Major and Minor Buffs and Debuffs in The Elder Scrolls Online

Let’s dive into the world of buffs and debuffs in ESO. This guide will help you understand how these effects work and how to use them to your advantage.

First things first: what are buffs and debuffs? Well, buffs are positive effects that boost your character’s abilities, while debuffs are negative effects that hinder your opponents. In ESO, most of these effects fall into two categories: Major and Minor. As you might guess, Major effects are stronger than Minor ones.

The Major and Minor System works with these rules:

• Same Major effects don’t stack (e.g., Major Resolve + Major Resolve)
• Different Major effects do stack (e.g., Major Resolve + Major Evasion)
• Major and Minor of the same type stack (e.g., Major Resolve + Minor Resolve)
• The same rules apply for Minor effects
• Unique buffs and debuffs can stack with Major and Minor effects
• You can have multiple different Major and Minor effects active at once

Understanding these rules will help you maximize your character’s potential and create powerful combinations of abilities.

In the following sections, we’ll explore a list of all the Major and Minor buffs and debuffs in ESO, as well as some unique named effects that don’t fit into the Major/Minor system.