ESO Grind Build for Stamina Setups – Champion Points Grind & EXP

• Grind Setup
• Gear
• Skills
  • Nightblade Class
  • Sorcerer Class
  • Templar Class
  • Dragonknight Class
  • Necromancer Class
  • Warden Class
  • Arcanist Class
• Champion Points
• Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Grind Example Millions of EXP/hour
• Grind Tips
• Build Video

Welcome to the Grind Build for Stamina Setups. Below you will find an universal grind setup for gear as well as a skill layout for each individual class in ESO. The gear, buff-food, attributes, potions for the build are always the same like shown below. The only difference between the classes is the skill layout.

Please also make sure to check out the ESO Grind Guide for the top 10 grind spots as well as very useful tips on how to increase your EXP gains (up to 358% extra EXP).

• All Classes (Nightblade, Sorcerer, Templar, Dragonknight, Necromancer, Warden)
• Up to 358% extra EXP gains
• Best Grind Setup
• Great Damage
• Great Sustain

Grind Setup for Stamina Builds

Below you can see two screenshots, the first picture is unbuffed out of combat and the second picture is buffed in combat. That should give you a good idea on what stats you can reach. The stats may slightly vary depending on class. Gear used in the screenshot: 5x Vicious Serpent, 5x Hunding’s Rage, 2x Stormfist.

• Unbuffed: Out of Combat, Buff-food active.
• Buffed: In Combat, Buff-food active, Weapon Damage Glyph & Potion active.

You will see three different gear grind setups below. Most important is that you use gear with the Training trait to increase your overall EXP gain. You can pretty much use any set to grind, the gear below is not necessary, but recommended.

• Setup 1 Most Optimal Setup
• Setup 2 Easy to get Gear
• Setup 3 Beginner Setup

Gear Quality

• Armor: Try to get to at least epic quality (purple) for the 10% exp bonus per armor piece. Which will result in a total of 70% extra EXP from your armor.
• Jewelry: Your jewelry can be green quality, it doesn’t matter whether you use fine, superior, epic or legendary quality. Green jewelry is also a lot cheaper to buy in the guild stores!
• Weapon: Try to get either epic or legendary quality (purple or gold). This is important because you will deal a lot more damage as well as an extra 7-8% extra EXP gain.

Pale Order Mythic Item

The Pale Order Mythic item is also a very good option, it basically takes care of all the healing that you need.

Gear Setup 1

Monster Set: Any Monster Set works for the setup. We picked Stormfist because it is easy to get and deals good AoE damage.

Gear Setup 2

Instead of the Vicious Serpent set (which can be hard to get because you need 12 players to do the normal trial) we are going to use Spriggan as a replacement.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Join a guild and ask someone to craft you Hunding’s Rage with the Training trait. The Agility jewelry can be bought in the guildstores for a cheap price. And the Trainee set can also be bought in the guildstores for a cheap price, it also drops in several starter locations such as. Bal Foyen, Betnikh, Bleakrock Isle, Khenarthi’s Roost, Stros M’Kai.

Any gear works, I would just recommend that you go for the training trait on the gear to increase EXP gains.

Skill Layout Classes

In this section of the build we are going to take a look at the skill layout for each class. In general we want to use a very strong AoE (Area of Effect) setup to kill multiple enemies at the same time.

Nightblade Skills

Always keep Dark Shade and Deadly Cloak active and activate Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Power Extraction.

We placed the Soul Harvest Ultimate on the frontbar to gain faster ultimate regeneration, we only use the backbar ulti for damage. We always use the Flawless Dawnbreaker as ultimate. Or alternatively Shooting Star as it gives good AoE damage and also returns ultimate points on hits.

We get Major Brutality from Power Extraction and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Sorcerer Skills

Keep up Deadly Cloak and Hurricane and drop Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado.

We use Flawless Dawnbreaker as our Ultimate. Alternatively you can also use Shooting Star as it gives good AoE damage and also returns ultimate points on hits.

We get Major Brutality from Critical Surge and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Templar Skills

Keep up Deadly Cloak and drop Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado.

