Torchbearer Skill - ESO

Torchbearer is a skill in the Fighters Guild skill line under the Guild category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online)

Fighters Guild
Torchbearer Icon icon Torchbearer
Cast time: 2 seconds
Radius: 8 meters
Cost Determined by Highest Max Resource
Effect
Conjure an imbued torch and sweep the area in front of you three times with its power.
This is a scribing skill
Try out this skill in the scribing simulator
Name: Torchbearer
Found in: Guild > Fighters Guild
How to obtain: Reach Rank 5 in the Fighters Guild Skill Line.


This skill is part of the scribing system.
Grimoires for this skill must be unlocked and bought from the Chronicler Firandil in The Scholarium.

Depending on which focus script you select, this skill can change into the following morphs: Bloody Torch, Chilling Torch, Dazing Torch, Fiery Torch, Healing Torch, Heroic Torch, Repelling Torch and Sundering Torch

Torchbearer is a skill in the Fighters Guild skill line under the Guild category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online).

Torchbearer - Scripts for Scribing

Here you can find a list of all scripts that can be used with the Torchbearer skill using the scribing system.

Torchbearer - Focus Script

Bleed Damage icon Bleed Damage Deals 4456 Physical Damage to enemies with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.
Flame Damage icon Flame Damage Deals 4659 Flame Damage to enemies with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.
Frost Damage icon Frost Damage Deals 4659 Flame Damage to enemies with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.
Generate Ultimate icon Generate Ultimate Generates 1 Ultimate to you and your allies with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts apply to you and your allies.
Healing icon Healing Heals you and your allies for 6093 Health with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts apply to you and your allies.
Knockback icon Knockback Knocks enemies back 5 meters with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.
Physical Damage icon Physical Damage Deals 4456 Physical Damage to enemies with each sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.
Stun icon Stun Reduces the Movement Speed of enemies by 40% for 4 seconds on the first sweep, immobilizes for 3 seconds on the second sweep, and stuns for 3 seconds on the third sweep. Beneficial Signature and Affix scripts only apply to you.

Torchbearer - Signature Script

Class Mastery icon Class Mastery Dragonknight: For each enemy within 8 meters, up to 6, gain 50 Weapon and Spell Damage and reduce your damage taken by 2% plus 1% per enemy for 5 seconds.
Sorcerer: Enchant your closest pet for 5 seconds to heal a nearby ally for 314 Health each time it deals damage, up to once a second. If you do not have a pet, you deal 709 Shock Damage to enemies within 8 meters of you.
Nightblade: Restore 400 Magicka and Stamina if your target was above 50% Health. Increase your Critical Chance by 10% for 5 seconds if your target was at or below 50% Health.
Warden: Create an 8 meter area for 2 seconds under your target once every 8 seconds that snares enemies by 70%, and charms them for 3 seconds when it expires. If no enemies are charmed, you restore 1435 Magicka and Stamina.
Necromancer: Once every 3 seconds, increase your Health, Magicka, and Stamina by 2% for 10 seconds for each corpse within 12 meters, up to 10 times. If no corpses are nearby, create a corpse.
Templar: For 5 seconds, you gain 1320 Armor and 150 Weapon and Spell Damage. If Sacred Ground is active on you, these values are increased by 50%.
Arcanist: Create a Crux.
Crusader's Defiance icon Crusader's Defiance Removes up to 1 negative effect with each sweep. This can occur once every 2 seconds per target.
Druid's Resurgence icon Druid's Resurgence Restores 200 Stamina with each sweep.
Gladiator's Tenacity icon Gladiator's Tenacity Reduces your damage taken by 30% for 2.2 seconds.
Hunter's Snare icon Hunter's Snare Reduces the Movement Speed of enemies by 30% for 6 seconds.
Lingering Torment icon Lingering Torment Deals 3990 Physical Damage over 20 seconds to enemies.
Warrior's Opportunity icon Warrior's Opportunity Increases your damage done to enemies affected with disabling effects by 10% for 6 seconds.

Torchbearer - Affix Script

Breach icon Breach Afflicts Minor Breach for 20 seconds with each sweep, reducing Physical and Spell Resistance by 2974.
Brutality and Sorcery icon Brutality and Sorcery Grants you Major Brutality and Major Sorcery for 10 seconds with each sweep, increasing Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%.
Cowardice icon Cowardice Afflicts enemies with Minor Cowardice for 20 seconds with each sweep, reducing Weapon and Spell Damage by 215.
Evasion icon Evasion Grants Minor Evasion for 20 seconds with each sweep, reducing damage from area attacks by 10%.
Heroism icon Heroism Grants Minor Heroism for 20 seconds with each sweep, generating 1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds.
Mangle icon Mangle Afflicts enemies with Minor Mangle for 20 seconds with each sweep, reducing Max Health by 10%.
Resolve icon Resolve Grants Minor Resolve for 20 seconds with each sweep, increasing Physical and Spell Resistance by 2974.
Savagery and Prophecy icon Savagery and Prophecy Grants you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy for 10 seconds with each sweep, increasing Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 2629.
Uncertainty icon Uncertainty Afflicts enemies with Minor Uncertainty for 20 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 1320.
Vitality icon Vitality Grants Minor Vitality for 20 seconds with each sweep, increasing healing received and damage shield strength by 6%.

