Powerful SOLO Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Table of Contents

• Solo Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• Bad Habits
• Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
• Endless Archive Setup
• Echoing vs Resolving Vigor
• Update Log

Welcome to the Solo Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for solo play. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. If you are new to the game I would also recommend checking out a few other guides:

Other Stamina Arcanist Guides:

• Stamina Arcanist Dual Wield Build (META)
• Stamina Arcanist Two Hander Build

The Solo Stam Arcanist build is optimized for solo play. You will find three different gear setups, the first one is best in slot, the second one is advanced and the third one is a very easily obtainable beginner setup.

However, understanding the mechanics of the build is more important than the gear itself. By mechanics I mean the abilities that we use, what functions they have and how to sustain this setup. And most importantly, how to stay alive with timed dodge rolls, blocks, and heals.

Arcanists have some very nice unique abilities such as Cephaliarch’s Flail or the Inspired Scholarship. Shielding is also no issue with the Brawler skill, it makes survival super easy as the shield size increases per enemy hit.

• Arcanist Build
• Two Hander & Bow setup
• Powerful Damage
• Powerful Sustain
• Good Healing
• Big Shields
• Solo Dungeons, Overland
• Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena

If you want to get an overall look at all the Arcanist skills please view the video showcase:

Solo Setup Stamina Arcanist

5x Tzogvin, 5x Briarheart, 1x Bloodspawn, 1x Pale Order on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food and Major Brutality active.
• Buffed: In combat, Buff food, Briarheart, Tzogvin, Restoring Focus, Weapon Damage Enchantment and Potion active.

Gear Solo Stamina Arcanist

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People that do not have all the gear yet can use Setup 2 which is easier to obtain and beginners can use Setup 3.

• Setup 1 – Best Setup
• Setup 2 – Advanced Gear
• Setup 3 – Beginner Gear

Gear Setup 1

• Which sets you put in which slot is not that important, the only thing that matters is that you get two full five-piece sets and a Monster Set.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Where can I get the gear?

Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Tzogvin’s Warband: Frostvault
Ancient Dragonguard: Craftable
Bloodspawn: vSpindleclutch II, Maj Undaunted Chest
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion Undaunted Chest
Thunderous Volley: vMaelstrom Arena
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Vicious Serpent: Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia, Hel Ra Citadel

Skills Solo Stamina Arcanist

Skills explanation:

• Brawler: Your most important survival ability. Use this on single or several enemies to gain a huge shield that will bolster your health on top of the nice damage it does.
• Cephaliarch’s Flail: Deals AoE damage and more importantly boosts your damage by 5%.
• Escalating Runeblades: Your main single target ability. Also deals a bit of AoE damage on top.
• Reverse Slice: Your execute ability that also deals nice splash damage.
• Echoing Vigor: Strong heal over time that lasts for 10 seconds. We prefer this morph because the heal is already strong enough and the 10 seconds is more beneficial, more time to deal damage! Compared to the other morph which only lasts for a very short duration. If you drop low on health make sure to activate this and also use Brawler to gain a shield to bolster your health.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: Powerful AoE and Single Target ultimate that also boosts your Weapon Damage.
• Endless Hail: This is your DoT that you need to constantly keep up on the enemies. Very powerful both in Single Target and AoE.
• Consuming Trap: Strong Single Target damage over time ability that also restores a huge amount of resources when the enemy dies.
• Razor Caltrops: Razor Caltrops is another Single Target and AoE Dot that you need to keep up all the time because it debuffs the enemies with Major Fracture, reducing their Physical Resistance, resulting in us dealing way more damage!
• Fulminating Rune: long duration Damage over time effect
• Inspired Scholarship: Adds extra damage to your class abilities, and has a long buff duration. Also applies Major Brutality.
• The Languid Eye: Your main ultimate, deals massive damage.

Champion Points Solo Stamina Arcanist

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 our Solo Arcanist Build

Buff-food

It is very important that you use the Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice Buff-food. This will enhance our Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery by a huge margin. You can buy the food in the guild stores for a very cheap price, or craft it yourself if you have the recipe. For more information on all buff food and drinks, I recommend visiting the Buff Food and Drink Overview Page.

Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
(Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Lover Mundus Stone provides us with extra penetration, which increases our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Lover Mundus Stone (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

The Weapon Power Potions are important because they give us Major Brutality, Major Savagery and Major Endurance buff. Technically, you don’t really need the Major Brutality buff because the Inspired Scholarship skill also gives us this. But in case you don’t have it active or forget to rebuff, then the potions will keep your buffs up anyway.

Weapon Power Potion
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Poisons

We are using Poisons to increase our overall damage output. If you don’t have poisons, you can just use another enchantment on your weapon.

Damage Health Poison
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)

Passives

• Herald of Tome: Fated Fortune, Harnessed Quintessence, Psychic Lesion, Splintered Secrets
• Curative Runeforms: Hideous Clarity, Erudition, Intricate Runeforms
• Soldier of Apocrypha: Circumvented Fate, Implacable Outcome
• Two-Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Assault: (Optional, mount speed buff) Continuous Attack

Attributes

0 Health, 64 Stamina, 0 Magicka

Resource Management

Our setup has a lot of resource management options, some already directly built-in via Stamina Recovery and some more options that you can use whenever you need them.

