ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build – Subclassing Optimized

Updated: Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult
Classes: Arcanist + Nightblade + Templar
Type: PVE DPS

Welcome to the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build Guide! This page is your go-to resource for building and optimizing a Arcanist focused on subclassing in ESO. Make sure to bookmark it. Like all my ESO Builds, it will be regularly updated to reflect balance changes, gear updates, and new content.

Table of Contents for Arcanist Subclassing Build:

1. Arcanist Subclassing Playstyle & Stats
2. Gear Setups
   1. Beginner Gear
   2. Advanced Gear
   3. Best-in-Slot Gear
3. Skill Setups & Rotation
   1. Main Skill Setup – Max DPS
   2. Secondary Skill Setup – Easy One Bar
4. Recommended Passives
5. Scribing Skills (Optional)
6. Mythic Set Options (Velothi, Pale Order, Oakensoul)
7. Champion Points & Optimization
   1. Champion Points Allocation
   2. Attribute Distribution
   3. Mundus Stone
   4. Optimal Races
   5. Consumables (Food & Potions)
8. Alternative Skill-Lines for Subclassing on Arcanist
9. Resource Management & Sustain Tips
10. Outfit Style & Fashion Showcase
11. Target Dummy Parse Setups
    1. 145k DPS Parse
12. Update Log

ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build Playstyle & Stats

• Image 1: Unbuffed stats with Best in Slot gear + Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
• Image 2: Buffed stats with Best in Slot gear + Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
• Image 3: Buffed stats with Target Dummy Gear with Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice

The ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build focuses on the Arcanist’s popular beam skill Exhausting Fatecarver. The build features both an advanced and beginner-friendly rotation. With subclassing now possible, we add a skill-line from the Nightblade class and one from the Templar class. The Nightblade’s Assassination (NB) and the Templar’s Aedric Spear skill-line both bring strong passives that we utilize to boost our overall damage with this Arcanist DPS build.

• Build Type: Stamina DPS Build.
• Difficulty: Advanced (Two-Bars) / Simple One Bar included
• Subclasses: Arcanist + Nightblade + Templar
• Skill-Lines:  Herald of the Tome (Arc), Aedric Spear (Templar), Assassination (NB).
• Gear Progression: Beginner, Advanced and Best in Slot Setups
• Skill Loadouts: Two Bar Max DPS and a Simple One-Bar Setup
• Mythic Options: Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet, or Oakensoul Ring, Ring of the Pale Order.

It’s crucial to understand that a build is only truly complete when paired with the right Consumables, Mundus Stone, and Champion Point setup. These elements significantly impact your overall performance and can make a major difference in both damage and survivability.

Important: It is crucial to understand what Potion you have to use with the Arcanist class. It varies depending on your skill setup. I have an in-depth explanation in the Potion section.

Our 3 Skill-Lines for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build

For this build, we are using  Herald of the Tome (Arc), Aedric Spear (Templar), Assassination (NB).

•  Herald of the Tome (Arc) – Our primary DPS skills come from this skill-line.
• Aedric Spear (Templar) – Powerful passives comes from this skill-line.
• Assassination (NB) – Powerful passives and a strong execute.

You can view the Alternative Skill-Line Options section for a few other good recommended combinations for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build.

Why Nightblade & Templar as Subclassing Choice?

Nightblade and Templar are our subclasses of choice for our ESO Arcanist Subclass Build. They have strong passives and some nice damage skills that we want to utilize.

Nightblade

Nightblades offer incredibly strong passive skills that greatly increase your damage potential:

• Hemorrhage – Boosts Critical Damage and grants Minor Savagery.
• Pressure Points – Increases Spell Critical for each Assassination skill slotted.
• Master Assassin – Increases Penetration against enemies you are flanking.

Additionally, we want to use some skills:

• Relentless Focus on the backbar to gain a very high Spell Damage bonus without ever having to touch the skill.
• Killer’s Blade is one of the strongest execute skills in the game.

Templar

Templar offers strong passives that boost the DPS of our Arcanist Subclassing Build.

• Balanced Warrior increases our Weapon and Spell Damage by 6%.
• Burning Light deals massive extra damage.

Please view the Alternative Subclassing Options section of the build to see other Subclassing options.

