Type: Dungeon, Trial, Arena & Overland
Buildname: Rampage
- Build Setup
- Resource Management
- Rotation
- AoE Setup
- Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
- Gameplay
- Outfit Style Showcase
- Update Log
Welcome to the Group DPS Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Stamina Nightblades in ESO are very powerful and are one of the top tier damage dealers in the game. Stamina Nightblades have very unique and great abilities such as Surprise Attack, Dark Shade, Leeching Strikes, Power Extraction, Relentless Focus, Killer’s Blade and Incapacitating Strike.
All these abilities make the Stamina Nightblade very unique, a more detailed layout can be found below in each of the build sections.
- Medium Armoar
- Dual Wield & Two Hander Setup
- Insane Burst Damage
- Insane High Single Target (ST) Damage
- Great Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
- Great Sustain
- Maximum Damage Build
- Trials, Dungeon & Arena Group Build
Other Stamina Nightblade Guides:
- Stamina Nightblade Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
- Stamina Nightblade Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
- Stamina Nightblade Bow Build
- SOLO Stamina Nightblade Build
Build Setup – Stamina Nightblade Build
Lets take a look at the Stamina Nightblade Build. Below you will find things like Sets, Skills, Champion Points, Buff-food, Mundus Stone, Potions, Passives and Attributes. These are all important aspects of the Stamina Nightblade Build.
5x Pillar of Nirn, 5x Perf. Relequen, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Harpooner’s Kilt on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.
- Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
- Buffed: In combat, raid target dummy buffs, weapon power potion, Harpooner’s Kilt, Relentless Focus, weapon damage enchantment active.
Gear for the Stamina Nightblade Build
You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. For people that do not have all the gear yet can use the Setup 2 which is easier to obtain and beginners can use Setup 3.
- Setup 1 is with Trial Gear
- Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
- Setup 3 is for Beginners
There are a lot of good Stamina Sets available, you can find more viable stamina dps sets in this Stamina DPS Sets Article. I also elaborate on specific sets that are often used in this article to give you a bit more insight as to why they are used.
Gear Setup 1 – Stamina Nightblade Build
This is the tier 1 setup for the Stamina Nightblade Build that you should try to get, this is the most optimal setup to achieve high damage.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Belt | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Harpooner’s Wading Kilt (Mythic) | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Slimecraw | Light | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 DW | Pillar of Nirn | Dagger | Nirnhoned | Poison Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 1 DW | Pillar of Nirn | Dagger | Charged | Fire Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 2 | Perfected Merciless Charge | 2H Sword | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 2 – Stamina Nightblade Build
This setup is for those that did not have the chances yet to step into a trial. You will deal slightly less damage than with the tier 1 setup, but not by much. Overall, the gear here is easier to get because you aren’t required to enter a trial.
- Briarheart Dagger: There is an unique Dagger “Materre’s Bodkin” that you can get fairly easy, instead of buying it expensive in the store.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Random Monster Set | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Random Monster Set | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 DW | Briarheart | Dagger | Nirnhoned | Poison Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 1 DW | Briarheart | Dagger | Charged | Fire Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 2 | Merciless Charge | 2H Sword | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 3 Beginner – Stamina Nightblade Build
This setup is dedicated to people that have not had the chance to farm the necessary gear for the maximum damage potential. All the gear here is either craftable or cheap to get in a guildstore.
Make sure to ask a friend to craft Hunding’s Rage and Night Mother’s Gaze. Agility jewelry can be obtained in the Guildstores. I do recommend having around 18k health (with buff-food). You can buy cheap Agility jewelry with healthy trait to reach this value if you want.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 DW | Hunding’s Rage | Dagger | Nirnhoned | Poison Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 1 DW | Hunding’s Rage | Dagger | Charged | Fire Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 2 | Hunding’s Rage | 2H Sword | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Where can I get the gear?
Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Merciless Charge (Maelstrom 2H): vMaelstrom Arena
Merciless Charge: nMaelstrom Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Harpooner’s Wading Kilt (Mythic): Antiquities
Perfect Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable
Skills for the Stamina Nightblade Build
The skill setup for the Stamina Nightblade Build is very focused at maximizing your damage in your group.
| Dual Wield Mainbar | 2H-second bar |
|---|---|
| Slot 1: Barbed Trap | Slot 1: Stampede |
| Slot 2: Deadly Cloak | Slot 2: Dark Shades |
| Slot 3: Surprise Attack | Slot 3: Twisting Path |
| Slot 4: Killer’s Blade | Slot 4: Leeching Strikes |
| Slot 5: Relentless Focus | Slot 5: Carve |
| Ultimate: Incapacitating Strike | Ultimate: Incapacitating Strike |
Skills explanation:
- Barbed Trap: Deals damage and gives us Minor Force, increasing Critical Damage by 10%.
- Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
- Surprise Attack: This is your spammable, deals great single target damage.
- Killer’s Blade: This is your execute ability that you use after 25% instead of your spammable.
- Relentless Focus: Very powerful Spectral Bow proc that you want to activate whenever it procs.
- Incapacitating Strike: Powerful Ultimate that increases damage by up to 30%. Always use this after you finished your backbar, swap, place DoTs and then use Ultimate right before your spammable. That way you gain the most out of the 23% extra damage while using your spammable.
- Stampede: Very powerful Single Target and AoE ability.
- Dark Shades: Long uptime and good damage, also applies Minor Maim, reducing enemies damage.
- Twisting Path: Deals great damage both single target and AoE (area of effect). The skill costs magicka but scales with both stamina and magicka stats.
- Leeching Strikes: Only use this if you have sustain issues. So basically after 50% stamina activate it to regain stamina.
- Carve: Strong single target and AoE bleed ability.
- (Optional) Resolving Vigor: If you are playing in a group with a healer you won’t need it. Otherwise replace Twisting Path or Carve for the heal.
Champion Points for the Stamina Nightblade Build
Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.
Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.
Click the tab below to open the allocation.
Important Info for Stamina Nightblade Build PvE
In this section of the ESO Stamina Nightblade Build we are going to take a look at Buff-food, Mundus Stone, Potions, Poisons, Passives and Attributes you should use.
All these things are important, I will give you one example to showcase how fast you can lose power. Often players forget to use/activate the Medicinal Use passive. Therefore the player won’t be able to have a 100% uptime on his potions, which means he will lose a lot of weapon damage, weapon critical and resources.
Buff-food
Any of the three foods below works well with the build. For a list of all buff food and drink consumables please visit the Buff Food and Drinks Overview Page.
Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
(Saltrice, Flour, Potato, Scrib Jelly)
Artaeum Takeaway Broth
(Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)
Dubious Camoran Throne
(2nd option if Artaeum is too expensive)
Mundus Stone
The Thief Mundus Stone increases our overall Weapon Critical Rating which boosts our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.
The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Weapon Critical)
Race
Any race with stamina based perks works for this setup. If you want a complete overview of all races and racial passives, then I recommend checking out the ESO Races Overview page.
Orc
Khajiit
Dark Elf
Nord
Redguard
Wood Elf
Imperial
High Elf
Potions
Weapon Power Potions
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)
Passives for the Stamina Nightblade Build
Below you can find a full list of all the recommended passives for the Stamina Nightblade Build.
- Assassination: Master Assassin, Executioner, Pressure Points, Hemorrhage
- Shadow: Refreshing Shadows, Shadow Barrier, Dark Vigor, Dark Veil
- Siphoning: Catalyst, Transfer
- Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
- Two Hander: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
- Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
- Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
- Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
- Psijic: Only if you use Channeled Acceleration for the AoE setup.
- Racial: All
- Alchemy: Medicinal Use
Attributes
All points into Stamina
Resource Management for the Stamina Nightblade Build
Leeching Strikes has to be activated once its duration is over. That way you will always gain resources when you do Light Attacks and at the end of the duration you will gain an additional huge bump in resources.
