Buffs

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Buffs are a term used in MMOs to describe certain effects that abilities use.

In terms of The Elder Scrolls Online, this term was used more formally, with Skills being redesigned and overhauled with Update 6' introduction of both the Justice System and Champion System.

Minor Aegis

Take 5% less damage from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters.

• Related sets:
  • Aegis of Galenwe/Perfect Aegis of Galenwe
  • Automated Defense
  • Claw of Yolnahkriin
  • Eternal Warrior
  • Eye of Nahviintaas
  • Inventor's Guard
  • Lunar Bastion
  • Twilight Remedy
  • Vestment of Olorime/Perfect Vestment of Olorime

Major Aegis

Take 10% less damage from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters.

• Item sets:
  • Automated Defense
  • Inventor's Guard
  • Vrol's Command

Minor Berserk

Increases all damage done by 5%.

• Skills:
  • Camouflaged Hunter
  • Combat Prayer (as of Update 6)
  • Bird of Prey
• Item sets:
  • Slimecraw
  • Kinras's Wrath (to allies)

Major Berserk

Increases all damage done by 10%.

• Skills:
• Hircine's Rage
  • Summon Storm Atronach — Charged Synergy. (as of Update 6)
  • Reaper's Mark (as of Update 6)
• Item sets:
  • Heem-Jas' Retribution
  • Kinras's Wrath (to self)
  • Sithis' Touch
  • Unchained Aggressor

Minor Brutality

Increases weapon damage by 10%

• Skills:
  • Mountain's Blessing - any time Earthen Heart skills used. (as of Update 9)
• Increase Weapon Power poisons

Major Brutality

Increases weapon damage by 20%

• Skills:
  • Surge and morphs (as of Update 6)
  • Drain Power and morphs (as of Update 6)
  • Momentum and morphs (as of Update 6)
  • Molten Weapons and morphs
  • Betty Netch and morphs
  • Hircine's Bounty and morphs (while slotted)
  • Hidden Blade and morphs (as of Update 7)
• Increase Weapon Power potions

Major Courage

Increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 430

• Item sets:
  • Spell Power Cure
  • Vestment of Olorime

Minor Courage

Increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215

• Skills:
  • Pack Leader
• Item sets:
  • Claw of Yolnahkriin

Empower

Increases damage of light, medium, and heavy attacks by 40%.

• Skills:
  • Solar Flare (as of Update 6)
  • Wrecking Blow (as of Update 6)
  • Empowering Chains (as of Update 6)
  • Might of the Guild (as of Update 6)
  • Ambush
  • Empowering Grasp
  • Howl of Despair
  • Might of the Guild

Item sets:

• Aegis of Galenwe/Perfect Aegis of Galenwe

Minor Endurance

Increases stamina recovery by 15%.

• Skills:
  • Restoring Aura (while slotted) (as of Update 6)
  • Circle of Protection
  • Enchanted Growth

Major Endurance

Increases stamina recovery by 30%.

• Skills:
  • Green Dragon Blood (as of Update 6)
• Restore Stamina potions

Minor Evasion

Reduces damage from area attacks by 10%.

• Skills:
  • Deceptive Predator

Major Evasion

Reduces damage from area attacks by 20%.

• Skills:
  • Blur (as of Update 6)
  • Evasion (as of Update 6)
  • Blade Cloak
• Item Sets:
  • Hist Bark (as of Update 7
  • Spectre's Eye (as of Update 7
  • Gossamer
  • Grace of Gloom

Minor Expedition

Increases movement speed by 15%

• Skills:
  • Accelerating Drain (as of Update 6)
  • Charging Maneuver (as of Update 6)
  • Hasty Prayer
  • Hurricane
• Item sets:
  • Jailbreaker
  • Gryphon's Ferocity