Gear Setups

The ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build comes with three gear setups. A beginner, advanced, and endgame gear setup. The beginner gear is all crafted gear, you can simply ask a guild member to craft these items for you to increase your power level as a new player. Also, see the ESO Grind Guide for tips on leveling up fast. The Advanced setup requires you to get some dungeon/world gear, and the endgame setup has items from all sources of the game!

• Beginner Gear (Craftable only)
• Advanced Gear
• Best-In-Slot Gear

Beginner Gear

The Beginner gear setup for the Sorc Subclass Build is easy to get, and everything can be crafted. I recommend joining a guild and asking someone to craft the gear pieces! For this setup we are using 5x Order’s Wrath, 5x Hunding’s Rage, and 2x New Moon Acolyte. All of these are easily craftable.

Trait: Instead of Divine, you could also use the Training trait if your main goal is to farm EXP with this spec.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Belt	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	New Moon Acolyte	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoulder	New Moon Acolyte	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Weapon 1	Hunding’s Rage	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Flame
Weapon 2	Hunding’s Rage	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Poison
Weapon 2	Hunding’s Rage	2H Sword	Infused	Weapon Damage

 

Where can I get the gear?

Order’s Wrath: Craftable
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable

Advanced Gear

The advanced gear setup for the Arcanist Subclassing Build includes not only crafted, but also dungeon gear. We keep the craftable set 5x Order’s Wrath, We also keep 5x Hunding’s Rage but only on the frontbar. Backbar we use the Merciless Charge set that boosts direct damage, it drops in the Maelstrom Arena. You can get it easily by clearing the normal version of Maelstrom. Later you want the perfect version but you will have to clear veteran mode for that.

Lastly, we use the powerful Selene Monster Set on Head and Shoulders to further boost our damage for the Arcanist Subclassing Build.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Belt	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Order’s Wrath	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	Selene	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoulder	Selene	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Hunding’s Rage	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Weapon 1	Hunding’s Rage	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Flame
Weapon 2	Hunding’s Rage	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Poison
Weapon 2	Merciless Charge	2H Sword	Infused	Weapon Damage

 

Where can I get the gear?

Order’s Wrath: Craftable
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Selene: Selene’s Web Dungeon (veteran mode)
Merciless Charge: Maelstrom Arena (normal mode)

Best-in-Slot Gear

Let us take a look at the Best-in-Slot gear for our Arcanist Subclassing Build in ESO.

Note: Instead of Perf. Null Arca, you can also use Perf. Coral Riptide. Null Arca tends to shoot at random targets if there are multiple targets fighting against you.

• 5x Tide-Born Wildstalker: This set boosts direct damage against monsters by a lot, most of our damage is direct damage.
• 5x Perf. Null Arca: Strongest proc damage set. Sometimes unreliable though when not only a boss is present. Can swap it out with Perf. Coral Riptide.
• 1x Slimecraw: For the extra crit.
• 1x Perf. Merciless Charge: The two-hander counts as two pieces. This boosts our direct damage attacks even further!
• 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet: Powerful Mythic, which boosts damage against monsters tremendously but reduces LA/HA damage. We don’t do LA/HA often, because we are busy beaming.
• Alternate Mythics: Oakensoul Ring or Ring of the Pale Order. Please read the Mythic Options section to get a better understanding of when to best use these mythics.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Belt	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoulder	Perf. Null Arca	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Perf. Null Arca	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Perf. Null Arca	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Weapon 1	Perf. Null Arca	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Flame
Weapon 2	Perf. Null Arca	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Poison
Weapon 2	Perf. Merciless Charge	2H Sword	Infused	Weapon Damage

 

Where can I get the gear?

Tide-Born Wildstalker: Craftable
Perf. Silvers of the Null Arca: Lucent Citadel Trial (vet)
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet: Antiquity Leads
Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1 (veteran mode)
Perf. Merciless Charge: Maelstrom Arena (veteran mode)

Skill Setups & Rotation Tips

Class Skill-Lines used:  Herald of the Tome (Arc), Aedric Spear (Templar), Assassination (NB).

For our Skills for the ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build, we have two setups. A main skill setup that utilizes both bars and the secondary skill setup that is simplified for a one-bar playstyle. If you want to see viable Scribing skills, please view the Scribing section of the subclassing build.