Incapacitating Strike now also gives you resources every time you do a light attack. That is why we always want to either run it on the backbar or the frontbar. That way we benefit from the extra sustain.
Energy Orb will always be present in a good group. When you get close to the Orb you can activate its synergy to regain resources.
Potions should always be used on cooldown to gain the maximum benefit from them.
Heavy Attacks help you restore Stamina, if you drop low on resources do a few Heavy Attacks between skills to refill your Stamina.
- Leeching Strikes
- Orb Synergy
- Heavy Attacks
- Incapacitating Strike
- Potions
Rotation for the Stamina Nightblade Build
Here is a quick explanation of what you have to do with all the skills on your bar.
- Your main spammable is Surprise Attack
- When boss has 25% health or less use Killer’s Blade instead of Surprise Attack.
- Your semi spammable is Relentless Focus (Use it whenever it is ready)
- Reapply DoTs (damage over time) effects after they run out: Deadly Cloak, Stampede, Carve, Dark Shade, Twisting Path and Barbed Trap.
- Activate Incapacitating Strike Ultimate whenever it is ready
- Always light attack between each ability.
Area of Effect Setup
The AoE setup of the Stamina Nightblade Build is more straightforward. Trash packs don’t live for a very long time, anything that provides us with extra burst damage is useful, therefore we use sets like Mechanical Acuity and Azureblight Reaper as well as the very powerful Perfected Titanic Cleave.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Belt | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 DW | Perfect Spectral Cloak | Dagger | Nirnhoned | Poison Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 1 DW | Perfect Spectral Cloak | Dagger | Precise | Fire Damage Enchant |
| Weapon 2 | Perfected Merciless Charge | 2H Sword | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Skills
Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
Please check out the Solo Stamina Nightblade Build for specific Maelstrom Arena and Vateshran Hollows Arena setups.
Gameplay
Please keep in mind that these gameplay videos can be from previous DLCs/patches and might not represent the build exactly. However, it should still give you a good idea on what kind of gameplay you can expect from this setup.
Blackrose Prison Arena with Stamina Nightblade Build
Full Blackrose Prison Arena run with the Stamina Nightblade Build.
Outfit Style Showcase of the Stamblade Rampage Build for ESO
Lets take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO. You can find a few images here and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.
- Darloc Brae Beast Mask: Hat
- Pit Daemon: Pauldrons
- Xivkyn: Gauntlets
- Apostle: Greaves, Jack, Belt, Shoes
- Dyes: Transliminal Violet, Rank 10 Material
- Skin: Z’Maja’s Shadow
| Slot | Name |
|---|---|
| Head | Darloc Brae Beast Mask Motif |
| Shoulder | Pit Daemon Motif |
| Chest | Apostle Motif |
| Hands | Xivkyn Motif |
| Waist | Apostle Motif |
| Legs | Apostle Motif |
| Feet | Apostle Motif |
| Weapon | Ilambris Sword Motif |
| Dyes | Transliminal Violet, Rank 10 Material |
| Skin | Z’Maja’s Shadow |
Update Log
11.08.2019 Updated the Rampage Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter. Stamina Nightblade Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
20.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
06.03.2020 Added visualized rotation the the Stamblade Build.
23.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
20.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.09.2020 Updated the Champion Points 810, 600, 300.
30.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
28.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
02.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added buff food tooltips, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
22.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
10.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
25.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
12.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
28.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
13.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
31.05.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO Necrom Chapter.
26.10.2023 Updated the Build for Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC U41, Gold Road Chapter
Tags: Stamina Nightblade Build, Stamina NB Build PvE, StamBlade PvE Build, Stamina Nightblade Build PvE.
Related Content
- Nightblade Builds Overview Page
- DPS Tier List for all ESO classes
- Set and Skill data provided by ESO-Hub.com