Major Expedition

Increases movement speed by 30%

• Update 9: Reduced the bonus movement speed to 30% from 40%.
• Skills:
  • Accelerate
  • Boundless Storm (as of Update 6)
  • Path of Darkness (as of Update 6)
  • Quick Cloak (as of Update 6)
  • Elusive Mist (as of Update 6)
  • Rapid Maneuver
  • Hasty Retreat (Bow Passive) (as of Update 7
  • Falcon's Swiftness
  • Fiery Grip
  • Frozen Retreat
  • Padomaic Sprint
  • Sigil of Haste: (A sigil in Maelstrom Arena: that Grants increased resource regeneration and the Major Expedition buff. (as of Update 8)
• Item sets:
  • Adept Rider
  • Coward's Gear
  • Daedric Trickery
  • Dreugh King Slayer
  • False God's Devotion
  • Quick Serpent
  • Vicious Serpent
  • Skooma Smuggler
• Speed potions or poisons

Minor Force

Increases critical damage by 10%

• Fixed an issue where several abilities and buffs, including this one, that increased critical damage were not increasing the damage as much as stated in the tooltip.
• Skills:
  • Accelerate
  • Stalwart Guard
  • Trap Beast (as of Update 7
• Related item sets:
  • Gryphon's Ferocity
  • Medusa
  • Twilight Remedy
  • Tzogvin's Warband

Major Force

Increases critical damage by 20%

• Fixed an issue where several abilities and buffs, including this one, that increased critical damage were not increasing the damage as much as stated in the tooltip.
• Skills:
  • Aggressive War Horn (as of Update 6)
• Light's Champion

Minor Fortitude

Increases health recovery by 15%

• Skills:
  • Restoring Aura (while slotted) (as of Update 6)

Major Fortitude

Increases health recovery by 30%

• Skills:
  • Dragon Blood (as of Update 6)
• Restore Health potions

Minor Gallop

Previously increased mounted speed by 10%

Major Gallop

Increases mounted speed by 30%

• Skills:
  • Continuous Attack
• Item sets:
  • Adept Rider

Minor Heroism

Increases Ultimate gain by 1^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Abilities that previously gave Ultimate will now provide the Minor Heroism buff that will give you additional Ultimate over time. (as of Update 6)
  • Heroic Slash
• Item sets:
  • Champion of the Hist
  • Indomitable Fury
  • Shalk Exoskeleton
• Heroism potions and poisons

Major Heroism

Increases Ultimate gain by 3^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Shimmering Shield
• Item sets:
  • Daedric Trickery
  • Drake's Rush (self and 3 allies)
• Champion:
  • [?]

Minor Intellect

Increases magicka recovery by 15%

• Skills:
  • Restoring Aura (as of Update 6)
  • Empowered Ward (as of Update 9
  • Enchanted Growth

Major Intellect

Increases magicka recovery by 30%

• Restore Magicka potions

Minor Mending

Increases healing done by 8%

• Skills:
  • Healthy Offering
  • Sacred Ground
• Item sets:
  • Healer's Habit
  • Naga Shaman

Major Mending

Increases healing done by 16%

• Update 9: Reduced the healing from the Major Mending buff category to 25% from 30% to match the Major Berserk buff category.
• [?] Update: Reduced healing to 16%
• Skills:
  • Obsidian Shield
  • Accelerated Growth (as of Update 9)
  • Essence Drain (as of Update 9)
• Item sets:
  • Daedric Trickery
  • Wisdom of Vanus

Minor Prophecy

Increases spell critical chance by 3%^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Exploitation (as of Update 6)
• Spell Critical poisons

Major Prophecy

Increases spell critical chance by 10%^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Inferno
  • Lotus Blossom
  • Magelight
  • Sun Fire
• Item sets:
  • Treasure Hunter
• Spell Critical potions

Minor Protection

Reduces damage taken by 8%

• Skills:
  • Dark Cloak (as of Update 9
  • Circle of Protection
  • Ice Fortress
  • Ransack
  • Spear Wall
  • Temporal Guard
• Item sets:
  • Indomitable Fury
  • Vampire Cloak
• Protection potions and poisons

Major Protection

• Reduces damage taken by 30%
• Skills:
  • Bolstering Darkness (as of Update 6)
• Cast by Shadow Barrier, as of Update 6.

Minor Resolve

Small increase to physical resistance (2974).