Stamina Recovery

Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice buff food is key to our sustain. The buff food gives you Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery, a lot of it. You have to make sure to use this specific buff food. You can buy it in the guild stores for a very cheap price or craft it yourself if you have the recipe.

The Battle Rush passive from the Two-Hander skill-line gives you another 30% Stamina Recovery for 10 seconds while you have a Two-Handed weapon slotted.

Potions are another very important part of resource management. We are preferably using Essence of Weapon Power potions to gain another 30% Stamina Recovery boost, 10% Weapon Critical and a 20% Weapon Damage boost. This both increases our sustain and also damage, I highly recommend using these potions in tough situations. The ingredients are listed in the potion section of the build.

Skills

The Hideous Clarity and Erudition passive both help with sustaining the Arcanist.

Rotation

Before we start with the rotation, you always have to make sure to weave Light Attacks between each ability. This is important because the Light Attacks deal very good damage and proc your Weapon Enchantments and Poisons. You can find a guide here on that subject: “Weaving Beginner Guide”.

Your first priority has to always be to stay alive. Therefore healing, shielding and dodging have to be prioritized over damage.

1. Brawler is your survival skill, every time you hit one or several enemies you will gain a shield. Most of the times that is already enough to stay alive.
2. Echoing Vigor is your main healing ability that lasts 10 seconds. I would always recommend keeping it up if there is a lot of incoming damage. The Briarheart set is enough in most situations though if you keep up your DoTs.
3. Keep up your most important skill: Inspired Scholarship
4. Keep up all your DoTs on the enemy such as Endless Hail, Razor Caltrops, and Fulminating Rune.
5. Once that is taken care of, you want to use your spammable on the front bar such as Cephaliarch’s Flail, Escalating Runeblades, and Reverse Slice.

Optimize Your Playstyle

1. Not keeping up your healing ability such as Echoing Vigor and defense abilities is the main reason why you die on the Solo Stamina Arcanist.
2. Not keeping up your damage over time effects on the back bar will result in a huge loss in overall damage.
3. Not using Brawler enough to bolster your health with the huge shield that the skill gives will impact your survivability. Always before you swap to the back bar you should use Brawler first to gain a shield that will help you stay alice while you are on the back bar.
4. Not using the right buff-food as listed will also result in sustain issues.

Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup

Stamina Arcanist Vateshran Hollows & Maerlstrom Build Setup for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online).

• For specific tips and tricks please check out the Vateshran Hollows Guide or the Maelstrom Arena Guide which explains everything in detail.
• Ring of the Pale Order provides a lot of extra healing, I recommend getting this Mythic item, it makes the arena a lot easier.
• If you don’t have access to Mythic items, please use the gear setups above.

Gear

Vicious Serpent helps us with sustain and is an overall great stamina set. Briarheart and Pale Order give us a lot of extra healing.

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Health
Belt	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	Bloodspawn	Medium	Divine	Health
Shoulder	Briarheart	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Briarheart	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring	Briarheart	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Weapon 1	Briarheart	2H Sword	Precise	Damage Health Poisons IX
Weapon 2	Thunderous Volley	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchantment

Skills

Buff-Food

I recommend using the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food if you have too much sustain with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice.

Endless Archive Setup for Solo Stamina Arcanist

Here you can find a setup that works well inside ESO’s Endless Archive when you play solo with the Solo Stamina Arcanist Build. Make sure to read the ESO Endless Archive Guide to understand what is going on inside the archive.

• Endless Archive gets progressively harder
• You need to know boss mechanics, otherwise one-shots will occur often.
• Understanding how the Endless Archive works is important
• If you get stuck, change gear or skills and try again.

Gear

Of course you can also try the Endless Archive with any of the above setups and see how they perform. We like to go in with Briarheart on the front bar and Pillar of Nirn on the back bar. These are both sets that have a simple proc condition and they work automatically. Additionally, we also have the Stormfist set that also deals proc damage. Basically, all sets do work without you having to think about how to activate them.

For the Endless Archive, it is recommended to go with 1x Ring of the Pale Order, 2x Stormfist, 5x Briarheart (frontbar), 5x Pillar of Nirn (backbar) and 1x Druid’s Braid. This setup will provide us with enough healing and damage.  You can also use any other Monster Set if you don’t like Stormfist.

Note: Two-handed weapons count as two pieces for a set.

Where can I get the gear?

Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Pillar of Nirn: nFalkreath Hold Dungeon
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Stormfist: vTempest Island Dungeon
Druids Braid: Guildstores, Craftable set in the High Isle and Amenos zone

Skills

Buff-Food

If you are having sustain issues it is recommended to use the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food, just keep in mind your health will be lower. If you have enough sustain you can use the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food that gives good sustain and extra health.

Echoing vs Resolving Vigor

Quick video talking about why I use Echoing Vigor over Resolving Vigor for my Solo PvE Stamina Builds.

Update Log

26.04.2023 Added first version of the Arcanist Solo Build for ESO.
16.10.2023 Updated the Build for Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.

Tags: Solo Stamina Arcanist Build, Solo Stamplar Build PvE, Solo Stam Arcanist Build ESO.