Depending on which skill setup you run, it is important to use the correct Mythic:

• Main Skill Setup – Max DPS Two Bars: You can use either the Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet or Ring of the Pale Order. Velothi for group and Pale Order for Solo.
• Secondary Skill Setup – One Bar: Best used with the Oakensoul Ring. But you can also use it with the Ring of the Pale Order, or Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet.

For more clarity about Mythics, read the Mythic Set Options Explained section of the Arcanist Subclasses Build for ESO.

Main Skill Setup – Two Bars Maximum Damage

Here we are going to take a look at the main skill setup for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build. We utilize two bars with this setup to maximize our damage.

Scribing: Please see the Scribing Skills setup for optimal Skill Setup for this build. I do not include this here because plenty of users don’t have access to the ESO Scribing System.

1. Your main damage comes from Exhausting Fatecarver. This alone produces over 50% of your damage because it is such a powerful beam. Always use it if all your DoTs are active.
2. If an enemy has lower than 25% health, we use Killer’s Blade execute instead.
3. Camouflage Hunter is only on the bar to provide us with with Major Savagery and Prophecy, increasing our Critical Rating by a lot. If you get this buff from potions (please read), you can slot something else here if you want.
4. Cephaliarch’s Flail is always cast before you use the beam. This provides us with a flat 5% damage increase on all our attacks as long as the enemy stays drenched in Abyssal Ink. Never let the debuff fall off the target.
5. Ultimate: At the start of the fight we use Ice Comet, afterward we always cast Incapacitating Strike to get a huge boost to our damage. Preferably always cast it after you have reapplied all damage over time effects.
6. DoTs: That leaves us with plenty of damage over time effects. Cast these after their duration is over. Most of them have a long duration and are easy to keep up.
   1. Stampede is the most important out of all DoTs; it deals massive damage and on top of that boosts all our direct damage if you are using the  Perf. Merciless Charge set.
   2. Quick Cloak is a strong DoT that lasts for a very long time.
   3. Fulminating Rune deals good damage and lasts for a long time too. Allies can activate its synergy to deal even more damage.
   4. Inspired Scholarship also lasts for a long time. Deals good damage and generates a Crux. Also gives us Major Brutality and Sorcery on both bars.
7. Relentless Focus is only slotted on the back bar to provide us with its extra Weapon and Spell Damage bonus.
8. Burning Light passive automatically deals damage from the Templar skill line.

Secondary Skill Setup – One Bar

This is your One Bar skill setup for the ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build.

• Oakensoul Ring completely disables your backbar, locking you into a true one-bar setup. Therefore we won’t need to place anything on the backbar.
• Important: If you are using any other Mythic and still want to play One Bar, then make sure to place skills on the back bar that give you extra passive bonuses.

Because we only actively use one bar with this setup, we are more limited, but it also means a simplified rotation.

1. Your main damage comes from Exhausting Fatecarver. This alone produces over 50% of your damage because it is such a powerful beam. Always use it if all your DoTs are active.
2. If an enemy has lower than 25% health, we use Killer’s Blade execute instead.
3. Cephaliarch’s Flail is always cast before you use the beam. This provides us with a flat 5% damage increase on all our attacks as long as the enemy stays drenched in Abyssal Ink. Never let the debuff fall off the target.
4. Ultimate: With this setup we are using The Languid Eye ultimate. It deals great damage, activate it whenever it is ready.
5. DoTs: That leaves us with plenty of damage over time effects. Cast these after their duration is over. Most of them have a long duration and are easy to keep up.
   1. Quick Cloak is a strong DoT that lasts for a very long time.
   2. Inspired Scholarship also lasts for a long time. Deals good damage and generates a Crux. Also gives us Major Brutality and Sorcery on both bars.
6. Relentless Focus is only slotted on the back bar to provide us with its extra Weapon and Spell Damage bonus.
7. Concealed Weapon is another skill on the backbar that is solely slotted to give us additional bonuses.
8. Burning Light passive automatically deals damage from the Templar skill-line.

Recommended Passives

• Herald of Tome (Arc): Fated Fortune, Harnessed Quintessence, Psychic Lesion, Splintered Secrets
• Aedric Spear (Templar): Burning Light, Balanced Warrior
• Assassination (NB): Master Assassin, Executioner, Pressure Points, Hemorrhage
• 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
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Scribing Skills – Optional Setup for the Subclassing Arcanist

This is the best skill setup for our ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build.

