Type: Dungeon, Solo Dungeons, Overland, Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena
Buildname: Solo Stamina Templar
Table of Contents
- Solo Setup
- Resource Management
- Rotation
- Bad Habits
- Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
- Endless Archive Setup
- Build Video
- Echoing vs Resolving Vigor
- Update Log
Welcome to the Solo Stamina Templar 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 Templar Guides:
- Stamina Templar Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
- Stamina Templar Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
- Stamina Templar Dual Wield Build (META)
- Stamina Templar Two Hander Build
The Solo Stam Templar build is optimized for solo play. You will find three different gear setups, the first one is best in slot, the second one advanced and the third one 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.
Templars have some very nice unique abilities that make solo play a joy. Restoring Focus increases both our resistance and Stamina Recovery by a huge margin. We can also drain dead bodies with the Repentance skill to further increase sustain and burst healing if needed. Our main damage ability Biting Jabs also has many nice side effects such as activating the Burning Light and Spear Wall passives. Shielding is also no issue with the Brawler skill, it makes survival super easy as the shield size increases per enemy hit.
- Two Hander & Bow setup
- Powerful Damage
- Powerful Sustain
- Good Healing
- Big Shields
- Solo Dungeons, Overland
- Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena
Solo Setup Stamina Templar
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 active.
- Buffed: In combat, Buff food, Briarheart, Tzogvin, Restoring Focus, Weapon Damage Enchantment and Potion active.
Gear Solo Stamina Templar
You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People who 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 – 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 | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
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Chest | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Health |
Belt | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Health |
Shoulder | Briarheart | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | 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 |
Gear Setup 2
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
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 | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Health |
Shoulder | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 | Briarheart | 2H Sword | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 2 | Thunderous Volley or Briarheart | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 3 Beginner
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
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 | Monster Set of your choice | Medium | Divine | Health |
Shoulder | Monster Set of your choice | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 | Ancient Dragonguard | 2H Sword | Precise | Absorb Stamina Enchant |
Weapon 2 | Ancient Dragonguard | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
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 Templar
Two Hander Mainbar | Bow-second bar |
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Slot 1: Brawler | Slot 1: Endless Hail |
Slot 2: Power of the Light | Slot 2: Consuming Trap |
Slot 3: Biting Jabs | Slot 3: Razor Caltrops |
Slot 4: Reverse Slice | Slot 4: Restoring Focus |
Slot 5: Echoing Vigor | Slot 5: Repentance/ Flex spot |
Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker | Ultimate: Empowering Sweep |
Skills explanation:
- Brawler: Your most important survival ability. Use this on a single or several enemies to gain a huge shield that will bolster your health on top of the nice damage it does.
- Power of the Light: Powerful Single Target burst damage and also applies Minor Breach, reducing the enemies resistances.
- Biting Jabs: This is your spammable attack. Deals a lot of damage both Single Target and AoE and also procs the Burning Light and Spear Wall passives.
- 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!
- Restoring Focus: Increases your resistances and sustain tremendously, must be always active!
- Repentance: Drain dead enemies for Stamina and Health. This is your flex spot, you could replace this with an ability of your liking.
- Empowering Sweep: Backup Ultimate, you can use this instead of Dawnbreaker if you want. Also gives you the bonus of the Piercing Spear passive on the backbar.
Champion Points Solo Stamina Templar.
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 Solo Templar 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 as they give us Major Brutality, Major Savagery and Major Endurance buff. Technically, you don’t really need the Major Savagery buff because the Biting Jabs skill also gives us this, but doesn’t guarantee a 100% uptime if you don’t keep using the skill.
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
- Aedric Spear: Piercing Spear, Spear Wall, Burning Light, Balanced Warrior
- Dawn’s Wrath: Prism, Illuminate, Restoring Spirit
- Restoring Light: Mending, Sacred Ground, Master Ritualist
- 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 it.
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 Restoring Focus ability returns 240 Stamina every second and also gives us a huge bonus on resistances.
The Repentance ability drains dead bodies and gives us a huge boost in Stamina and Health with 1 press of a button.
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 has to be prioritized over damage.
- 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.
- 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.
- Keep up your most important skill: Restoring Focus.
- Keep up all your DoTs on the enemy such as Endless Hail and Razor Caltrops.
- Once that is taken care of, you want to use your spammable on the front bar such as: Power of the Light, Biting Jabs and Reverse Slice.
Bad Habits
- Not keeping up your healing ability such as Echoing Vigor and defense abilities such as Restoring Focus is the main reason why you die on this setup.
- Not keeping up your damage over time effects on the backbar will result in a huge loss in overall damage.
- Not using Brawler enough to bolster your health with the huge shield that the skill gives. Always before you swap to the backbar you should use Brawler first to gain a shield that will help you while you are on the backbar.
- Not using the right buff-food as listed will also result in sustain issues.
Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
Stamina Templar Vateshran Hollows & Maerlstrom Build Setup.
- 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
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
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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 Templar
Here you can find a setup that works well inside ESO’s Endless Archive when you play solo with the Solo Stamina Templar 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.
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
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Chest | Druid’s Braid | Medium | Divine | Health |
Belt | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Briarheart | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Stormfist | Medium | Divine | Health |
Shoulder | Stormfist | 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 | Pillar of Nirn | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchantment |
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.
Build Video
This is an old video, so it won’t be a 100% up to date, but it still holds value and good information on how to play the setup.
Echoing vs Resolving Vigor
Quick video talking about why I use Echoing Vigor over Resolving Vigor for my Solo PvE Stamina Builds.
Update Log
13.03.2020 Added the Solo Stamina Templar Build for the Harrowstorm DLC.
15.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
17.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
26.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
30.03.2021 Made several optimizations for the build.
25.05.2021 Updated the build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
09.08.2021 Updated the build for the WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
03.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added tooltips to the buff food section, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
14.10.2021 Updated the build for the Deadlands DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
04.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
13.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
08.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
24.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
08.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
01.06.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
16.10.2023 Updated the Build for Update 40.
08.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
Tags: Solo Stamina Templar Build, Solo Stamplar Build PvE, Solo Stam Templar Build ESO.