• Skills:
  • Bound Aegis (as of Update 6)
  • Mirage (as of Update 6)
  • Blessing of Protection (as of Update 6)
  • Savage Strength ^U29

Major Resolve

Larger increase to physical resistance (5948).

• Skills:
  • Lightning Form (as of Update 6)
  • Spiked Armor (as of Update 6)
  • Shadow Barrier (as of Update 6)
  • Rune Focus (as of Update 6)
  • Immovable (as of Update 6) ^{confirmation needed}
  • Balance
  • Frost Cloak
  • Mend Spirit

• Item sets:
  • Mighty Chudan
  • Mighty Glacier

Minor Savagery

Increases weapon critical chance by 3%^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Hemorrhage
  • Weapon Critical poisons

Major Savagery

Increases weapon critical chance by 10%^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Flames of Oblivion (as of Update 6)
  • Biting Jabs
  • Expert Hunter
  • Green Lotus
  • Roar
• Item sets:
  • Toothrow
• Weapon Critical potions

Minor Slayer

Increases damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.

• Group Bosses will be affected by this Buff, as of Update 9 ^{confirmation needed}
• Item sets:
  • Arms of Relequen/Perfect Arms of Relequen
  • False God's Devotion
  • Infallible Mage
  • Mantle of Siroria/Perfect Mantle of Siroria
  • Master Architect
  • Moondancer
  • Roaring Opportunist
  • Roar of Alkosh
  • Tooth of Lokkestiiz
  • Vicious Serpent
  • War Machine

Major Slayer

Increases damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 10%.

• Item sets:
  • Master Architect
  • War Machine
  • Tooth of Lokkestiiz
  • Roaring Opportunist

Minor Sorcery

Increases spell damage by 10%

• Skills:
  • Illuminate
• Increase Spell Power poisons

Major Sorcery

Increases spell damage by 20%

• Skills: [?]
  • Flames of Oblivion (as of Update 6)
  • Biting Jabs (as of Update 6)
  • Entropy (since at least Update 8)
  • Molten Weapons (as of Update 9)
  • Igneous Weapons (as of Update 9)
  • Molten Armaments (as of Update 9
• Item sets:
  • Rattlecage
• Increase Spell Power potions

Minor Spell Power

[?]

• Skills: [?]

Major Spell Power

[?]

• Skills: [?]
  • Sap Essence (as of Update 6)
  • Removed: Siphoning Strikes (as of Update 7

• Item Sets
  • Vicious Serpent: Reduced Power as of Update 7

Minor Toughness

Increases max health by 10%

• Skills:
  • War Horn (as of Update 6) ^{confirmation needed}
• Maturation
• Item sets:
  • Warrior-Poet

Minor Vitality

Increases healing taken by 8%

• Skills:
  • Green Dragon Blood (as of Update 6)
  • Mystic Guard (as of Update 6)
• Item sets:
  • Naga Shaman
  • Order of Diagna
  • Hollowfang Thirst
• Vitality poisons

Major Vitality

Increases healing taken by 16%

• Skills:
  • Soul Siphon (as of Update 6)
    • To self as well as allies (from Update 9)
  • Bone Surge
  • Restraining Prison
• Item sets:
  • Bani's Torment
  • Daedric Trickery
  • Jailer's Tenacity
  • Mender's Ward
  • Scourge Harvester
  • Perfect Mender's Ward
• Vitality potions

Minor Ward

Small increase to spell resist.^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Reflective Plate (as of Update 6)
  • Bound Aegis (as of Update 6)
  • Blessing of Protection (as of Update 6)
  • Sturdy Horn (as of Update 6)
  • Mirage (as of Update 7

Major Ward

Larger increase to spell resist.^{confirmation needed}

• Skills:
  • Lightning Form, as of Update 6
  • Spiked Armor (as of Update 6)
  • Razor Armor (as of Update 6)
  • Volatile Armor (as of Update 6)
  • Rune Focus (as of Update 6)
  • Immovable (as of Update 6)
  • Shadow Barrier (as of Update 6)
  • Weakness to Elements (as of Update 6)
  • Removed Ferocious Leap, as of Update 6

Appearances

• The Elder Scrolls Online

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