In this setup, we swap out Camouflage Hunter for Shocking Banner (Base: Banner Bearer), a Scribing System skill. This skill increases our damage with direct damage abilities, creates a Crux, and also grants Major Savagery and Prophecy. This allows us to use even stronger Potions that grant us Minor Heroism, increasing ultimate regen.

• Banner Bearer (base)
  • Modified Name: Shocking Banner
  • Focus: Shock Damage
  • Signature: Arcanist Class Mastery
  • Affix: Savagery and Prophecy
  • Why it’s strong: Stays active all the time, increases your Crit Rate, and increases direct damage and deals shock damage over time.

Scribing Simulator: Use the ESO Scribing Simulator to test out different combinations.

1. Your main damage comes from Exhausting Fatecarver. This alone produces over 50% of your damage because it is such a powerful beam. Always use it if all your DoTs are active.
2. If an enemy has lower than 25% health, we use Killer’s Blade execute instead.
3. Shocking Banner can be activated once and it will stay active until you turn it off. It does constantly drain resources but provides us with insane buffs.
4. Cephaliarch’s Flail is always cast before you use the beam. This provides us with a flat 5% damage increase on all our attacks as long as the enemy stays drenched in Abyssal Ink. Never let the debuff fall off the target.
5. Ultimate: At the start of the fight we use Ice Comet, afterward we always cast Incapacitating Strike to get a huge boost to our damage. Preferably, always cast it after you have reapplied all damage-over-time effects.
6. DoTs: That leaves us with plenty of damage-over-time effects. Cast these after their duration is over. Most of them have a long duration and are easy to keep up.
   1. Stampede is the most important out of all DoTs; it deals massive damage and on top of that boosts all our direct damage if you are using the  Perf. Merciless Charge set.
   2. Quick Cloak is a strong DoT that lasts for a very long time.
   3. Fulminating Rune deals good damage and lasts for a long time too. Allies can activate its synergy to deal even more damage.
   4. Inspired Scholarship also lasts for a long time. Deals good damage and generates a Crux. Also gives us Major Brutality and Sorcery on both bars.
7. Relentless Focus is only slotted on the back bar to provide us with its extra Weapon and Spell Damage bonus.
8. Burning Light passive automatically deals damage from the Templar skill line.

Mythic Set Options

With the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build, you have a few good options on what Mythic item you can use, all have their strengths and weaknesses. The Mythics that we can use are: Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet, or Oakensoul Ring, Ring of the Pale Order.

Here is a quick summary of the different pros and cons of each Mythic item for our build.

Mythic	Pros	Cons	Best Use Case
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Adds Penetration Increases damage done to monsters by a fat 15%. Gain Minor Force, increasing Critical Damage done.	Reduces Light and Heavy Attack by 99% (Doesn’t matter because we are busy beaming!).	Veteran Dungeons Veteran Trials Any Content
Ring of the Pale Order	Powerful auto self-healing Great for solo survival in difficult content	The healing effect is reduced in group content Only useful for solo gameplay	Open World Solo Veteran Dungeons Solo Arena’s
Oakensoul Ring	Simple and beginner-friendly Grants Major/Minor buffs automatically No micromanaging buffs	Most buffs can be easily obtained from other sources No auto-healing effect	Open World Easy Dungeons Veteran Dungeons

Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet

The Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet Mythic is the best fit for the Arcanist class. It applies insane buffs to our character while giving basically no downside. Light and Heavy attacks are reduced by 99%, but because we mostly use Exhausting Fatecarver beam we can’t do LA/HA anyway.

In short, the Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet turns the Arcanist into an unstoppable force—no strings attached, just raw, relentless power.

Ring of the Pale Order Mythic

The Ring of the Pale Order is the best Mythic item for advanced players that want to do solo content. It provides massive healing while you deal damage. You can focus on DPSing. Meanwhile, with the other mythics, you will have to go more often into a defensive playstyle. However, this ring gets less effective in bigger groups because the healing you receive decreases by the amount of players in your group.

The Ring of the Pale Order is one of the strongest Mythic items for advanced solo players, thanks to its auto-healing effect that restores health as you deal damage. This powerful sustain tool allows experienced players to tackle even veteran hardmode dungeons solo, a testament to its strength.

