for harder content. I do fairly well with it. I just haven't put in much time to make a trash setup yet, so it is lacking in cleave.

This was well done. 🏆

Brittle frostden underrated. Can be S tier

I definitely optimize for over world... Max movement speed.

I love Templar make jabs hit everything for the same amount of damage and give it slightly better sustain and it’s perfect i know a lot of classes need a lot more love but Templar is my favourite and this is what I wanna see changed

It was made clear that the tier list is subjective, but I still have my depression...

You sound great and are the Barry White of ESO. Can you please use some of your street cred and get them to fix Nightblade for PVE? They so fun.

I would take Nightblade in S-Tier because you can still outparse 90% of the braindead Trashcanist players

ppl gonna be mad when they get told overland is too easy 😂😂

Its funny to think about coz if you consider that eventually arcanist will get nerf (easiest playstyle also strongest? never lasts), then templar top for trial dps according to this list, i dont think many people think it like that. But tbh i have looked at the logs for the diff trials and it appears arcanist > DK >= templar are the only ones who can really top dps.

Dude is fed up lmaooooooo

I can solo the tauran in weld with a templar so I think you are mistaken putting him so low. I watched dragon knight get blown out, necros into dust, sorcerer stomped, and so on. I think you need to retest your theory. But you do have some valuable points in most of your comments.

I got the feeling you were only talking about or leaning more heavily towards mag dps in this list once you started talking about the beams of arc and templar. My favourite tabk and healer are both sorcerer's. I've had them for a while as my main support toons even though I have one of each class but the recent adaptations to a few of the sorc skills has made them even better as a support class. Once you tag on the sorc class mastery from scribing...Damn!!!

i wouldnt put arcanist,necro or maybe warden ontop since they're move difficult to learn but damage wise yea i see ur point i guess xd

Templar love!

imperial city should be considered as pvp/pve "overland". some classes are simply better for tackling pve content there, with enough utility to pivot into 1v1, 1vx fights. also, the hardest overland content ive encountered in pve are roaming world bosses. no one seems to ever mention them when talking about overland.

I like how in this game you can build out your class in multiple different viable ways

A beautiful intro.

Bruh basically said “it’s all good if you’re good” 😂😂😂😂

templar free, smacking 100k+ at 540 cp, rele, deadly and zaan, with no arena and mythics. love when bosses hit 50% health

Justice for werewolves

I’m the only warden main left; pls give warden increase bleed chance in animal companions so I can stay at 3 stacks of hemo in content easier

back again from over the years. soooo... can i join your main guild now or still no :(

Tough to rank some classes in PvP, without splitting the the classes into at least two categories: Stam & Mag. Sorc, for example is SSS as mag, to the point of it being a meme now. Any moron can do well on Magsorc. While Stamsorc is much more balanced against other 'middle-of-the-road' classes. Warden is in a similar situation as Sorc. Though not quite rising to the same meme-levels, when its meta is leaned into. And NB can do no wrong; fundamentally OP. Whereas Templar and Necro always end up feeling like you brought a knife to a gunfight. DK seems to be the best 'middle-of-the-road' class. If other specs were balanced _around_ DK, I think that would go a long way towards creating an overall sense of class balance in PvP.

Omg another banger

I like how dk are one of the best in tanking and dd and other classes in anything and this is for a year now... ZOS should have a better vision of the game tbh.

dk healer that fun- what i'am missing out on?

If you’re new, chances are you’ll be a dps, so i think it just comes down to choosing what appealing to you. The part people forget is that they still need to learn mechanics and watch videos on that subject, cause I’m tired of 3 hour pug runs because a dps wouldn’t pick up the orb on platform boss in dreadsail, not even hm either. Know your mechs people! Thank you!

Didn’t this guy quit ?

All you really need is oukensoul ring and that healing ring.. now you are a god

A werewolf healer...? Sounds like a good challenge..

Werewolf D as in dog I get it 😢. I’m not crying just a puppy tear in how werewolves use to be good back then but zos nerfd the damage of them and remove more things.

Necro needs the dk treatment or better. Unfortunately zos eats. The crayons so there gonna nerf us because we still make the roster, barely

NB tank higher than sorc tank xD It's totally wrong. Sorc tank have all tools to be bis and should be in S class.

Im one of the freaks that cant play anything but necromancer

I honestly don't see how NB is better than WW in trials. WW has better aoe in their kit than NBs do lmao

after tormentor nerf templar is trash tier tank it wasn't great even with tormentor but now its in the grave

It's viable and skill based yes, but if you're not a stam arcanist then you're not getting a spot on any trials HM runs. Good luck.

no pants brawler is best overland class. punch mobs to death.

bruh put sorc in S class for dps damn as a sorc main knowing this community you might need to hide from the pitch forks

The voice filter is going a bit hard.

Nobody does DK healer.

Putting everything S tier for overland content is just silly. Just because its all easy to use doesnt mean they're all the same level. I respect your knowledge, but you've ignored the reason tier lists exist. Also, werewolf is an ulti, not a class. Vampire is a skill line/passive, not a class. A rare occurrence , but I disagree with you almost 100 percent.

DK healing is so underrated.

Bruh, you gotta take a stand beyond "everything is good do whatever." 10 minutes in and you haven't said anything beyond, "play how you like." ZOS shill.

People still play this?

Why are people still playing lmao

Are you farming? This video is so uninformative that watching it is almost pointless. I get that you're a top player and you're playing with other top players, so any contnet outside of trials HMs is easy for you, but why even make a tier list if all the classes have the same rating? For example, whether something is easier or more difficult to do with a given class should strongly influence its rating (not whether something is possible to do because someone has proven it once...). Viewers, before you waste your time: everything is S tier, unless we are talking about doing trials trifectas XD

@Nefas: You and your partner have so much to give; please move on to a newer, better game. By sticking to ESO you're suffering the same slow death as a content creator as the game itself. The youtube comment chatbox doesn't allow enough characters for me to provide all the examples, but I don't need to - you know it's on its death bed, everyone else knows it, and we all know ZOS ain't doing nothing about it except dropping new chapters to disguise and hide the hemmoraging of players. Please Nefas, you are such a great channel I enjoy your content so much, but move on to something else and stop necro-ing this dying game. Maybe if ZOS actually cared then it would be worth it, but they don't.