Powerful Stamina Warden Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

• Build Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
• Gameplay
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Group DPS Stamina Warden Build for ESO. Stamina Wardens in ESO are very powerful and can deal a lot of damage. Stamina Wardens have great abilities such as: Subterranean Assault, Growing Swarm, Bull Netch, Bird of Prey, Wild Guardian and of course many more! Please see the sections below for a detailed list.

• Medium Armor Build
• Dual Wield & Two Hander Setup
• Great Single Target (ST) Damage
• Good Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Good Sustain
• Maximum Damage Build
• Trials, Dungeon & Arena Group Build

Other Stamina Warden Guides:

You can also find plenty of other Stamina Warden content on the website such as:

• Stamina Warden Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Warden Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Warden Bow Build
• Stamina Warden Two Hander Build
• SOLO Stamina Warden Build

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Build Setup – Stamina Warden Build

Lets take a look at the Stamina Warden 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 Warden 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, weapon damage enchantment and Bear active.

Gear for the Stamina Warden 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 Warden Build

This is the tier 1 setup for the Stamina Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden Build

The skill setup for the Stamina Warden Build is very focused at maximizing your damage in your group.

Skills explanation:

• Barbed Trap: Deals damage and gives you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%.
• Fetcher Infection: Deals great damage over time and also debuffs the enemy.
• Cutting Dive: Your main spammable.
• Subterranean Assault: Great AoE (area of effect) and single target damage ability.
• Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
• Wild Guardian: Great single target ultimate (Alternatively you can also use Flawless Dawnbreaker if you don’t like the active pet.)
• Stampede: Very powerful Single Target and AoE ability.
• Bull Netch: Always keep this active, gives great extra sustain.
• Carve: Strong single target and AoE bleed ability.
• Winter’s Revenge: Very strong single target and area of effect damage.
• Bird of Prey: This is just passively slotted to gain a bit of extra damage on the backbar. You could also slot a heal here.

Champion Points for the Stamina Warden Build

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Stamina Warden Build PvE

In this section of the ESO Stamina Warden 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 
(Weapon damage, Weapon critical, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Passives for the Stamina Warden Build

Below you can find a full list of all the recommended passives for the Stamina Warden Build.

• Animal Companion: Bond with Nature, Savage Beast, Flourish, Advanced Species
• Green Balance: Accelerated Growth, Nature’s Gift, Maturation
• Winter’s Embrace: Icy Aura
• 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 into Stamina

Resource Management

Bull Netch is the Wardens best friend, it restores a lot of Stamina, make sure to keep it up all the time.

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.

• Bull Netch
• Potions
• Heavy Attacks
• Orb Synergy

Rotation for the Stamina Warden Build

Here is a quick explanation of what you have to do with all the skills on your bar.

• Your main spammable is Cutting Dive
• Your semi spammable is Sub Assault (Use after every 3rd skill if possible)
• Reapply DoTs (damage over time) effects after they run out: Deadly Cloak, Fetcher Infection, Stampede, Carve, Winter’s Revenge, and Barbed Trap.
• Activate Wild Guardian Ultimate whenever it is ready
• Always light attack between each ability.

Area of Effect Setup

This setup here is focusing on an AoE setup, this way you can be more effective when fighting trash packs or just a large amount of monsters.

Gear Setup

Skills

Note: You can also check out the Two Hander version of the AoE setup in case you want to run Dual Wield for Single Target and Two Hander for AOE like most players do.

Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena

Please check out the Solo Stamina Warden Build for specific Maelstrom Arena and Vateshran Hollows Arena setups.

Outfit Style Showcase of the Guardian Warden Build for ESO

Lets take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Warden PvE Build for ESO. You can find a close up shot, an image from the back and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Stormlord Motif Style: Helm
• Greymoor Motif Style: Arm Cops, Bracers, Guards, Cuirass, Belt, Boots, Daggers
• Skin: Meridian Purified
• Dyes: Drowned Cobalt, Warrior’s Steel

Update Log

11.08.2019 Updated the Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter, Stamina Warden Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
19.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
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.
31.10.2020 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.
08.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.

Tags: Stamina Warden PvE Build, Stamina Warden Build, Dual Wield Stamina Warden Build, StamWarden Build PvE.

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