Unlike Oakensoul, advanced players typically gain key buffs from other sources through precise bar setups, group synergies, and active buff management. This makes Pale Order ideal for those who are comfortable with micromanaging their build for maximum efficiency.

Oakensoul Ring Mythic

The Oakensoul Ring is often the Mythic of choice for most One Bar Builds in ESO. Once you equip the ring, the second bar will be deactivated. The ring comes with a plethora of major and minor buffs. What most players don’t realize is that most of these buffs can be obtained easily from other sources like skills, gear, or potions.

TheOakensoul Ring is ideal for players seeking a simplified experience, removing the need for bar swapping or buff upkeep while keeping your damage rotation effective. 

Champion Points & Optimization

In this section of the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build, we are going to take a look at important info for things that are often overlooked when replicating a build. Most often players forgot to use the correct Consumables. These can make or break a build because they provide immense buffs to the character.

1. Champion Points Allocation
2. Attribute Distribution
3. Mundus Stone
4. Optimal Races
5. Consumables (Food & Potions)

Recommended Champion Points Allocation

Champion Points increase the power level of your build tremendously. Therefore, it is recommended to reach 918 Champion Points as fast as possible. Once you reach this level, you will be able to slot most of the important perks in all trees. It caps out at around 1656 though. You can read my ESO Powerleveling Guide to optimize farming Champion Points for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build.

In the table below, you see all the slottable Champion Point perks that you have to run with this setup to optimize our damage.

View the full Champion Points spec: Champion Points Setup for the Arcanist Subclassing Build.

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Steed’s Blessing	Wrathful Strikes	Boundless Vitality
Free choice	Master-at-Arms	Bloody Renewal
Free choice	Exploiter	Fortified
Free choice	Biting Aura	Rejuvenation

Explanation of each slotable Perk:

Craft

•  Steed’s Blessing – Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by 20%.

Warfare

• Wrathful Strikes – Grants 205 Weapon and Spell Damage.
• Master-at-Arms – Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 6%.
• Exploiter – Increases your damage done against Off Balance Enemies by 10%.
  • Note: If you play solo you won’t proc Off Balance. Swap this out for Endless Endurance.
• Biting Aura – Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 6%.

Fitness

• Boundless Vitality – Grants 1400 Max Health.
• Bloody Renewal – Restore 1500 Stamina whenever you defeat an enemy.
• Fortified – Grants 1731 Armor.
• Rejuvenation – Grants 90 Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery.

Attribute Distribution

All points into the Stamina attribute to increase our stamina resource.

0 Points
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64 Points

Best Mundus Stone for the Arcanist Subclassing Build

For our Mundus Stone, we want to select The Thief. The Thief gives us plenty of valuable extra Critical Chance. This increases our overall damage the most. Please view the The Thief Mundus Stone Location page to see the map locations on the ESO map.

• The Thief Mundus Stone
  • Increased Critical Chance

Best Races for the Arcanist Subclassing Build

The Build works with any race. However, choosing the right race can significantly boost your performance with this ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build, especially when focusing on a Stamina-based DPS Build. Below are the top races recommended for this build, each offering unique advantages. You can find a full breakdown on the ESO Racial Skills Overview page.

• Dark Elf (Dunmer) – High Magicka and Stamina bonuses with strong offensive passives.
• Orc – Provides Weapon & Spell Damage, extra health and mobility, useful for survivability.
• Khajiit – Strong bonuses to critical chance and critical damage. (Only useful if you aren’t already at the crit damage cap of 125%.)
• Argonian – High survivability and bonus healing, good for solo play.
• Nord – Best defensive play and also has good stamina-based passives & extra ult gen.
• Redguard – Best for sustain, good stamina-based passives.
• Wood Elf – Bonus Stamina recovery and penetration. Good for stamina DPS.
• Imperial – High Health and Stamina with a 6% cost reduction to all abilities. Flexible and sustain-friendly, especially effective for tank and PvP builds.

Consumables (Food & Potions)

Food and Potions are important for every build, they give insane stat boosts and valuable buffs. You can buy all of these from any of the Guild Stores or craft them yourself.

Food Options

Best Food & Target Dummy Parsing

Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice (Check Price) – Increase Max Stamina by 4936 and Stamina Recovery by 493 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level.