We get Major Brutality from Shrouded Daggers and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Dragonknight Skills

Keep up Deadly Cloak & Flames of Oblivion and drop Noxious Breath & Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado.

You can use the Take Flight ultimate as a gap closer.

We get Major Brutality from Igneous Weapons and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Necromancer Skills

Keep up Skeletal Archer and drop Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado in combination with Blighted Blastbones.

We get Major Brutality from Shrouded Daggers and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Warden Skills

Keep up Deadly Cloak and drop Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado in combination with Subtarranean Assault.

We get Major Brutality from Bull Netch and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Arcanist Skills

Keep up Deadly Cloak and drop Arrow Barrage on enemies and then spam Steel Tornado in combination with Tentacular Dread.

We get Major Brutality from Inspired Scholarship and Major Savagery from Camouflaged Hunter. Therefore we can use normal cheap Stamina Potions.

Champion Points for the Stamina Grind Setup

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom of the list depending on how many Champion Points you already have. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for the Stamina Grind Build

Below you can find some of the important information such as Buff-food, Potions, Mundus Stones, Passives, Attributes and Race.

Buff-food

We use the Dubious Camoran Throne Drink which can be bought in the Guildstores for a cheap price. This gives us a good mix of max stats as well as extra stamina recovery to increase our sustain.

Mundus Stone

The extra Penetration will increase our damage output by a lot, therefore we want to pick the Lover Mundus Stone.

The Lover Mundus (Increased Penetration)

Race

All stamina based races work with this setup. More about each race can be found on the racial overview page.

Dark Elf
Khajiit
Orc
Redguard
Imperial
Wood Elf
Nord
Argonian
High Elf

Potions

All classes already have Major Brutality and Major Savagery, therefore we can simply use normal Essence of Stamina potions that are very cheap in the Guildstores, I would recommend stacking as many as possible so you can constantly drink them to regain stamina and increase stamina recovery. It is also recommended to have the Medicinal Use passive active, to increase the duration of the potion.

Essence of Stamina Potion
(Stamina)
(Bought in Guild Stores, fairly cheap)

Passives

• Class Passives: All
• Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Psijic: Only if you use Channeled Acceleration.
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

64 Stamina, 0 Health, 0 Magicka

Stamina Grind Example for ESO

To showcase you an example of the Stamina Sorcerer version of the build, here I was in the Forgotten Wastes Public Dungeon which is showcased in the Grind Spots Guide and managed to get  around 3-3.5 Million experience per hour. This was with approximately 339% exp boost active.

• 150% EXP Scroll/Potion
• 100% Event Buff
• 79% from Gear & Weapon
• 10% 2 Player Group

I didn’t have the 10% Ring of Mara and ESO Plus buff. With these two buffs we could have made another extra 20% boost.

Stamina Grind Video Example

Grind Tips for Stamina Grind Builds

Here are a few tips that can help you increase your efficiency while grinding experience for Champion Points. For a full overview of grind tips, please check out the ESO Grind Guide which explains all the grinding tips in detail.

Time spent Grinding

Killing monsters results in experience gain. That means whenever you don’t kill monsters, you lose experience. Looting monsters, or going back to the town to sell loot to make money means you will generate less experience but you will gain gold. Therefore, you have to decided whether you want to just ignore all the loot to make more experience, or actually go sell the items.

Preparation

Before you start grinding, buy Repair Kits, EXP Potions/Scrolls, Stamina Potions and Buff-food. Your gear will constantly break because it breaks due to experience gained and when the gear is broken, you won’t benefit from the training trait anymore. Therefore, buy as many Repair Kits as you can afford. You also want to make sure to not run out of EXP Potions/Scrolls while grinding. And make sure to have enough Potions and Buff-food ready to keep going for multiple hours.

ESO Grind Spots

Thanks to scaling in ESO, you can grind pretty much anywhere. Places where you can pull multiple enemies together usually work best. Even better if you have enemies that are Undead or Daedra to increase Ultimate regen thanks to the Banish The Wicked passive. You can find plenty of grind spots in the ESO Grind Guide, which has around 10 different grind spots listed.

Build Video