Racial Skills - ESO
Learn more about all the available races in the Elder Scrolls Online. Breton, Redguard, Orc, Nord, Dark Elf, Argonian, High Elf, Wood Elf, Khajiit, Imperial.
Skill lines
This category contains 10 skill lines

Argonian Skills
The racial skills of the Argonians reflect their people's perilous swamp environment; giving them bonuses to healing done, restoration staves, disease resistance, resources gained from consuming potions, swimming speed, as well as base health and magicka.

Breton Skills
The racial skills of the Bretons reflect their affinity for the arcane, increasing their base magicka, magicka recovery, light armor, alliance point gain, spell resistance, and cost reduction of spells, allowing them to cast spells with little pause.

High Elf Skills
The racial skills of the High Elves reflect their magical affinity by increasing their spell damage, resource recovery, base magicka, and experience gain. These innate bonuses help define the race as proud and powerful spell casters.

Imperial Skills
The racial skills of the Imperials reflect their combat training and perseverance in battle, giving them bonuses to gold drop rates, shield proficiency, base health and stamina, and resource recovery when fighting back, making them resolute fighters.

Khajiit Skills
The racial skills of the feline Khajiit reflect their natural versatility and guile, giving them bonuses to pickpocketing, stealth, resource recovery, as well as base health, magicka, and stamina. These bonuses help them thrive in many ventures of life.

Wood Elf Skills
The diversified racial skills of the Wood Elves reflect their woodland affinity. Improved archery, base stamina, stamina recovery, stealth detection, movement speed, reduced fall damage, and poison resistance make them dangerous foes and gifted hunters.

Nord Skills
The racial skills of the Nords reflect their strong and hardy natures, giving them bonuses to two-handed weapon use, duration of effects from drinks, physical, spell, and frost resistance, ultimate generation, as well as base health and stamina.

Orc Skills
The racial skills of the Orcs reflect their native harsh mountain environment, giving them bonuses to heavy armor use, sprinting, weapon damage, inspiration gain, weapon proficiency, as well as base health and stamina.

Redguard Skills
The racial skills of the Redguards reflect their ancestral legacy as sword masters, giving them bonuses to shields, base stamina, stamina recovery, movement, and duration of effects from food. Their ability to flow in martial combat is unparalleled.

Dark Elf Skills
The racial skills of the Dark Elves reflect their intellect and agility, giving them bonuses in dual wielding, flame and lava resistance, weapon and spell damage, and base magicka and stamina. These bonuses allow them to adapt to anything.
Argonian Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Restoration Staff skill line by 15%. Increases your swimming speed by 50%. |
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Increases your healing done by 6%. |
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Increases your Max Health by 1000 and your Disease and Poison Resistance by 2310. |
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Increases your Max Magicka and Max Stamina by 1000. When you drink a potion, you restore 3125 Health, Magicka, and Stamina. |
Breton Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Light Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your Alliance Points gained by 1%. |
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Increases your Max Magicka by 2000. |
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Increases your Spell Resistance by 2310. This effect is doubled if you are afflicted with Burning, Chilled, or Concussed. Increases your Magicka Recovery by 130. |
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Reduces the Magicka cost of your abilities by 7%. |
High Elf Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Destruction Staff skill line by 15%. Increases your experience gained by 1%. |
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When you activate an ability, you restore 625 Magicka or Stamina, based on whichever is lowest. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds. When you are using an ability with a channel or cast time, you take 5% less damage. |
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Increases your Max Magicka by 2000. |
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Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 258. |
Imperial Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the One Hand and Shield skill line by 15%. Increases your gold gained by 1%. |
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Increases your Max Health by 2000. |
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Increases your Max Stamina by 2000. |
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Reduces the cost of all your abilities by 6%. |
Khajiit Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Medium Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your chance to successfully pickpocket by 5%. |
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Increases your Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery by 90. |
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Increase your Maximum Health, Magicka, and Stamina by 915. |
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Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 12%. Decreases your detection radius in Stealth by 3 meters. |
Wood Elf Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Bow skill line by 15%. Decreases your fall damage taken by 10%. |
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Increases your Stealth Detection radius by 3 meters. Increases your Movement Speed by 5% and your Physical and Spell Penetration by 950. |
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Increases your Stamina Recovery by 258. |
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Increases your Max Stamina by 2000 and your Disease and Poison Resistance by 2310. |
Nord Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Two Handed skill line by 15%. Increases the duration of any consumed drink by 15 minutes. |
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Increases your Max Health by 1000 and Frost Resistance by 4620. |
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Increases your Max Stamina by 1500. When you take damage, you gain 5 Ultimate. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds. |
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Increases your Physical and Spell Resistance by 2600. |
Orc Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Heavy Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your crafting inspiration gained by 10%. |
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Increases your Max Stamina by 1000. |
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Increases your Max Health by 1000. When you deal damage, you heal for 2125 Health. This can occur once every 4 seconds. |
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Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 258. Reduces the cost of Sprint by 12% and increases the Movement Speed bonus of Sprint by 10%. |
Redguard Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the One Hand and Shield skill line by 15%. Increases the duration of any eaten food by 15 minutes. |
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Reduces the cost of your weapon abilities by 8%. Reduces the effectiveness of snares applied to you by 15%. |
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Increases your Max Stamina by 2000. |
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When you deal damage, you restore 1005 Stamina. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds. |
Dark Elf Skills skills
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Increases your experience gain with the Dual Wield skill line by 15%. Reduces your damage taken from environmental lava by 50%. |
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Increases your Max Magicka and Max Stamina by 1910. |
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Increases your Flame Resistance by 4620. |
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Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 258. |