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Fighters Guild skills

Ultimate abilities
Dawnbreaker icon
Dawnbreaker
Arm yourself with Meridia's sacred sword and dispense her retribution, dealing 2904 Physical Damage to enemies in front of you and an additional 3483 Physical Damage over 6 seconds.
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Dawnbreaker of Smiting icon
Dawnbreaker of Smiting
Arm yourself with Meridia's sacred sword and dispense her retribution, dealing 3600 Physical Damage to enemies in front of you, an additional 4314 Physical Damage over 6 seconds, and stunning them for 2 seconds.
Increases the damage and stuns enemies hit.
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Flawless Dawnbreaker icon
Flawless Dawnbreaker
Arm yourself with Meridia's sacred sword and dispense her retribution, dealing 2904 Physical Damage to enemies in front of you and an additional 3483 Physical Damage over 6 seconds. After activating, your Weapon and Spell Damage is increased by 300 for 20 seconds.
After activating, your Weapon and Spell Damage is increased.
Scribing abilities
Torchbearer icon
Torchbearer
Conjure an imbued torch and sweep the area in front of you three times with its power.
Active abilities
Silver Bolts icon
Silver Bolts
Fire a Dawnguard Vampire Hunter's crossbow bolt to strike an enemy, dealing 2090 Physical Damage.
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Silver Leash icon
Silver Leash
Fire a Dawnguard's crossbow hook to pull an enemy to you, dealing 1438 Physical Damage, taunting them for 15 seconds if they are not already taunted, and reducing their Movement Speed by 30% for 4 seconds.
Decrease the range and damage, increases the cost, but pulls the enemy to you, attempts to taunt them, and snares them.
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Silver Shards icon
Silver Shards
Fire an augmented Dawnguard Vampire Hunter's crossbow bolt to strike an enemy, dealing 2091 Physical Damage. Fires additional bolts at other enemies near the initial target for 22% less damage.
Fires additional bolts at other enemies near the initial target for less damage.
Circle of Protection icon
Circle of Protection
Brand the earth at your location with a rune of protection for 20 seconds. You and your allies in the area gain Minor Protection and Minor Endurance, reducing your damage taken by 5% and increasing your Stamina Recovery by 15%.
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Ring of Preservation icon
Ring of Preservation
Brand the earth at your location with a rune of protection for 10 seconds. You and your allies in the area gain Minor Protection and Minor Endurance, reducing damage taken by 5% and increasing Stamina Recovery by 15%, and are healed for 435 Health every 1 second.
The rune now heals allies inside for the duration, but the rune lasts half as long.
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Turn Evil icon
Turn Evil
Brand the earth at your location with a rune of protection for 20 seconds. You and your allies in the area gain Minor Protection and Minor Endurance, reducing your damage taken by 5% and increasing your Stamina Recovery by 15%. Upon activation, enemies in the area are feared for 4 seconds.
Enemies in the initial area upon activation are feared.
Expert Hunter icon
Expert Hunter
Invoke your expertise in anatomy and enemy behavior to detect stealthed and invisible enemies around you for 5 seconds. Exposed enemies cannot return to stealth or invisibility for 4 seconds. While slotted you gain Major Savagery and Prophecy, increasing your Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 2629.
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Camouflaged Hunter icon
Camouflaged Hunter
Invoke your expertise in anatomy and enemy behavior to detect stealthed and invisible enemies around you for 5 seconds. Exposed enemies cannot return to stealth or invisibility for 4 seconds. While slotted you gain Major Savagery and Prophecy, increasing your Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 2629. You also gain Minor Berserk for 5 seconds after dealing Critical Damage from an enemy's flank.
While slotted, dealing Critical Damage from the flank of an enemy grants Minor Berserk.
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Evil Hunter icon
Evil Hunter
Invoke your expertise in anatomy and enemy behavior to detect stealthed and invisible enemies around you for 5 seconds. Exposed enemies cannot return to stealth or invisibility for 4 seconds. While active, increases the damage of your Stamina costing Fighters Guild abilities by 25%. While slotted you gain Major Savagery and Prophecy, increasing your Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 2629.
While active, your non Ultimate Fighters Guild abilities have increased damage. Increases the radius of the reveal.
Trap Beast icon
Trap Beast
Set a sharpened blade trap at your location, which takes 1.5 seconds to arm and lasts for 20 seconds. When triggered, the trap deals 1161 Bleed Damage, an additional 3470 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds, and grants you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10% for the duration. Enemies who activate the trap are immobilized for 2 seconds.
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Barbed Trap icon
Barbed Trap
Set a sharpened blade trap at your location, which takes 1.5 seconds to arm and lasts for 20 seconds. When triggered, the trap deals 1438 Bleed Damage, an additional 3580 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds, and grants you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10% for the duration. Enemies hit by the initial hit are afflicted with the Hemorrhaging status effect. Enemies who activate the trap are immobilized for 2 seconds.
Increases the damage done by the initial hit, and it always applies the Hemorrhaging status effect.
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Lightweight Beast Trap icon
Lightweight Beast Trap
Launch a sharpened blade trap at a target location, which takes 1.5 seconds to arm and lasts for 20 seconds. When triggered, the trap deals 1161 Bleed Damage, an additional 3470 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds, and grants you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10% for the duration. Enemies who activate the trap are immobilized for 2 seconds.
The trap can be thrown up to 28 meters away. Reduces the cost as the ability ranks up.
Passive abilities
Intimidating Presence icon
Intimidating Presence
Allows you to Intimidate NPCs in conversation. Reduces the Stamina cost of your Fighters Guild abilities by 15%.
Slayer icon
Slayer
Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 3% for each Fighters Guild ability slotted.
Banish the Wicked icon
Banish the Wicked
You generate 3 Ultimate whenever you kill an enemy.
Skilled Tracker icon
Skilled Tracker
Your Fighters Guild abilities deal an additional 10% damage. This bonus doubles against player Vampires and Werewolves.
Bounty Hunter icon
Bounty Hunter
Allows you to accept bounty quests from the Fighters Guild in Cyrodiil.