Best Food with higher HP

Artaeum Takeaway Broth (Check Price) – Increase Max Health by 3326, Health Recovery by 406, Max Stamina by 3080 and Stamina Recovery by 338 for 2 hours.

Cheap Alternative

Dubious Camoran Throne (Check Price) – Increase Stamina Recovery by 315, Max Stamina by 2856 and Max Health by 3094 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level.

Potions

Important: On our Arcanist we already get Major Brutality from Inspired Scholarship. And Major Savagery is also included on Camouflage Hunter or from the Shocking Banner Scribing skill. This gives us options to select other potions for our Arcanist Subclassing Build. Make sure you have the alchemy passive Medicinal Use active to get a 100% uptime on potions.

Best Potion with Scribing Skills

•  Essence of Magicka (Heroism)
  • Check Price: scroll down, it needs to say Restore Magicka, Restore Stamina, Heroism
  • Combine Columbine, Dragon’s Blood, and Dragon Rheum.
  • Note: Incredibly expensive just to get the Minor Heroism buff.

Best Potion without Scribing Skills

•  Essence of Health “Tri-Stat”
  • Check Price: scroll down, it needs to say Restore Health, Restore Magicka, Restore Stamina
  • Combine Columbine, Bugloss, and Mountain Flower.

Cheap Alternative 1

• Crown Tri-Restoration Potion
  • This is the same potion as Essence of Health “Tri-Stat”.
  • You get these from daily login rewards and crown crates.

Cheap Alternative 2

• Essence of Stamina
  • Often found on defeated enemies.

Alternative Skill-Lines for Subclassing on Arcanist

Our current ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build utilizes one Arcanist, one Templar, and one Nightblade skill-line:  Herald of the Tome (Arc), Aedric Spear (Templar), Assassination (NB).

Below you will find a few other variants that will work with this Arcanist build.

Build	Skill-line 1	Skill-line 2	Skill-line 3
Current Build	Herald of the Tome (Arc)	Aedric Spear (Templar)	Assassination (NB)
Build Variant 1	Herald of the Tome (Arc)	Storm Calling (Sorc)	Assassination (NB)
Build Variant 2	Herald of the Tome (Arc)	Storm Calling (Sorc)	Aedric Spear (Templar)

Resource Management & Sustain Tips

Resource management is an important part of any build in The Elder Scrolls Online. There are a few ways on how to sustain on our Arcanist Subclassing Build.

• Potions: We constantly use Potions with this build, which will inject extra resources every 45 seconds.
• Heavy Attack: If necessary, you can always do a Heavy Attack to regain resources.
• Buff-Food: Our food applies a lot of extra Stamina Recovery.
• Synergies: Healers often provide Synergies that restore resources, activate them. (Example: Energy Orb Synergy)

Arcanist Subclassing Outfit Style & Fashion Showcase

If you would like to replicate the Outfit I used for this Arcanist Subclassing Build in ESO, here is all the info you will need!

Target Dummy Parse Setups

If you want to target dummy hump you need to change your gear setup slightly to maximize damage. Do not use this setup against any other content, you don’t have any healing and shielding slotted! Use the normal Main Skill Setup.

Gear for Target Dummy

Here is the equipment I used for the parses you see below for the ESO Arcanist Subclass Build. This is strictly for parsing against a Target Dummy, you have to stand still to get the full benefit from the Highland Sentinel Set.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Belt	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoulder	Perf. Null Arca	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Perf. Null Arca	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Perf. Null Arca	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Weapon 1	Perf. Null Arca	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Flame
Weapon 2	Perf. Null Arca	Dagger	Charged	Glyph of Poison
Weapon 2	Perf. Merciless Charge	2H Sword	Infused	Weapon Damage

Where can I get the gear?

Highland Sentinel: Craftable
Perf. Silvers of the Null Arca: Lucent Citadel Trial (vet)
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet: Antiquity Leads
Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1 (veteran mode)
Perf. Merciless Charge: Maelstrom Arena (veteran mode)

145k DPS Parse

We used the same skill setup as in the Scribing Skills section for this parse on the ESO Arcanist Subclassses Build.

Update Log for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build

The Update Log for the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build shows all major changes (updates) made to the build since its launch.

10.04.2025 Added the Template for the Build.
13.05.2025 Updated the ESO Arcanist Subclasses Build for the Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 Update.